Yours are simply the best. Hands-down. Whether it’s a portable sauna in the snow at an alpine temperature lake or diving on lost fishing tackle and recovering a veritable treasure trove. Just multiply 213 times $20. And that’s just for the flasher itself. That doesn’t include the rest of the terminal gear. The hooks, the lure, the weights. You’re probably looking at at least $35 per set up. Now go multiply 213 times $35. (The answer is $7455.)
Thank you! We had closer to 275 flashers, a full trolling setup costs about $40 if you’re buying everything new from the store, that equals to $11,000.
Major score. I do recycling as a hobby. I will walk the roads grabbing every aluminum can I see and sometimes I’m lucky to get three or four bags of cans from walking only two miles. My biggest score was when I found a mall parking that was used as a local party area for kids and transients who just thru their beer cans on the ground. That day I brought home 35 bags of cans. I was happy for the score but also for the appreciation that the locals expressed for me cleaning the area up. Thank you for cleaning up the river
Great videos guys. As fishermen we always wonder what treasures were lost to snags. Wondering if it might be more efficient to pile the booty on the bottom and then go back with bags or buckets that could be hoisted to the surface. Seems that diving up and down with 5 items in hand burns up a lot of time that could be spent on the bottom harvesting $$$. Keep posting and I will keep watching!
You guys ever GPS mark the biggest snags then come back each year plus sell the data to fisherman data including the exact location so they can pull up or go around and data like how many flashers or on it each year for statistical analysis and calculate snag threat percentage of the location
Free diving to 40' is really a waste of time and energy. The real gold is the sunken log. Water soaked old logs sell for thousands especially if it is cypress...
You guys need to buy/use something like a surface air pump (old name aquaboy) provides air from the surface. Depending on how cold and tired you get, you could stay down for hours! Also if you have screem or mesh bottom buckets one guy can fill on the botton one other fellow can pull the bucket up?
Totally insane to free dive this. All this stuff has old rusty hooks but tied in silt. What happens when you hook yourself on a steel leader that’s trapped under the log. You have about 30 sec to get yourself free before drowning. At least with a tank and a pair of wire cutters tied to a belt you have enough time to work something out. Still sketchy
Exactly ! Having free dived for abalone back when the resource was open in California, I had a sketchy experience getting my arm wedged between two boulders that nearly cost me my life. That big ab I was so intent on getting was probably laughing at me as I struggled to free myself with seconds to spare. Getting a large rusty hook imbedded in a body part and struggling to get back to the surface is a recipe for disaster ! Be safe guys and great video and great score ! Plenty of salmon flashers down there.
How do they loose so many rods. Been fishing south Florida over 40yrs river and ocean and only lost 1 rod in ocean due to 6-8’ seas on a terribly windy day
When you have an area like could you take the 5gal buckets, drill a bunch of holes in it, and take them down with you? You can drill holes in lids and use them too. Drop like 2 buckets per guy. Could fill them up and swim them up. Might be better than going back and forth so much? From the area. Sick vids 🤙
We have dive bags we do that with but when we anchor the boat right over the snag it’s easier to just bring it up directly to the boat and have the guy in the boat start the cleaning and trimming process
There’s no way I could live with myself dumping those flashers in the lake like that I hope those are all like single persons flashers but if people loose even one of those a trip it’s too much trash in a lake or river I mean I loose maybe one bait a year maybe 2 but not anymore bc my baits are so huge now but still it’s just so much trash down there I’m glad yall are out there to do this man
I really have been enjoying your content, have you ever thought about recovering some of those old submerged logs for commercial harvest or giving someone the location who could recover them for profit?
Stupid question, would it not be easier to lower a basket of some sort you could fill up on the bottom and then pull up to the boat once full? Instead of swimming up and down with a few things in hand at a time.
The metal plates they were pulling up were dodgers or flashers. It’s something you troll with. It either moves left to right (dodger) or it spins (flasher) and you have a lure behind it. The flasher has shiny sides that attract fish and the motion of the dodger or flasher adds motion to whatever lure you are trolling behind it.
