Ever use a heavy, strong magnet to find things in the water? .............

[Kelley (Texas)]

A neighbor of ours, Carlos Puente, arrived home yesterday after spending the 4th of July at the lake. He said that he lost a good rod and reel while fishing from a pier...knocked it over and it fell into about ten feet of water. This got me to thinking about taking a heavy magnet that I have and walking up and down a few fishing piers to see if I could find anything valuable. Have any of you folks ever done something like this, and if so, ever find anything valuable? Kelley (Texas)

 

[Royal]

things I have ever found around docks and such are tools. I always knock off the crud and see if they are Craftsman tools and if they are I take them back to Sears and exchange them for new. Never been turned down. The chance of dragging a magnet across something valuable is rare but it sure can happen. It is like fishing I guess, lots of junk and some treasure.

 

[Wayne in BC]

back in the day, early 60's i reckon. We were always struggling to buy fishing lures and one day while fishing a local small river for Pike Kenny lost his last good lure so he got mad and dove into the 10 ft deep hole. There was an tangle of branches and a stump at the bottom and after several dives from both of us we had more than a dozen nice lures!
Kenny was always thinking and he suggested we remove the branches and sink an old bedspring in the hole with a rope attached to a weight hidden in shallower water so we did not have to dive. This gave us a fine collection of lures for the next few weeks that summer.

One morning we showed up to fish and there were two guys there hauling out the bedspring and cursing whoever put it there! They were threatening murder and mayhem if they found whodunnit! We agreed with them and went fishing elsewhere

 

[Micheal_R]

Lots of times... and the things that I have found would almost seem like a tall tale.... but I did really find these items.

Now, to be fair, the jewelry and pennies were found with the scoop..... but almost all of the coinage [loonies, twoonies, dimes, quarters, nickles, etc] came from the magnet... and this is one afternoon of tossing the magnet. Canuck coinage is all magnetic.

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I took Royal out to use the scoop and the magnet when he was here.

I have a buddy who found a jewelry box in a lake with his magnet..... and in it was a collection of 4 gold rings, several necklaces, etc, etc. The case was magnetic, the gold and silver obviously not.

But it sure worth doing.

Calm seas

Micheal

 

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[Kelley (Texas)]

you suggest using it where you have a better chance of finding some good treasure items? How about around the boat launch area? Kelley (Texas)

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

I am always looking for old fishing lures and your idea would work like a charm down here in South Texas. One problem is that many of our lakes have clear water and someone might see the bed springs, but then again the clear water forces them to use lighter lines which means more lost lures. I must have two large carboard boxes full of lures somewhere out in the garage...found over the past thirty years when I would go fishing. I always enjoyed finding and collecting fishing lures. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Wayne in BC]

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