lure you refuse to lose 2024

RyneB reply :

like the title says, do you guys and gals have a special lure that you will go to great lengths too get back from a snag?

I have a Lake Fork Tackle popper in bluegill color that is on its 6th set of hooks, it looks like it's been drug behind a vehicle. I have climbed a tree, walked through muck, swam in frigid water to retrieve it. I bought 5 extras, but none of them have the same action as the original one that is beat up. If I ever lose it, I will be a sad sad man. I don't even throw it in water where pike are present.

Outdoor Zack reply :

I had a rebel super wee r that I loved. I used to catch panfish and little bass by the dozen with that thing. I would do just about anything to get it back when I had it.

then I snagged a big channel cat with it. I fought him as hard as I could, but he snapped 6lb. mono, my crank still stuck in his back.

Now i use 15 lb. braid for panfish (with a leader)

webertime reply :

Any Carolina Rig... Just hate to re-tie them.

DoDFire reply :

Any of my modified Bomber Long A's that I use as wake baits.

"hamma" reply :

I have a custom jig I tied back in the mid nineties, Its a 9/16 oz. stanley jig that I removed the skirt, broke the extra paint off the weedguard, fanned the weedguard a bit, and proceeded to hand tie a multi-colored greenish skirt on. I did this in lue of a up-coming state fishoffs at the famed Hudson River. During pre-fishing I was waiting at the ramp for my partner to park the truck/trailer when I noticed a crayfish in the shallows that had a greenish hue to it. During said day I had only one area for my choice called Cementon. Just a bit downstream from the catskill ramp, so we went there first, and the only fish I did catch there was on a 1/2 oz black jig I had tied on.

segway to the first day of the fish-offs. I am lucky enough to climb on a guys boat that he too had Cementon as a area. so we head there right away, we start at the points barge dock, and about 20 feet from the tip of the point theres a huge boulder, the boater tosses a jig and pig in there a few times (while front ending me), before he allows me a shot at it, and I noticed that he was a bit uptight that he got no hits at all. My first flip in? instant "bang" I set the hook on a nice 2+ pounder., Next flip?,.Bang! another fish this time almost twice the size of the first at 4+. The boater is getting irritated and starts moving the boat away, I can pitch too so,..I do so,..Bang! I pull out the two days lunker 6+ bucket. He's vehematley ticked, backs off from the point altogether and says, there's no more fish here we're moving. I protest but to no availe. The rest of the day went as Im sure you would already figure, he front ends, and blocks me from any fish holding spots as much as possible. When we get to the weigh-in, one of his clubs anglers askes, "hey , Charlie,..how'd ya do?",.he replies "he caught all my fish~!" with a few exlporative adjectives in there. I just smiled as I walked away with a bag towards the scales as he he was slamming hatches and throwing stuff around.

I made the state team with that jig, and its been a joy to not only tie up a working jig, but even more of a elated feeling when I hear someone say,..'He caught my fish",...I relegated to hang that jig from a shelf in my room, it's there still, and whenever I am to fish the Hudson,...believe me, I tied a few more up the following week, that make the trip out there, but that particular jig? Goes nowhere, it will stay right where it is, for me to gaze upon everyonce in a while and smile, It owes me nothing, but i refuse to fish and loose that jig

scaleface reply :

On 12/15/2016 at 9:11 PM, webertime said:

Any Carolina Rig... Just hate to re-tie them.

It takes forever . At one time I thought I had the answer , Speedo Beads . It was a sinker stop and all one had to do is wrap the line around it a few times . One knot . They were not designed well and created a sharp bend in the line weakening it severely . If they would redo those things but smooth the corners off , it would solve the hassel of retying with three knots .

I have two lures that I would go to length to get back . A vintage Rogers Big jim thats is the fish catchingest square bill I have ever used { I found 2 in an antique store and lost one high in a tree }and a Silent red Eye Shad that has a loose weight and is now a one knocker .

On 12/15/2016 at 9:40 PM, DoDFire said:

Any of my modified Bomber Long A's that I use as wake baits.

How do you modify them ? Long A's are one of my favorites as is .

