Well this is the 2nd time in just 3 or 4 years<br />that a fishing rod has gone down the hole and<br />been retrieved, that I have been involved in.<br />Last Saturday morning I took a customer ice <br />fishing for pike and he sets up his rod in a<br />holder. I tell him to make sure his bail is open<br />so the pike can run with the bait should he get a<br />pick up. Well we are standing around chewing the<br />fat early after setting up. I notice his rod bounce<br />and on the second bounce it comes right out<br />of the holder, and down the hole it goes.<br />We have a pretty good laugh at his expense ,and<br />I tell him the story about my friends fluger <br />rocket that did the same thing as few years back<br />and how we caught the same fish the following<br />weekend with the rod and reel still attached.<br />Anyway we are close to getting ready to end the<br />day. So far we have a 12lb on the ice and a 10lb'r<br />so not a bad day. <br />His other line gets what appears to be a pick up,<br />and he waits to give the fish a chance to swallow<br />the bait, starts reeling and there is fishing line<br />hooked on his bait so he grabs the line and hand <br />lines it in till his lost rod comes up through the<br />hole. Cleans all the weeds of the rod and reels in<br />the line and still has attached the 8lb Pike that<br />took his rod. What are the odds. 
