These Snags are Getting Out of Control!

[@lancenutter1067]

Thanks for cleaning up Oregon and Washingtons’ rivers! Nice videos

[@zubenelgenubi]

Next project: remove those old pilings!! Much Respect for the effort!

[@NOMOJO2024]

You guys are awesome. I’m retired and have been picking up trash around my fishing holes and parking area’s 1 day a week. Land trash is much less appealing thank what you clean out, but we are all helping the water ecosystem. Thanks for all you do. Do you have an online store?

[@ROGUEBLU]

As a kayaker I try at the end of the day to go lure fishing. I cut out as much line from branches and laydowns as possible. I never have heard of a flasher before. Thanks for doing this nothing worse than loosing a new lure on a snag. Also the creatures who get caught up in this thank you as well.

[@ShannenAgainsFishing]

Same here.....I'm saving all my "found" tackle and going to make a video content out of using it for a few fishing trips on my yak

[@bigwaterguy]

That’s good stuff. We love it!

[@whocarescameraj1809]

ditto: I have got some really good rapala and whopper ploppers!! even swimbaits!

[@jamesstephen7640]

That is just ridiculous hats off to you guys for cleaning up

[@T-Vegas]

Hey, that was my Dad's fishing pole. Thanks for getting that for him! Cool stuff. It was his lucky day.😊

[@bigwaterguy]

Happy to hear it!

[@scottcyr1696]

Simple you guys are saints. I'm in Maine but love your efforts. I'm retired and collect 100s and 200s of feet of mono " trash only" but you guys wow. I'm not on social media how could I find out about sale items. Thank you good karma will follow you best wishes

[@ReeceAngler]

Mans curled 50 pounds of lures 😂😂😂😂 love it!!!!

[@bigwaterguy]

@@ReeceAngler needed to get a quick pump going 😝

[@Raul28153]

should have a link to your store. some commmon tools would make your work easier heavy wire cutters and a gardener's hand cultivator or cultivator mattock for digging.

[@joeb7508]

Well done! You should be getting paid by the State!

[@lee-z7c]

Great video, love watching these.....keep the good work.....

[@bigwaterguy]

Thank you! 👊🏼

[@joeshmow1583]

You should bring a good pair of side cutters on a tether for the wire.

[@SoCalSpearo]

New sub here! Getting those their rod back pushed me over. So satisfying to watch! Keep it up boys and dive safe!

[@bigwaterguy]

Appreciate that g👊🏼

[@philhardwick100]

Looks like a blast. Treasure hunting is always fun. Once it almost got me. Offshore pretty deep I thought I found a black hose. Thinking it would lead to something, I picked it up to follow it to the end. Three or four feet into the find, the whole bottom lifted up. It was a giant sting ray! Definitely a dive I remember.

[@michaelnemecek5694]

THANK YOU FOR CLEANING UP THAT RIVER

[@jcv8718]

You guys get more in a single dive (not day) than Fisherman’s Marine & Outdoor stock in an entire year.

[@bigwaterguy]

Haha you should see my garage

[@diggy-d8w]

IN 1980/81 was a wet season in Texas & the Lake Texoma Damsite had been generating for a long time w/o stopping due to all the rain that year. It produced krazy fishing below the dam & miles -n- miles of fishing line, hooks/sinkers, and other debris but no one could go about the warning cables as set forth by the Army Corp of Engineers. Being there on the night they starting shutting down the gates was unbelievable as we went into the water and started hoisting out all these 6" to 10" lures for the Stripper Fishing this place was known for. I filled up 3 8 foot sections of fence 6-7 feet up the fence just hanging these large expensive lures I'd gathered out. Made a lot of money selling the stuff right off the fence but the Army Corp did show up & try to take the spoils claiming it was theirs. They got a lot of other people's stuff b/c they were caught in the water beyond the cables. They gave their stuff up not to get ticketed but mine, I got within minutes of the gates shutting down & no one actually knew where I got it at? Later I got a ticket but I did a service to people/wildlife getting all that out of the water but beware of authorities looking to stop you >> video them. We had no videos then but I like seeing you get the stuff out/ peace

[@fngrusty42]

I used to dive the boynton beach inlet in the early 70s. Every hurricane we would get 10 to 20 rods and reels tons of lead , maybe 50 tackle boxes even got a pair of 200 hp mercury out boards. Now this was diving there for 3 years. Lived there every summer thru out high school. Great time.