DoDFire reply :

I heat the bills and slowly apply pressure to turn the bills down then a quick dip in almost boiling water to expand the plastic just a touch then I change the hooks out to a lighter size so the lure is more buoyant. I also use a little jj's magic on a q-tip and put a faint chartreuse on the bottom. It looks like a Buckeye Lures Wake Up when I'm done.......Bone is the only color I use. I could always buy a wake up from Buckeye but we fisherman love to tinker. When a smallmouth blows up on one it looks like you dropped a bowling ball from 30,000 feet.

Scarborough817 reply :

i hate losing t rigs because tungsten is so expensive, but i also do not want to lose my custom bull shad it's not the money it's just so good looking

ww2farmer reply :

Living in an area with Pike...........I don't have much say in the manner.

I have often given thought to the theory of: "a crankbait that catches a lot of fish is special, don't lose it"..............then I get the bait bit off, tie on another one, and keep catching fish. Maybe I have all the good ones.

Scott F reply :

On 12/15/2016 at 3:14 PM, RyneB said:

like the title says, do you guys and gals have a special lure that you will go to great lengths too get back from a snag?

I have a Lake Fork Tackle popper in bluegill color that is on its 6th set of hooks, it looks like it's been drug behind a vehicle. I have climbed a tree, walked through muck, swam in frigid water to retrieve it. I bought 5 extras, but none of them have the same action as the original one that is beat up. If I ever lose it, I will be a sad sad man. I don't even throw it in water where pike are present.

I see several posts where guys go to great effort to get lures with ultra realistic paint jobs. So why is it that the lures with all the paint scraped off catch so many fish?

scaleface reply :

On 12/15/2016 at 10:13 PM, ww2farmer said:

Living in an area with Pike...........I don't have much say in the manner.

I have often given thought to the theory of: "a crankbait that catches a lot of fish is special, don't lose it"..............then I get the bait bit off, tie on another one, and keep catching fish. Maybe I have all the good ones.

A crankbait that runs so true it goes directly under the rod and under the boat then turns around and comes back is a good one . You'll know on the first cast .

On 12/15/2016 at 10:31 PM, Scott F said:

I see several posts where guys go to great effort to get lures with ultra realistic paint jobs. So why is it that the lures with all the paint scraped off catch so many fish?

Because they have " it " . Whatever " it ' is .

crypt reply :

any of my Manns razorback pigs. will go in the water for them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scarborough817 reply :

On 12/15/2016 at 10:31 PM, Scott F said:

I see several posts where guys go to great effort to get lures with ultra realistic paint jobs. So why is it that the lures with all the paint scraped off catch so many fish?

i think this gives a little more weight to the theory of action and profile over colour

fishinfiend reply :

lucky craft sammy i have had for at least 3 years and have caught hundreds of fish on. I have gone swimming at least a half dozen times for it.

fishballer06 reply :

On 12/15/2016 at 10:45 PM, fishinfiend said:

lucky craft sammy i have had for at least 3 years and have caught hundreds of fish on. I have gone swimming at least a half dozen times for it.

Swimming for a topwater lure???

IndianaFinesse reply :

Just about any lure I own. I go swimming for ned rigs, senkos, jigs, just about anything is worth attempting to retrieve in my mind. The hardest I've ever had to try to get my lure back was when I got a whopper plopper stuck 20 feet up in a tree, no idea how I managed to cast it that high on accident. I tried climbing the tree, but I couldn't get that high because of how thin the branches were. So I broke it off, drove home, grabbed an extendable tree trimmer, and drove back to where the whopper plopper was stuck in a tree. I managed to get it out by climbing part way up the tree and then cutting the branch off that it was attached to. The only lure that I own that has the undefinable "it" is a magnum pop-r, that thing always outfishes the exact same pop-r, even though almost all of the paint has long since been scraped off.

Yeajray231 reply :

Any lure I'm afraid to lose I've either had for a long time or I can't get anymore. In which case it gets retired . Whichever lure I choose to fish will be fished fearlessly.

I'm not one of those megabass suckers tho so the most I'm losing on any one bait is like 12 bucks. But usually more in the 6-8 range.