Couldn't you use a catch bag to put the lead in and pull it up from the boat so you wouldn't need to come to the surface as much? Just a thought. 🤷🏻♂️
You should take all those videos that you don’t plan on uploading and edit them into one bigger video, you could just do a big cleanup at the end and show what you found over the course of two or three trips
I’ve been fishing my whole life for 40 yrs and I’ve never seen these flashers I guess they’re for pike and walleye in that area and salmon he just said while I was typing but wow I’m just a southern bass fisherman and I’ve never seen anyone use any thing like that. But I guess I’m throwing 11” lures that are 4” tall that look just like a giant blue gill or shad.
@ i understand that. But in some cases especially if it was lost while logging. Sometimes the logs sunk Or if you replaced it with some other type of structure
They are worth money but not a crazy amount. I’m not sure on the rules here. In Idaho you are not allowed to remove naturally occurring logs from the bottom of a body of water. If it is a log that was cut by loggers it is the property of the mill that owned it for 1 year then it is available to be removed by the public but you need a permit from the state and they don’t give them to everyone. You have to provide proof of your ability to get the logs up without disturbing the lake bed. And then you will probably have to mill the log yourself as most commercial mills won’t take them. They are usually full of sediment and harder on equipment to mill and need to be milled slowly. My dad was the dry end supervisor for the largest mill in north Idaho. In 2008 when the economy slowed they we’re looking for something to do to keep the mill open and they milled a few truckloads of logs that had been removed from lake pend oreille. The lumber had a ton of cool colors and was pretty neat but my dad said it was more trouble to mill than it was worth to the sawmill. The guy that was selling it said not many places buy it and it’s not worth as much as common American hardwoods like oak or walnut. These logs were pines, firs, larch and hemlock.
It's actually pretty easy to lose one,I've lost and found multiple..they can be knocked off the boat by someone,fly off traveling the water by the wind or vibration,dropped by accident,like people dropping a phone,glass etc not counting a fish pulling the rod in..accidents happen alot😊 heck I've even seen a couple people get mad and throw the rod in,crazy stuff
You know, you guys seem like such amatures. Being a comnercial diver and having done salvage work myself. To not waste bottom time you guys should have lowered a basket of somekind, that is strong enough and heavy enough to stay on the bottom or near enough to the diver with a pair of wire cutters, to snip off each flasher and lead weight. Give you guys this hint. Purchase a, Klein brand: Canvas tool bucket, with the brass hook on the nylon strap handel, using a, Linemans pliers to cut lines to save bottom dwell times especially when using scuba. Another thing diving into dirty water and not wearing a retrival harnesses for each diver is very unsafe for any type of diving job in a dirty river. Don't make a fun day into a body recovery day.
I'm curious to know how you guys in the U.S. manage to lose so many rods overboard. Not trying to be a smart arse (that's Australian for 'ass' 😁), but it isn't that common here.
Whats with those ridiculous shiny flashers ,you dont need that crap ,whatever country your fishing in ,dont be so gullible thinking you need that unnecassary overpriced junk hanging off your line ,ridiculous..
With all due respect, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. The use of these types of flashers for Pacific Ocean salmon has been proven highly effective over decades by hundreds of thousands of fishermen. They both attract fish (looks like fish feeding) and provide action to the lure.
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I love these videos. Cleaning up the water and providing some entertainment while making some money. Genius.
Appreciate it 👊🏼 It’s the perfect storm!
Salvage that log. Probably worth 10x the fishing gear your found.
Yours are simply the best. Hands-down. Whether it’s a portable sauna in the snow at an alpine temperature lake or diving on lost fishing tackle and recovering a veritable treasure trove. Just multiply 213 times $20. And that’s just for the flasher itself. That doesn’t include the rest of the terminal gear. The hooks, the lure, the weights. You’re probably looking at at least $35 per set up. Now go multiply 213 times $35. (The answer is $7455.)
