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Lloyd Sumpter <lsumpter@home.com> wrote in
news:3B7AD296.59C9A214@home.com: 

> Dammit, why don't they make fishing rods that float? (I could tell the
> story, but I'm guessing most of you can figure it out...)
> 

They do... It's those darn reels that are the anchors...

Sorry Lloyd.... I've had a few go to Davey Jones myself...

Steve

Hmmm... sounds like a problem more easily attacked than the instantly
infamous inflatable dock.


> Dammit, why don't they make fishing rods that float? (I could tell the story,
> but I'm guessing most of you can figure it out...)
> 
> Lloyd Sumpter
> "Free Time" Campion 18

Lloyd Sumpter <lsumpter@home.com> gave me something I can root to:

> Dammit, why don't they make fishing rods that float? (I could tell the story,
> but I'm guessing most of you can figure it out...)

Heh.  Back in '84 or so, I had just purchased my first boat and borrowed
some of my father's gear to go fishing, including a brand new Ugly
Stik and 113h reel.  We were jigging for bluefish 1/2 mile outside Fire
Island inlet when I laid my rod against the gunnel, with the jig still in
the water.  Of course, a blue hit it then, and it went in the drink before
I could grab it.

What makes the story interesting is that a year or so later, a friend of
mine told me that he had snagged something while trolling, reeled it up,
and found.... a crusty looking Ugly Stik with a crusty 113h reel. 

Oh, if it makes you feel any better, I lost a crab pot last
weekend.  Guess I set it in an area with too steep a bottom slope.  Sad
thing is, I actally watched the float go under.  If I had noticed it was
sinkin just 20 seconds earlier, I could have caught it.

Dan

-- 
Welcome President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

                -- Dan Quayle

"Grebbler" <grebbler-wantsnospam-@cris.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Lloyd!
>
> I don't feel so bad now.  The one I lost last year has become hard to
> find and went up $20 (Like everything I come to like - it either goes
> up or out of production).
>
> Now my rods have some of the grey/black foam water pipe insulation to
> help them float or a coiled cord like those used for keyrings
> attatched.
>
> Another use for that foam I have found is placing it around the
> sloping side window frames to use as armrest/cushions when fishing
> from driver and passenger seats.
>
> Greb
>
>
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:51:45 GMT, Lloyd Sumpter <lsumpter@home.com>
> pulled up to the drive-thru window and hollered:
>
> >Dammit, why don't they make fishing rods that float? (I could tell
the story,
> >but I'm guessing most of you can figure it out...)
> >
> >Lloyd Sumpter
> >"Free Time" Campion 18
>
Check out the Blakemore Rod Floater at http://www.basspro.com
item number 38-581-132-08 is one size and color.

Also used to be a thing with a little float and a string that released
if it got wet.

del cecchi

Good question, Maybe because it would lower sales. 

OTOH I can now recognize the sound of many objects hitting the water.
Fishing rods go Ssffffiitttt, Starting batteries go thunnk!!!, Eye
glasses go spishhhhss, Keys are harder to discribe as it is a
combination of the eye glass spishhhss with a metal jingle/ring, :-)
...... ...... ..

Capt Jack R..

Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
> 
> Dammit, why don't they make fishing rods that float? (I could tell the story,
> but I'm guessing most of you can figure it out...)
> 
> Lloyd Sumpter
> "Free Time" Campion 18

You gotta get in the water Lloyd.  My Bro was houseboating at Shuswap
with some buddies.  One guy got a fish on and dropped the rod, just
stood and watched.  My bro jumped off the top deck, grabbed the rod,
played the fish while swimming back to the boat.  Saved the rod and
caught a nice rainbow.