Mike L reply :

I have a ghost Sebile Magic Swimmer that I'd go swimming for if I ever lost it.

Mike

Scarborough817 reply :

On 12/15/2016 at 11:36 PM, Mike L said:

I have a ghost Sebile Magic Swimmer that I'd go swimming for if I ever lost it.

Mike

i'm so on the fence about these i really don't like the shape but multiple people have told me they like them

roadwarrior reply :

On 12/15/2016 at 9:11 PM, webertime said:

Any Carolina Rig... Just hate to re-tie them.

Pre-tie a couple on the cardboard from a toilet paper roll. Ready to go!

IndianaFinesse reply :

On 12/15/2016 at 9:11 PM, webertime said:

Any Carolina Rig... Just hate to re-tie them.

Another thing that works well is to wrap a few pre-rigged ones around sections of foam pool noodles, that way you can stick the hooks into the foam to prevent tangling. Or roadwariors' toilet paper roll idea would work to.

A-Jay reply :

On 12/15/2016 at 10:09 PM, Scarborough817 said:

i hate losing t rigs because tungsten is so expensive, but i also do not want to lose my custom bull shad it's not the money it's just so good looking

Super Sweet Paint job ~

Fish here would be All Over that one.

Although without some special precautions, I fear it may vanish.

A-Jay

Scarborough817 reply :

On 12/16/2016 at 12:14 AM, A-Jay said:

Super Sweet Paint job ~

Fish here would be All Over that one.

Although without some special precautions, I fear it may vanish.

A-Jay

this is why i love my home waters so much i am blessed with only having largemouth and smallmouth, if i travel to any lake that i fear may have some teeth in it i will use a wire leader

Catt reply :

I believe!

If every lure I buy catches me one fish it has done its job.

Now I do own some antiques & prototypes that will never see water again!

Scott F reply :

For me, I have a few lures from back in the sixties that I caught fish on that have a sentimental value, but they are long ago retired. While I certainly never like losing lures, and I'll make a reasonable attempt to get one back that has been snagged, If I'm not prepared to lose it, I won't tie it on. I don't place that much value on a bait. If they quit making it, I'm sure I'll find something else that will work.

Catch and Grease reply :

With all the chain pickerel around here I won't buy a lure unless I'm okay with losing it lol, I don't get get to keep them long enough to get attached to them haha

Scarborough817 reply :

something else i forgot that i learned which i'm pretty sure was from someone on here.

"don't throw a lure you aren't ready to lose on the first cast."

roadwarrior reply :

I go to great lengths to recover my Alabama Rigs.

Last_Cast reply :

I have a box filled with xcalibur lures that I dont like to tie on. I like to look at em. lol

rawjuice reply :

On 12/15/2016 at 10:31 PM, Scott F said:

I see several posts where guys go to great effort to get lures with ultra realistic paint jobs. So why is it that the lures with all the paint scraped off catch so many fish?

I agree, My lures that look the worst, beatin beyond belief and look ugly, all catch more fish lol. I tie on a fresh one and nothing. I think im going to start scraping new lures till they look like they caught 20 bass then use them

On 12/16/2016 at 12:50 AM, Last_Cast said:

I have a box filled with xcalibur lures that I dont like to tie on. I like to look at em. lol

haha its all you really can do, just look at it!

Funny you say this because i have a tackle box just of xcaliburs, bunch opened and some still in package. I love them too much!! I just look at them too lol

Last_Cast reply :

On 12/16/2016 at 12:58 AM, rawjuice said:

I agree, My lures that look the worst, beatin beyond belief and look ugly, all catch more fish lol. I tie on a fresh one and nothing. I think im going to start scraping new lures till they look like they caught 20 bass then use them

haha its all you really can do, just look at it!

