Groove in my line roller v.s 250
Torn aqua skinz bag
Ripped waiters
dropped a head lamp in the water
broozed right knee
I lost only one good plug s.s darter in amber
hook hole in my new dry top
I cant wait to do it all again, my quest for a 40lber continues 5/10th

not bad!

lol i had a cracked lami, busted waders, busted spheros and stradic :fishslap: and torn skinz bag

Better than last year though!!

2 beachmaster needles, 1 headlamp, 1 hookhone, burned out an old Calcutta 400, 1 YAMI HPDI fuel pump ($1000), and put a 21 Regulator on a rock beach (gelcoat job). 'bout average year. On the plus side, I only bought 8 plugs, 2 rod blanks, and a set of breathables and boots. Got off easy there.

I don't feel so bad now after reading your travails.

Two pair of waders
Repair two automatic FWD hubs
One very expensive fly rod falling from truck

Thier is almost a start to a sub culture in this post of ruin and lost fishing gear.

1 rod

a few plugs

A Mage Elite Side Plate

My Left Knee

My left ankle

Torn plug bag

Several fleece

Favorite fishing shirt (ok, didn't damage it is just disapearing in 1 inch slits)

One permanent, scary looking scar on my elbow.

Besides that, a very easy season. No broken gear which is remarkable considering the 75 foot flume ride I took that resulted in that scar.

I think I lost a year or two off my life though in one mad scramble up a near vertical, craggy rock face while retreating from an incoming wave that may well have killed me. I've NEVER simply stopped fishing and walked home thankful to be alive before due to being spooked by a wave. My fishing partner said he'd never seen anyone move that fast before. :spidey:

A weird year for me. Prior to this one I have an almost flawless safety record. Broke more gear in the past though.

Sounds like a average year to me, I got away with only going thru 2 pairs of waders, and 1 rod tip, a couple of needle fish plugs

The one thing that sticks in my head the most is the black beachmaster needle that i lost to a fish I could not stop on Cutty, june , new moon

the whole elizabeth chain heard me when the fish popped me

Lesse,
One fall busted lami, two bone chips in each elbow...that still hurt every day.
Cut head, hurt knee so bad I couldn't really walk for a week.
Heabutts at the TFCTFN, dented bumper, 4 wheel so screwy that the Avalanche would start out in 4L every time I started the truck.
Locked Mikey's keys in the Cherokee on the beach during one of the most torrential rain storms I've ever been in.
Grappling on the beach with Mikey led to two permanent scars.
Seagull bite on right hand that got close to gangrenous (not so bad).
All for one keeper 30".
I think my pride is scarred the deepest of anything.
Later,
Rick

I chewed up a bunch of BigFish pencil poppers.......:kewl:

One pair of waders, and only a handful of plugs gone. Needlenose pliars lost. Not too bad. :kewl:

Sept 21 7:05 just thankful to be alive blinded sided by a wave and into the water @ Hazard Ave, drooped my new pole (2 weeks old) VS 300
and bag and swam into the rocks, lucky I was able to get up onto a rock tore my waders. Hired a diver to retrieve or a least try to get my pole after 8 hours he was successful in getting my gear back minus a few plugs.:doh:

all in all a good year, but I hurt myself more than my stuff this year.

equiptment - Snapped rod in half with hatchback window driving like an idiot.

personal -
1. touched the side of trailer bearing and burnt the skin of my finger.

2. sliced almost to my knuckle filleting my first tuna (never cut toward yourself)

Not too bad a year.

Killed two Nautil 7500s, one yellow, one black.

My original red Abu 7000 sounds funky.

Half a season old Emblem Pro 5500 started binding.

Anti-reverse went south on a 20 year old 704Z. Easy fix when I get around to it.

Donated about 100 jigs to the Canal gods.

Copied NIB by taking a 4 oz jig to the forehead.

My right elbow was junk by mid-October. Still a littler tender and I haven't made a cast in almost 6 weeks.

All my rods survived the year.

Almost forgot - a nearly busted finger cut short one after hours fishing trip :smash: :rotf2:

Funny how felt soles alone work great precisely up until the point they slip out from under you...

Funny how felt soles alone work great precisely up until the point they slip out from under you...

........and the quiet sense of doom you feel the moment before impact:hihi:

Wow! Thought mine lost was bad...

This is my first year back into fishing.. and here are my lost count...

