THE GOLD CLUB

[LIGHTINING STRYKER]

Looking for storys of people that have lost gold over the side of the boat.

[andy moyes]

I dropped a nice nugget once!

[Islander]

Lost a really nice gold ball bearing swivel bracelet while handing down the way back rod form the tower with a YFT attached, I have no idea what it got hung on all I know is my mate, myself and what had just previously been my bracelet all went in different directions. I didn't really need to see any more Gold in the water that day as we were covered up with the YFT. ](*,)


Sunglasses; Lost count

Cell phones; I believe I have drowned one at just about every Marina with in a 50 mile radius. Cingular will no longer offer me insurance

Lightining Stryker, Thanks for bringing back such found memories. :lol:

[Relentless33]

I kicked my Dad's leather shoe in the water :razz: :twisted: :lol:

:roflmao:

Not sure if this would be considered gold though

[CaptKen]

I lost a gold chain once {necklace}

[FinalPoint]

I haven't lost gold yet, but I have lost plenty of items as most have. Too many knives to count, the cover to an extra livewell (sunk like a rock and left us coverless for a while), etc...

But you know when you kick yourself in the ass just as hard? Dropping the cell in toilet. I think I saw Turtle did this recently as did I. Weird thing is, I still find myself pissing and playing with my phone...

Again Troy and others who have lost rods in the water, sorry for your losses. Hopefully no one here has lost a 50 or 80 wide while fighting a fish on that rod.

Originally Posted by Relentless33

I kicked my Dad's leather sho in the water :razz: :twisted: :lol:

:roflmao:

Not sure if this would be considered gold though

What's a sho?? a shoe?? Too much time on the computer,
time to hit the books (same advice I gave to my daughter)
and real life.

In oceanography, there is the $100,000 club. no one wants
to join it, it destroys careers. you are in when you loose a
piece of equipment/instrument worth over $100K. One
story out of many involves this very cool current, salinity,
and temperature profiler called Yvette. It measured very small
scale currents using 4 tranduscers mounted on a "t" bar and
they talked to each using acoustic pulses sent in alternating
directions; the difference in time of arrivals is related to the
water velocity. It had all its electronics redone, the finest
sensors and a new weight release system. You would
drop the instrument in, it would sink measuring salinity
and temperature and velocity on fine-scale. you would track
it from the ship, giving you more current info and then you
would pick it up after it dropped its weights and got to
the surface. They tested it on a line about of times and it
worked perfect. The first time they use it to collect data
it didn't drop the weights and you can see the instrument
implode at a few miles depth on the UGR. My buddy lost
his dissertation that day. I'm only in the $10K club.
cheers, arthur

[Disco Lady]

CONO!!!!!!!! :shock:

[Relentless33]

Lol Thanks ProfessorO, just woke up before that don't worry :lol:

[Boboe]

I've had a handful of cell phones destroyed by the Gulf (either because I threw them in, lost them overboard, or got doused while backing down and had it get cooked). I could build a hell of a snapper reef if I could get all of the pairs of cutters together that I've lost overboard and pile them together. I've probably got a half dozen hats and visors in the Gulf as well. All of them were thrown overboard after getting too old and crappy looking--which usually took only about 4 months of chartering.

[Nightfighter]

Originally Posted by LIGHTINING STRYKER

Looking for storys of people that have lost gold over the side of the boat.

And GPS numbers where it went in. :lol:

Do Penn Int.s count? :cry:
If so count me in.

[swordfish123]

I have lost 3 pairs of Donmar stainless steel Pliers overboard at the dock...not gold, but still expensive!! I keep buying them becuase they really are the best! Also, I just lose one of my Costa Del Mar blue mirror lenses at the dock in the bahamas....i would have gone in after them except i wasnt too sure about the water..if you know what i mean

[RiskTaker]

Umm:

You were filleting fish and there were Bull Sharks below Or, you were not filleting fish and there may have been Bull S..t below.

Did you loose the Costas in Marsh Harbour? Just a guess.

Well, I have not let any significant amounts of gold overboard, as far as I can recall. But there shoulld be a nice collection of LP Electrolumes laying on the bottom, of which, I have donated a few. But that nice assortment of conventionals is your donation to the Church.


I did find a brand new Shimano 8 ft. Safety strap, still with Rubber band holding it together on the outside of Honeymoon Harbour one time. Imagine that: too bad it didn't have a nice stand-up combo attached too it. But if it was attached, the original owner probably would not have lost his strap in the first place. Since the Rod would have kept it in the boat. :roflmao: Maybe that is just going out of style these days.

Maybe not.... let's just wait and see.

[Boboe]

Oh yeah, and I've had customers drop their Penn 4/0's and 6/0's overboard, while still attached to the custom rods. We managed to snag one with another rod, 125' down when the rigs got tangled. We caught somebody else's rod that had gotten crusted over with sea life once as well. I figure we've donated 4 rods to the Gulf.

[Another Grand]

80 Tiagra on rod that my friend spent 3 full days making

We almost cried......thank god it wasnt mine, I didnt put it there, and I wasnt driving the boat.

[swordfish123]

Originally Posted by RiskTaker

Did you loose the Costas in Marsh Harbour? Just a guess.

You got it!

[Broadbill]

I once lost a gold tooth while gaffing a sheepshead!

[pipelayer2]

While fishing the New Orleans Big Game Invitational quite a few years back, we learned a very important lesson on the use of tag lines when a huge blue hit so hard that it almost snapped the out rigger in half, stripped the teeth on a chair mounted rocket launcher and took an unsecured 80 wide deep into the depths of the Gulf of Mexico.

[flounder pounder]

broadbill- I think I found your gold tooth in a catfish I was cleaning the other day. Does it have a dollar sign on the front?

[quack quack]

ok strange thread Why the question LS?Did you find something or lose something?

If the gold in ? is a 50w tiagra on a bent butt rod that says Quack Quack on it then it is mine