how do you stop the bait monkey... 2025
cyph3r reply :
so just spent $100 dollars on ***.com....as a grad student this is not a healthy habit...lol....just want to hear some humorous or some helpful advice that any of you guys follow to help control the monkey:P
Dixon reply :
Dude Ive spent way to much on *** but that is a great site. Its almost impossible to get on there and not spend at least a 100.
eastkybass reply :
Get married and hand your wife all of your credit and debit cards. It worked real well for me but now my tackle boxes and looking a little low. :-/
mrlitetackle reply :
you cant stop the monkey......
he'll always get you......
no matter what!
Big Phish reply :
QuoteGet married and hand your wife all of your credit and debit cards. It worked real well for me but now my tackle boxes and looking a little low. :-/
:: Whip Cracks ::
Quitlimpin reply :
"You can't stop him...u can only hope to contain him" Dan Patrick
Fishing Rhino reply :
how do you stop the bait monkey...
You might as well ask, how do you change the weather?
The bait monkey is the term for an epidemic which rages through the fishing community. Some have a natural immunity to this condition.
For the rest of us, there is no cure. The bait monkey must be fed.
Any feeling of satisfaction is temporary at best.
The most you can hope for is to stabilize your condition. Throw out all those catalogs, and stay off the internet. At all costs avoid anything that mentions the latest and greatest equipment and lures.
You cannot eliminate it, but you can minimize temptation.
Web site shopping carts are bad enough. Wish lists compound the "problem".
skunked_again reply :
turn off the puter
take the gear you already have
get out and use it.
id much rather be fishing than buying crap i dont need.
bait__Monkey reply :
hey used guys! we b frends, i hep u by things.
we got sum money, yes?
everybody havin sales 4 fathers day,
lets go shoppin, ok?
i luv used guys!
ring fry reply :
The bait monkey has fallen. When I walk into a store and say, "They don't have anything that I don't have". However, the Lure Making Monkey has really kicked my butt the last year or so. 
Sam reply :
you don't stop bait monkey.
you make him your friend. ;D
D4u2s0t reply :
I go to ebay... doesn't stop the monkey, but you sure get more! Picked up 10 bags of senkos for 34 dollars, 100 gamakatsu 3/0 hooks for 20 something, and we just got about 200 yum dingers in various colors for 40 dollars. that's a d**n big savings.
I go to ebay, sort by ending soonest, and start snagging them up!
avid reply :
kill him and eat him.
Please.
S I G M A reply :
QuoteI go to ebay... doesn't stop the monkey, but you sure get more! Picked up 10 bags of senkos for 34 dollars, 100 gamakatsu 3/0 hooks for 20 something, and we just got about 200 yum dingers in various colors for 40 dollars. that's a d**n big savings.I go to ebay, sort by ending soonest, and start snagging them up!
That is quite a deal there...
D4u2s0t reply :
sure is! that's how i take care of the monkey lol. I got all of my go-to baits, they'll last a long time, and over 60% off buying them in the store.
Fishing Rhino reply :
QuoteI go to ebay... doesn't stop the monkey, but you sure get more! Picked up 10 bags of senkos for 34 dollars, 100 gamakatsu 3/0 hooks for 20 something, and we just got about 200 yum dingers in various colors for 40 dollars. that's a d**n big savings.I go to ebay, sort by ending soonest, and start snagging them up!
LOL. The bait monkey has your number. The bait monkey is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
He/she/it doesn't care if you get a bargain or not, the monkey whispers in your ear buy, buy, spend, spend.
100 Gamakatsu 3/0 hooks for twenty something? A hundred of any type of hook would last me several lifetimes. At 67, my remaining lifetime is not very long.
Uncle Leo reply :
Quotekill him and eat him.Please.
I ate Monkey Tacos back in the 70's, in Mexico, I wish I had not.
Mottfia reply :
Word to the wise, when you hear that voice in your head say " That might work"...keep walking
Mottfia
RoLo reply :
There should be a "price" on that Monkey's Head.
We'd all profit in the long run, if we each posted $1000 to RUB OUT that wicked primate >
;D
Roger
midnighthrasher reply :
Stop him... why would you wanna do that... hes my friend...I love fishing for lures and trying out new thing... everyone here was recently talking about rage tail baits so i went and baught some and they were awesome!!! Not only that but the monkey got me to go to gander mtn this morning and to my surprise all soft plastics were 20%off. Needless to say we had a blast buying all kinds. Picked up some coffee tubes, some senko's, hula grubs, rage tail shad, rage tail anaconda, rage tail space monkey. Best of all the monkey and my girlfriend are great friends.
bocabasser reply :
Quote"You can't stop him...u can only hope to contain him" Dan Patrick
exactly!
my only advice would be to order only from tackle warehouse. the free shipping over 50$ seems to be a justification in my mind.
wow--see how the monkey has got me thinking.
Fishing Cowgirl reply :
The bait monkey whispers to me too..so both of us are doomed..
