What lures did you lose the most in 2019? 2024

billmac reply :

What do you have to most restock? I actually didn't lose a lot of lures.

stratoliner92 reply :

Spent Summer fishing Minnesota lakes so 1/4oz dropshot weights are top of my list.

3.5" swimbaits are close second due to Pike.

LxVE Bassin reply :

5/16 drop shot weights

FryDog62 reply :

On 12/28/2019 at 8:03 AM, stratoliner92 said:

Spent Summer fishing Minnesota lakes so 1/4oz dropshot weights are top of my list.

3.5" swimbaits are close second due to Pike.

I echo the Minnesota snot-rockets... I lost plastics of every variety to them, if I had to count I’m sure it’s 100+ Senkos, Neko worms, neds, craws...

Hook2Jaw reply :

I lost a lot of jigs. I'm either pretty bad with getting jigs in and out of cover or pretty good, I'm not sure yet.

A-Jay reply :

Paddletail Swimbaits, Swim jigs, Jigs, Texas rigged plastics, tubes, a couple of walking baits and believe it or not, drop shot rigs. Most all of that ended up inside one of these guys . . .

:smiley:

A-Jay

QUAKEnSHAKE reply :

Keitech paddle tails

jimmyjoe reply :

Spoons ..... of course. Jennifer Bustamante is gonna love to hear from me pretty soon. jj

Dens228 reply :

$$ wise it would be jerkbaits, numbers wise would be spinnerbaits.

Bankbeater reply :

This year I lost mostly jigs. Runners up would be Texas rigged plastics, paddle tail swimbaits, and lipless crankbaits.

Mike L reply :

T rig plastics

Mike

billmac reply :

On 12/28/2019 at 9:35 AM, Dens228 said:

numbers wise would be spinnerbaits.

I wouldn't have guessed this one. Snags or bite offs?

keagbassr reply :

I had a pretty good season as far as losing lures only losing a handful all year. As far as lures I went thru and need to restock definatly spinnerbaits. Between smallies and pickeral up I Maine I can end up with 2-3 a day mangled beyond use. 2nd would be double wide beavers. The bottom of my boat is littered with these between July and oct. Also burned up a ton of buzzbait blades.

Columbia Craw reply :

Plastics, lots of plastics. My plug knocker won Most Valuable Player this year.

Dens228 reply :

On 12/28/2019 at 9:57 AM, billmac said:

I wouldn't have guessed this one. Snags or bite offs?

Snags, one bite off.

txchaser reply :

Not counting soft plastics, it would have to be Jackhammers lost to wood.

billmac reply :

I used a lot of rubbercore sinkers as drop shot weights and lost quite a few.

Way north bass guy reply :

This might sound crazy, especially here in the land of many pike and muskies, but I don’t remember losing a single bait all season, and that includes snags. I did do much more offshore, open water fishing where there usually isn’t as many obstacles to hang up on, but still, it was a banner year for keeping baits on the end of the line. ????‍♂️

MN Fisher reply :

I don't count 'losing' plastics as losing lures - I consider them consumables...you use them, you WILL lose them.

1/4 and 1/8 oz weights from drop-shots - otherwise...nothing lost.

galyonj reply :

Lipless crankbaits, without question.

Tizi reply :

I lost a few crankbaits: Spro Rock Crawler, SK 3XD and 5XD, Berkley Dredger. Also lost a few Dark Sleepers.

When cranking deep cranks, I usually lose them on deep timber. It happens. Must get the lure where the fish are or what’s the point?

Tlauz reply :

Every year lots of 5 inch plastic worms and wacky hooks. I love throwing spinnerbaits when the wind blows. Went through about 10 this year. A few bite offs, a handful just broke due to catching a lot of fish and a few got mangled by toothy critters. Lost quite a few swim jigs, but had stocked up previously so I don't need more. I have already reloaded with about a dozen spinnerbaits. Will buy worms and wacky hooks and be ready.