[@brandonjelinek8963]

Nice work guys. Columbia diving takes some serious dedication.

[@guidofaber2424]

Landed by chance here , good Video about a very Sad Story. Chapeau for what you doing.

[@fungihntr]

Thank you for cleaning up the river! You guys are heroes! Now let’s remove the damn dams!

[@90Garfield]

Dams are essential.

[@ianalderson5133]

​@@90GarfieldNot to the ecosystem

[@ScottWConvid19]

10:29 bringing up dozens of hooks along the side of an inflatable boat looks a bit risky

[@bigwaterguy]

Certainly not ideal

[@jimmiecampbell4357]

I'm a 79+ NE Texan...,,.,,KUDOS to you young guys, there may be others doing what you 3 guys do, but this is the 1st I've seen.......KEEP UP THE GOOD FIGHT!

[@bigwaterguy]

Thanks man! Appreciate you

[@worms1]

right guys, right place, right time success happens when preparation meets opportunity

[@Huey4214]

So cool, as a die hard fisherman I love your videos! Gotta hit up your garage sale someday soon.

[@bigwaterguy]

Thank you! I got flashers for everyone!

[@lasergames1798]

Yall could just mark 500 snags and just rotate around them all year. Keep up the good work.

[@niwrad84]

That guy's rod looks like a custom pretty nice too. Lead for days 😂

[@petrhermanadventures9509]

I do very similar river clean ups, but on a much smaller river. Your channel is blowing up, congrats.

[@Askeyb2011]

A friend was fishing a river with a number of other people. He said the area below them was really snaggy so no one would fish there. While fishing a truck pulls up and backs in to the water. A guy jumps out and ties a rope onto the hitch and goes out into the water. Then comes back out. They pull a bed box spring out of the river covered in lures. Pick them all off and leave.

[@MrJockoDundee]

45' free in current?!?! Your handle should be "Big LUNG Guy!!!" Much love boys. Now, go do Lake Michigan!!! :) LOL

[@bigwaterguy]

😂👊🏼

[@vertstang123]

That is incredible! You should have a website to sell all that stuff!

[@bigwaterguy]

Fb marketplace is my website haha

[@lawrencelawrence3920]

I used to do this in the river systems in northern British Columbia. Sometimes i would find 300 lures in one afternoon. Many were brand new lures, that i could feel the fishermans anger on the lures for losing it. I loved the cottonwood trees that fell into the river and were just below the surface. It was like picking mushrooms at a good patch. I would clean them up and sell them for $1 each.

[@Zayfish916]

This guy has gained like 9k subs in the last month and a half and I’m stoked to be one of them 💪 keep it up

[@bigwaterguy]

Appreciate you brotha! 👊🏼

[@karendixon6458]

So awesome your doing this. My son Jon goes fishing all of the time. He loves it. Actually just lost a pole a couple of weekends ago I think at Draco. So where do you do these sales at?

[@karendixon6458]

Drano not Draco

[@yvesetang8456]

Stoked??

[@kevinchamberlain7928]

ZZ Top seemed well chuffed you found their fishing rod!

[@Calvin-m5r5t]

What are those flasher things used for

[@sgrunig90]

Salmon

[@kaitlinhasler4500]

They’re used in salmon fishing set ups kind of as an attractor.

[@garethwilliams2366]

They look expensive to lose

[@HugoPerk]

They flash in the water to mimic bait fish and attract salmon. They flash quite bright in clear water. The lure/bait is connected further behind the flasher.

[@charlescampisijr.8065]

That tangle of flashers was crazy.

[@gtwolfe100]

Very disturbing to see the huge number of large lead weights being lost in the river. Despite the irrefutable knowledge we now have about the dangers of using refined lead tackle, the fishing community at large seems to utterly refuse to abandon one of the most toxic metals available. I am primarily a surf fisherman and several years ago bought a small smelting pot and selection of molds. I now make my own weights and jigheads out of a bismuth/tin alloy that is available from many sellers and very easy to work with. It is 80% of the density of lead so to achieve the same weight you need to make the tackle item 20% larger, or just go 20% lighter. I have never found that to be a problem. As sportsmen we like to talk a lot about how responsible we are and how the non-sporting community is simply ill informed as to the harm that shooting and fishing does to the environment. At the same time 95% of the sportsmen (and women) out there refuse to acknowledge the harm that the continuing use of lead is doing to the wild areas and the wildlife. The absurd number of weights recovered in just this single video really illustrates how massive this problem is. Wake up, fellow fishermen, and make the effort to use tackle that is not toxic to our fishing grounds.