Thank you! We had closer to 275 flashers, a full trolling setup costs about $40 if you’re buying everything new from the store, that equals to $11,000.
@ Well, there ya go. That’s a very reasonable accounting.
Major score. I do recycling as a hobby. I will walk the roads grabbing every aluminum can I see and sometimes I’m lucky to get three or four bags of cans from walking only two miles. My biggest score was when I found a mall parking that was used as a local party area for kids and transients who just thru their beer cans on the ground. That day I brought home 35 bags of cans. I was happy for the score but also for the appreciation that the locals expressed for me cleaning the area up. Thank you for cleaning up the river
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Great videos guys. As fishermen we always wonder what treasures were lost to snags. Wondering if it might be more efficient to pile the booty on the bottom and then go back with bags or buckets that could be hoisted to the surface. Seems that diving up and down with 5 items in hand burns up a lot of time that could be spent on the bottom harvesting $$$. Keep posting and I will keep watching!
I thought the same thing
You guys ever GPS mark the biggest snags then come back each year plus sell the data to fisherman data including the exact location so they can pull up or go around and data like how many flashers or on it each year for statistical analysis and calculate snag threat percentage of the location
Free diving to 40' is really a waste of time and energy. The real gold is the sunken log. Water soaked old logs sell for thousands especially if it is cypress...
Its never a waste of time or money to do what you like to do.
He's right, Hesus, money wise that log pay more. 😅
The log is money
You guys need to buy/use something like a surface air pump (old name aquaboy) provides air from the surface. Depending on how cold and tired you get, you could stay down for hours! Also if you have screem or mesh bottom buckets one guy can fill on the botton one other fellow can pull the bucket up?
The gold miners in Alaska stay down all day if there sucking up good gold.
Totally insane to free dive this. All this stuff has old rusty hooks but tied in silt. What happens when you hook yourself on a steel leader that’s trapped under the log. You have about 30 sec to get yourself free before drowning. At least with a tank and a pair of wire cutters tied to a belt you have enough time to work something out. Still sketchy
Exactly !
Having free dived for abalone back when the resource was open in California, I had a sketchy experience getting my arm wedged between two boulders that nearly cost me my life. That big ab I was so intent on getting was probably laughing at me as I struggled to free myself with seconds to spare.
Getting a large rusty hook imbedded in a body part and struggling to get back to the surface is a recipe for disaster !
Be safe guys and great video and great score !
Plenty of salmon flashers down there.
omg. I don't know anything about diving, I would have never thought about this. but it is making me very uncomfortable thinking about this.
Never heard of the flasher! Learn something new. Good job guys🇺🇸🇺🇸
Why not just get two large boats and pull the log sideways to the shore, it doesn't look that far away.
The feds will take everything you own for removing fish habitat
Can you imagine what that 50' (water-logged) log weighs ?
You'd need a couple of ocean going tugs to move it !
Bro these videos are sick! So cool seeing local places underwater
Appreciate that 🙏🏼
How do they loose so many rods. Been fishing south Florida over 40yrs river and ocean and only lost 1 rod in ocean due to 6-8’ seas on a terribly windy day
Make a bottom heavy bucket with rope load and up top hauls. Save trips
When you have an area like could you take the 5gal buckets, drill a bunch of holes in it, and take them down with you? You can drill holes in lids and use them too. Drop like 2 buckets per guy. Could fill them up and swim them up. Might be better than going back and forth so much? From the area. Sick vids 🤙
We have dive bags we do that with but when we anchor the boat right over the snag it’s easier to just bring it up directly to the boat and have the guy in the boat start the cleaning and trimming process
There’s no way I could live with myself dumping those flashers in the lake like that I hope those are all like single persons flashers but if people loose even one of those a trip it’s too much trash in a lake or river I mean I loose maybe one bait a year maybe 2 but not anymore bc my baits are so huge now but still it’s just so much trash down there I’m glad yall are out there to do this man
Yes, these are from individuals who were trolling and got snagged, they were not all dumped by anyone.
