Are You A Tackle Junkie / Hoarder? When Do You Know?

[Bluebasser86]

Don't you know the guy with the most stuff wins? It's not a condition, it's a competition! 

[Bankbeater]

It's not hoarding, it's collecting.  Like stamps or coins, but you can use them.

[fishingman88]

When you realize that going to your local tackle shop doesn't help anymore....you have better fishing reels and rods than them.  Also...when you find yourself searching for months to buy a reel that no longer exists or very few people have and don't stop.

 

There is this one Mustad hook we use out here in the East Coast for drum fishing from the surf.  It was discontinued but I still think it is one of the best hooks made for drum fishing.  My 2 buddies and I called 70+ tackle shops, searched eBay every day and every time a pack of these hooks come up we buy them all.  It's been 2 years now and we still search regularly and buy every pack that comes up.    Can't let anyone have them. 

[Fishes in trees]

I've come to understand that I could be doing worse things with my money than buying fishing tackle.  Say, for instance, that I collected cocaine.  At the end of the day all I'd have to show for it would be a runny nose.  Everybody has a jones for something.

[Stlbob]

good point if your going to hoa..... i mean have a large collection you could do worse than tackle..I have started giving away some stuff i get in trades.I do A LOT of trades...lmao..gave a good friend a nice BC and Spinning set up last night...now i have to move fewer rods and reels to get to my stack of tackle boxs..

[Teal]

If quit smoking and my weekend case of beer, I'd have and extra 55 or so bucks everyweek... Man my shop would look crazy... I'd have to shop and stare at online tackle stores in my phone just to fight the cravings. If I quit my morning cup of coffee and a red bull every after noon at work, that total would come up to 75 bucks. If I quit going to the batting cage two times a week, I'd have a extra 15, bringing that total up 90 or so.

That's 360 plus or minus for the month, man.... It would probably go straight to the boat or tackle...

This was just a silly illustration of how mind works.

My wife posed the question, what would I do with the extra money if I quit smoking.... Tackle and gear.

Its a disease fellas....its a disease...

And the darn thing is, I still haven't quit any of those things... And my shop and boat still look crazy.

To answer the OP, yes, yes, and yes

[primetime]

I have an Ebay Shop which is not profitable, but at least it gives me a reason to buy tackle and pretend I am getting most of it for free(I lie to myslef), and sometimes I even make a few bucks as I get excited and will sometimes send extras if the guy or gal seems like a die hard fisherman. Problem is, I will order an assortment of 100 lures and when the box comes in, I take out all the best colors, sizes, and models for myself and then when I go on Ebay.....It seems everyone else is looking to get rid of those same Colors...Firetiger can be a tough sell, and so can Red Crawfish Patterns....I get stuck with alot of those, but I refuse to sell any lure when I pay a good price. One Day the 3 dozen Red Chili Bowl DD22's may win me a tournament, although I fish 20' of water rarely, actually never if I can help it......

I need help? Don't they have meetings for this type of behavior? In reality, I look at it as a healthy Hobby and my addictions could be much worse. I am a sucker for the new colors, Magazine articles, latest Technique......Still plan on Spybaiting soon, but if I ever need to throw a Duo Realis because the Spy Bite is on, I will be able to help a few guys out that day. No wonder my fishing partners only bring a few rods and reels, and maybe a pack of hooks......

[0119]

I think it gets worse when you start to build/make your own lures. Not only do you have supplies for building but you start making color combos you probably won't use just to enjoy making them. I've got a thing for trying new hooks too so I end up with organizers of the latest ewg's to trebles to real fancy wacky hooks.

[bartdude186]

i'll admit i have a problem....but i love every second of it! i visit bass pro,gander mt, dicks,or academy atleast once a week ( it would help if i didn't have them all within 30 mins of my driveway), most of the time more. after 5 years my girlfriend doesn't even ask where we are going when we get on the interstate anymore lol.

[Munkin]

When you start replacing new lures in the tackle box that have never touched the water with newer from that year it is a sign. Actually I am over the buying the latest and greatest phases but still buying discontinued lures from the 1980's that I like.

 

Allen

[slainempire]

i think that this site is making me a tackle junkie, lol.

[Stlbob]

 yeah i like that idea.....i will tell the wife its this sites fault.lol

[A-Jay]

If I were to fish only my plastic baits from now on; and I changed the bait every cast; I could fish every day for the next several seasons and not use it all. And yet, I just bought more.

 

I don't rightly know the technical term for this condition, I'm just glad I have it.

 

       

 

A-Jay

[TrippyJai]

I have thinned out my tackle quite a bit over the years. I know what I like, what I need and what works around here. I won't be buying anymore tackle unless I need to replace them. I'll probably try some new baits here and there though.

[SirSnookalot]

I think it gets worse when you start to build/make your own lures. Not only do you have supplies for building but you start making color combos you probably won't use just to enjoy making them. I've got a thing for trying new hooks too so I end up with organizers of the latest ewg's to trebles to real fancy wacky hooks.

In this area we use surgical tubes for barracuda, myself and a few other of my friends are total fanatics about catching them.  Always buying components to make our own lures for them.

[Alpha Male]

I wish I could get my spending down to that figure.20 rods and as many reels in the last couple weeks, just cant seem to pass up a good deal. I buy a lot during winter months.

 

ah...cabin fever at its finest. Only 5 rods and reels here. but I have 14 weeks to go here...plenty of time

[primetime]

If I stopped buying lures right now I would not use everything I have in my lifetime...but what fun would that be? You gotta hand it to the fishing industry for constantly improving and designing new toys to buy.

