Was fishing on the dock today after the water receded. Had two rods in rod holders and was holding the third. Stuck it a metal chair and ran up to the house to get a water. Came back and the rod was gone. I almost put it in a PVC rod holder, but the water was up to the top of the dock and the PVC was slightly submerged.

The spinning reel was a WaveSpin Doug Hannon gave me a few years before he passed, and the rod was an old All Star maroon and gray medium light I bought 30 years ago for fishing the coast. Made for an excellent crappie rod.

I've been using a grappling hook down there trying to find it.

Big bummer!!!

Slow roll an arig around

Dang, that sux. Prolly a Sharelunker taking it out to deep water

Hate to hear that but…if Hannon ever gave me a rig, it would be AUTOMATICALLY retired.

and AllStar was top shelf.

What were you using for bait?

It didn't go far before it hung up on sompin... Keep looking

If its still pretty shallow, take a dip maybe. Nothing is more upsetting while dock fishing than losing a rod.

sorry to hear you lost your rod/reel.....maybe the story below will make you feel a little better or at least hopeful that a nice guy (like me) will find it and sell it back to you..

...several years ago was fishing a Redman(BFL) tourney on Lake Sinclair(Ga.)..was fishing around docks and came up on one with couple little boys bream fishing off it..one was probably 6 years old and other one couple years older........did the usual "catching anything" greeting and both of them started telling me about a giant catfish had pulled their fishing rod out of the holder and swam off the night before and it was the older boys brand new rod and reel....both of the boys were kinda dejected over losing the rod and we told them we were sorry and continued fishing down the bank...
probably about two docks down,I saw a bobber in water at edge of a boat house with no rods on nearby docks...just on a hunch,I raised the bobber up with my rod tip and pulled the bobber to the boat and pulled in the line....no giant catfish but there was a brand new rod and push button reel....

I turned around and headed back where the boys were on the dock....as I got with within earshot I told them I had found a rod and reel that I might sell cheap...the older boy asked how much and I replied probably a dollar would be enough....older boy told the younger one to run up to the house and get a "dollar from Daddy"...and younger started to the house and I told him to hold on a minute til they saw the rod because it might not be worth a dollar....I can tell you,it was worth a hundred dollars to see the look on their faces when they saw the rod lying on my deck,recognized it as theirs and both of them trying to tell me at same time that was the rod the catfish had swam away with...I told them that if that was their rod,I just couldn't charge them anything......and it was worth another hundred dollars to have seen them running up to the cabin hollering out to their Dad they had got their rod back.......

Found it!!!



Got one of my saltwater rigs and put a treble and weight on it. Hooked the rod on the third or fourth cast. It was about 10 or 12 feet from the dock. I have a few more reels that Doug gave me, in the box, with notes on them, so wasn't fishing the only one I had. Still hated thinking I may have lost that rig.

Well done sir. Lucky break. That rig was worth the effort.

I watched a buddy loose one while getting a license check. A while later he caught a fish that had a line wrapped around it. Got his rod back and the fish that pulled it in.

glad you got it and didn't have to buy it back....

Lucky guy... Did you buy a lottery ticket???... Dan

was the fish still attached?

Recently happened to me.

Fish sucked my wife’s crappie rod off the pier.

I fished around and could never find it.

A couple weeks ago I look out the window.

Someone had snagged it and put it back in the rod holder on my pier.