Wildbillb reply :

Chatterbaits

Bluebasser86 reply :

Jigs, dropshot weights/hooks, Ned rigs.

GreenPig reply :

8-10 Cotton Cordell spoons fishing timber. Stripers just love to zig & zag thru the trees.

riverbasser reply :

Crankbaits, just part of it.

Harold Scoggins reply :

Called "Jig Point" by some locals. I've donated a dozen or so football jigs (four this year) over the years. It's worth the trade off though, catch em at the right time of the year and you can get a limit in 2-3 hours. A lot of craws hang out among the boulders and it makes for one heck of jig bite.

billmac reply :

I think I'll need to get a lure knocker next season.

jbsoonerfan reply :

On 12/28/2019 at 10:35 AM, txchaser said:

Not counting soft plastics, it would have to be Jackhammers lost to wood.

Unfortunately this.....Also lost a few squarebills and a couple 110's to the same fate.

roadwarrior reply :

I try to lose soft plastic and jigs... If you ain't losing them, you are NOT fishing in the right place.

scaleface reply :

Stanley Ribbets . Three times my line snapped on a solid hook-set . Next year I'm employing braided line .

JediAmoeba reply :

I lost so many jerkbaits the past year. Probably 300 dollars worth...sigh

tander reply :

Mostly Bandit cranks baits since that is the crank that I throw the most. Stock up on Black Friday.

J._Bricker reply :

Strike King plastics... very happy to make those replacement payments as the cost of doing business ????

Hawkeye21 reply :

Ned rigs in along rocky shores. Second most would be chatterbaits.

cgolf reply :

Menace grubs. I went through a few this year. As far as losing baits I lost a crank and an in-line spinner to the trees. Was a pretty good year for not losing baits.

Frog Turds reply :

Always the same 3; frogs, jigs and punch rigs...

The lamest was I had a new 7.25" shine glide that in my impatience I cut a corner and didn't tie on my leader material...so my 1st fish on it was a big gator pike that came up and inhaled the whole thing like a scooby snack, then POOF it was gone...wont make that hastily made mistake again...

Smells like fish reply :

Lots of zman trd's on zman Ned jigs.... I'm sorry the things I muttered bout you while snapping off Ned

FishTank reply :

On 12/29/2019 at 3:19 PM, Smells like fish said:

Lots of zman trd's on zman Ned jigs.... I'm sorry the things I muttered bout you while snapping off Ned

Ned rig jig heads for me as well. I would loose at least 2 every time I was out.

roadwarrior reply :

It's always the same...Senkos and Fat Ika. If you ain't getting hung up, you ain't fishing

in the right spots.

LonnieP reply :

Crankbaits of all types, especially Lipless. Jigs, bullet weights and worm hooks. Ned rig heads.

Fried Lemons reply :

Blade baits by far. Just part of the game.

hoosierbass07 reply :

Definitely Ned Rig

EWREX reply :

lost quite a few jigs this year due to unretrievable snags

Boomstick reply :

Not counting soft plastics, I believe the lure I lost was this alabama bream football head jig from Dirty Jigs that I fish around rocks a lot -- reason for losing is pretty self explanatory. Second place is a Berkley Cutter 90 Shallow, which like the name implies is my go to jerkbait in shallow water.

Munkin reply :

Sounds like a lot of people on here need to invest in a lure retriever.

Allen

Smalls reply :

Flippin jigs are the only thing I lost this year. Putting em in the heart of flooded trees, and being used to pitching Texas rigs for the most part cost me a bunch of em this year.

Yakalong reply :

senkos, dragging them across the bottom

FishinBuck07 reply :

Ned rigs, and that was mostly in one trip to NY to fish with my brother. Had to go to Bass pro about halfway through the week to get more heads.

swhit140 reply :

This hilarious loss of a bait when you just tied a knot and you drop the bait in the water. Then you realize you cut the line in the wrong spot. :stupid:

Cdn Angler reply :

For the amount of fishing I did this year i.e. a metric ton, I didn't lose a ton of lures, but I had a number of rod disasters.