Sfritr reply :
I have tried to spank him but...... That just made him happy 
Look at it this way, you could be wasting precious money on cigarettes, drugs, drinking habit, gambling etc. At least this is important stuff. You are not wasting you are investing...........
Dad_Golf_Fish reply :
QuoteThere should be a "price" on that Monkey's Head.
We'd all profit in the long run, if we each posted $1000 to RUB OUT that wicked primate >
;D
Roger
Sure! Just PayPal that $1000 to snuffthemonkey@gmail.com.
I'll get right on it.
CODbasser reply :
funny how he never comes around when you are broke
DINK WHISPERER reply :
Quoteyou cant stop the monkey......he'll always get you......
no matter what!
Truer words have never been been spoken! The sooner you guys accept the fact that he can't be stopped, the happier you will be! Just embrace the MONKEY!!!! 
RoLo reply :
QuoteQuoteThere should be a "price" on that Monkey's Head.
We'd all profit in the long run, if we each posted $1000 to RUB OUT that wicked primate >
Roger
Sure! Just PayPal that $1000 to snuffthemonkey@gmail.com.
I'll get right on it.
Now I'm so fired up, I decided to raise my pledge to Two Grand
All YOU have to do is produce the head
SirSnookalot reply :
I'm focused and disciplined, I don't shop on line for tackle. I buy only what I'm looking for at a tackle shop. I can walk into BPS and buy nothing, if they don't carry what I'm looking for. On rare occasion I will buy some piece of junk that I never use on whim, we are all suckers to an extent.
Daniel A. reply :
Stop the bait monkey??? Why?
We work together. He tells me what I need. I buy it. ;D
D4u2s0t reply :
QuoteQuoteI go to ebay... doesn't stop the monkey, but you sure get more! Picked up 10 bags of senkos for 34 dollars, 100 gamakatsu 3/0 hooks for 20 something, and we just got about 200 yum dingers in various colors for 40 dollars. that's a d**n big savings.I go to ebay, sort by ending soonest, and start snagging them up!
LOL. The bait monkey has your number. The bait monkey is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
He/she/it doesn't care if you get a bargain or not, the monkey whispers in your ear buy, buy, spend, spend.
100 Gamakatsu 3/0 hooks for twenty something? A hundred of any type of hook would last me several lifetimes. At 67, my remaining lifetime is not very long.
If you can still get out on the boat, you still have plenty of time to go! We go out with my buddies grandpa who's well into his 80's, still loves fishing.
As far as the hooks, i'm going to be fishing with my little brother, and other friends that are probably going to lose them like crazy. These hooks go for 3.29 for 5 hooks here, so I just couldn't pass the deal on the 100. But yea, they'll last a d**n long time lol
I'm still feeling out fishing from the shore at my lake, there's alot of stumps and snags on the bottom that are tough to get out without the boat. Fishing off the shore I go through hooks fairly quick. I'm learning the lake though so it's getting less and less.
Fishing Rhino reply :
QuoteQuoteQuoteI go to ebay... doesn't stop the monkey, but you sure get more! Picked up 10 bags of senkos for 34 dollars, 100 gamakatsu 3/0 hooks for 20 something, and we just got about 200 yum dingers in various colors for 40 dollars. that's a d**n big savings.I go to ebay, sort by ending soonest, and start snagging them up!
LOL. The bait monkey has your number. The bait monkey is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
He/she/it doesn't care if you get a bargain or not, the monkey whispers in your ear buy, buy, spend, spend.
100 Gamakatsu 3/0 hooks for twenty something? A hundred of any type of hook would last me several lifetimes. At 67, my remaining lifetime is not very long.
If you can still get out on the boat, you still have plenty of time to go! We go out with my buddies grandpa who's well into his 80's, still loves fishing.
As far as the hooks, i'm going to be fishing with my little brother, and other friends that are probably going to lose them like crazy. These hooks go for 3.29 for 5 hooks here, so I just couldn't pass the deal on the 100. But yea, they'll last a d**n long time lol
I'm still feeling out fishing from the shore at my lake, there's alot of stumps and snags on the bottom that are tough to get out without the boat. Fishing off the shore I go through hooks fairly quick. I'm learning the lake though so it's getting less and less.
I still get out at every opportunity, which is most days.
Carry my canoe in the back of my truck, launch it and paddle.
I'm not being "fatalistic", just realistic. If I can do as well as my dad did, I should have another good 14 or 15 years. before it's a bobber and worm, or live bait. Maybe longer.
See my doc regularly and don't hesititate to get things checked out when something doesn't seem right. Not very often.
No nagging aches or pains to slow me down.
D4u2s0t reply :
well, you're better off than me and i'm 27! I get tired and sore from lugging down the canoe. doesn't help that i'm a videographer and carry a camera all the time either. But 67 is no longer "old" (unless you're very young lol) especially if you're in good shape. I have a ton of family and so does steph well into their 70's and 80's and still pushing strong!
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