Special Lures That Never See Water 2025

FishTank reply :

I have a few lures that I have purchased over the years that I have never fished. They are either too special to me or they are just too darn expensive for me to even think about throwing out there just to see it get hung up or even jumped on by a fish.

You guys have any that are kept tucked away on shelf?

Here is one of mine.... I got it somewhere around 05-06. It was a total impulse buy.

papajoe222 reply :

I have a ton of lures that have never seen water, but hopefully they will, someday. If you saw my peg-boards full of spare baits, you'd understand.

I do have a couple of lures that I've retired, mainly because of the memories they trigger whenever I pick them up.

blckshirt98 reply :

My swimbaits - too d**n chicken to throw them from the shore.

Bluebasser86 reply :

I have a bunch of old baits hanging from the wire rack that I keep my reel boxes on. Old wooden Devil's Horses and Spooks, Heddon Sonics, Lucky 13's, and several others.

jbmaine reply :

I have several jitterbugs, crazy crawlers, hulla poppers, spoons, etc that I used when I was a kid, 50-60 years ago. I'll never use them now. To many memories.

Junger reply :

Hula Popper is #1 on my list...I know it can catch fish, but I just keep throwing an Evergreen or Rico popper.

junyer357 reply :

Have some spinnerbaits with a particular blade i cant get anymore. Have searched high and low, and no luck finding more.

Munkin reply :

On 8/3/2018 at 12:28 AM, junyer357 said:

Have some spinnerbaits with a particular blade i cant get anymore. Have searched high and low, and no luck finding more.

Have you tried contacting; Worth, Lakeland, and Hagensfish to see if any of them made those blades?

Allen

junyer357 reply :

On 8/3/2018 at 1:45 AM, Munkin said:

Have you tried contacting; Worth, Lakeland, and Hagensfish to see if any of them made those blades?

Allen

No. I found out that the machine that stamped those out was bought by ed chambers of zoom. I have tried contacting zoom about it, but to no avail. One of the tricks of that blade was that it was stamped in a way that one side was just a few hundredths thinner, so that it threw the balance off a touch and made it thump a lil harder.

Bankbeater reply :

The one to the left. It's a Cordell Big-O from the first year they were made.

CrankFate reply :

The only special lure I have that has never seen water is a Joe Camel Rebel like this one.

burrows reply :

On 8/2/2018 at 10:28 PM, Junger said:

Hula Popper is #1 on my list...I know it can catch fish, but I just keep throwing an Evergreen or Rico popper.

Same here I haven’t thrown the hula popper since 2012 from my recollection. I like throwing rebel poprs. I have a bunch of baits that have never seen the water a bunch of compulsive buys mainly.

IgotWood reply :

I collected custom striper plugs for years. Most of them weren’t really collectibles per say. I guess you could say I stock piled lures. Most of them were built in small batches and were tough to get, but I used them a lot, so I wanted to have plenty of back-ups.

I moved south a few a few years ago and took up bass fishing. I sold most of my striper gear to raise money for bass gear. I’m also in the military and I move a lot. It’s tough to drag around all that gear when I don’t use it.

I did keep keep a few special plugs that are legitimate collectibles. Someday I will put them in a shadow box and display them in the house.

Raul reply :

I've got 580 cranks, 80 spinnerbaits and like 40 pounds of soft plastics that have never touched the water .... but that ain't stopping me from getting more.

crypt reply :

have some old Rapalas that are in the boxes that will not ever see the water. couple of old Manns Razorback Pigs that mean a lot to me.one was given to me by Tom Mann himself.

BigAngus752 reply :

My dad's lures. I have just a few. They're just for lookin' at.

soflabasser reply :

I have a couple lures that I no longer fish with.These lures have caught me trophy bass and I plan on putting these lures in the mouths of the bass replicas I plan on getting later on.

gilkeybr reply :

I have a special box for all the lures I bought that were junk and i'll never use, does that count?

Heres looking at you, Double Plopper....

Bassin' Brad reply :

On 8/8/2018 at 3:54 AM, gilkeybr said:

Heres looking at you, Double Plopper....

I done the same thing!!

Jar11591 reply :

My mother and father travel occasionally, and whenever they do, they buy me a lure that is used in the location they traveled to. I don’t fish these lures, I have them all on display. This year was a couple of hair jigs from Rockhall, Maryland that they use down there to catch the “rock fish”, otherwise known as striped bass.

Harold Scoggins reply :

This Hellgramite replica made by Charlie Hines will never touch the water.

BuzzHudson19c reply :

Just one. A Bill Dance fat free shad crankbait. When I was a kid I would go into my fathers tackle box and grab one of them when I fished alone. I always thought he would be mad because what if I lost it? But when he found out he just said "I've lost so many lures in my day, there's nothing you can do to it that I can't." When my father died and I went through his tackle I found one that I used to take out (just like the one in the photo). I can't bring myself to use it so it stays tucked away.

ItsHardwick reply :

On 8/8/2018 at 4:04 AM, Bassin' Brad said:

I done the same thing!!

Me too.......

Bjreg3 reply :

I’ve got a few like that, tucked away in memory of my father, all were frogs and were old Bill Plummer frogs when he was selling them to the public. He showed me the fun of frog fishing.

soflabasser reply :

On 8/4/2018 at 9:02 PM, crypt said:

have some old Rapalas that are in the boxes that will not ever see the water. couple of old Manns Razorback Pigs that mean a lot to me.one was given to me by Tom Mann himself.

I also got a bunch of Rapalas that have not been opened from the box and I don't plan on fishing with these lures. Also got a bunch of lures my grandfather gave me and I keep them in my lure collection.

Ratherbfishing reply :

Probably half of my crank baits (especially deep divers) haven't felt water yet. Every year I tell myself I'm going to remedy that but time seems to get away from me.

Squarebill79 reply :

Just received my Mystery Tackle Box today and got a "Danny the Duck". Has anyone actually used these things or better yet actually caught a fish on them? Seems like a giant waste of money to me. I would rather have gotten some packs of worms rather than this thing Ill likely never throw.

Brad in Texas reply :

So funny!

Reminds me of the old joke about the newspaper reporter going out to interview the rural family saved from a burning house, certain death to them all, by the actions of a hog. Their hog snorted and banged around, woke them up just in time. The reporter learned all about the "special" hog.

Finally, looking it over, he noticed it was missing a rear leg.

"What happened here?" the reporter asked. "Did, your hog lose a leg while heroically trying to save you from the fire?"

The man of the house replied, "Nah! We ate that leg for dinner last night. Gosh, it was so good! But, you know, a hog that special . . . you don't want to eat it all at once!"

Ha! Special hogs and special lures.

Brad

whitwolf reply :

I'm a Rebel-Head.

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