Peteman

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:51:45 GMT, Lloyd Sumpter <lsumpter@home.com>
wrote:

>Dammit, why don't they make fishing rods that float? (I could tell the story,
>but I'm guessing most of you can figure it out...)
>
>Lloyd Sumpter
>"Free Time" Campion 18

Jack Redington wrote:

> 
> OTOH I can now recognize the sound of many objects hitting the water.
> Fishing rods go Ssffffiitttt, Starting batteries go thunnk!!!, Eye
> glasses go spishhhhss, Keys are harder to discribe as it is a
> combination of the eye glass spishhhss with a metal jingle/ring, :-)


 Okay, I can well appreciate how someone would become familiar with the
sound of fishing rods, eye glasses and keys hitting the water.  How did
you manage to lose a starting battery overboard?


Rod

>  Okay, I can well appreciate how someone would become familiar with the
> sound of fishing rods, eye glasses and keys hitting the water.  How did
> you manage to lose a starting battery overboard?


Pffftttt!!!! Child's play, I lost a 10 horse motor while trolling. I was
sixteen at the time, believe me, no one was impressed. I did manage to
retrieve it  though. I can't recall the sound it made, as the sound of air
rushing through my ears and in the space where my brain should have been was
deafening.

Rod McInnis <rmcinnis@tivo.com> gave me something I can root to:

>  Okay, I can well appreciate how someone would become familiar with the
> sound of fishing rods, eye glasses and keys hitting the water.  How did
> you manage to lose a starting battery overboard?

Ever race a J-class?  You start with the battery, then remove it to save
weight.  I've seen several go "thunkk!" over the years.

Dan

-- 
I shoot for the moon, but sometimes I hit London

		-- Werner von Braun

Rod McInnis wrote:
> 
> Jack Redington wrote:
> 
> >
> > OTOH I can now recognize the sound of many objects hitting the water.
> > Fishing rods go Ssffffiitttt, Starting batteries go thunnk!!!, Eye
> > glasses go spishhhhss, Keys are harder to discribe as it is a
> > combination of the eye glass spishhhss with a metal jingle/ring, :-)
> 
>  Okay, I can well appreciate how someone would become familiar with the
> sound of fishing rods, eye glasses and keys hitting the water.  How did
> you manage to lose a starting battery overboard?
> 
> Rod

   LOL - I can relate! I've lost (among other things...) a downrigger and a BBQ
(downrigger sounds pretty much like the starting battery, couldn't hear the BBQ
go in - it was blowing 40 knots or so at the time...)

Lloyd Sumpter
"Far Cove" Catalina 36

I lost it at the entrance of Blind Bay in about 200 ft of water. You wanna go
after it?
(BTW: There was no fish involved. I had but it along the gunwale for "temporary
storage" and forgot about it. Went up on plane, wind picked up, saw the rod fly
by...sunk by the time I'd turned around.)

Lloyd Sumpter
"Free Time" Campion 18

peteman wrote:
> 
> You gotta get in the water Lloyd.  My Bro was houseboating at Shuswap
> with some buddies.  One guy got a fish on and dropped the rod, just
> stood and watched.  My bro jumped off the top deck, grabbed the rod,
> played the fish while swimming back to the boat.  Saved the rod and
> caught a nice rainbow.
> 
> Peteman
> 
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:51:45 GMT, Lloyd Sumpter <lsumpter@home.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >Dammit, why don't they make fishing rods that float? (I could tell the story,
> >but I'm guessing most of you can figure it out...)
> >
> >Lloyd Sumpter
> >"Free Time" Campion 18

Cell phones and cameras are silent. Trust me.

-W

> >
> > Jack Redington wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > OTOH I can now recognize the sound of many objects hitting the water.
> > > Fishing rods go Ssffffiitttt, Starting batteries go thunnk!!!, Eye
> > > glasses go spishhhhss, Keys are harder to discribe as it is a
> > > combination of the eye glass spishhhss with a metal jingle/ring, :-)

"Wayne Canino" <b17ofthebz@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:zWVe7.57276$bm5.18912303@typhoon.ne.mediaone.net: 

> Cell phones and cameras are silent. Trust me.
> 
>

Nah, I usually cheer when a cellphone goes overboard :-)

