Most Expensive Lure You've Lost

[Hooligan]

that one seriously sucks, what happened cast off?

Lake I was fishing is known for some 8-10lb Northern Strain fish with the odd 11-12 thrown in. I've caught a lot of 7lb+ fish on Punkers and Triples, and decided to throw the Roman Made at them. There also happen to be Muskies in this lake. I just didn't think about it, usually throw a heavy fluorocarbon leader on baits like that. I just forgot, grabbed my rod and chucked it. About 25 casts later my line went right, I set the hook, felt the weight, and then nothing.

Like I said, my own stupid fault.

[mikeeasttn]

A Sammy is a stickbait made by Lucky Craft, and MSRP's at $15.99 or so. They're really a nice bait, but it hurts to lose one.

 

 

Thanks Bass Junkie.

[Bigbass37]

Last week I had to break of a $27 alabama rig

[CPBassFishing]

$15 bass pro shops Z9R Perch swimbait. Broke off on 20lb braid when I let my friend throw it on his rod. I didn't really care because I never caught anything on it and the swimming action was so unrealistic.

[Diggy]

Live target frogs,boy was I mad. They seem to have dropped the price a little. I did lose a live target crank my friend gave me but I was able to retrieve it because there was enough braid floating, bad batch of PP.

[BassAssassin726]

The most expensive lure I caught was actually one I found. I was using a deep diving crank and snagged up some line and on the other end was a brand spanking new Live Target crankbait. It was like a 8-9 dollar lure. Not a whole lot of money but it was the most expensive one Ive lost.

[Hooligan]

$15 bass pro shops Z9R Perch swimbait. Broke off on 20lb braid when I let my friend throw it on his rod. I didn't really care because I never caught anything on it and the swimming action was so unrealistic.

You can go ahead and send all those you don't want to me. I'll take them off your hands.

[Preytorien]

Lent a $8 Rapala DT6 Baby Bass to our pastor's 14 year old son who assured me "he knew how to properly tie a knot to a crank"......I'll let you figure out the rest of the story.

[Bassfishing375]

I don't buy expensive lures that much because i only have so much money, however i did lose a strike king sexy frog when my line snapped on a bass on one of my local pond. I bought a new one the next day and went out fishing only to find it on top of the water where I lost it. The bass must of spit it out.

However I did lose a Daredevil to a big pike. (I mostly fish soft plastics)

[BuckMaxx]

The one I didn't loose but woulda lost was a $17 custom painted jerk bait. I swam naked in 54 degree water to get it back. only one I had and only thing that they were biting.

[SpinnerbaitSlinger]

Glad I usually don't fish expensive baits. The quantity of cotten cordell rattle traps ive lost adds up and is a scary thought. The lures that bother most losing were the two booyah spinners ive lost the last two weeks. First one was a 6 pounder that wrapped around a sunken tree limb. The second was a four that popped the line as soon as I got him out of the water, and watched him swim off with the spinner still stuck to the side of his face.

[ghost]

Ugh!  Lost 2 lures last night fishing but caught 2 bass with different lures...I don't think that makes up for losing 2 lures.  1st lure was a new Cabelas Swimbait, $7 and lost a jig on an errant cast into the trees.  The jig I'm not too worried about the swimbait was like my second cast...and gone.  A bit of sob, sob; but I recovered.  I could just imagine the fish that Cabelas swimbait would have caught...

[bigbill]

One day I remember now I left 5 New lures in the trees I guess I was in a hurry to fish. It was an expensive day that day. I haven't done that since. I don't rush anymore.

[cbass12]

Lucky Craft slender pointer this past spring. Set the hook on what I think was a smallmouth and line snapped. That one hurt, especially because BlueBasser had loaned it to me to use for the day.

[Waterloo9]

For me just cheap stuff nothing expensive, but i had kinda a funny story that goes along with it. My dad has always loved the white mepps aglia spinner and he went to DSG and they only had one so he got it. We went fishing in little river by where we live and he brought it and a black one that was kinda old just incase he started fishing and it got snagged on anything he didn't see he said. So he casts a few times with the older one and then switchs to the white one. First cast snagged a tree root in the river.