Lures:

$11 musky swimbait I forgot on rivers edge

Rattling roumba x 2 (1 to a pike, 1 to a crack in the lure)

Duo Spybait: hooked a big smb that got stuck on a deep log

1 Big O Crankbait to a snag in heavy river current

1 huge jenko hook/8 inch keitech to a snag

1 R2S Spinnerbait to a SMB when I didn't know how to rig a spinnerbait properly

1 R2S Spinnerbait from a lazy knot

1 small swim jig shortly after hook set. Not sure what happened. Possibly a pike.

Probably 3-8 small jigheads to pike or musky.

Hopefully won't lose quite as many next year, though only a few of these were preventable. One mistake I made was to be lazy and not carry a net when I was fishing for bass and thought pike/musky were unlikely. I had a couple accidental hookups and they ended up breaking off at the side of my kayak when I couldn't grab them easily. Net would have solved this. Resolved to always carry a net from now on.

galyonj reply :

On 12/31/2019 at 10:08 AM, swhit140 said:

This hilarious loss of a bait when you just tied a knot and you drop the bait in the water. Then you realize you cut the line in the wrong spot.

Oh my. That hurts.

Choporoz reply :

On 12/30/2019 at 5:13 AM, Fried Lemons said:

Blade baits by far. Just part of the game.

I probably lost more of some other lures, but only because I don't throw blade baits year round.

However, blade bait loss-per-cast is far and away the highest of anything else I use.

schplurg reply :

Lost most: crank baits fished from shore.

Caught most with: crank baits fished from shore.

Lost 2 identical ones in one day. Bought a few replacements and lost one of those the next day too. That's why I buy a lot of my cranks at Walmart for $2.

Steveo-1969 reply :

I fish in a very rocky snaggy river that loves bottom contact baits even more than I do! I lost about 20 skirted jigs in 2019 and countless small jig heads with plastic.

TBAG reply :

Crankbaits and ned rigs.

Rpratt reply :

Spring time saw alot of wacky rigging. For some reason my usual combination of throwing square bills to find them and jigs to pick them apart did not work this past year. Caught a few on chatterbaits which gave me more confidence in that bait.

During the summer I caught alot on a DT-6.

Fall saw the return of jigs and square bill's as my weapons of choice. I did however begin to catch them on jerkbaits when I found large schools of shad.

Fastbee reply :

Lost a lot of jigs, but I use them more than anything else. Rocky areas with current keep my supply turning over regularly.

Sam reply :

1. Provider jig heads (a bunch on the bottom or in structure)

2. Whopper Ploppers (3)

MAN reply :

Gulp baits for me

Elkins45 reply :

Ned rigs, Rat L Traps

billmac reply :

On 1/4/2020 at 4:54 AM, Sam said:

Whopper Ploppers (3)

That's gotta hurt. Bite offs? That's the only way I can see losing a topwater.

tander reply :

Mostly Ned rigs since I throw them a lot. Next would be Bandit 100's, my favorite shallow water crank.

Sam reply :

On 1/4/2020 at 9:39 PM, billmac said:

That's gotta hurt. Bite offs? That's the only way I can see losing a topwater.

Billmac, I threw them into the wood and grass on the Chickahominy River and it was too shallow to get the two out of the wood and the grass just ate up the third one.

galyonj reply :

On 1/5/2020 at 7:48 PM, Sam said:

Billmac, I threw them into the wood and grass on the Chickahominy River and it was too shallow to get the two out of the wood and the grass just ate up the third one.

Fish are quite inconsiderate, hanging out in such hard to reach places.

billmac reply :

On 1/5/2020 at 7:48 PM, Sam said:

Chickahominy River

That doesn't even sound like a real place.

Sam reply :

On 1/6/2020 at 7:25 AM, billmac said:

That doesn't even sound like a real place.

Beautiful river with Florida Strain bass.

The creeks are excellent with lots of wood and grass and small creeks running into them, along with some docks and piers sprinkled in.

