Balanced News: Magnet fishing: Family try their luck at bottom of Avon River

Others like Tim Riley catch cell phones, rusty nails, 100 year old drill bits, coins and whatever else is metal and lurking on the bottom of the river. He loved how his young boys would happily abandon their laptops in a blink to head off down to the river for a mystery magnet fishing trip. “We started off going fishing fishing over in the Peninsula but some days we’d catch nothing, but here [in the rivers] we always get something,” he said.