Magnet Fishing

29 Comments on Magnet Fishing

1. Doing this around marinas is fun. There are a lot of sunken Civil War Barges and an place where the British came ashore in 1812 out behind my house.

2. Somebody got ripped off on that “Titanium Knife”. Titanium is almost completely non magnetic.

3. If he had stuck with it a little longer he could have pulled up a bag of silver dollars.

4. Yes, I’ve heard of and have magnet fished. I didn’t get anything spectacular, other than scrap metal. There’s a guy named aquachigger on the youtubes that takes it a step further. You need to see the relics he finds to believe it.

   https://www.youtube.com/user/aquachigger

5. As a kid, my brothers and I pulled plenty of fishing tackle out of the lakes using an old magnet. Never a sword or knife. That would have been cool.

6. If youre’ already fishing and get Skunked , it would be a fun back up plan.
   You could bring home a few new kitchen tools for the Wife, She’d be thrilled and really proud of the weight you take off Magnet Fishing.

7. Fishing for vegetarians.

8. When I was younger I was a professional scuba diver and instructor.
   When people heard I had tanks they would ask me to dive and retrieve whatever they lost.
   From boat motors to fishing rods.
   Then the police wanted to hire me to retrieve corpses.
   That is some real fun. Sometimes you can’t see 3 ft. So you feel around and wait to you feel a body or something like a body.
   And thats how I became a police scuba diver. I’ve pulled over a hundred corpses
   Out of lakes ponds and rivers. No magnets involved

9. I stay away from magnets…they stick to the plate in my head

10. It’s Ferrous and Non-Ferrous metals
    Which are these
    Aluminium & Aluminium Alloys.
    Copper.
    Brass.
    Lead.
    Zinc.
    Stainless Steel.
    Electrical Cable.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-ferrous_metal
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrous

11. And now you know,

    Is 400 series stainless magnetic? No peeking.

12. Many years ago my fishing partner just returned to our slip and tied off when a couple in the boat next to us were about to kill each other. She dropped HIS keys in the lake (Bear River Res. Calif) while getting out of the boat. I had a magnet in my boat and attached it to one of my fishing poles. After about three beers I was able to pull up his keys from about 30 feet of water thank GOD he was a veteran and had his trusty old P-38 can opener on his key ring! Maybe it was more like 5 or 6 beers…we weren’t driving anywhere anyway.

13. I work at Penn Stainless I think I know this one
    http://www.pennstainless.com/stainless-grades/400-series-stainless/

14. Yea, 416 you can actually hold on a magnetic chuck.

15. Kool

16. Yes, I found a pound of gold once magnet fishing. It was next to a kilogram of silver, that was next to a ton of copper. Thank goodness it was triggered by an ounce of iron.

    🙂

17. That was Chuck Conners sword from Branded.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKmJPnAGUJk

18. @Doc: Any veteran who doesn’t have a P-38 on his key ring is not worthy of the title, IMHO. I also keep a handcuff key on it after a cop friend of mine told me I should do so. He said some criminals have been known to use handcuffs to incapacitate their victims. If they don’t think to take away your keys, you might just have a chance to free yourself.

19. You will like this one Brad.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsC5q25MDJ0

20. @Vietvet, back in the old days when ballpoint ink pins had metal ink tubes (not plastic) You could make a handcuff key by tearing the end of the ink tube and making it into a key.

    I’m sure MoeTom is aware of that old trick.

21. @Doc: You can pick handcuffs with a paperclip, too, for that matter. It’s just that a key is a lot easier. Especially if you don’t have an old-fashioned ink pen or a paperclip.

    🙂

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeENLZYlJS4

22. Boy, those were some good titanium kitchen
    implements….bwhahahahaha!

    That cutlass would be fun to restore and hang
    on the wall.

23. Closest thing we did was a metal detector. Unfortunately, besides a few metal buttona and coins, we found mostly pop tops from cans – even on the grounds of old train stations. DH had more success at finding Indian arrowheads back when fields were still being plowed.

24. I lived in a small English village when I was stationed over there in the mid-70’s. I got into metal detecting when they discovered the Water Newton Treasure just a few miles away from my cottage. Google “Water Newton Treasure” to see what was found. That part of England was covered with stuff like this.

25. Back in the 60s we waited for the fishing hole to dry up enough to walk around on the exposed parts and pick up all the tackle and whatever else you could find.

    Never found precious metal, but neither does a magnet.

26. Kitchen knives or murder weapons?

27. Scuba Steve! Whatever happened to your movie career? I liked you in Big Daddy.

    Oh, that’s right. It was a non-speaking part and critics said you were stiff and plastic-like in your acting. It was real small roll (about 6″ high?), but I think you played it better than G.I. Joe or Barbie could.

28. These guys doing some pretty good magnetfihing videos:
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAaAQYJfEfS9lXd3ntGfxPw

29. Magnet fishing is really a lot of fun, trust me. Just try it yourself.