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2 weeks ago I bought a new landing net $30. Today I had everything ready to go to the lake when I got home. So I looked everything over seemed alright. Got to the lake and caught a slab. Turned around to reach for the net. It wasn't there:Doh: My new net was gone. Never had that happen before. Would only have taken seconds to secure it.:mad: I'll do better from now on.
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Hello: I have a S U V and I stow everything that I think could remotely fly out of the boat in it before I leave home. I have a reservoir I go to nearby and always see stuff from boats and people stopped to retrieve stuff. Good Luck. O - R
I've seen a life jacket, a pole, landing net, couple of coolers, and countless minnow buckets. I've got a good supply of them buckets. Mostly the cheap ones.
I found a way that works well for me after losing some myself. I use the net at wally with the green mesh about 2 1/2 to 3 feet long. I bought a 4' oak dowel at Lowes and with my router table I cut a shoulder on it about 3 or 4 inches to go inside the handle and put a small screw in it. The oak is heavy and floats, two useful qualities. It lays in the boat with the HANDLE POINTED FORWARD and is heavy enough not to get airborne. I used a broom handle on the first one and it was too light and I watched it exit the boat and get trashed by a following car. I've had this one over 4 years and replaced the net itself due to holes from old age.
Great idea.
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Originally Posted by skeetbum
A friend of mine is a truck driver. A few years ago he was meeting a pick-up pulling a boat near KY Lake. Just as they were meeting, a landing net flew up out of the boat and stuck handle end thru the passenger side windshield of the large truck. He was close to a friend of ours bait shop so he drove the tractor to there where he had to climb up on the hood to get the net out of the windshield. Good ending to a potential tragedy.
I think we all have donated at least one item to the asphalt creek. Mine was the flotation seat cushion. I normally latch one of the nylon throw handles under a storage box lid. This time I did not. It flew away somewhere. Now some items I just keep in the truck until I get to the ramp. Other items I secure with a "dummy cord"...a term an Army person would understand. Oh, I also had my humminbird cover fly off once. Luckily, it landed in the boat. I now use one of the same nylon stretch retainers used on my rod storage rack to secure the humminbird cover.
My last net lasted most of the summer stowed in the same spot. It never flew out until it did.
I donated an inflatable PFD to the cause last summer when I failed to secure my butt seat behind my center console and it tilted forward coming back from the lake. I wasn't real happy about losing a $125 vest.
I think we've all donated :)
I donated a throwable cushion a couple weeks ago on the river. My wife had hung it on a cleat, I looked at it, thought that won't stay, but didn't loop it and took off. Almost back to the camp I glanced back and saw an empty cleat....
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Originally Posted by howl
I've lost more that I care to say. We all had it happen. The worst was a seat $255 for lowe boats.
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I bought a roll of 1" wide velcro fastener and cut off what I need to the length I need for securing items in the boat....including my net....I use 10' jig poles and always break them down for storing in my locking rod box....I use a 4" piece of the velcro strap for wrapping around the end of the broken down pole...
A little unrelated, but many years ago my wife's granddad "donated" a beautiful Remington 20 gauge that he had accidentally left on the lowered tail gate of his truck after an afternoon of quail hunting,,.of course he drove off with it still there and it fell off into the road in rural Arkansas. Sad thing was he told me he knew who found it but could never prove it and he never got it back.
I had a 12' john boat strapped to the top of a camper I was pulling on my way to Fl. and when we stopped to get a bite to eat it was gone. Never seen where it killed anyone so I hope it flew off into the grass. If one of you Ga. boys got it I hope caught you some crappies.
Ive donated a couple of those crappie checkers to the bottom of the lake before. Get in a hurry to get to next spot and next thing ya know I hear it clanging its way out the back of the boat! I most recently almost lost a whole full Plano 3700 box to the depths but it was right in front of my console and as it lifted up to fly out side of boat i reached out and pinned it with one hand to side of boat. Lucky save,glad lid was latched also,I could see how all my baits could be strewn over entire boat by accident. when will i ever learn?
I've lost enough stuff to open a tackle shop and stock most items 2 deep!
I set my tackle box on my net and that has worked great for me
I've lost two PFDs on short drives to the lake that I thought would be fine tucked under the console-one had my kill switch lanyard still attached that I didn't pick up on until the next time I went to launch.
About the only thing I lost at the lake was a hat. Sank before I could get back to it. As for the open road, everything is stowed in its place. I see reminders left by others during my travels. Besides, I'm too cheap to buy it again.
I once gained something. Pulling my offshore boat down to Destin for a cobia tournament when ol' smokey flashed those blues behind me. When I pulled over he strolled up and plain asked me if I could explain what had happened. Clueless, I just stared and asked him what in the heck he was talking about. He motioned for me to step down and follow him. When I rounded the back of the boat I had about 50' of power lines and the electrical box off the side of someone's house just dragging along behind me! Turns out when I stopped in Hattiesburg to see an old friend, My T-top picked up a low wire leaving the neighborhood and tore someone's power box off the side of their house and just towed it all on down the line, lol. Blew out my radar and gps and blew the tip off my aluminum gaff that was hanging on the top bar.
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I had a seat and a pedestal post fly out somewhere on the interstate. All my stuff gets stored now. That was over $200 mistake and I hope it didn't hit anyone
I had a rod storage bag that I thought I had secured in the boat blow off on the way to the lake. Inside was 4 14' rods with reels. I was stopped at a light with a 18 wheeler next to me. When the light turned green I blasted off leaving the big rig behind. Next thing I knew out goes the storage bag into the lane of the big rig! He never slowed down or nothing I think he shifted into a higher gear as he went by. LOL! CRUSH!! I retrieved the bag to open it up and witnessed a bunch of splenders of fishing rods :{ Two were brand new that never, ever made it to any water. I did salvage two of the reels. Total cost=$250. I don't remember catching any fish that day either.
Get an S2. The net screws off the handle for easy storage.
need to delete this thread, how do you think I get all of my equipment:Rofl:Rofl. what happened last year I got back to the truck after a rough day of fishing and some one left an openface rod and reel, plastic minnow bucket and small box with hooks sinkers and rope stringer in the bed of my truck. ps I was the last to leave the ramp couldn't return it.
I was traveling down the interstate to a lake and lost a seat. The semi truck right behind us took care of it, didn't even turn around to pick it up. Also on another trip my brother in law asked to use my net. He was in a diffrent boat. So I tossed it to him, it skipped off his boat into the water. It floated for a few seconds then off to the depths.
I really wish I could have been there when the electrician had to explain to the guy why he had no power.... "well sir, I don't know how to tell you this but...." the sheriff was able to put me in touch with the poor chap but when the city measured my boat on the trailer, they found that my boat was beneath the appropriate height and the wire was hanging lower than the code allowed.Quote:
Originally Posted by MidMsAngler
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