Have you ever heard of "Magnet Fishing"? Very much fun thing to do.. Have you ever heard of "Magnet Fishing"? Very much fun thing to do... Depending on where you do it, everything...

silverhawk Loc: Born a West Virginian, Living in Virginia

Have you ever heard of "Magnet Fishing"? Very much fun thing to do...
Depending on where you do it, everything and anything can be found
in the local waterways...check out these videos and enjoy watching
what these guys are finding...and, Yes, I have a magnet to scour our
fishing/boat dock...LOL!!

MAGNET FISHING
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=MAGNET+FISHING

MAGNET FISHING CANALS IN UK
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=magnet+fishing+canals

SAMPLES:

Magnet Fishing Amazing Finds First Trip Of 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EjkMDSY5ow&t=522s

Magnet Fishing Knives Galore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPQvi6KABpc

MOPED FOUND !!!!! Magnet Fishing Tales From The River Bank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOJv-S9f-oA

Magnet Fishing! Found $100 in Fishing Lures, Knife, and Bullet Shell (Treasure Hunting)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPSpbfdyo2Y

Magnet Fishing Found A Cache Of Stolen Guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd_hRUdtuXs&t=161s

MAGNET FISHING OFF A DOCK WITH TWO 500LB PULL MAGNETS!!! HONEY HOLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfEI6L-HOW8

Magnet Fishing Tales From The River Bank.( !!!OMG!!! 3 BAGS OF JEWELLERY AND A GUN !!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDjBGhGoqas&t=806s

Neodymium Magnet 200 kg Pulls In 28 finds magnet fishing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX8S_CCC_dk

Stolen motorbike found Magnet Fishing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdjxbkFy1I8
Magnet fishing 500 year old Packhorse bridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz4SkvkCp20

MORE COMING:

bkyser Loc: Fly over country in Indiana

I've tried it several times, to try to find the multitude of 9/16 wrenches that I've dropped over the years while putting docks in, along with the occasional pipe wrench. I've found old anchors and several lures, but never my freaking wrenches.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Funny. I never heard of that. So if you have a 500-lb-pill magnet, you would need a very strong line and a very strong man at the end.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

bkyser wrote:

I've tried it several times, to try to find the multitude of 9/16 wrenches that I've dropped over the years while putting docks in, along with the occasional pipe wrench. I've found old anchors and several lures, but never my freaking wrenches.

When I used to row out to place and remove my buoy at the beginning and end of the season, I would tie string on my tools, just in case. I also used cheap tools, just in case.

bkyser Loc: Fly over country in Indiana

jerryc41 wrote:

When I used to row out to place and remove my buoy at the beginning and end of the season, I would tie string on my tools, just in case. I also used cheap tools, just in case.

Yeah, I actually put a 3/16 piece of clothesline on them, and tie them to my wrist. for some reason, I end up taking it off, like the line gets twisted and kinked, or I need to move something. I set it down, and next thing I know, there is a plop in the water.

We have a place that is a discount tool shop here in town, and Every spring I stop in and buy about 5 individual 9/16 wrenches at a time. The weird thing is, with a 500 lb magnet, you would think that I'd find at least one wrench or especially a large pipe wrench that couldn't have floated far from where it fell, but seriously, in 15+ years, I've never found any of them.

bkyser Loc: Fly over country in Indiana

jerryc41 wrote:

Funny. I never heard of that. So if you have a 500-lb-pill magnet, you would need a very strong line and a very strong man at the end.

Actually, the line just has to be strong enough to hold whatever you are trying to pick up. I have gotten anchors from the bottom of the lake, and several fishing lures.....just never what I really want to find. (my tools)

We have a sandbar on our lake, and I also would love to get an underwater metal detector. My guess is that there are rings and coins, and other fun stuff aplenty out there. We call it "the hillbilly yacht club", and people will pull up on their pontoons and drink all day......and never leave to go to the bathroom. Funny, the water is always 10 degrees warmer there. Hmmmm

silverhawk Loc: Born a West Virginian, Living in Virginia

jerryc41 wrote:

Funny. I never heard of that. So if you have a 500-lb-pill magnet, you would need a very strong line and a very strong man at the end.