😂 trolling your wife at the end of the video. Poor girl thought she was really putting a whooping on a salmon!
😂 she was very committed too
Bro...." me and Derrick"... it's "Derrick and I"
What's retail on one of those flasher's?
Around $18
Do you plan to resell any of it? The lead at least?
I really have been enjoying your content, have you ever thought about recovering some of those old submerged logs for commercial harvest or giving someone the location who could recover them for profit?
Thanks 👊🏼 a couple people have mentioned it but I’d probably need to start buying some heavy machinery for that
Great video. Thanks
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It's worth money old gear it worth allot of money!
Stupid question, would it not be easier to lower a basket of some sort you could fill up on the bottom and then pull up to the boat once full? Instead of swimming up and down with a few things in hand at a time.
They are free diving, no tanks, they have to come up for air.
Very nice video. Do you ever come across any vintage fishing lures
Yes every now and then
Love the vids man
Thanks bro 👊🏼
Just found your channel and I am subbing right now. I live down near the mouth of the Columbia. Thanks for sharing.
LOL! Debo loves free gear and TEMU!
Should have floated the lig with air bags it and took it to shore.
What is a flasher?
The metal plates they were pulling up were dodgers or flashers. It’s something you troll with. It either moves left to right (dodger) or it spins (flasher) and you have a lure behind it. The flasher has shiny sides that attract fish and the motion of the dodger or flasher adds motion to whatever lure you are trolling behind it.
Is this the Columbia? I’m from Hammond, now live in Vernonia area
Can't wait to see 100k subs
seems like the fish would know what a flasher is at this point very intresting river boats everywhere how are there any fish left
Salmon are migratory plus they die ...so they wont get used to them
I wonder how much one flasher costs?
$18 new
Nice one man another great video...
Fishing can be extremely terrible for the environment, especially when people leave their trash all over the bottom
U could harvest that log every year and make a fortune 😅get it on GPS
Can always do a mixed video of all the grabs with there values adding up etc
The big log might be hand cut old growth and worth more than your boat !
I can only imagine the amount of hooks yall have been stuck with.
Couldn't you use a catch bag to put the lead in and pull it up from the boat so you wouldn't need to come to the surface as much? Just a thought. 🤷🏻♂️
We’re free diving so we’re coming to the surface regardless, might as well grab gear with you
@@bigwaterguy my bad. I was thinking with tanks . I need to pay attention better, my apologies. Cool content man.
You should take all those videos that you don’t plan on uploading and edit them into one bigger video, you could just do a big cleanup at the end and show what you found over the course of two or three trips
Good idea. I might do something like that with it
Forget the lures. Salvage the log.
I’ve been fishing my whole life for 40 yrs and I’ve never seen these flashers I guess they’re for pike and walleye in that area and salmon he just said while I was typing but wow I’m just a southern bass fisherman and I’ve never seen anyone use any thing like that. But I guess I’m throwing 11” lures that are 4” tall that look just like a giant blue gill or shad.
You guys should bring that log up. It looks like a huge straight log. I bet that wood is worth slot of money
I heard there is good money in it but I can’t even fathom how we were being that thing up without heavy machinery
@@bigwaterguyfloat bags?
The government agencies don't allow removal of stuff like that. Fish habitat and all.
@ i understand that. But in some cases especially if it was lost while logging. Sometimes the logs sunk Or if you replaced it with some other type of structure
Is this near nappa
such a chad legend
Good job fellas
That log could be worth 50k..there's guys diving and recovering old logs from the old logging days and making bank
10k in fishing gear? Is inflation that high now??
You haven’t noticed how high it is?
🤩 lots of money 😂😂❤
where is this? great video btw!!
I do wonder if this is going to be used as evidence against fishermen for the gear left at the bottom of the river...
Evidence for what?
@ “fishing is littering the rivers. Gotta ban flashers and lead”
Why not float the log to shore and clean it up there?