[@rodneysmart9774]

I used to use plastic swim baits for rockfish. Now I get scraps of beef tallow from the butcher and slice it into swim baits, also quit using lead a long time ago. I even have a hand rig with braided cotton line. I also dive my home break and salvage lures and clean up line.

[@Project23D]

I beginning to use zinc from damaged pennies to make weights. They are about 60% of weight density compared to lead. IOTW, a one oz lead cannon ball sinker will be .63.oz, ish, of the same mold size.

[@impicklerick8370]

Well said brother

[@boronda420-7]

Omg I couldn’t even read all that. You fingers must hurt. You seem sensitive.

[@2fathomsdeeper]

If you think that's bad, you should see the number of divers still using shot weight belts! Big chunky lead weights aren't much problem. It's the small stuff that poses the biggest problem. In a shot belt, the pieces of lead grind together producing powdered lead that gets all over with every move you make. A solid lead belt won't do that. It's the same as mercury. A big puddle won't produce much vapor, but small little dots of it produce a lot of vapor. In streams, the gold miners pull more lead shot, sinkers, and mercury than gold with their dredges. Though in California, most of the mercury is naturally occurring now as the streams have already cleared out all of the mercury that the miners used. Takes about 100 years for it to clear. One of my claims had a vein of cinnabar running right down the middle of the creek. Pulled up over a ton of elemental mercury out of it when we could still dredge for gold. There's still plenty of elemental mercury still seeping out of that vein.

[@DerkeFish]

I do this on our reefs and in the mangroves at common fishing holes here in the Florida Keys. Rarely do I find stuff as nice as what you are getting. Jealous of what you are doing. Keep up the good work.

[@ShenpaiWasTaken]

Now you gotta start setting up snags before fishing season starts to get more gear. 😉

[@bigwaterguy]

@@ShenpaiWasTaken 😂 there is enough snags down there as is

[@everettwhitegoat3414]

Thanks for the video. Stay safe while having fun.

[@fatmanshenanigans]

Thank for cleaning up. Do you have a site where you sell the stuff?

[@bigwaterguy]

Sadly no

[@mikeofborg2]

great work, need to find out if I can do this at our city reservoirs. I bet there is a lot of snags with gear sitting down there.

[@brealdeal3658]

Love your Videos!! That Treasure Hunter Rush is Real!!

[@bigwaterguy]

Appreciate that. It’s addicting!

[@mwood3971]

Super cool! Thanks. Time for fast decomposable fishing line!

[@ddh3098]

Paint those leads to protect the water u could even dip them in rubber to make them really nice they might even sell for a better price as they would look new

[@JITKanno0]

What are these shiny plates? What are "flashers" used for?

[@T-Vegas]

Just used to attract fish to the bait.

[@robertcarpenter1139]

GREAT Job guys on helping the river, can you post your site that you use to resell these awesome finds?

[@RKMetalWorx]

Pretty sure I have left a salmon rig or two in that exact spot...LOL

[@peterparsons7141]

As an old river rat I’ve been snorkeling since the seventies. When I was a young rodent I knew of a spot on the Ottawa river that was notorious for loosing fishing gear. On the bottom I found a 4’ x 8’ steel rebar grate that was loaded with tackle. Big win when you’re 14 years old, but that always stood out in my mind as something I would have spent more time pursuing. I think it’s really great that you’ve recognized and opportunity to do something with the problem. Some recreation and fun for you guys, return expensive tackle to anglers and utilizing a wasted resource and also cleaning up the river ! River Rats Rule !

[@bigwaterguy]

Love it!

[@adamm4104]

Nice work guys! Win win situation here!

[@bigwaterguy]

🤝🏼

[@abdivergreg]

That’s truly amazing!

[@toddofalltrades4788]

Good work you're doing here.