You would need a strong line.......never know what the magnet will latch onto..
you never know what folks have lost in the waterways or delibertly thrown there...
if you check those canal videos, you'll see them pulling in motor bikes, bicycles, etc....
and,around docks, you could find all kinds of things that folks use on boats...
even motors, fishing poles, etc....and, around fishing piers, they lose tackle, knives,
pliers, etc....

bkyser Loc: Fly over country in Indiana

silverhawk wrote:

You would need a strong line.......never know what the magnet will latch onto..
you never know what folks have lost in the waterways or delibertly thrown there...
if you check those canal videos, you'll see them pulling in motor bikes, bicycles, etc....
and,around docks, you could find all kinds of things that folks use on boats...
even motors, fishing poles, etc....and, around fishing piers, they lose tackle, knives,
pliers, etc....

Meh, not as much as you would think. Remember things feel lighter when supported by water. the anchor doesn't feel heavy until it breaks the surface.

silverhawk Loc: Born a West Virginian, Living in Virginia

Here's a very interesting guy to follow....Netherlands Canal magnet fishing...

The Black Crow
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3KZWCHVRk-hz-rchcV0yTw/videos

EXAMPLE:

Magnet fishing 102 (magneetvissen) Great find
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP3pJGxtOxQ

Magnet fishing 93 (magneetvissen) Rotterdam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LulfR_8z5s0

silverhawk Loc: Born a West Virginian, Living in Virginia

bkyser wrote:

Meh, not as much as you would think. Remember things feel lighter when supported by water. the anchor doesn't feel heavy until it breaks the surface.

Sometimes the item may be too big and stuck on bottom...then, if the rope isn't heavy enough,
you lose the magnet...LOL!!

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

My cousin is a diver and he would dive in the 50 to 60 foot waters of the large lakes here. It seemed that 'weekend boaters' most often had there anchors on 50 feet of rope and many times failed to tie them on and he would collect them and sell them to the marinas around the lake that would in turn sell them as 'used anchors' to the weekend boaters. Others he would find were hung up and the ropes had been cut and they were abandoned.

It gave him something to do that he enjoyed and provided most of his weekend beer money for the summer.

bkyser Loc: Fly over country in Indiana

silverhawk wrote:

Sometimes the item may be too big and stuck on bottom...then, if the rope isn't heavy enough,
you lose the magnet...LOL!!

Trust me, I don't know where they get "500 lb pull" but 1/4" rope will be strong enough to actually pull the magnet off the item, you just have to move the boat enough to the side to break it free. I think 500 lb is literally in perfect conditions, with completely flat and clean iron,

If it were really 500lb, I'd never get the magnet off the things I find. You may be shocked, but I'm not that strong.

silverhawk Loc: Born a West Virginian, Living in Virginia

bkyser wrote:

Trust me, I don't know where they get "500 lb pull" but 1/4" rope will be strong enough to actually pull the magnet off the item, you just have to move the boat enough to the side to break it free. I think 500 lb is literally in perfect conditions, with completely flat and clean iron,

If it were really 500lb, I'd never get the magnet off the things I find. You may be shocked, but I'm not that strong.

Most of these magnets are thrown from shore, so you don't have the option of moving a boat.
And, I saw where there are 1,000 lb. magnets that they are using and two 500 lb. magnets
at once......here's the videos I'm referring to and they have 1,000 pound ropes tied to them, I think.

1000lb Magnet Adventures! Fun morning ends with expensive fail!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S20U0OHmGa0

MAGNET FISHING UNDERWATER FOOTAGE WITH A 1000 LB PULL MAGNET!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbg97SSkSWc

MAGNET FISHING OFF A DOCK WITH TWO 500LB PULL MAGNETS!!! HONEY HOLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfEI6L-HOW8

silverhawk Loc: Born a West Virginian, Living in Virginia

Magnet Fishing At The Gun Dock 500lb Mega Magnet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKdYPZv1Z8w

Magnet fishing, I caught...the dock!? People asking about magnet fishing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmXJzWUQ55Q

bkyser Loc: Fly over country in Indiana

OK, maybe on your youtube videos, but we've done it for years from a boat in both rivers and lakes, before the term was even coined, we just referred to it as "dredging" we just used a 500lb magnet instead of hooks. Used whatever decent rope we had, anything around 1/4" on up. Only time we would lose magnets is when we used rotten ropes that we knew better than to use. That's exactly how I've lost my own anchor, using the same rope for too many years. Same concept, same result, just with covering a LOT more area. Grab a drink, put the boat on idle and put around all the fishing/swimming holes. Been doing it the same way for years. We also do it with Kayaks.... Some youtubers just tried to make it look like it is something new.