Trying out a new hobby for the school holidays, magnet fishing. Can’t recommend it enough!! Kids massively invested and didn’t want to go home after hours, and almost every passer by took an interest. It’s not the best quality but you can get started for around £20 all in!!
by 9DAN2
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Found anything interesting?
So how many shopping trolleys do you expect to find ?
May one ask of the type and size of magnet 🧲
It’s all fun and games until you pick up the inevitable… So be prepared for that!
Did you catch any steelheads?
Someone genuinely found a cannon in the river near us doing this last year.
Sounds like fun! Bought a metal detector recently as a middle-of-Lidl impulse purchase. The kids are loving finding interesting rubbish in our local woods. No UXB’s yet fortunately, but lots of old coins and such.
If it interests you then you may want to try out (on land) metal detecting with a shovel.
Just now I learned that r/magnetfishing exists. Reddit has a sub for everything!
Throw a GoPro in on a line to see if it’s worth fishing in that area 😉
I bought one a couple of months back, but I’ve never used it. You see, I moved to Germany and it isn’t allowed here. I only found out from a guy I was talking to at work who told me that whatever is in the rivers should stay in the rivers. After some research… it turns out he’s right. I’m not swimming in one ever again round these parts.
Are you bush ir Ritchie from the absolute radio home time show. It’s all they are talking about this week
Magnet fishing…..I just can’t see the attraction.
I’ll see myself out.
From experience, watch out for syringes and other sharps with the kids
I’ve seen the sub for this. I am so curious about it. What do you do with the shit you find?
I know everyone is looking for a gem but do you just throw the rubbish away or is this just hoarding with extra steps?
I was doing this with my son once in the Thames in Twickenham, and as he pulled the thing out of the water some pissed guy who was passing at the time said “Don’t pull the plug out!”.
Best we ever found was a bunch of keys, which included one of the small flat metal type carkeys, so would be for a 70s/80s car – testament to a completely ruined night out.
A couple of days ago I caught a Colombian warship. The Met were not amused.
If you find a bike or motorbike, do you get to keep it? Asking because of the junk that was in a canal near Leicester when on a narrow boat holiday.
It’s all good fun until you pull up a murder weapon.
Simon and Garfunkel at it again.
Do you watch the Bondi treasure hunter on YouTube? If not you should
Make sure you have a plan to call the authorities when you find a knife, gun or explosive.
It may be the UK so weapons will be rare but rivers are still major dumping grounds in towns and cities.
So much fun, took my boy when he was younger… pulled out a old battered road sign no paint work, obviously bit of spitfire 🤣
Old gent walked past, winked at me then told my son after the war they drove a tank off this bridge into the river… 2 hours later we still hadn’t found the tank lol
I sort of assumed magnet fishing was trying to catch fish with something like a bird cage or a shopping basket attached to a magnet. Like a lobster pot kind of thing.
So,what’s a magnet fish look like?
Please, just don’t leave plenty of rubish on pathways.
So what are the restrictions in the UK?
I’ve been doing this hobby for years and not caught a single magnet!
Are they disruptive to wildlife?
someone found a hand grenade in Lincoln doing that
There’s a reason magnet fishing is more popular in America, be careful your kids don’t disturb some old unstable WW2 ordinance and injure or kill themselves. Some of the stuff on the bottom of lakes, river and the ocean still has the potential to explode if disturbed and the damage from decades in the water makes it less stable.
Morons. Magnets don’t live in freshwater.