Steve

Rod McInnis wrote:
> 
> Jack Redington wrote:
> 
> >
> > OTOH I can now recognize the sound of many objects hitting the water.
> > Fishing rods go Ssffffiitttt, Starting batteries go thunnk!!!, Eye
> > glasses go spishhhhss, Keys are harder to discribe as it is a
> > combination of the eye glass spishhhss with a metal jingle/ring, :-)
> 
>  Okay, I can well appreciate how someone would become familiar with the
> sound of fishing rods, eye glasses and keys hitting the water.  How did
> you manage to lose a starting battery overboard?
> 
> Rod

My Pop is a plumber <semi retired> And he is very good with welding and
has alot of equipment in his shop. He would make anything that ne
needed. Well he had made a cage to carry a battery that we used for a
trolling motor on our little fishing boat to the house for charging. The
battery was just a regular car battery. Anyway this was made out of
angle iron. Flat pieces on the bottom to hold the battery. and then two
pieces that went up until a arch was formed. It was open on the sides.
 <I think it was as heavy as the battery.> But back then in the late
70's I had never seen a battery with any type of handles to assist in
moving it so it did make it easier as way had to tote it up and down a
hill.

Well I was removing it from the aluninum fishing boat and sort of slid
it up the side as the boat was tied center to the slip. When the battery
cleared the side of the boat it was at a angle annnnnd thunnk!!! It went
:-)

I was forteen or fifteen at the time... But I never did forget that
sound. Or the sound my Pop made when I told him..

Capt Jack R.

Had a watch band snap after turing off the valve to a hydrolift. It went
pliss

Lothar of the Hill People wrote:
> 
> >  Okay, I can well appreciate how someone would become familiar with the
> > sound of fishing rods, eye glasses and keys hitting the water.  How did
> > you manage to lose a starting battery overboard?
> 
> Pffftttt!!!! Child's play, I lost a 10 horse motor while trolling. I was
> sixteen at the time, believe me, no one was impressed. I did manage to
> retrieve it  though. I can't recall the sound it made, as the sound of air
> rushing through my ears and in the space where my brain should have been was
> deafening.

I think I can imagine what the sound was :-D Or should I say both
sounds..

Capt Jack R..

>Cell phones and cameras are silent. Trust me.

The little springs that jump out of a Merc control box kind of go
"ploop".
-rick-

Haven't you ever seen "The Big Blue"

P

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 19:51:39 GMT, Lloyd Sumpter <lsumpter@home.com>
wrote:

>I lost it at the entrance of Blind Bay in about 200 ft of water. You wanna go
>after it?
>(BTW: There was no fish involved. I had but it along the gunwale for "temporary
>storage" and forgot about it. Went up on plane, wind picked up, saw the rod fly
>by...sunk by the time I'd turned around.)
>
>Lloyd Sumpter
>"Free Time" Campion 18
>

Those descriptions are very accurate I lost my keys and glasses one evening.
Dropped my keys, went in after them then realized my glasses were on.
Who'da thunk it?
"Jack Redington" <capt_jack@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:3B7B2D9D.1A217917@mindspring.com...
> Good question, Maybe because it would lower sales.
>
> OTOH I can now recognize the sound of many objects hitting the water.
> Fishing rods go Ssffffiitttt, Starting batteries go thunnk!!!, Eye
> glasses go spishhhhss, Keys are harder to discribe as it is a
> combination of the eye glass spishhhss with a metal jingle/ring, :-)
> ...... ...... ..
>
> Capt Jack R..
>
> Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
> >
> > Dammit, why don't they make fishing rods that float? (I could tell the
story,
> > but I'm guessing most of you can figure it out...)
> >
> > Lloyd Sumpter
> > "Free Time" Campion 18

Both my Shimano compre musky rods float.

In article <3B851B7C.F2ABAC69@sympatico.ca>, "Simon"
<sconnell@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Both my Shimano compre musky rods float.

Mine probably would have too before I strapped on the Penn Long Beach
with 300yds of 25-lb test...

Lloyd Sumpter
"Free Time" Campion 18