Whats The Record For Most $$$ Lost...

[Kenty]

I threw (cast) my custom G-Loomis s842 and brand new shimano sustain 2500 in to the Mitchell River at the Teams grandfinal a couple of weeks ago. I had no hesitation in nuding up and going for a swim. The water was pitch black, freezing and 4m deep. A few white whales later and I found it resting on the bottom. Much to the amusment of the cars driving by and my fishing partner.

[jstylefishing]

its not about line fishing but my BRAND SPANKING new $300 speargun got stolen when i whent snorkeling and left it on the rocks. i havent even got to load it yet....

[Klinkerfish]

not a bit of fishing equiptment, but i was fishing
and a chair with my dads ipod got blown into the water
that was $300, and then i went and jumped in after it
and silly me had my ipod in my pocket too
and thats another 300, so 600 is our best

[Squidlipz]

Lost a Nitro vapour with a 1000 luvias DA custom, a Lox yoshi with a stradic 1000FJ and an iPhone 4s in one foul swoop.

[Cheyne_jones]

Christmas day last year I snapped a samurai 101 in the morning due to a massive grouper (100kg +) deciding my coral trout was breakfast. No big deal took 3 rods with me on the trip.

Only to go back at night and have the same thing happen with my samurai 351. Pretty much 1K worth of rods done over in a day, lesson learned, dont take bream tackle to the Whitsundays and expect it to all come home....

Lucky it was at a Club med, free booze can do wonders for broken rods I found out...

[mugger]

Bass fishing one day in an old sit in yak , hit a log going down some rapids . Lost the iPhone , a box of lures and the hilux keys . Was an hour from home so had to pull someone over so I could ring the missus to bring my spare keys to me .

[hatch]

Fishing up in exmouth.

Hooked a 25kg GT, snapped my handcrafted p.e 8 Illex stick bait rod. $900 accident.

4 casts later my cousin hooked my p.e 5 illex handcrafted outfit while casting a popper and snapped it into 6 pieces. That hurt.

1500 in a day ouch.

[squiddyfrancs]

Geez.. i thought i had been unlucky with some of my gear losses but after reading this thread i now consider myself the opposite

[Breamingwithjoy]

Worst for me now is a certate (2010 model) spooled with brand new Unitika Aoriika on a 6’6’’ nitro vapor. Went in from the rod holder when I stopped fishing for flatties and went for deep water squid. Stoopid Squid

[Piscateur]

Earlier in the Year Lost a box with almost all my breamin perchin and troutin lures around 300 lures ave $$ somewhere btw $20-30 per lure. The Pain was real. But thanks to kind folk on here and another site who generously donated some lures to me, and to my understanding wife who loosened the purse strings I'm almost back witha decent collection.

[Breambogrinner]

I've had a trion combo stolen (not sure what reel) worth over $200.
Another time I had a bag full of fishing equipment, stolen too! Worth over $300.
But I now consider myself luckily compared to these stories I'm hearing.

[yakkindan]

I lost 5 sx40's in 5 casts. Lost 4 blades to school Jew on bream gear in about an hour

[redfinfisho]

jeez I feel sorry for some of you guys most I've ever lost is a few lures, hope its a long long time before I ever lose somthing substantial.

[driftcorp86]

Originally Posted by redfinfisho

jeez I feel sorry for some of you guys most I've ever lost is a few lures, hope its a long long time before I ever lose somthing sunsatntial.

Substantial

[chanlo]

last christmas one of my uni buddies was visiting and I found some big slimies going nuts on the surface so I began throwing slugs then passing him the rod to wind and then i'd cast mine. The one time I let him cast he throws an brand new spellbinder/freams combo into the drink... I said jump in and get it, he said i'll buy you a new one... I said its f'n 500 dollars! and dived in after it, swam down 2 metres grabbed it (almost lost me sunnie/hat) and jump back onto the back of the boat cause i'm sure sharks were not too far away!... My mate said he'd never seen me move so fast! lol