[@KrepsyK]

Thank you for cleaning up our waters

[@raymondstrehl3679]

You are helping restore my Faith ( tough to do) Thanks fellas 🐟🐠🐡🐳🐢🐊🦀🐚

[@bigwaterguy]

@@raymondstrehl3679 haha happy to hear it

[@mattvanvoorst8883]

I’m glad I’m not the only one to get snagged on something

[@bigwaterguy]

😂

[@David65702]

Holy Moly good job guys!

[@divad435]

Yep we gotta stop using lead for sinkers its just so bad for the waterways. Wish they had divers like you in every state! Thanks for doing what you do!

[@fisherdixon7030]

Great video, saw you diving yesterday, how did you guys do? Also, if you ever dive a little bit upriver of where you were yesterday above the warrior rock/ bachelor island deadline about 100 to 200 yards and find a fishfighter rod riser and folbe rod holder I lost it a week ago.

[@bigwaterguy]

We did decent. Today was better though!

[@bigwaterguy]

Heard a lot of things are lost in that area 👀

[@fisherdixon7030]

@@bigwaterguy Oh yeah, and about a mile or half mile up river from there is a bunch of rocks you can see on the bank that go way down under the water and I have lost Lead and a flasher on it because it goes from 50 to 30 feet real quick.

[@deitrickorullian505]

Yup if you guys go back out at the deadline fishing area right at the mouth of the lake river that you guys came out of to launch there is a enormous snag thats claimed at least 5 of my setups and is probably absolutely loaded beyond belief, DM I could point out the exact spot on Google maps

[@Bassman5000]

that's crazy, 156lbs (70kgs) of lead. probably another 20-30lbs in line and flashers. you pulled a whole bloke out of the river 🤣

[@joeb7508]

Love all the dudes guessing the weight of the lead with beers in their hands 😂

[@bigwaterguy]

😂😂

[@michaelatkinson3871]

Thanks for your work

[@bigwaterguy]

🙏🏼

[@ianh7133]

Awesome job guys.

[@bigwaterguy]

Thanks! 🙏🏼

[@jtparsons7135]

Where do I buy this stuff? In Oregon!!

[@burtonfootballer5408]

UK here. What are the flat vein like things? Do they regulate the depth when you are trolling

[@sharkey5000]

You guys might think about each carrying a spare knife and a pair of wire cutters. Lots of sharp hooks down there.

[@bigwaterguy]

We all have that on us

[@MrPhilgascoine]

Hi how long can you hold your breath for as it seams a very long time and did you notice? The truck went down when they put that in lol ? I like to separate all the tackle. Great video 🤟

[@bigwaterguy]

It varies how much energy I’m using but our dives are typically from 30-70 seconds

[@Zak_zookie]

Damn bro 10k subs ! You had barely a thousand when I joined. Good to see. I knew your channel would blow up once people started seeing this. Don’t forget about us when you famous lmfao 😂

[@bigwaterguy]

@@Zak_zookie appreciate it brotha 👊🏼 giveaways will never stop haha

[@JigginwithG]

Hell yeah bro so dope! We lost a rod at the mouth of the Lewis last week, might need yall to find it 😆🐟

[@bigwaterguy]

@@JigginwithG heard so many guys losing them out there 😳

[@JigginwithG]

@@bigwaterguy fish or a snag ripped it right out the rod holder on my buddy’s dads boat 😅😅

[@kaitlinhasler4500]

On average how many flashers out of the ones you grab are still usable? Percentage

[@bigwaterguy]

30%

[@martinswartout6215]

Invest in some good wire/cable cutters, save your knives. Maybe get a cheap gardening 3-tine fork to dig around in the bottom muck and save encountering hooks as you "finger dredge" through the mud.

[@bigwaterguy]

Ya we've been through a few cutters this year already 😂

[@heroevulgar]

What are those reflector looking things you keep pulling out?

[@robertwatson818]

What are the shiny plates you bring up?

[@KeithFoster-re5xj]

This is freaking awesome

[@brianfisher7385]

Shiners? I thought you guys were hauling up skateboards for a hot minute... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ThatPNWLife]

I was here before you blew up!! Another 🔥🔥🔥

[@TheXuism]

Which illuminated aluminum plates are used for what purpose?

[@bigwaterguy]

To attract salmon while fishing

[@elliotquinn1428]

Love it man, id love to get some of the gear!

