In the drink

[SHORT SHANK]

He guys, had a bit of a mishap last Saturday, while fishing south
of 210 bridge pretty much even with that big cement block against
the channel in about 10' of water. I opened a hatch not expecting my brother to back up...anyway he went over me and busted his ars pretty
bad on the deck. When the dust settled we noticed his rod was not in
the boat anymore. It can be replaced as I already got him another rod
but it was a gift from his kids. So, if anybody happens to snag up on
a carrot stick rod, I'd be glad to buy it back!

Short Shank

[Gerald]

If you know about where it fell into the water.......

Go buy you a fairly big treble hook and drag the bottom.

or.....tie on a # 2 treble hook and a 1/2 oz. weight and drag the bottom with that.

[saodma]

Better yet get a fish stringer with the metal hooks. Open the hooks and drag it on the bottom. I have used this trick to retreive many a rod and reel. The hooks are soft enough thatbthey will open up if snagged but will not open up then they catch a rod.

[SHORT SHANK]

Never thought of that, may be headed back this weekend.
Yall take care.

[bbrown]

I had the same thing happen. We had a large speaker that had a magnet on the end that we dragged the bottom with. The magnet portion picked up the lead head of the jig. I really think it was blind luck but I know it worked once.