Found & Lost

[jtexas]

Found floating on Lake Ray Hubbard, last Saturday: One bright yellow PFD, size 4X - 7X.
Lost on Lake Ray Hubbard, last Saturday: One bright yellow PFD, size 4X - 7X, escaped from the back deck where it was left to dry.

That's only the 3rd item of value I've found over 25 or so years of boating and all within the last 5 years. The others:
A really nice bass boat seat, currently the best seat on my boat, probably about a $150 value.
A pair of Costa del Mar sunglasses in a fancy floating case, amber lenses, around $175.

Stuff I've lost while boating (apart from fishing lures): an old mushroom anchor, a cheap orange life jacket, an old trailer winch crank handle, around six rods with reels, one full tackle box, and a shirt.

 

[pontooner]

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I found a nice stainless steel prop this past weekend. It was in about 2 feet of water (Lake Lanier is down 11-12 ft). The thing is, it still had the shaft, gears, and bearings attached to it. It looked as if it had been there a couple of years or more. It was at the end of a large rock that is probably ussually just under the water surface. I guess someone has a very bad day on the lake. The prop was in excellent condition. This is about a $400 prop.

 

[hgmatt]

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Pontooner, Where do you launch from? I was pretty much under the impression that the ramps were pretty much inoperable.

 

[suzhol76]

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I boat on Lanier as well and was able to drop off at Tidwell off of Pilgrim Mill Rd. and we we able to use 2 right lanes at Shoal Creek.

 

[suzhol76]

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also this site will tell you what ramps are open
http://lanier.sam.usace.army.mil/ParkSchedule.htm

 

[pontooner]

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I launch at Charleston ramp in six mile creek. It has 1 of the 3 ramps open. I have been told that it is the second longest ramp on the lake.

 

[Nandy]

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I have found life jackets, fish marking buys, floating toys and such. I lost a cap and an anchor.

 

[WaterWitch2]

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I've found a few fenders floating a mile or two off shore and I once found a nice wooden letter "X" that measures about 18" tall about 6 years ago. I don't know why I took it and I don't even know why I still have it, but it is one of the nicest "X"s I have ever seen floating in the Pacific.

 

[Brijoe00]

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Are you sure there wasnt a treasure floating underneath it, X marks the spot. I once found one of those big coolers floating just under the waterline filled with beer. I think it frll off the back of someones boat.

 

[boatflounder]

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Good friend of mine recently left the merchant marine to join the coast guard and got stationed in new orleans. Well called him a couple monts ago and while driving down to some sh$%hole port on the coast he saw a sonar beacon in the ditch on the side of the road. These are very expensive and only those of us in the field would recognize its value, he said he came home and got his wife and drove down to recover it.

I think he said he got a $500 reward when he turned it in and from where it was it had probably been sitting there for two years since the storm came through!

 

[WaterWitch2]

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Are you sure there wasnt a treasure floating underneath it, X marks the spot. I once found one of those big coolers floating just under the waterline filled with beer. I think it frll off the back of someones boat.

I didn't see a treasure below it.

 

[hgmatt]

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Thanks for the info, I normally launch at Lanier Beach, but I haven't been to the lake in about a month, and with all the severe drought news, one would think that Lanier is about empty. Just FYI, if you get a chance to see some of the North Georgia Lakes, like Nottley, its worse than Lanier by a long shot.

A friend of mine has a house off Nottley, so we took the boat up there the last weekend on August, I had to drive to the end of the ramp, and a friend sat at the very edge of the concrete to make sure my back wheels didn't go over. On the way back to his house, we got lost on the lake because we missed a turn. We missed this turn because the normal route sat about 10 feet above the water level. This drought really sucks.

 

[orion25]

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I have not ever found anything........... But I did lose a Bimini Boot a couple of weeks ago. I just got the part # from Larson. I shudder to think what it is going to cost me for the replacement.................

 

[Mark42]

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I found a really nice inflatable life vest on the open ocean. Took a while to get it in the boat because the guy wearing it wouldn't get out of it.

 

[orion25]

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I found a really nice inflatable life vest on the open ocean. Took a while to get it in the boat because the guy wearing it wouldn't get out of it.

Next time club him with a paddle.....................

 

[floorguru]

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Found a nice navy style anchor with chain and a small bit of rope still attached off the Galveston jetties about 100 ft. Also brought up a Japanese Arisaka 6.5 mm rifle (or what was left of it - no wood, metal only) complete with WWII markings. Caught on my anchor in the "Boat Hole" just off Corpus Christi Bay back in the 60's. It was just off shore of the Naval Air Station. Was told that returning soldiers would ditch contraband in the Bay when returning to the States after a tour overseas. Not valuable, but certainly interesting.

 

[bassboy1]

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I have found a perfect condition bimini top, with stainless steel bows, folded up perfectly, at the dump. And, it even fits one of our boats.

We love to find useful things, and milk crates and the like are real useful. Once, we found a crate, I think that is used for carrying those little containers of strawberries, floating in the lake. Real sturdy. Replaced the cardboard box that acted as a storage locker in our jon boat (you think I am kidding - I am serious.)

I think that X marked a good fishing spot. Did you think about tossing a senko underneath it? Generally when we find a good fishing spot, we put an X on the deck of the rental boat, where we found the fish......

 

[gonefishie]

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A few years ago, I found a rootbeer color Bandit 300 crankbait floating. It looked brand new with a snap swivel still on it. It now have many battle scars and bunch of bass caught on it. I have lost rod and reel, Solarbat sunglasses on the same day. Lost a few needlenose pliers from the opening of storage box lid. Lost a jacket left underneath the console which flew out while on the highway.

 

[Mr.Stuart]

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I haven't been boating long enough to really lose aything yet, ...other then a coat that blew off the back of the boat out on the river, but I have found a few life jackets on the side of the highway, and a couple of fishing nets.

 

[Ezrider_92356]

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i lost a minnow bucket and about 3 dozen minnows trying to get back to the boat launch in 30-40 mph winds and about 3 foot waves it poped up in the air and the wind caught it dumped watter and minnows allover my lap and the bucket went off like a rocket threw the air