Finding tackle

[PigSooner]

A (usable) spin cast setup on Norfork. A spinning reel (trash) on the white.. Below Beaver Dam I caught some line, it came off...caught it again, pulled it in and it was attached to a live 12" rainbow, which I released.

[kwall]

I was trolling one afternoon and lost one of my rods in 20'+ turn the boat around and snaged it back with the deep diving crank bait on my other trolling rod --- there is a God , I've caught many fish with both of those same rods since then

[rps]

I have a trolling motor in about 80 ft of water at the mouth of Cedar Creek- if anyone finds that let me know;)

While I fish deep from time to time, that may be a bit too far down for me.

I am sure there is a story behind this. A Bill Dance runaway trolling motor incident?

[Chillfish]

I snagged some line on the white when I was a kid that was attached to a very irritated carp. Also snagged a 4' radius cast net under the 12 bridge. It felt like it weighed 100lbs, and was very difficult to get up. I honestly thought I was pulling up a body, as it was a month or two after someone went missing upstream. Have been using that net ever since. I have lost several rods on beaver. If you found a nice pfueger ultralight or a penn setup near eden's bluff, you're welcome.

[M_Taylor]

Snagged an old trot line in a small lake once. Pulled up the line to find a very smelly decomposing duck on the end of it. Sad and gross.

[rhondafish]

Snagged a limb that had about 10 ft of line wrapped on it. To the end of that line was a gold and black countdown that had a 8lb brown trout attached to it. Limb was about 20 feet long. Managed to land everything. Trout and Limb were released. Line recycled, and still have the countdown. We pretty much fly fish for trout these days, but most of our trout hardware has come from the White River, including the tackle boxes. People dumping rental boats, etc. Always asked the docks if anyone lost stuff, but no takers, so now we own it.

[Mr. Ed]

I'm up here in KS. Every spring I bank fish the walleye run that happens at our manmade corp lakes in the spring when the walleye try to spawn on the dams. I was having a particularly good few nights throwing a Shad X Rap when they first came out. Lost the lure in the rocks which happens all too often. Next night I went back out armed with a couple identical new X raps. First few cast I get hung up again. Work it lose and reel in to find the back treble hook of my new lure somehow went exactly threw the front eyelet of the lure I lost the night prior. Impossible to happen... but it did.

[Blazerman]

When I was a kid of about 12-13, I got snagged behind a boulder in the Meramec. When I went to get unsnagged it turned out I was snagged on a 9.9 Johnson outboard laying on the bottom in about 4 fow. I called my dad over to show him and he pulled it out and you could still smell the gas in it and it looked new. We ended up hauling it home.

Last year while fishing with a buddy at LOZ, his crappie jig got snagged on a piece of rope and was cussing as he was pulling the rope in. He quit cussing when he saw there was a crankbait attached to the rope. And when I saw the crankbait I said holy sh-t you know what that is? And he said no, never seen one like this before. It was a new looking Megabass vision 110.

[bfishn]

I've found a lot of stuff, but nowhere near as much as I've lost. Just the rogues left in trees would be a fine vacation. :-(

[showmebass]

I was throwing a DD22 near the cut at Beaver across from Monte Ne 5 years ago when I hooked into a yellow nylon rope in about 35 FOW. I started pulling it up, and noticed that it was extremely heavy. Long story short - on one end it was tied to a 2.5 gallon bucket full of concrete, and on the other end was a chain dog collar. The possibilities of why that was there sort of turned my stomach a little.