If you’re new here at Magnet Fishing Pros, the idea of magnetic fishing may sound a bit funny, but it is actually a lot of fun. It’s also a friendly and unique way of cleaning bodies of water, like seas, rivers, canals, and even oceans.
For beginners, lets our first talk in brief about what Magnetic Fishing is to better appreciate the benefits and advantages. To break it down, everyone has seen those people searching for objects on land using a metal detector. Magnetic Fishing is a similar activity, in which a strong magnet is used to find metal objects in water bodies.
It is also a fast-growing hobby, wherein a special magnet is tied to a rope, thrown out into the water, and pulled back in. When you pull it back, then voila, you may find some treasures attached to it. If not, you can be sure that you have done your bit by pulling out debris from the bottom of the river, pond, lake, well, or ocean.
Environmentally Beneficial
We take a lot of efforts to clean the land we use. Rightly so as the land, especially in cities, is quite costly and using it for waste disposal is simply not viable. As a result, our water bodies get neglected and become the dumping ground of city wastes, sewage, unused metal parts etc. The metal parts are relatively heavy and get settled to the bottom, and remain there for ages.
In the process, they pollute water and infect the animals like fishes, turtles, crabs etc which are in turn consumed by humans in large quantities. These ferrous metal parts can be easily fished out by using a strong magnet, lowering it with a rope and then dragging it out of the water.
You can expect to fish out anything with ferrous parts like used bicycles, machine parts, furniture items, household items, toys etc. You can get all sort of things as beer caps, fishing hooks, nails, vaults and virtually anything other item that people simply throw away when not of use.
If you are doing fishing in areas where wars haven taken place, then you can even find dangerous things as rifles and grenades. Some are even antique and worth lots of money to dealers. War items are sometimes highly valued and sought after by collectors.
The magnet fishing process not only contributes to environmental cleanup, but it can also earn you some money. With increasing rates in the price of metals, the parts salvaged through magnetic fishing can be sold at a good profit to get recycled, thereby making the operation a practically possible and profitable small business venture. Check out our list of the Top 10 Best Manet Fishing Find of 2018, to see some finds that are worth a fortune.
Ease of Operation
The seemingly best method thus far, is to use remote controlled water drones, or manually operated submarine vehicles. This will also be prohibitively costly. This can all be done passively over time through magnet fishing.
Magnet fishing involves removing metal objects, without actually being in the water or getting wet. If we try to remove similar objects manually using divers or equipment, then it can lead to many complications. First of all, since the pollution levels of the water in rivers, lakes, and oceans are very high, poor visibility is an issue. Any operation to remove the metal parts manually will be expensive, time-consuming, and involve health risks. It just doesn’t justify the effort and the cost.
Low Cost to Get Started
As the operation of Magnetic Fishing does not involve personnel or equipment. You don’t have to be a diver. You don’t even need to get in the water at all. It requires no license or registration. Just simply a magnet and a rope. With magnetic fishing, one can remove a substantial quantity of underwater metal debris at the much lesser equipment and labor cost. As the hobby grows, the more we can all pitch in to help make the world a better and cleaner place.
Safety
Going inside water and lifting metal parts is fraught with many operational hazards. A diver’s equipment may malfunction or people can be hurt by underwater animals like sharks. There’s also lots of dangerous underwater structures like pipelines, or platforms.
But we can avoid all these dangers by using the magnetic fishing method by doing the operation without going inside water or manually handling the items.
We strongly recommend that you must wear protective gloves. Avoid touching the articles you catch with your bare hands, due to cuts and possible contamination. Also, do not leave the items fished out lying around. Put them in safe plastic bags and deliver to the scrap dealer. Let them handle it.
Fun!
You can do it as a hobby, while relaxing and enjoying the outdoors. It’s fun for the entire family.
Magnetic fishing is not only safe, cheap and good business, but it is also fun. Nothing can beat anticipation that one feels while pulling out the magnet, trying to know what might come out. Normally, one can only hope for mundane metal items, but there have been cases when people have fished out fortunes. There’s tons of reports of people fishing up old antique, old valuable coins, vintage guns, old swords etc; the list can be endless.
Magnetic fishing is undoubtedly an interesting outdoor hobby that gives a unique way to interact with an environment for the enthusiast. And it is quite inexpensive also. There is not much of technical knowledge or equipment required to indulge in the activity. What it takes is only a neodymium magnet, a good rope and there you are, ready to go.
What are you waiting for?
All you need is a neodymium magnet and a type of rope, like a paracord. It’s easy, but don’t try to use a normal fridge magnet. It won’t be strong enough to pull anything worthwhile. We recommend using a special magnet with a pulling force of at least 100 kg for a diameter of 70 mm.
As a magnetic fisher, you can always expect to find something exciting, but there can be times when you are not able to get your hand on anything worthwhile. But do not lose heart, as even then you have contributed that day to clean our rivers and lakes. You have spent that day in service of Mother Earth and the environment.
Happy fishing!