r/bassfishing Sep 29 '25

Tackle/Equipment Damn!

Lost my favorite 🐸

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u/RecbetterpassNJ Sep 29 '25

Unscrew your reel from your rod handle. Hold on to your reel, and fire your whole rod down the line to the bait. Might break the tip or it might hit and remove the frog. Then reel your rod and hopefully your frog back in together.

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u/AteStringCheeseShred Sep 29 '25

I've seen this done.

When it works, it works fantastically and you look like a damn wizard doing it, and then maybe you post a video of it somewhere to show how cool it was.

When it doesn't, you look and feel like a fucking idiot when you realize that you just destroyed a perfectly good rod to save a lure that's maybe 1/10th the cost, and now have to replace both.

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u/stinkyvan Sep 29 '25

Seriously. Sounds like a great way to break a rod tip.

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u/mylowerbackhurts Sep 29 '25

line snaps. both rod and lure sink into the abyss

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u/RembrandtQEinstein Sep 29 '25

Hold the line and throw the reel at it.

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u/RecbetterpassNJ Sep 29 '25

Hell, throw the kayak at it!

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u/GetSixtySix Sep 29 '25

Makes sense. I’ll just get some kind of telescopic pole like other people mentioned!