Funny you say this because i have a tackle box just of xcaliburs, bunch opened and some still in package. I love them too much!! I just look at them too lol

Yeah, I use them once in a blue moon when I feel risky. (once a year for like 20 minutes at best) lol

I wish I had some boxed up ones, wanna sell one so I can say I have one? lol

rawjuice reply :

On 12/16/2016 at 1:02 AM, Last_Cast said:

Yeah, I use them once in a blue moon when I feel risky. (once a year for like 20 minutes at best) lol

I wish I had some boxed up ones, wanna sell one so I can say I have one? lol

Lol, oooo man, probably not but I will look at them and see what I got, but most likely it would be too hard to sell. Crazy how much people are selling those for now.

soflabasser reply :

I refuse to lose the first topwater I made.Its my original design and has caught me lots of largemouth bass and peacock bass.I currently have it hanging on my wall with other lures I have made thoughout the years.

Red Bear reply :

i dont buy nothing too expensive or really have a lure im in love with. I go fishing with the idea that if i cast it out its possible i could lose it, if i lose it oh well...

riverbasser reply :

lure I refuse to lose . . . . . the one that is catching fish that day and I don't have a backup.

jsh32 reply :

I have two of the exact same squarbills. one is a little beat up and catches them all day.. got it suck in a tree and thought I lost it. so that's when I bought the other. but I went back a few days later with my kayak and spend about 20 minutes getting that thing out of that tree and that's the most ive done.

I just ventured out and bought some megabass lures and im gonna be on edge the whole time im using them for awhile atleast and would probably go through some stuff to get them back if I were to lose them

DoDFire reply :

On 12/15/2016 at 9:45 PM, "hamma" said:

I have a custom jig I tied back in the mid nineties, Its a 9/16 oz. stanley jig that I removed the skirt, broke the extra paint off the weedguard, fanned the weedguard a bit, and proceeded to hand tie a multi-colored greenish skirt on. I did this in lue of a up-coming state fishoffs at the famed Hudson River. During pre-fishing I was waiting at the ramp for my partner to park the truck/trailer when I noticed a crayfish in the shallows that had a greenish hue to it. During said day I had only one area for my choice called Cementon. Just a bit downstream from the catskill ramp, so we went there first, and the only fish I did catch there was on a 1/2 oz black jig I had tied on.

segway to the first day of the fish-offs. I am lucky enough to climb on a guys boat that he too had Cementon as a area. so we head there right away, we start at the points barge dock, and about 20 feet from the tip of the point theres a huge boulder, the boater tosses a jig and pig in there a few times (while front ending me), before he allows me a shot at it, and I noticed that he was a bit uptight that he got no hits at all. My first flip in? instant "bang" I set the hook on a nice 2+ pounder., Next flip?,.Bang! another fish this time almost twice the size of the first at 4+. The boater is getting irritated and starts moving the boat away, I can pitch too so,..I do so,..Bang! I pull out the two days lunker 6+ bucket. He's vehematley ticked, backs off from the point altogether and says, there's no more fish here we're moving. I protest but to no availe. The rest of the day went as Im sure you would already figure, he front ends, and blocks me from any fish holding spots as much as possible. When we get to the weigh-in, one of his clubs anglers askes, "hey , Charlie,..how'd ya do?",.he replies "he caught all my fish~!" with a few exlporative adjectives in there. I just smiled as I walked away with a bag towards the scales as he he was slamming hatches and throwing stuff around.

I made the state team with that jig, and its been a joy to not only tie up a working jig, but even more of a elated feeling when I hear someone say,..'He caught my fish",...I relegated to hang that jig from a shelf in my room, it's there still, and whenever I am to fish the Hudson,...believe me, I tied a few more up the following week, that make the trip out there, but that particular jig? Goes nowhere, it will stay right where it is, for me to gaze upon everyonce in a while and smile, It owes me nothing, but i refuse to fish and loose that jig

Love this story.....

RedHeadAngler reply :

My Rapala rattlin rap 04 in baby bass... Caught tons of bass lost it in the bottom of a cove about 10 casts later my dad reels it in hooked to his lure. Guess it wasn't it's time to go.

CTBassin860 reply :

On 12/15/2016 at 11:31 PM, Yeajray231 said:

Any lure I'm afraid to lose I've either had for a long time or I can't get anymore. In which case it gets retired . Whichever lure I choose to fish will be fished fearlessly.

