A guy at work today was explaining to me a method his father had taught him on getting jigs or whatever un hung out of the rocks. He went on to explain that you use a spark plug (from a vehicle), stick a paperclip in it, making a loop, keep your rod at 11 o'clock and slide the spark plug down your line. He said when it impacts it will shake it free. Has anyone heard of this?? Sounded odd to me but maybe worth a shot.

I've actually heard of this before.  Never tried it myself or even seen it tried.  I'll bet some of the old guard around here keep a couple plugs in their tacklebox.

http://www.bassresource.com/fishing/hung_lures.html

innovation at its finest... hah I may have to try that next time.

For $10 you can but a plug knocker.  I have the Bill Dance one, and its paid for itself about 50 times over.  Not one lost lure from a hangup.

Never tried that. But, as a kid we use to use sparkplugs as sinkers if  we didn't have $$$ to buy real ones...lol

I made one out of a 10 ounce egg sinker and some 100lb power pro.

No matter what you use, when fishing from shore, any retrieval is difficult. I have had the most success with snapping the line like a bow. Frequently pops the jig loose.

No matter what you use, when fishing from shore, any retrieval is difficult. I have had the most success with snapping the line like a bow. Frequently pops the jig loose.

Fishing from shore I have had to use the break of and retie method many times. :

Yep i can honestly say I never really lose anything anymore and i owe it to learning the BOW SNAP method.

I have a small rig that I made that works pretty good.  I took a 4oz casting sinker and put a small snap on it.  I just keep it up by the trolling motor foot pedal and can clip it on my line when I get hung.  If I loose it its no big deal.  If that doesn't work I then go to the big plug knocker.  It is just quick and easy w/o having to wind the line back up on the knocker.

I have become real proficient at getting hung up - but never mastered the art of juggling the standard plug knocker along with the rod/reel while trying to hold the boat in position - so this year, I discovered an alternative - I picked up a "golf ball retriever" from Wal-Mart (about the same cost as a plug knocker at BPS, etc.) - it extends out either 10' or 12' (can't remember) and has a circular plastic ring on the business end - I cut a slit in the ring and can slide my line through it and then extend down to the lure and knock it loose and (usually) reel right up through the ring - then the retriever collapses down to about 4' and fits right in the rod locker.

I wish I read this about 2 hours ago.. Dagger. Lost two rooster tails before switching to topwater.

One of the things I like about wading in the creek. If you must, then you can just walk over and get your lure loose.