Thread: The One That Got Away.

Shimano made other good rod, VTS-56ULT,I bought 4 of them, really like them, my favorite rod, they shoot real good, and they discontinued them in 2012, can't find them any where, I would buy 4 more of them if I could find them, I dont know why they think they have to change every few years, If it is a good rod , why not keep making them, they have a lifetime warranty , how can they made good on the warranty if they dont make them any more? I'm aggravated at shimano, now!
I hate you lost your good rod, I worry about mine all the time!

Ray, how long of a run did you make from the time you had the rod and the time you lost it? Is it worth going back over the section with a treble hook? I have caught a few rods and reels that have fell over in brush before. We can run your track and try if you want to. I got plenty of weighted treble hooks.

Ron, we don't really know when it fell out. Unfortunately we ran from one side of Big A to the other so it could be anywhere including in the middle of the channel which is 30 some feet deep.
If I had seen it fall out I probably would have jumped in after it.

Hate you'll had bad luck! Thought it may be worth a try. Your new depth finder keeps up with your tracks so we could run back over it and fish for Mr. C rod n reel. Hope he can find another.

Wish I had thought to run back over the track with my DI zoomed in to the bottom. Next time I get up there I will give it a shot. I am still learning to use it and I never thought to zoom it down to the bottom 4 or 5 ft and see if it would show up.

Ray spotted a couple of Shimano rods at the local K-Mart that are about as close as I think that I'm going to find. He said that there were three but when I got there there were only two... So I bought both thinking that I'm not going to get caught again with out a rod to shoot with...I come to find out that he got the other one? I guess he liked what he saw on the last trip. I still think that we just had a bad day for fishing but some of those docks that we fished sure did look really good.

CP I do have a catalog and will look at that rod. If I had that first rod off the line, I think I'd put that rod up in a real safe place, it's not every day that a company does that.... I think often of those trips that we made to Watts Bar, of all of the many friends that I made there and those great fish fries on Sunday afternoon. I think that those fish were the thickest crappie for the lenght of any that I have ever seen. And the only place that I've seen and caught a Black Nose Crappie.. I think that those Black Nose are the ones that Don and Blackie use to catch and use a grease pen and mark them... :-) It's always good to hear form you. I hope Paul is doing well these days.