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 — measured
in terms of social media — is all the rage in Europe but is just now
becoming a pastime in the American Midwest.
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.
Sometimes the result is treasure, most of the time it's junk, and sometimes what you haul to the surface is just plain weird.
"It’s
one of those hobbies where it’s kind of silly and it takes a lot of
time and it’s kind of stinky and the water’s gross and you have to wear
gloves and my wife’s always like, ‘Ugh, where are you going?' " said Jim Walters, a magnet fishing hobbyist from West Bend.
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