{"id":24719,"date":"2019-06-26T07:35:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T12:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24719"},"modified":"2019-06-26T07:35:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T12:35:51","slug":"somewhere-between-noodling-and-bowfishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/26\/somewhere-between-noodling-and-bowfishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere Between Noodling and Bowfishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actually, it’s not even on the fishing<\/em> fishing spectrum: Magnet fishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some folks in southern Wisconsin find themselves facing a magnetic attraction to the region’s hidden heavy metal scene. <\/p>\n

They have taken up what’s known as magnet fishing, a hobby that \u2014 measured in terms of social media \u2014 is all the rage in Europe but is just now becoming a pastime in the American Midwest. <\/p>\n

The hobby consists of attaching a powerful magnet to a rope, then tossing the magnet into a waterway. Once the magnet hits bottom, you drag it until it locks onto something metal. Then you haul the item to the surface.<\/p>\n

Sometimes the result is treasure, most of the time it’s junk, and sometimes what you haul to the surface is just plain weird.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As you might recall, gentle reader, I read a little about being a “treasure hunter” back in 2011<\/a> when I had to get a metal detector to find a part for my garden tiller, but I never really got into the hobby mostly because there are a lot of rules and laws about where you can and cannot use one.<\/p>\n

Perhaps I should jump into this hobby and spend the $100 for a magnet and kit before I discover rules that would preclude me from doing it. After all, who owns the middle of the river or a lake? (Someone, and if you find something really good, they’ll want it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actually, it’s not even on the fishing fishing spectrum: Magnet fishing. Some folks in southern Wisconsin find themselves facing a magnetic attraction to the region’s hidden heavy metal scene. They have taken up what’s known as magnet fishing, a hobby that \u2014 measured in terms of social media \u2014 is all the rage in Europe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24720,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24719\/revisions\/24720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}