It is the Historic James River's tributary just west of Williamsburg and the river the pros run to for the BASS regionals out of Richmond.

Maybe one day in the future you will fish it.

Dangerfield reply :

Water levels were way high in Georgian Bay this year, which made familiar scenary almost uncharted territory.

New baits lost in 10 casts or less:

-Jackal Gantarel jr to a northern in 6 casts

-bill lewis echo to wood in 2 casts

-owner swing blade to chunk rock

-2 Xraps to northerns

I didn't lose as many jigs in 2019 as I did in 2018, but still lost a half dozen. Lost a number of different ned heads, it's just the nature of the game. I'm rigging up some 50lb mono leaders for my big swimbaits this year, no more drive bys.

gimruis reply :

I lost a shallow crank bait, a spinner bait, and a chatter bait this season. Plus a bunch of soft plastics. All pike bite offs.

Shockwave reply :

I lost a few spinnerbaits and some jigs (both finesse and 3/8oz arky head jigs) due to pike. Those toothy scoundrels got on my nerves when it came to getting bitten off this past year!!

boostr reply :

I didn't lose many this year, it would be the Jigs of the ones I did lose.

schplurg reply :

This was only a $4 BPS jerkbait (and I was 5 miles from Bass Pro), but I was not about to lose it on a day when I was catching nothing.

I was soaking an anchovy looking for stripers on the San Joaquin River in Feb '19 when I thought I'd throw a jerkbait with my other rod. Snagged it right away.

The "bait rescue" begins at about 1:20 if you wanna skip my blabbering.

Sometimes you take any victory you can!

GReb reply :

Lost: crankbaits and jigs

Replace: keitech 3.8 fats and SK Menace that I use as trailers.

galyonj reply :

On 1/13/2020 at 10:12 AM, schplurg said:

This was only a $4 BPS jerkbait (and I was 5 miles from Bass Pro), but I was not about to lose it on a day when I was catching nothing.

I feel that deep within myself.

One late summer I lost a Spook when I went to fish for a minute before I hit the office.

I spent every bit of 10 or fifteen minutes pitching a fluke at it, trying to catch a treble and ease it back to me. It consumed me, trying to get this floating plug, that I bought at Walmart on clearance for like $2. I forgot about the fish, that I really needed to be back on the road to work, everything.

I got it back, though!

schplurg reply :

On 1/13/2020 at 10:34 AM, galyonj said:

I feel that deep within myself.

One late summer I lost a Spook when I went to fish for a minute before I hit the office.

I spent every bit of 10 or fifteen minutes pitching a fluke at it, trying to catch a treble and ease it back to me. It consumed me, trying to get this floating plug, that I bought at Walmart on clearance for like $2. I forgot about the fish, that I really needed to be back on the road to work, everything.

I got it back, though!

Sometimes you take whatever victory home with you that you can.

MIbassyaker reply :

I always lose a lot of 4" t-rigged senkos to dink river smallmouth -- they hammer them like little freight trains, and rip 'em in half because they can't completely get them in thier mouths. The bigger fish just slurp them up, get caught, and the worm usually lasts a few fish.

Also, as usual, I lost a few shakyheads (of all things) to both pike and bowfin.

And a couple of 1.5 crankbaits to what must have been logs.

galyonj reply :

True that.

schplurg reply :

How could I forget lipless cranks from shore? I didn't lose a lot but my cast to loss ratio is close to 1:1 the few times I tried this, I'm sure.

"Hey bro can you grab me a lipless outta my pack? I'm about to cast this one"

Ski213 reply :

Unfortunately I didn’t lose a lot of lures in ‘19 cause I didn’t get to fish very often.

Typically I lose a lot of Ned rigs though. I don’t fish them that often but if I do I can count on losing most of them.

the reel ess reply :

Plopper 110, Chug Bug, jig-craw

On 1/13/2020 at 11:45 AM, schplurg said:

How could I forget lipless cranks from shore? I didn't lose a lot but my cast to loss ratio is close to 1:1 the few times I tried this, I'm sure.

