Over the past few years, since I’ve been working out of the Northern Rockies in the oilfield, running fishing tools, a lot of my friends have asked me what, exactly, do I do. Of course the short answer is, I fish things out of wells. But there is much more than that to the job.
Sooner or later, anything that can physically fit down a well will end up there. Besides things like pipe, bits and packers, anything can happen. Hammers, wrenches, slip dies, tong dies, chains — I even fished an iPhone out of the mousehole once. It wasn’t much good after that, but it satisfied the insurance company.