You need very heavy machinery to do that and then the feds will skin you for removing fish habitat
We're are the fishes I don't see any swimming around yall..got to be hard to get a bite. On the river
Awesome adventure!
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The whales in the bay yet? Trying to gauge what time that happens
10k in pesos?
Very cool
Pole master..or master of poles?
all that gear but not one fish in sight?
Does no one turn around and get it unsnagged? Lol
16:30 I’d love all that lead I make crappie jigs
Lol holy sht at first i thought a commercial troller hit it with 20 stacked lires but now its just the dummy spot everyone hits lop
Everyone loves to run bottom around here
That Log could be worth a Buck's.
Bring the log up and make 10K after clean it
That's a lot of gear
Log is probably worth 50 k by itself.
They are worth money but not a crazy amount. I’m not sure on the rules here. In Idaho you are not allowed to remove naturally occurring logs from the bottom of a body of water. If it is a log that was cut by loggers it is the property of the mill that owned it for 1 year then it is available to be removed by the public but you need a permit from the state and they don’t give them to everyone. You have to provide proof of your ability to get the logs up without disturbing the lake bed. And then you will probably have to mill the log yourself as most commercial mills won’t take them. They are usually full of sediment and harder on equipment to mill and need to be milled slowly. My dad was the dry end supervisor for the largest mill in north Idaho. In 2008 when the economy slowed they we’re looking for something to do to keep the mill open and they milled a few truckloads of logs that had been removed from lake pend oreille. The lumber had a ton of cool colors and was pretty neat but my dad said it was more trouble to mill than it was worth to the sawmill. The guy that was selling it said not many places buy it and it’s not worth as much as common American hardwoods like oak or walnut. These logs were pines, firs, larch and hemlock.
Pull that log up probably worth 10.000.000
Someone pulled a rod out with a cold water reel in that area.
People have lost so many rods in that area it’s actually impressive
How do u lose a rod. I get if a grizzly is chasing u like a steak.
It's actually pretty easy to lose one,I've lost and found multiple..they can be knocked off the boat by someone,fly off traveling the water by the wind or vibration,dropped by accident,like people dropping a phone,glass etc not counting a fish pulling the rod in..accidents happen alot😊 heck I've even seen a couple people get mad and throw the rod in,crazy stuff
Lift the log it's probably worth the most. Js
I’m thinking you should have taken a bucket down with you so you’re not doing so many trips up and down.
They are free diving, no tanks, they have to come up for air.
noooooot cool doing all that to your wife 😂🥰
😂😂 fish on!
You know, you guys seem like such amatures.
Being a comnercial diver and having done salvage work myself. To not waste bottom time you guys should have lowered a basket of somekind, that is strong enough and heavy enough to stay on the bottom or near enough to the diver with a pair of wire cutters, to snip off each flasher and lead weight. Give you guys this hint.
Purchase a, Klein brand: Canvas tool bucket, with the brass hook on the nylon strap handel, using a, Linemans pliers to cut lines to save bottom dwell times especially when using scuba.
Another thing diving into dirty water and not wearing a retrival harnesses for each diver is very unsafe for any type of diving job in a dirty river. Don't make a fun day into a body recovery day.
I'm curious to know how you guys in the U.S. manage to lose so many rods overboard. Not trying to be a smart arse (that's Australian for 'ass' 😁), but it isn't that common here.
Ugh, makes me wish I got into diving.
Never too late 👊🏼
Just pull up to a sand bar and drink some cold ones and bbq. Life’s to short
👍 nice
First! Love your vids
Appreciate that 👊🏼
Whats with those ridiculous shiny flashers ,you dont need that crap ,whatever country your fishing in ,dont be so gullible thinking you need that unnecassary overpriced junk hanging off your line ,ridiculous..
With all due respect, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. The use of these types of flashers for Pacific Ocean salmon has been proven highly effective over decades by hundreds of thousands of fishermen. They both attract fish (looks like fish feeding) and provide action to the lure.
$$$$$$$$$$
I was the 420th view lol
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