Dropping phone down ice hole.

I dropped my phone down the ice hole last weekend, I watched it go down on my Aqua-Vu Micro 5. I tied a lure to my spud bar and put it down the hole and shook it around, eventually snagged the smallest part of rubber on my phone. It works better than ever after a day in rice and 30 minutes of hair blow drying.

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That is very impressive

Hope you put an extra fifty in the collection plate.

I hope you bought some lottery tickets. I would think your chances of winning that were about the same as getting that phone back.

Thank you! My brother said it was impossible.

Could be the most interesting first post.

I dropped one down a hole on URL a couple years ago. A treble hook bent straight with a bunch of weight did the trick. Drilled a hole next to it and dropped the camera. Luckily the hook went into the little speaker holes on my lifeproof case. The fiancé is still using that phone to this day! It goes without saying that I lost about 2 hours of fishing. Well, I guess I was fishing, but not for fish…

troutbum wrote:

That is very impressive

Thanks man

cpetey wrote:

Could be the most interesting first post.

I am going to post a video on YouTube about my journey on getting it back. My YouTube is RipSomeLipsHG

I’ve dropped and retrieved plenty of stuff through an ice hole – several rods/reels, an iPod (thanks to the headphones), keys, and one fancy shelter license tag holder on Winnie but never retrieved a phone. Dropped my first smartphone in 24 FOW on ML 3 weeks after I bought it – worst part was that it landed screen side down and when it was shorting out on the lake bed, the flash was going bonkers and spooked the fish away, ruined our sunset bite.

Congrats on getting that back. How deep were you fishing when it hit bottom?

With cameras, most items should be able to be retrieved… now back in the day, blindly “grappling” for items = impressive

Oh, ” ice hole ” . I thought you were calling BrianK names….

Is a million dollar idea a safely clip (like on boat keys) to tether your electronics to your jacket? It could be right on the phone case.

DaveB wrote:

Is a million dollar idea a safely clip (like on boat keys) to tether your electronics to your jacket? It could be right on the phone case.

What my uncle showed me the day after is to put it in a ziploc with air so you have a chance. I can still use my phone through the bag.

zooks wrote:

I’ve dropped and retrieved plenty of stuff through an ice hole – several rods/reels, an iPod (thanks to the headphones), keys, and one fancy shelter license tag holder on Winnie but never retrieved a phone. Dropped my first smartphone in 24 FOW on ML 3 weeks after I bought it – worst part was that it landed screen side down and when it was shorting out on the lake bed, the flash was going bonkers and spooked the fish away, ruined our sunset bite.

Congrats on getting that back. How deep were you fishing when it hit bottom?

I was only fishing 7 feet of water but it could have went in any direction. I had to open the hole and meme it 2 feet wide to get right over the phone.