[@bigwaterguy]

HMU!

[@elliotquinn1428]

@@bigwaterguy Have you ever looked into the Scuba Diving Ventilator Tankless Diving Systems? They're a little spendy and I'm not sure how they would work in choppy water but this seems like the perfect application because they last at least a couple hours

[@artimes420]

Do you still have that fishing rod?

[@bonehook2]

Your friend at the end sound like they from da islands 🤙🏻

[@bigwaterguy]

They are

[@RichardWing4130]

Thank you. I've cut down the numbers of lost baits I've had but even now I loose a couple each year.

[@trevorbean3837]

Good job men!!!!

[@Jack-ne8vm]

Could leave a buoy attached to those snage & submerged poles.

[@tiinorivera7606]

I have no idea what those things are for 🤔🤔 flashers

[@charlesvanenwyck7317]

i dont know what you get for led sinkers but scrap value alone for that much led is over $100 easy. and the resale to the fishermen that should be buying it has to a lot more.

[@dt9094]

Great job guys 👍🇨🇦

[@bigwaterguy]

Thanks bud! 👊🏼

[@jodynoble8220]

really fun to watch ,thanks

[@BradleyDadley]

I have a thousand dollar rod and reel combo in the Columbia down river a little ways from skamokawa. What would ya charge to find it? I’ll provide the boat

[@Elparquito]

Curious minds really want to know what that rod/reel is that cost you $1,000? Other curious minds want to know exactly how you lost a rod in the Columbia.

[@bigwaterguy]

@@BradleyDadley dm me on instagram

[@asully70]

@@Elparquitowouldn’t be too hard to push $1000 with a high end Edge or Loomis IMX rod and Accurate/Avet reel. Unnecessary to spend the at much but not unheard of. Still confused on how so many people lose rods though.

[@BradleyDadley]

@@Elparquito g Loomis imx pro blue with an Avet 6/2 gold. Casting 16oz lead sturgeon fishing. Previous fish had got the line but into the spool and when I casted it caught and jerked it right out of my hands right into the drink.

[@Elparquito]

@@BradleyDadley Oooof. Yeah, I can see a 10+ gator yanking a rod out of someone's hands! Some big beasts in that river!

[@Project23D]

the lead payday may cover the cost of fuel! Enjoy what you do, I like treasure hunting and cleaning at the same time!

[@thegreatwhitenorth8754]

I would be taking all of the lead weights to the scrap yard..

[@bigwaterguy]

Done!

[@lasergames1798]

They are worth more to fishermen than the scrapyard. If the eye is broken off I'm sure a new one could be melted in with a torch or they could just start making their own weights......

[@thegreatwhitenorth8754]

Time = $$ Take 2 months to sell all that Or you can make 85% in 10min at the scrap yard And then have nore time 2 find more and sell the bunch again. Before the other bunch of them sell Most people are useless these days If its not already done. They wont do it Whose gonna heat up a $2 lead ball only to Have it melt all over the place trying to replace the eyelet.. Nobody.. they'll just buy a new 1 cause its faster and easier

[@pondhopper24]

I'd be making stinging bee's!

[@ryanyoung8649]

lords work boys. thanks

[@bigwaterguy]

🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@ryanohara7757]

Insanely huge amount of snags

[@ivan_pavlenko23]

Dam broooo! Good stuff

[@bigwaterguy]

Thanks g 👊🏼

[@dbomber69]

I've heard of people sinking mattresses to snag gear and getting arrested.

[@carfvallrightsreservedwith6649]

Take a pair of side cutters down with you. Drill a hole in the handle, swage a cable loop then use a carabiner to to keep it on your belt.

[@asully70]

How deep can you free dive and how long can you stay down there off one breath?

[@jonathanhouchin5520]

Do you have an online store? I'd love to buy some of those big round sinkers from you

[@Mrgamer_524]

Can someone explain what flashers are I just bass fish

[@HairlipButcher]

I know alot of ppl that have lost gear there! Seen u guys a couple Wednesdays ago at drainhole. We pulled up right by u guys right after we pulled the boat up. U hadn't gone out yet but I'd bet u found a chunk😂

[@andy9512]

Fun video! It's worth a subscribe!

[@alixsprallix]

Great video as always!

[@Storiesfromtheweb904]

yall free dive how long yall stay under per dive?