2 rods, 2 saltwater reels, 2 needle fish lures (did not catch anything on them), 5 Kastmaster (from Redtop, lost at the Canal), 4 Top water poppers (from Saltwater Edge, Peter G), Two top water Poppers (from Walmart, lost to Bluefish), and 1 PVC rod holder.

Found: 1 metal Spoon (in a Bluefish I caught), and 1 blue top pencil lure (at the Canal).

Hopefully I do better next year... :conf: :conf:

The majority of my damage is from friends (who no nothing about fishing) on my boat.

Could you push me off this sand bar turned into pushing off with the butt of a rod and putting my brand new abu 6500 in the water. It never worked right again and it did nothing to get us off the bar.

A brand new yozuri squid lure snapped off. When i asked how he tied it on he said "I just tied a bunch of knots"

Total rats nest out of the replacement abu reel. This is all still the same person...

For me, I lost a couple plugs and spend way too much on new gear but thats about it.

I still take that friend fishing too, I guess it is worth the frustration though b/c we usually laugh so hard we can't stop when we're out there...

I want to see Clammer's list of broken (saltwater fishing) stuff :laughs: :rotf2:

Sept 21 7:05 just thankful to be alive blinded sided by a wave and into the water @ Hazard Ave, drooped my new pole (2 weeks old) VS 300
and bag and swam into the rocks, lucky I was able to get up onto a rock tore my waders. Hired a diver to retrieve or a least try to get my pole after 8 hours he was successful in getting my gear back minus a few plugs.:doh: Thank god we did not loose you bro. I lost my younger brother in the water it sucks. You know with search parties and all that stuff . It is a tough way for families to grieve

You know the gear means nothing as opposed to everyones safety. Some of you guys came close this year to being hurt seriously. I dont know if head butts count though at the TFCTFN.:jump:

not too bad.
burnt out an abu6500
lost a couple nice plugs. including a mac pencil to a commorant that almost spooled me as he flew from out in front of the boston harbor hotel towards the marriot.
one lobster pot.
one broken finger from a tuna in september. when it aches when its real cold out, all i think is tuna, so its not that bad.

Man I got off easy with the loses.....But sure made up for it on the buying end....

Hook in the finger from a popper with a stinkin blue fish swinging from it.

lost a tattoo spook.... red fin... and put a hole in my waders....

Money spent this year,..... ugh,,,,ouch,,, New lami, VS.. countless Habs needles and other plugs...Jet midi, Vega duplicator..chisels and gouges... and all kinds of other crap,,,... 2 iwata airbrushes... Iwata Power Jet lite compressor.. Band saw.. Drill press... sander.. cordless lithium ion 24 volt kit.... I guess this part never ends....

Can't wait til I have some finished products to display.

1) Blown off Jetty
2) Serious hip bruise
3) Dislocated Shoulder
4) Lost VS 150 & Custom Fisher with a Tattoo Mullet Sea Spook on it
5) Still alive and kickin!

WHERE DO I START???!!!???!!!

BASICALY.......................................... .................................................. ................................................ EVERYTHING

Lost 2 Beachmaster bunker cowboys to bluefish, and an RM Smith to the dreaded Slammer bail slam. No hooks past the barb this year. Got scared for the first time on my kayak on Block Island, confused seas had me off balance all day. Rather yak in a ten ft ground swell than that crap.

4) Lost VS 150 & Custom Fisher with a Tattoo Mullet Sea Spook on it

:sick: :sick: :sick: :sick:

Story?

-spence

1) Blown off Jetty
2) Serious hip bruise
3) Dislocated Shoulder
4) Lost VS 150 & Custom Fisher with a Tattoo Mullet Sea Spook on it
5) Still alive and kickin!

ouch. I know the feeling of losing a complete set up.

ouch. I know the feeling of losing a complete set up.


Probably not as much, tho, if the outfit didn't include a Fisher :(

lost 1 pair of pliers trying to unhook trible in rt hand with 14 lbs blue attached.1 vs 150-atom poppers-yuruzi crystal minnow-1 rod tip-1 bomber.

Lost 2 plugs, one to a Blue and One to a Seagull.....saw the thing flying off with it hanging from its mouth.....maybe I shouldn't have set the hook.

My Nautil 7500 looks like its on its way out.

