Wham Bam Good-bye Ram!

I once had one of these woderful RAM rod light-speed rod holders which I won in the raffle at the Sunset Bay Angler of the Day tourney.



It was a beautiful thing and I loved it.  I was just showing it to Romanian Redneck last weekend and saying, with all the fondness in my heart, how awesome it was. 

However, I learned a valuable lesson last Tuesday evening. I put it in the base on my yak and rotated it 180 degrees to lock it in.  Later, as I was putting my rod in the holder, I noticed it was angled too low.  The angle of the rod holder looked great if I were to rotate it 180 degrees.  Hmmm...seems simple with no loosening of any knobs.  So I made the adjustment and started trolling for Springers. 

A short period of time goes buy and I decide it would be best to check the bait so I gave the rod a quick jerk to get it out of the holder and it worked perfectly as designed.  Unfortunately, so did the mounting base.  The rod holder decided to follow the rod and made that horrible "ploop" sound.  The sound that only occurs when something that doesn't float falls in the water just out of reach.

The funny thing about it is that I lost it in almost the exact location that my Kodak Playsport made the same ploop sound.  I hope they find comfort with each other.  Could it be a Bermuda Triangle type thing on the Willamette?

Here is a couple pictures of us together with a Chinook she helped me catch




Anybody know what the required grieving period is before I can replace her?

Craig you need to show me were you keep dropping stuff. If it is shallow enough I'll skin dive for it. If I bring up something of yours you keep it. If we find lost treasure we will split it. 

Ouch, losing a ram mount and a camera on the same day 

"ploop" is a terrible terrible sound...

Ouch, losing a ram mount and a camera on the same day 

"ploop" is a terrible terrible sound...

Sorry- I should have worded that differently.  The camera went down in the summer of '11.

Craig you need to show me were you keep dropping stuff. If it is shallow enough I'll skin dive for it. If I bring up something of yours you keep it. If we find lost treasure we will split it. 

The bottom of the Willamette around George Rogers Park is littered with my stuff.  Two cameras, many crankbaits, several walleye bottom bouncers, an anchor, a new rod holder, two drift socks (didn't learn my lesson the first time) and numerous other smaller items.  Unfortunately, the Playsport and the Ram Rod holder were in about 80 feet of water to the west of the floating boat house with the salmon tails nailed to it.

May she rest in peace. The grieving period for something like this is about 12 seconds. After which you beat yourself up all the way back to the launch for being careless. Then you go buy another one
Oh, and I'd troll around that spot on the Willy from here on out. lol

You must really be jonesing this weekend.

Ah I just misread Craig, tis my mistake

Still thats funny about one spot claiming so many items. Makes me want to do some free diving for sunken treasure too

If only we could recover our lost toys and such:( Well at least we are helping the dismal economy.

That area in front of the boat house is dangerous! I've lost 2 flashers with prawn rigs right there (one a couple weeks ago, and one today)! Maybe I hooked on your gear cause it needed some more company? 

Any ways, sorry to hear about your loss. I'm sure RAM appreciates your business though.