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Hi Bazoo, looks like a saltwater lure because of the heavy hook, possibly galvanized finish, and the tail looks like it's possibly imitating squid. I've never seen these, but I find saltwater lures occasionally in my Michigan lakes, I think because in heavily pressured lakes people try to find something new to get the fish's attention.

Saturday

Found a Gan Craft 128 Yesterday. Probably the priciest lure I've found. And today I found the 6th can floating in a lillypad patch, so now I have the whole 6-pack! 😆

As I've said before, when I'm out I pick up trash to build up good Karma for the week, and sometimes Karma rewards me with a nice lure ... well today Karma rewarded me with so much more!!

A first for me, today I found a lure in the lake that was still in its unopened packaging. (Actually, it looked like someone threw it in the lake along with their empty wrappers)

Good point, the upper end does look like it's been redone. What intrigued me on that spinnerbait is that the construction with the hair and tape looks classic, but it's not aged. I did a brief search now, and it's probably a muskie lure, which also makes sense for it's size. I found it on a very small lake that was dredged last year, so now it has a small well and was stocked with pike, but people are losing huge, deep lures, so it looks like they think the whole lake was dredged and it was stocked with fully grown fish.

Today Anybody know what the spinnerbait with the gold blade is? It has a trailer hook with a plastic on it.

Here are the most presentable of this year's accumulation so far. Ratio of keepers to trashed has been around 55% as usual.

Last weekend

That's the stuff I love seeing!

The lures are back! It's nesting season again

It's clear you're not in the midwest because there's only 2 or 3 Rapalas. 10% of my finds are Rapala. Also, I see your waters are free of Flickershad. What's this thing? It looks creative.

Yup, a jitterbug cicada. I found one last year too, in a different color. It seems like a good idea and good execution, except the hooks are undersized on the ones I found. $3.15 through aliexpress.

I am on a a roll, so I paddled two more river/lake areas today and did pretty well. Then I stopped by a park on a large lake on my way home, and from shore I found an 8" Yo-Zuri Mag Dive. This thing is a salt water lure, and it's monstrous! They must have been after a monster.

Yesterday I used a vacation day and went paddling on a stretch of river I hadn't been to in a while (left column), and then I hit a nice long smooth stretch of river that I've never been on at all (right column). Weather's warmed up into the low 40's, so no ice anywhere this time. Notables: -3rd buzz plug I've ever seen. -Hula Popper 2.0 - first time I've encountered this color in the wild -I found my first Shimano lure (a World Rush 56F Flash Boost). This square bill actually has a piece of shiny aluminum inside which is suspended on springs and jiggles and flashes like crazy. Pretty cool engineering.

I agree with you about safety, I wasn't cavalier about it. 😏 I did the ice-breaking thing in shallows along shoreline on the car side of the lake/river, and I didn't break ice in deep water. Also, it would be very bad to break ice in a thermoformed kayak, their hulls aren't as tough as roto-molded polyethylene kayaks. Plus, the lures will be gone as soon as people can walk on the ice to get them, and I wouldn't want them hanging there and luring someone onto the ice before it's thick enough to walk on safely 👍

Yesterday in my kayak I had to be an ice-breaker to get at some of the lure hot spots, and in other areas I had to backtrack and reroute to get around thicker ice, so it was a great adventure. I took along my 24' pole and pulled down a few I'd been watching for several weeks but couldn't get at. There's still one that's even higher than that ... There were still a few hardy fishermen bank fishing in the clear areas. I bided my time until they moved out so I could navigate through the area.

Where I lived in Alabama we had similar little lakes which were a dream for bank fishing, 3 right in our subdivision. Easy casting as far as you could cast, the banks were mostly clear and the water had no weeds. It was fishing heaven and I miss those days... That's also where I got hooked on lure hunting. After one tournament there were so many lures scattered around the little island in the satellite view below that I didn't know which lures to grab first because it felt too amazing and like maybe it was a trap.

Paddled yesterday in the snow and had a good time. I didn't know the Bill Lewis brand makes crankbaits, but I like the paint on this Echo. The spoon is interesting too, it has a galvanized hook and "Marathon" stamped into it, so I looked them up and their years of operation were 1929 to 1979.

My guess is the wiggler would go somewhat like a johnson's silver minnow. It's a flattened lead head on a single hook so it would go on its back, and it has the skirt and spinner to slow it down. The one I found is a model 1-1/2. Here's an article that describes the Hawaiian Wiggler models https://bass-archives.com/wigglers-and-dancers-fred-arbogast/ Different lake and different watershed from the twin spin. I've found 7 classics this year, and they've come from 6 different lakes (curiously, all called Menderchuk by the locals lol). I'm always hoping to find a hot spot for classics because I especially like them, but the only possible link I've seen so far in my 4 years in Michigan are that the twin spin came from the same lake as the Creek Chub Plunker I found in 2021 (wood with glass eyes, so the two lures are likely from the same era). I think it's kind of nice to see that people are trying the old ones, probably from their grandfather's tackle boxes, or great-grandfather's tackle box. I hope they are catching fish with them and not losing them right away.

It's a Shannon Twin Spin, perhaps 1940's/50's. I was just reading through an old thread on bassresource from 2020, and @WRB mentioned the name, so I looked it up. Thanks Tom!

Yesterday I returned to a lake I had "discovered" last spring. I found quite a few lures, and among them was a Fred Arbogast Hawaiian Wiggler in pretty good shape. I'll lightly clean it up and add it my shadow box display of classic Heddon and Arbogast lures I've found.

I still love searching through your pictures of piles of lures! You got a Karl's lure just like Bazoo was talking about above.

I finally found the video, and it was fun. One thing though, don't be harsh on people who lose lures, they are one of the best parts of lure hunting! They just took a big chance casting into a tricky area to find the big one, and they didn't get it quite right. This world needs more fishermen like them! lol

I had a good lure hunting day yesterday. Fall lure season has begun! I've never spent time searching through lily pad thickets before, but wow, half the lures in the rh column were attached to lily pad stems. I like this good old lure a lot, but I haven't had a chance to look up information on it yet. Anyone want to make a guess? I found the cut and polished geode about 3 feet from shore. I'm hoping it wasn't thrown in the lake in memory of someone.