I'm not one of those megabass suckers tho so the most I'm losing on any one bait is like 12 bucks. But usually more in the 6-8 range.

Same here.I lose them all the time.Especially frogs.I bank fish from so many tight spots that i can pinpoint a spot sidearmed standing on one leg.I hate when I cant get one out of a tree,and when i go back the next day someone else managed to get it!

Ive climbed trees for these guys.Custom Lunkerz Spy Pops.3/4 oz of topwater madness.They make so much noise between the popper in the front and prop in the back that bass massacre these things.They hit those with pure hatred and very violent strikes.

wdp reply :

On 12/16/2016 at 11:52 AM, MassBassin508 said:

Same here.I lose them all the time.Especially frogs.I bank fish from so many tight spots that i can pinpoint a spot sidearmed standing on one leg.I hate when I cant get one out of a tree,and when i go back the next day someone else managed to get it!

Ive climbed trees for these guys.Custom Lunkerz Spy Pops.3/4 oz of topwater madness.They make so much noise between the popper in the front and prop in the back that bass massacre these things.They hit those with pure hatred and very violent strikes.

I've never heard of those. They look sharp! Are they still available?

CTBassin860 reply :

On 12/16/2016 at 12:03 PM, wdp said:

I've never heard of those. They look sharp! Are they still available?

@lunkerz24_7 on Instagram.Theres a whole world of hand made wooden baits and jigs to be explored.Send him a message.

wdp reply :

On 12/16/2016 at 12:09 PM, MassBassin508 said:

@lunkerz24_7 on Instagram.Theres a whole world of hand made wooden baits and jigs to be explored.Send him a message.

Cool. Thanks, I'm not on Instagram. Might have to finally get an account. ?

CTBassin860 reply :

On 12/16/2016 at 12:13 PM, wdp said:

Cool. Thanks, I'm not on Instagram. Might have to finally get an account. ?

There are a lot of talented tackle makers on there.My Instagram account is all fishing.A lot of them use their accounts as their business webpage.

wdp reply :

On 12/16/2016 at 12:18 PM, MassBassin508 said:

There are a lot of talented tackle makers on there.My Instagram account is all fishing.A lot of them use their accounts as their business webpage.

This is sad. I'm getting my 15 yo daughter to teach me how to use instagram. Lol.

j bab reply :

I almost lost the Hudd that caught my PB. I was dumb for throwing it (I want to mount it with the replica) but I did anyways, and caught on a big piece of a tree in 30ft of water...

I thought for sure I was gonna break it off, I pulled from every direction and nothing worked. Eventually I put a lot of steady pressure on it to see if the hook would straighten and it started to move a little. I pulled and pulled for several minutes, one crank at a time, and eventually pulled up my Hudd attached to a stick that seemed like it was probably 100 pounds! Gotta love CXX...

Needless to say I now keep a lure retriever and that Hudd stays in the house until the replica is ready to be picked up in May

CTBassin860 reply :

On 12/16/2016 at 12:20 PM, wdp said:

This is sad. I'm getting my 15 yo daughter to teach me how to use instagram. Lol.

@lunkerz24_7 and @burkesbaits are two you must follow.

wdp reply :

On 12/15/2016 at 9:45 PM, "hamma" said:

I have a custom jig I tied back in the mid nineties, Its a 9/16 oz. stanley jig that I removed the skirt, broke the extra paint off the weedguard, fanned the weedguard a bit, and proceeded to hand tie a multi-colored greenish skirt on. I did this in lue of a up-coming state fishoffs at the famed Hudson River. During pre-fishing I was waiting at the ramp for my partner to park the truck/trailer when I noticed a crayfish in the shallows that had a greenish hue to it. During said day I had only one area for my choice called Cementon. Just a bit downstream from the catskill ramp, so we went there first, and the only fish I did catch there was on a 1/2 oz black jig I had tied on.

