I'm an idiot, lost my Quantum Tour Edition rod and baitcast reel overboard Sunday when I put it down (with spinner bait out!) to take a fish off the hook for my son, heard a click as it hit the transom on the way out!!
First question - think it floats? It was choppy, rod dove down either from hook on bottom coupled with current or a fish on! The split cork handle (new style) probably gives it a lot less chance at floating if it comes loose of bottom I'm thinking.
Gives me something to swim for with a snorkel on hot days at the cottage anyway!!! ;-P
Case of beer and $50 cash for any honest soul that finds it.....I sleep better at night thinking some young fisherman using a garbage rod might find it and treasure it.
-Popps
Quantum Tour Edition went overboard - FOUND IT!
Quantum Tour Edition went overboard - FOUND IT!
Last edited by Popps on Fri Jul 16, 2010 1:05 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Still swimming....
I think they put just shy of the amount of cork they know it needs....keeps us buying!
I know roughly where, but I'm still swimming a 200 yard by 200 yard grid everyday (so not a great situation). 8' deep or so, weedy of course....pretty much need to be right over it I reckon, pretty sure she's gone for good....couldn't buy a story like that night for $300+, ha ha.....
-Popps
I know roughly where, but I'm still swimming a 200 yard by 200 yard grid everyday (so not a great situation). 8' deep or so, weedy of course....pretty much need to be right over it I reckon, pretty sure she's gone for good....couldn't buy a story like that night for $300+, ha ha.....
-Popps
No fish on though. There was no way i was leaving until i found it.-
the walleye hunter
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Lost my Kistler LTX rod paired with a Pflueger Summit real out of Prescott last year while pre-fishing. Not sure if you know the current situation, but needless to say, I couldn't dive to get it. My heart is still broken about this one. And my wallet... 
Who knows, maybe someone caught a rod and reel of a lifetime.
Who knows, maybe someone caught a rod and reel of a lifetime.
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Re: Quantum Tour Edition went overboard on Lower Rideau Sund
I got one for sale!!Popps wrote:I'm an idiot, lost my Quantum Tour Edition rod and baitcast reel overboard Sunday
Hope you find it!!
FOUND IT!!!!
After what I estimate to be about 12 man hours of snorkeling a 100 yard by 200 yard search area over 8 days, and scuba diving for 2 more days, I finally found my rod yesterday while snorkeling. Couldn't believe it...was in 12 feet of water, so buried in weeds that all I saw was the quantum insignia on the spool tension knob....what luck!
She's a little dirty after 11 days at sea but sure looks pretty to me! I'm cleaning her up good but she still casts pretty good even now, caught a large mouth last night!
So my new question is, am I nuts to try to disassemble the PT Tour baitcast reel completely on my own to clean and oil everything or should I take it to someone, if so who?
-Popps (oh and before anyone asks, blew the $50 on sunscreen and scuba refills and drank the case of beer myself, think I earned it!)
FOR ANYONE WHO EVER LOSES SOMETHING VALUABLE OVERBOARD, THE LESSON I LEARNED HERE IS TO THROW THE ANCHOR IN IMMEDIATELY (AND MAYBE CARRY A SNORKEL AND MASK IN THE BOAT)....IF IT'S TOO DARK TO SEARCH THAT MOMENT (IT WAS FOR ME), I'D HAVE TIED A LIFEJACKET TO THE ANCHOR AND COME BACK THE NEXT DAY WITH A MUCH SMALLER AREA TO SEARCH!
She's a little dirty after 11 days at sea but sure looks pretty to me! I'm cleaning her up good but she still casts pretty good even now, caught a large mouth last night!
So my new question is, am I nuts to try to disassemble the PT Tour baitcast reel completely on my own to clean and oil everything or should I take it to someone, if so who?
-Popps (oh and before anyone asks, blew the $50 on sunscreen and scuba refills and drank the case of beer myself, think I earned it!)
FOR ANYONE WHO EVER LOSES SOMETHING VALUABLE OVERBOARD, THE LESSON I LEARNED HERE IS TO THROW THE ANCHOR IN IMMEDIATELY (AND MAYBE CARRY A SNORKEL AND MASK IN THE BOAT)....IF IT'S TOO DARK TO SEARCH THAT MOMENT (IT WAS FOR ME), I'D HAVE TIED A LIFEJACKET TO THE ANCHOR AND COME BACK THE NEXT DAY WITH A MUCH SMALLER AREA TO SEARCH!
