I thought everybody knew about rakes.
When we fish shallow lakes like many here in Florida, where do they go when the water temp reaches 90?
Maybe back into the swamps under the grass, or just under the grass if there is no swamp?
Some use a 10’ length of metal electrical conduit with a hook bent on one end.
Problem is there is always a 10’ pc of pipe in the boat.
I bought the best telescopic boat hook West Marine sells.
Drilled out the pop rivits holding the hook onto the pole.
Then drilled the ones out holding the end of the hook part on.
I bought a 4 prong hand held garden scratcher and broke the wood part of the handle off.
That left just a spike end opposite of the prongs.
Inserted that into the end of the hook part and used putty type epoxy to hold it in.
Then pop rivited it back together onto the pole.
So i now have a boat hook with a rake attached.
It also works very well for retrieving lures hung up on things like weeds, even under water branches.