segway to the first day of the fish-offs. I am lucky enough to climb on a guys boat that he too had Cementon as a area. so we head there right away, we start at the points barge dock, and about 20 feet from the tip of the point theres a huge boulder, the boater tosses a jig and pig in there a few times (while front ending me), before he allows me a shot at it, and I noticed that he was a bit uptight that he got no hits at all. My first flip in? instant "bang" I set the hook on a nice 2+ pounder., Next flip?,.Bang! another fish this time almost twice the size of the first at 4+. The boater is getting irritated and starts moving the boat away, I can pitch too so,..I do so,..Bang! I pull out the two days lunker 6+ bucket. He's vehematley ticked, backs off from the point altogether and says, there's no more fish here we're moving. I protest but to no availe. The rest of the day went as Im sure you would already figure, he front ends, and blocks me from any fish holding spots as much as possible. When we get to the weigh-in, one of his clubs anglers askes, "hey , Charlie,..how'd ya do?",.he replies "he caught all my fish~!" with a few exlporative adjectives in there. I just smiled as I walked away with a bag towards the scales as he he was slamming hatches and throwing stuff around.

I made the state team with that jig, and its been a joy to not only tie up a working jig, but even more of a elated feeling when I hear someone say,..'He caught my fish",...I relegated to hang that jig from a shelf in my room, it's there still, and whenever I am to fish the Hudson,...believe me, I tied a few more up the following week, that make the trip out there, but that particular jig? Goes nowhere, it will stay right where it is, for me to gaze upon everyonce in a while and smile, It owes me nothing, but i refuse to fish and loose that jig

This guy in your story had the completely wrong attitude. If it had been me, I'd have swung the back end of the boat around so we both could fish the spot, and I'd have said: Hey man! Throw me one of your jigs & show me how you're fishing that thing. Let's have some fun! Lol.

JoePhish reply :

I have a silver Zerek Sabre Dance 85 that I've caught so many fish on. It's deadly when they are popping shad on the surface. Now I only break it out for tournaments because I can't find them in the US anymore and shipping is an arm and a leg from Asia, where the company is located. A seller on Ebay has them but only in gold.

If anyone here has it in silver I'll be happy to buy it off you.

Jagg reply :

I have a bunch of Rapala Original Floating Minnows in the baby bass color from size F03 to F13. They don't make that color anymore and it flat out catches fish where ever I go. I've tried other floating minnows in the baby bass color, but none of them catch fish like the Rapala.

Mike L reply :

On 12/15/2016 at 11:50 PM, Scarborough817 said:

i'm so on the fence about these i really don't like the shape but multiple people have told me they like them

I felt the same way. Took me a long time to finally pull the trigger but glad I did. They're not cheap either, but I found that the shape and the action together are absolute killer anytime they're feeding on shad. Different water color, conditions, wind, it really doesn't matter. This is one hard bait that I don't have to think about choosing when they're chasing.

There's just something about that double joint and odd shape.

Mike

wytstang reply :

I have a couple of Phenix vibrator jigs and a few original D&M Clown and Purple passion colored chatterbaits I don't see myself ever using or getting rid of. I have other options I can use/lose.

"hamma" reply :

Thanks DoDFire,.. And yes wdp, that guy did have the wrong attitude. If he didnt take that tact?, I had more of those green jigs with me and I would have shared them, and their matching trailers with him. I have no problem sharing my tackle, even if we are competeing against each other. I look at it like this,...If you can beat me fishing the same lure, in the same manner, god bless you, you deserve it. Not touting my abilities, just that the playing field is at a fair level, or as close as can be as luck does play in the end results just a bit in this instance.

Unfortunately for both he and I, the whole 2 day tournament was won by another angler I knew named Lou, and where was he fishing for both days? The same point. Lou was fishing the downstream side picking off bass that were holding just off the points nose.,... but we were on the upstream side at that moment, and that point has a whole bunch of rock all the way down it, with about thirty feet of clearance between the rip rap and a giant patch of waterchestnut to trolling motor down between, for about 200 yards . With the tide going out at that time Im positive there were more fish there.,... And Charlie? blew his chances at a possible state team berth.

Im sorry to say I ended tourney fishing shortly after, but did buy a deep-v tracker shortly after, and have been back to that fateful spot when the tide line is similar, to find bass on that point being just as agreeable with the like jigs I duplicated.

