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Had my buds down from up north. Wanted to try for stripers so we headed up to Pt. 5 with a ton of brooders. No stripers but we ran into tons of spots out in 30-35 fow. caught around 20 with only 1 short and the best at 17". Lots of fun with several jumpers. Did lose 2 stripers at the boat due to my too tight drag. Sunday we stayed closer to home. Drifted the islands. Not as good with only 3 spots and a nice white. Short day, football was calling. Nice size on the spots was great to see. wt on Sunday was 72 around the islands.

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I lost my first rod overboard this weekend.  First time every.  I was landing a crappie and grabbed a net (little buggers want to jump off at the boat) and as I lifted the net and towards the fish, "ka-plunk"!  I just froze.  Didn't know what to do I was in such shock. I should have tried netting the rod before it got too far but I just watched it sink super fast.  Best thing is.......neither of my $150 St Croix rods went overboard which includes one of my favorite rods. It was just a $20 Quantum and a discontinued H20 Mettle.  What sucks is that combo would launch baits a mile.  Tried throwing out a marker, side scanned both 455 and 800 for over an hour trying to find it and mark a waypoint.  Never saw it even in only 10ft of water.

 

Before that I was actually on some fish and catching 5 crappie in under 5-10mins so I had a brush pile fired up.  I immediately stopped fishing and started rod hunting so I lost twice.   Lost the biting fish and lost a rod.

 

That was my odd weekend trip.  Sounds like you did much better.

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I fished from War Eagle marina and upstream on Sunday and came up with only 1 short crappie. Started out trolling cranks but after 30 minutes of nothing went to jigging some standing brush where the one shorty came from. I think I need to find some sunken brush piles on the locator or maybe even try to sink my own. This lakes seems to have plenty of crappie habitat. I have found some decent ones along bluffs just above some trees but that may have been a summer only pattern. From reading earlier posts it looks like Lance is the resident crappie expert/catcher. Did get a thermometer and wt was between 70 and 73 at different locations. Plenty of shad balls around as well.

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8 hours ago, J-Doc said:

I lost my first rod overboard this weekend.  First time every.  I was landing a crappie and grabbed a net (little buggers want to jump off at the boat) and as I lifted the net and towards the fish, "ka-plunk"!  I just froze.  Didn't know what to do I was in such shock. I should have tried netting the rod before it got too far but I just watched it sink super fast.  Best thing is.......neither of my $150 St Croix rods went overboard which includes one of my favorite rods. It was just a $20 Quantum and a discontinued H20 Mettle.  What sucks is that combo would launch baits a mile.  Tried throwing out a marker, side scanned both 455 and 800 for over an hour trying to find it and mark a waypoint.  Never saw it even in only 10ft of water.

I've only lost one rod and reel.  I was counting down my line to get the bait at depth when a striper snagged my rod out from my hands. I was super pissed.  It was a $700 Combo it took from me. I pinch my rods in my arm pits now when counting out line. 

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Just now, Dan the fisherman said:

I've only lost one rod and reel.  I was counting down my line to get the bait at depth when a striper snagged my rod out from my hands. I was super pissed.  It was a $700 Combo it took from me. I pinch my rods in my arm pits now when counting out line. 

I feel better now.  Thank you Dan!  LOL! :lol:

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I bought some of these "Cush-its" for some of my rods.  They look dorky, but they work, saved me a combo that I accidently knocked into the water a couple of weeks ago.  Probably won't help if a striper swims off with one, but in most "rod overboard" situations it will save you time and money.  The Inshore size fits most fresh water rods.

http://www.basspro.com/Luna-Sea-Cushit-SlipOn-Rod-Butts/product/1206280436378/

Speaking of point 5, my neighbor got an 8 lb. striper there a few days ago. 

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I broke a Duckett and a Falcon Cara in the same week last month.   One was my fault i picked up and it was under a cleat and snap, the falcon broke on a 12" spot .   Got them both replaced for a lot less than i could buy them new for.... It happens i guess.  

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Carry an old metal stringer with all of the hooks open except the one on the anchor end. When you drop/kick/otherwise send a rod overboard, drop a buoy on where it went in, then tie the metal stringer onto your heaviest rod, back out a bit away from it and cast the stringer across the area, dragging it along the bottom like a Carolina rig or fb jig. You'll get your rod back nearly every time, especially in 10 feet of water.

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Thanks Champ.  That's a good idea.

Funny story...

I had a magnet (like one of those nail magnets you use around the house) and I tied some mason line to it and tossed it in where I thought the rod might be.  As I tossed it in, the handle came off and I watch it sink too. :lol:

At the time........I was not laughing.  The look of shock/disgust was probably comical though.

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