Lost and found while in the great outdoors

Someone found a fly fishing outfit, which included an expensive, custom made trout rod, laying in the grass beside a little water way near Terrace, BC.
I don't know who found it, but I know who lost it. Me!
Was fishing with a young son by this nice, slow moving creek, using more than one fishing outfit. Garnered up the stuff to go, and forgot the fly outfit.
Didn't notice it gone until unpacking the camper at home, 750 miles away.
 
I have learned to put the rifles/shotguns on the hood of the truck.
:bigHug::bigHug::bigHug::bigHug: the paint.
Years ago me an ole pa were way up the Jaimeson Creek area.
Parked and went for a hike.
Agreed on return time.
I get back to the truck and saw where pa put his Schultz.
I placed my Brno close to his.
Had a snack, loaded up and started for home.
Bout half way home the old boy was toss'in his head this way and that.
Then sum swear words............uh-oh, now what.
Where's the rifles?
Didn't you put them in the truck?
I thougth you did.
Spun around and back we go.
We searched and searched and the ole boy had given up.
Not me.
Finally found them in the tall grass.
Never ever lean your prizes up against a bumper.
Good thing I backed out of there, not forward,
Could of crushed them.
On the hood or inside..............
 
I walked for an hour and a half up and down steep rock cliffs through swamp, deep potholes, thick bush, bramble, deadfall, millions of mosquitoes to get to an isolated lake stocked with bass. I was wiped but took a cast anyway. When I went to reel in there was no handle!!! :(

I bought some rod cases after that.
 
Cleftwynd said:
I have never lost a round, or a magazine, or a knife, but I did lose my wedding ring. Third week of October 2011 while hunting with my father, I even know where it fell off, went back and looked for hours and hours.... still pisses me off.

I have had many things stolen while hunting though, this year it was my weight distributing hitch, the arms, and even the brackets off my camper, the bastards even brought tools!!!!
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You should have set up a trail cam watching the truck!
 
I lost a knife one year and found it the next....Oh and I"ve found used toilet paper on the trails a number of times...LOL!
 
I used to work in the woods a lot and there are a few chains and felling wedges sitting on stumps out there.

I got to work surveying on a hydro project. They had drained the lake down to what it was before the dam was built in 1929. We found a pevey stuck on the waters edge many years ago, the head was a blob of rust and the handle was no more than 1” in diameter. We also found a case of the old stubby style beer bottles set in a cove. The caps were rusted almost off. A lot of the old tree stumps below the water edge were cut with axe and cross cut saw. I think that was one of the most interesting projects I have ever had the chance to work on.
 
There's plenty of ways to lose a leatherman:

Was out bushwhacking when nature made her daily call. Urgent.
Having learned the hard way that heavy objects will indeed fall off of one's unbuckled belt, and far too often to fall into some truly ugly places ... this savvy punter done took his multitool in hand. All was moving well, till the nostril's got to twitching ... "Ooo-oo that smell, can'tcha smell that smell?".
Holy chit!, look at all them donkey #### type of herbal's just a oozing their skunky scented resin all about this hot grow zone.

Gotta make a snap decision ... snag me a wee sample for the stoner buddy's xmas present?, or, ... hightail the fork outta here RIGHT NOW.
While hightailing it, tail literally between the legs, the leatherman was hastily re-installed on the belt ... scabbard got slid on upsidedown ... tab open ... tool never to be seen again.

Pity, carried that one for so many years, through Tanzanian and Guyanese goldfields, the high country, mostly all of the neat places I've ever been.
 
My brother-in-law had a crossbow bolt pass clean through a small buck he took down in late autumn. No sign of the bolt after 1/2 hour of searching. The next winter I found it as I was walking out of the bush after an unsuccessful morning on the stand. The fletchings were brown, orange and yellow on a carbon fibre bolt. It blended right in with the fallen leaves but stuck out like a sore thumb with snow on the ground.
 
John Y Cannuck said:
If you come across a gut pile in the bush, look carefully.

That is what you do in BC, you look very carefully, before approaching.
Because it is a grizzly bear you are looking for, making sure he hasn't found the gut pile first!
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If the gut pile is human and the nearby poop has little bells in it and smells like pepper you better keep your wits up and hope you're well armed!
 
l found a hunting knife stuck in stump once.l have found sheds old cabins,bones ,dead animals etc.This year l found a nice buck on my wood lot with a crossbow bolt in it.
 
H4831 said:
John Y Cannuck said:
If you come across a gut pile in the bush, look carefully.

That is what you do in BC, you look very carefully, before approaching.
Because it is a grizzly bear you are looking for, making sure he hasn't found the gut pile first!
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No griz here of course, but I have come upon wolves and fishers at gut piles.
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coolest find;
snorkling in the Kootnay river when I was 13, a catfish swam by with a long lead of fish line after it. Grabbed the line and pulled out the fish and a nice ford fender lure.
 
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