I do have another lure I hold on to, a original white Manns classic spinnerbait I caught my pb on. But thats another story altogether

scaleface reply :

Hamma I won a lowly club tourney in the back of the boat .For two days the guy running the trolling motor was convinced that spinnerbaits were the lure for the conditions and thats all he threw . I just followed up with a t-rig lizard and quickly worked every piece of cover we zoomed by . He was livid . I think it was the last tourney he ever fished . Some folks just are not cut out for tourney fishing , even at the club level . LOL . We were just a bunch of good ol boys having fun and he couldnt cut it .

Last_Cast reply :

On 12/16/2016 at 1:05 AM, rawjuice said:

Lol, oooo man, probably not but I will look at them and see what I got, but most likely it would be too hard to sell. Crazy how much people are selling those for now.

Yeah..i would never pay what theyre asking. Its a rip off.

fishinfiend reply :

On 12/15/2016 at 11:01 PM, fishballer06 said:

Swimming for a topwater lure???

yep

has gotten wrapped around branches and pilings. I fish from the bank so i go in after it.

WRB reply :

Anyone who has fished a long time has lost pet lures they would love to have back.

Most of my retired lures were retired because I stopped using them and moved on to newer lures that worked better. I have a few hundred lures that have been retired, a few early 1900's antiques and lots of wooden vintage lures from the 40's and 50's that I bought a long time ago. I actually still fish with a friend on occasion with our 50's era rods, reels and lures.

Tom

A-Jay reply :

On 12/17/2016 at 1:32 AM, WRB said:

Anyone who has fished a long time has lost pet lures they would love to have back.

Most of my retired lures were retired because I stopped using them and moved on to newer lures that worked better. I have a few hundred lures that have been retired, a few early 1900's antiques and lots of wooden vintage lures from the 40's and 50's that I bought a long time ago. I actually still fish with a friend on occasion with our 50's era rods, reels and lures.

Tom

Tom, I can totally agree that there is a very unique feeling whenever we have the distinct pleasure of using gear or throwing bait's that are close to or older than we are - perhaps it's some type of longevity based satisfaction. Either way it doesn't happen much or nearly enough in my book.

A-Jay

Bluebasser86 reply :

I go to great lengths to retrieve all my baits, but I'd do about anything to get this one back.

BrackishBassin reply :

My grandfather hand carved a spoon out of abalone shell that a friend of his gave him. He used it many times before he passed away about 10 years. My grandmother recently passed it along to me. Not only do I refuse to lose that lure, I refuse to let it leave the house. Not only a beautiful hand made lure, but a memory of the times he took me fishing when I was little.

gmoney13 reply :

My Lucky Craft 110 Flash Pointer American Shad Jerkbait.

WRB reply :

On 12/17/2016 at 9:33 AM, Bluebasser86 said:

I go to great lengths to retrieve all my baits, but I'd do about anything to get this one back.

Send the photo to Mike Shaw and maybe he has one to send you, less the memories, never know!

Tom

WRB reply :

There are lots of lures I would like to have back, the one that jumps up is the wooden Huddleston early 90's prototype trout swimbait lost to a big strip bass at lake Pryamide by the dam.

Shouldn't have been using the lure at Pryamide because of stripers and the fish got into a cable by the dam and broke off. One of a kind lures are impossible to replace.

Tom

whitwolf reply :

I haven't read any replies In this thread but here's my take on a bait I wouldn't want to lose. I simply don't use it. I have several I refuse to throw anymore for a multitude of reasons, mostly sentimental.

Gilgamesh reply :

I've got a roman made negotiator that I'm absolutely going in after it if it gets hung up!

RB 77 reply :

On 12/16/2016 at 12:35 AM, Scarborough817 said:

something else i forgot that i learned which i'm pretty sure was from someone on here.

"don't throw a lure you aren't ready to lose on the first cast."

Yup. First Lucky Craft I ever bought was hung on an underwater branch on the first cast. I could see it in the gin clear water. Going in the drink for it crossed my mind...

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