Your M.o.

[Ratherbfishing]

If some sort of fishing tackle "rapture" occurred and every lure type disappeared from your tackle box except one, how much would that impact your current fishing style?  I'm not so much asking which bait you'd keep or which you'd get rid of so much as how this scenario would affect your modus operandi (M.O.)   I think I'd have a tough time with it because my tactics vary so much from lake to lake and with conditions.  And generally, while I'd try to adapt, I think I'd have less fun.

[AK-Jax86]

I would be fine because I am a bank guy so I only carry what I use and am comfortable with. I would just hope my frogs were left!!!

[J Francho]

I'd have a big problem, lol.

[SPEEDBEAD.]

Would it suck?   Absolutely.

 

If I could still chuck a swimbait, would it suck less? Absolutely.

[Nice_Bass]

Id call it a blessing.

I prefer to use maybe 2-4 rods in a day on the water.

you can tell my day is a bad day if there are closer to 10 or more rods that have been out.

[Bankbeater]

Probably wouldn't bother me too bad. Most of the time I use jigs anyway.

[Ratherbfishing]

There could be some theological debate about this but with my luck, only the "good lures" would be taken up in the rapture and I'd be left with the bad ones.

[A-Jay]

Interesting ~

 

Well right off the top, I'd say a lot would depend on what bait (and rod & reel) I was left with.

 

There are a few basic baits that I could fish in several different conditions (seasons, depths etc.)

 

If this bait fell in that category the result would be, my effectiveness with that bait would improve.

 

If however, the bait that remained was a niche type bait, usually only effective at or during specific times, conditions or circumstances, I'm betting that I'd have limited success although I'd get better at fishing it than I am now, whatever it is.

 

 But there is a hidden secret in the answer to your question.  

 

 Looking back at my angling history, this is how I've learned to fish every technique, presentation and bait I know.

 

A-Jay

[J Francho]

Oh God, please don't leave me with a Carolina rig....

[Ratherbfishing]

Oh God, please don't leave me with a Carolina rig....

 

Ditto!

[A-Jay]

Oh God, please don't leave me with a Carolina rig....

 

 

X2 ~

 

Yea - I'd pretty much have to quit the sport . . . .

 

A-Jay

[tholmes]

Oh God, please don't leave me with a Carolina rig....

X4! 

 

Don't leave me with a dropshot either! 

 

I'd get along with a T-rig, a jig or a lipless crank.

 

Tom

[MacP]

Based on the numbers, I'd probably be left with a crankbait or some plastic.  I have more trick worms, finesse worms, flukes and crankbaits than anything.  

[Catt]

As long as I could still fish...happy happy happy!

[GeorgiaBassBros]

wouldnt bother me as long as i still had my soft plastics and topwaters. i can cover everything between the two

[Felix77]

I will survive! (Break into song).

[EvanT123]

If I was only left with one piece or type of tackle; fishing wouldn't be a sport at that point. It would be something I did because and most likely because I had to eat. At that point I would change my location till that piece of tackle worked.

Being on the bank sometimes it's the tackle that makes fish bite and that's what makes fishing fun.

[cadman]

As long as I have a jig or a good hook and some plastics, 1 rod and 1 reel, I would be content. I'm confident enough in my technique, that I would catch fish and I would be able to feed my family if I had to. You can throw everything else away for me.

[QUAKEnSHAKE]

I would do fine with no lures. I went nearly 3 years tossing nightcrawlers on #4 hook exclusively. Take all my lures Ill go back to crawlers dig them up if need be.

 

I dont fish a high variety of lures, like this year Id put Palm Trees as my lure of choice for 90% of my fishing. Then tossed 5%rippin raps with senko, frog, jig, spinnerbait sharing the final 5%

[DogBone_384]

I'd hop in the truck and head to BPS, then go fishing on the way home…. 

[mjseverson24]

reducing my options would be very frustrating, because baits all have a time and place, so production would definately go down, but I would still find a way to catch fish.

 

Mitch

[SirSnookalot]

This would be easy, I use a weedless fluke most of the time in freshwater anyway and bucktail jigs are my most productive saltwater lures, I could even use the same 7'6 med spinning rod for fresh and salt.

This is exactly what I planned on doing this morning, head out to the icw for some salt and do some freshwater on the way home, I'm taking only 1 spinning rod.