"We get calls from people trying it out," said Faye Sherman, customer service manager for Apex Magnets of Petersburg, W.V.įor beginners, Sherman recommends the company's 200-pound magnetic hook. Magnet companies have also jumped into this fishing market. That's why he likes to take his son 17-year-old son, Druhan Gordon-Stacey, along to share in the experience of what will mysteriously pop to the surface and to help pull the heavy stuff out of the river. Stacey has magnets that have the strength to pull up from about 170 pounds to 1,000 pounds. Watching the posts from Germany, in which people report finding World War II helmets and weapons when their magnets went into the water, helped Stacey to dive into the hobby this spring after the river ice was long gone. His introduction to magnet fishing came via YouTube videos. They would find musket balls, arrow heads and other metal items. Metal detecting was a familiar hobby for the 40-year-old Stacey, who would search for items on his Coeymans farm with friends. "I love when we attract it with powerful magnetic force." I don't have to clean fish," Stacey said. And, yes, he even catches fishing poles and lures. He's seen more interesting stuff: golf clubs, an old-fashioned tub washing machine, old flip cell phones, car wheels and other parts.
It isn't a sturgeon pulled from the Hudson that excites Stacey. The fun is seeing what emerges from beneath the waves. It's the water version of metal detecting on land.
Magnet fishing is a hobby as well as a passion for some that's been building a base of devoted practitioners worldwide. If I go magnet fishing I don't know what I'll pull up," Stacey said. "I know if I go regular fishing I'll catch a fish. The friends have been fishing together for over 10 years, year round. He and friend William Proctor, also of Clifton Park, was fishing with him. Show More Show Less 74 of126 Times Union Staff photograph by Philip Kamrass - Al Baranowski of Clifton Park holds a sheepshead he caught while ice fishing just below Lock 2 at Waterford, NY Monday afternoon March 3, 2008. He described the catch as "a fish of 10,000 casts." He returned it to the river. Blaauboer, 29, pulled the hybrid from the river using live bait, a 9-foot pole and 20-pound line. The fish is a hybrid between northern pike and muskellunge, and has been introduced into nearly all of New York's lakes and large rivers by the state Department of Environmental Conservation since the 1970s. On a Sunday morning in summer 2015, he dropped his line in the Hudson River just south of the Federal Dam in Troy and caught the largest fish he's ever caught: a 42-inch, 22-pound Tiger Musky.
#Magnet fishing magnets full#
However, most of the items that are fished up are simply interesting, strange or sometimes even antique and worth a lot of money! A scrap iron farmer can indulge himself because canals are often full of old bicycles from which kilos of scrap iron can be hauled up.72 of126 73 of126 Jay Blaauboer of Menands works about 70 hours a week for a paving company, but makes as much time as he can for fishing. We’ve seen plenty of stories of retrieving ammunition that has gone into the water in wars. The excitement is mainly in what comes up with it. Archaeologists have been working with the magnet for a long time in order to retrieve historical objects from ancient times. The magnet is thrown into a pool, pond or moat in order to retrieve iron objects. The magnet is attached to a meter long rope and is available in different tensile strengths, the heavier the tensile strength the more heavy metals can be lifted. The eye nut is rock solid attached to the magnet so you can fish up the very heaviest objects. They all come with 20 or 25 feet of rope attached to a sturdy eye nut. Fish magnets with holding forces of 88 kg to as much as 500 kg! The strongest fishing magnet you can buy from the magnet specialist. Magnet Specialist stocks many different types and sizes of fishing magnets, all shipped and delivered equally quickly.
0 kommentar(er)