A few Jigs to the Canal Gods

one pair of Pliers

And one badly bruised Elbow

.....and a few Freshwater lures

A ton of shredded sluggo's to the doggies of monomoy.

1 vs 200 drag knob
2 pairs ll bean wicked tuff waders
2 pairs ll bean ultra light boots
1 pair korkers
busted guides on new custom rod
1 head lamp
1 eel cooler

Ya wouldn,t believe it if I posted it all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> lets start with & end with one //all the rest you can guess:::

first day of the year / 01/01/2006 ......................... driving home at night after a evening trip --towing the [tin] - heard a f #$%^&*( bing/bang >> JohnR WTF was that ........ Duh I donno ......... looked out the rearview mirrow the F $%^&*( boat is laying in the middle of the road ;;;

ya can guess the rest of the year :chatter

Clammer..
same type of boat..
hauling yesterday at the neighborhood you were looking at...
winching empty boat up and the friggin winch stand snapped at the base... if I didn't have bad luck I'd have none at all... strapped er down and drove home...

Yr of the rod and coat for me

New Lami, broke more last yr than fished-guide fixed 2 times at Wildwood, 3rd time to Cali
Flyrod busted in half on bluefish shipped off to the West Coast also
Warranties are great till you have to ship a rod

flyin off my boat- duh
north face rain jacket
columbia winter parka
chart of block 1st nite I was there

Actually, I take everything back. Worst damage of 06 came at the Hatebreed/Killswitch show in Providence last night.
Very big ouch, thought I retore my ACL, but I can kind of walk now.
Told my mother about it today, to which she replied that I'm..."No spring chicken."
Nice, thanks Mom!
Later,
Rick

1. one damaged GSB custom.
2. lost korkers
3. scraped-up abus.
4. several black and blues from falling on the rocks.

...and it was worth all of it.

not much damage in '06! :cool: couple of sic tip tops, a few bruises, a few hook holes in me, gave away a lot of plugs to fisherman on rocks and sand. worst thing was being owned by a fish that i could'nt turn or stop :bc: all in all it was a good year.

forgot to add from my Jetty swim - my good luck Red Sox hat :o

2 pair of orvis clearwater waders(they are cheap so its kina expected)
2 headlamps
1 Frozen spheros 8000 handle


All in all not that bad of year for my gear but I didnt fish the surf as much as I wanted.

My list...
2 headlamps
1 pair of pliers (not expensive)
One VS handle bearing (replaced for free w/ 1 week turnaround)
one guide on my jig stick
1 pair of breathable waders
1 set of stainless bolts in my korkers
About 50 eel hooks
My trusty soft-side eel cooler
1 bag of rigged sluggos that fell out of my Skinz pocket when I was swimming after a bass (Ask JohnR :D)

1 bag of rigged sluggos that fell out of my Skinz pocket when I was swimming after a bass (Ask JohnR :D)

I think when people state "Tangling with a Bass" they usually mean it figuratively, not actually taking a deep breath and going underwater :rotf3: :hee: :musc: :fishslap:

Ya wouldn,t believe it if I posted it all >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> lets start with & end with one //all the rest you can guess:::

first day of the year / 01/01/2006 ......................... driving home at night after a evening trip --towing the [tin] - heard a f #$%^&*( bing/bang >> JohnR WTF was that ........ Duh I donno ......... looked out the rearview mirrow the F $%^&*( boat is laying in the middle of the road ;;;

ya can guess the rest of the year :chatter

How many---- rods snapped in multiple peices//Tips broken//Guides snapped off//Wrecked props//Dents in hull//And that was when I was with you...
We had fun though...:rotf3:

How many---- rods snapped in multiple peices//Tips broken//Guides snapped off//Wrecked props//Dents in hull//And that was when I was with you...
We had fun though...:rotf3:

Just ask how much equipment was driven over ? How many trucks were ruined stuck on top of a dirt mound? How many rocks were embedded with shards of fiberglass?

Just ask how much equipment was driven over ? How many trucks were ruined stuck on top of a dirt mound? How many rocks were embedded with shards of fiberglass?
Thanx JR, forgot that..
More to come////:soon:

I think when people state "Tangling with a Bass" they usually mean it figuratively, not actually taking a deep breath and going underwater :rotf3: :hee: :musc: :fishslap:

That spot is a bitch if they get an angle over that ledge...
Whatever it takes right :D