With Modern Medicine, you are going to live longer than you think....I suggest buying more Lures as I am afraid you may be selling yourself short. Are you sure you have enough Topwater lures?Walkers,Prop baits,Double Props,Rattle & Non Rattle,Poppers, Jitterbugs,Skirted Walkers and poppers, Buzzbaits,Floating Buzzbaits? What if they are Only Hitting the 1 color & Size of a certain brand or model lure you are using and you only have 2 and you break both of them off because you found a school of Lunkers?

Now....Lipless cranks, Suspending and Floating Crankbaits, Balsa and abs Hardbaits and Swimming plugs, Hooks, Terminal Tackle, Line, Soft Baits, Spinnerbaits...

In reality, I enjoy having way too much tackle, and I love running into kids when fishing a pond or lake and letting them each pick out a few lures and they always gravitate towards Live Target frogs, and Sebile Glitter Filled Lures, and they love any Segmented swimbait. It pays off in the end, as knowing the local kids who fish all the ponds allow you access to any lake or pond you ever wanted to fish.....Plus, some of these 14-17 year olds can flat out fish, and I recently met my future Tournament partner who is 15 and could be the next KVD.....You have to love it when he shows me a picture of a Bass that I quickly label "that could be a Ten pound fish?" and the response is simply, na, that fish was 7.5 at best, but I have pictures on my facebook of 10's I have caught in the same pond......We are making our 3rd trip to this pond again this evening & we make a bet before each trip that whoever gets the biggest fish based on the Rapala Formula gets to pick out any lure out of the others box.....I am hoping I win tongight as I am currently 0-2 and lost to a 8.8lb Bass he caught Flipping a Jig like a pro.....I thought I had both trips in the bag after catching solid 6lb fish to start the trip, but He is better with a Jig, and jigs catch bigger fish than my Swimbaits,Topwaters, and Punch Skirts brush hogs recently....

[primetime]

If I were to fish only my plastic baits from now on; and I changed the bait every cast; I could fish every day for the next several seasons and not use it all. And yet, I just bought more.

 

I don't rightly know the technical term for this condition, I'm just glad I have it.

 

       

 

A-Jay

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The Term is "Bait Monkey"...The Bait Monkey is on your back making you buy tackle you don't need......He hops on my shoulder every time I see something in nice packaging....

[SudburyBasser]

If I were to fish only my plastic baits from now on; and I changed the bait every cast; I could fish every day for the next several seasons and not use it all. And yet, I just bought more.

 

Preach it brother. I know that story well.

[Hooligan]

What if you have a credit card designated to only Fishing purchases?

I'd have been boned a long time ago on that one.

I would say that neary 100% of what I buy to fish, I will actually fish.  I buy a lot of collector stuff, though, too.  There is probably 10 or 15 baits that I own that I haven't fished- that were bought that way.  Plastics are the same.  If I could buy Rage Craws by the thousand, I would.  I buy most of my plastics in bulk, and will go through them often enough to justify it.

[hoosierbass07]

I can't stop buying plastic worms. I love buying them.

[Fish Murderer 71]

Since The beginning of Feb, I've been going through and trying to organize all the lures and worms I have. My wife is flat out amazed at the amount of tackle I have ( and so am I).  Over the last few years I've been going to all the tackle shops within 100 miles of me (nice thing about riding motorcycles) at least once a week and going through all the clearance bins.  I wouldn't buy everything in the bins, but I now have three guide series tackle boxes and about 15 of the Plano 3750 storage boxes of every color of the rainbow hard baits.  over a hundred bagsof every brand of worm, craw,tube, fluke and creature. 3 boxes of spinners, two boxes of buzz baits.  How much money I've spent since I started to bass fish is flat out sickening.  I look at all the rod set-ups I have (well into the $2k range).  All this just to catch a fish, that more than likely, I'm going to throw back into the lake (unless I know its going to die from the hook extraction).  Yup! I would say I have crossed O.C.D. line and have no plan to turn back.  I'm just going to have to get a bigger boat to carry all the "MUST HAVE" tackle.

[TrippyJai]

Since The beginning of Feb, I've been going through and trying to organize all the lures and worms I have. My wife is flat out amazed at the amount of tackle I have ( and so am I).  Over the last few years I've been going to all the tackle shops within 100 miles of me (nice thing about riding motorcycles) at least once a week and going through all the clearance bins.  I wouldn't buy everything in the bins, but I now have three guide series tackle boxes and about 15 of the Plano 3750 storage boxes of every color of the rainbow hard baits.  over a hundred bagsof every brand of worm, craw,tube, fluke and creature. 3 boxes of spinners, two boxes of buzz baits.  How much money I've spent since I started to bass fish is flat out sickening.  I look at all the rod set-ups I have (well into the $2k range).  All this just to catch a fish, that more than likely, I'm going to throw back into the lake (unless I know its going to die from the hook extraction).  Yup! I would say I have crossed O.C.D. line and have no plan to turn back.  I'm just going to have to get a bigger boat to carry all the "MUST HAVE" tackle.

 

That was sort of the same thing that happened to me. I was cleaning my stash and realized that I had way too much stuff and my girlfriend was saying the same to me. I sold all the lures/baits that didn't get any use for years and kept a few of the ones I liked. I still get that urge to buy stuff that I probably won't need.

[BradGuenette]

When you purchase a NRX... Just to have a NRX

[SudburyBasser]

Today I went through all my tackle, integrating the new stuff over the past few months in both my tournament and every day carry bags (that statement right there says a lot). I was astounded by the amount of tackle. It was like watching a 650 lb. man eating an entire cake... it puts you off food for a while. I think it will be a time before I buy something new.

 

And that was just hard lures...