"Hey bro can you grab me a lipless outta my pack? I'm about to cast this one"

There's a floating Rat-L-Trap. I bought one simply because I fish a lot of pretty shallow areas. It dives about 2.5 to 3' when retrieved, but slowly rises when paused. It doesn't weigh as much. It also doesn't sound exactly like the standard model and I haven't caught anything using it yet. I only used it once. But, come to think of it, now is a pretty good season for it. It can be worked like a jerkbait. If I were to put a heavier hook in front, it would probably be about neutrally bouyant.

galyonj reply :

On 1/13/2020 at 11:45 AM, schplurg said:

How could I forget lipless cranks from shore? I didn't lose a lot but my cast to loss ratio is close to 1:1 the few times I tried this, I'm sure.

"Hey bro can you grab me a lipless outta my pack? I'm about to cast this one"

I lose a lot of lipless. Lost on this morning. I'd estimate that every one of them was because of a terrible cast that I never should've let go of. YMMV.

Mr.C in Texas reply :

On 1/13/2020 at 11:58 AM, Ski213 said:

Unfortunately I didn’t lose a lot of lures in ‘19 cause I didn’t get to fish very often.

Typically I lose a lot of Ned rigs though. I don’t fish them that often but if I do I can count on losing most of them.

I lost a ton of zman nedheads. I switched to lifted jig heads and rarely lose one. It’s a sweet ewg style...no hook to snag.

Armtx77 reply :

Senkos, lots of Senkos.

Dangerfield reply :

On 1/14/2020 at 9:03 AM, Mr.C in Texas said:

I lost a ton of zman nedheads. I switched to lifted jig heads and rarely lose one. It’s a sweet ewg style...no hook to snag.

I like the bulletz ned head, just wish the weight wasn't on the keel, but it still works.

RickB reply :

Spinnerbaits, I throw them in fallen timber a lot. Probably shouldn't let them sink but it catches fish.

tholmes reply :

Jigs, by a long shot. If you fish jigs in rip-rap, you're gonna lose some.

Second would be crankbaits.

Tom

Koz reply :

Chatterbaits. Specifically black and blue Z-mans. I did not lose a single chatterbait of another color, but I lost a pile of the black and blue ones fishing for shore.

If you ever need to know where the hidden, submerged laydowns are in a lake or pond just invite me along fishing and me and my black and blues will help you map the basin.

Glenn reply :

A couple of finesse jigs, and brand new Siebert's jig on the very first cast. OY!

Dorado reply :

On 1/18/2020 at 7:21 AM, tholmes said:

Jigs, by a long shot. If you fish jigs in rip-rap, you're gonna lose some.

Second would be crankbaits.

Tom

X2. This alone has deterred me from being a jig fisherman. I only fish with jigs in bodies of water that I know for a fact have sandy or muddy bottoms. I need to start taking chances more and fish them in rocky areas this year. Pay to play

CHIP-MAINE reply :

just because a lure is beat up doesnt mean it wont catch fish. my best topwater this year had hardly any paint left on it until i finally lost it to a bass. mepps are my go to lure and mine are pretty beat up. still fine after skirt is gone and sometimes i will lose a barb.i release bass anyway.

tholmes reply :

On 1/18/2020 at 12:36 PM, Dorado said:

X2. This alone has deterred me from being a jig fisherman. I only fish with jigs in bodies of water that I know for a fact have sandy or muddy bottoms. I need to start taking chances more and fish them in rocky areas this year. Pay to play

I make my own bass jigs so the cost is somewhat less. It's been my experience that crawdads love rocks and bass love crawdads so I fish (and lose) jigs in the rocks. It's worth the trade-off.

Tom

Plottman1974 reply :

Nedrig...I throw them into places a jig would get hung up in...

ww2farmer reply :

To snags: ned rigs

To bite-offs: chatterbaits and jerkbaits

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