What Is Your One Weakness....

[The Rooster]

Spinnerbaits and Roostertails. I have way more than I need. A few years ago I would buy any one I ran across that happened to be a different color than what I already have. Now I control that more and have actually thinned down my collection to 45 spinnerbaits, and about 80 Roostertails.

When I buy Roosters, I get them 3 at a time in whatever color and size I'm buying. If I get 3 different sizes in the same color then that's 9 baits I just bought. I've been known to have the tackle shops order them in case quantities of my favorite colors and then I bought them all when they came in. I lose a lot of them too, otherwise I'd have a lot more.

I don't buy spinnerbaits in duplicates like that but I do tend to duplicate the same patterns across multiple brands over time. I have several different brands of 3/8 white with tandem or double willow blades. I'm also a sucker for a chartreuse and white, or some other combination. Any different kind of firetiger I can find also, I grab it up. One might be mostly chartreuse and orange, or have more neon green in it than another. If it's like that then I gotta have it.

[RyneB]

i would say jigs and spinnerbaits. Just because i like to make them, so i have quite the stock pile. As far as store bought baits, i would have to say jig trailers. I have 2 big storage bins full of trailers. I have every color Paca craw they make, every color Rage craw they make. On top of that i have rage grubs, Menaces,chigger craws, zoom swimmin flukes, and regular flukes for bladed jigs. I would say i have over 20 bags of black/blue paca craws and 10 bags of saphire blue trailers. I think the reason i collect them is because all my trailers can also be used as a bait by themselves. If i had to narrow it down to one single bait, it would be the Rage Craw. Every single time i go to BPS or make a TW order, i get at least 1 pack of rage craws.

[Bankbeater]

Probably replacement hooks.  I'm always try to put new hooks on old lures that I find.

[shootermcbob]

My biggest weakness is I can't seem to stop buying, selling, trading fishing gear including rods, reels, line, lures, and soft plastics.

 

Is that wrong?

[bwillis]

Baby brush hogs. I can never pass up in a sale or a new color or both.

[clayton86]

Mine would be football head jigs though now I am liking the alien/brush head I haven't fished it it just looks sick I got a whole box of em.

[tylerwyp]

Jigs even though at suck at using them. I just cannot go to the store and not buy one or two more.

[Jaiden]

Squarebill cranks and jigs. I have to have multiple sizes and colors for every situation possible.

[Blues19]

5 years ago it was Brush Hogs,  but i fought the temptation. Now its rage craws

[Jake P]

Honestly? Every. Single. One. I can't think of one because I buy em all. All the time. Jigs, flukes, worms, craws spinnerbaits etc. you name it.

I guess flukes though. They are on the grocery list every Friday. it's funny too cause I don't fish them that often.... I AM the bait monkey!!!!!!

[cadman]

   

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I know you and I discussed this, but I cannot catch a fish on a white chunk or worm. Give me any other color and I'm good to go. But this year I am going to try it again to see what happens. I'll report back to you with my results.

[flippin and pitchin]

Swivels. Can't stay out of the swivel isle. Black, brass, chrome, ball bearing, snaps and no snaps. I've lost all control.

[loodkop]

My only weakness is the size of my purse.

[Bluebasser86]

Jerkbaits and squarebills, and sale items, and lure building supplies, and finesse worms, and beaver baits, and creature baits, and jig trailers. Other than that I'm golden 

[Jrob78]

Probably soft plastics for me.  I have a ton of everything else too but I've had to make myself stop buying plastics.

[Hooligan]

I'm like you RoadWarrior. I have well in excess of 250 jerkbaits from nearly every current manufacturer. Megabass, Jackall, Strike King, Smithwick, Rapala, SPRO, Lucky Craft, Luck E strike, Bomber... It's a sickness. So many of them are just hanging on pegboard in the garage.

The other thing I can't walk away from is Pre- Rapala wiggle warts. I'll buy em regardless of color.

[bmlum415]

I'm like you RoadWarrior. I have well in excess of 250 jerkbaits from nearly every current manufacturer. Megabass, Jackall, Strike King, Smithwick, Rapala, SPRO, Lucky Craft, Luck E strike, Bomber... It's a sickness. So many of them are just hanging on pegboard in the garage.

The other thing I can't walk away from is Pre- Rapala wiggle warts. I'll buy em regardless of color.

ill take a few megabass and luckycraft off your hands if you would like since theyre on a pegboard, LOL

[SirSnookalot]

I buy as a go for most things, I don't keep a large supply.  I am consumed with 1 species in particular and I make my own lures, I'm constantly ordering components.  After quite a few years I'm at the point of near perfection, but the next step is refine them a bit in an attempt to please my eye, they will not catch anymore fish.  I plan on pouring my jigheads, ball chain swivel instead of a hook, I own one that was made up may years, just want to make one similar.  I also want to add some spinner blades and send them up to some of my muskie buddies to see what they can do.

[DelfiBoyz_One_and_Only]

 

When i was about 14 years old I seen a bass fisherman and was
amazed by the amount of tackle he had. That man explain that different times
and conditions the fish prefer different gear. I said wow it must have cost you
5000 dollars for all that stuff how did you do it. He laughed and said every
time your parents take you to wal-mart pick up something anything no matter how
little and as time goes on you will see how fast your collection of tackle will
grow.

 

Well I have not been able to stop taking his advice it’s been
almost 20 years now and I still can’t go into a store that sells fishing stuff without
picking up something. Grrrr what a mean ole fisherman

 

Jay-

[MSAJAA]

Lately it has been crankbaits and jerkbaits.  In the winter I stop at one of the tackleshops (there are three ) on my way home from work on Fridays, I try to only buy a couple at a time.

[CPBassFishing]

I don't really have enough money to have a weakness in a certain type of lure collection, but I guess mine would have to be soft plastics. I have 3 plano 3700's full of soft baits I hardly ever use.

[*Hootie]

Great post. I go through phases. Right now, it's jigs and soft plastics. I feel real good about it though, because over the Fall and Winter, it was

G Loomis rods,......whew!!....glad that phase is over. Uh, I think it's over.

Hootie

[Ratherbfishing]

Besides blondes (and brunettes and red heads), my weakness is WINTERTIME.  During the warm weather months I actually don't buy that much.  I'm too busy fishing (or mowing or watering the yard, etc).  It's the winter when I'm all cooped up inside that I buy stuff.  Lately it's been Rapala crankbaits in their various manifestations.  But if the local store has a serious sale on just about anything, I'll probably buy it.  Grrrrrrr!!!!

[bassinKS]

Mine is Jigs, crankbaits, and rage pastics. Everytime I go into bass pro im walking out with atleast one of those items. It has gotten bad too, the people at bass pro are starting to knowme pretty well a couple weeks ago I was buying, well some fishing stuff, and i handed her my debit card and she flipped it over to the see id part and she looked at me and said "im not gona id you because I see you in here all the time buying stuff" I finally decided that my trips to bass pro needed to slow down, I also lived 5 miles away from the bass pro. Thank goodness i moved to college which is 2hrs away from that bass pro so I dont spend any money while im here but when I go home I seem to always find my self in there...

[Hooligan]

ill take a few megabass and luckycraft off your hands if you would like since theyre on a pegboard, LOL

Not a chance.  They're on pegboard because I donate so darned many to the Esox gods every year...