Do You Give Up On Lures

[tomustang]

Do you give up on lures you purchase that don't produce for you?

I don't entirety, I still tote some of them around because they might work somewhere else.

[Mckinney24v]

I usually don't immediately give up on lures that don't produce for me. I'll give them a honest couple of tries. However, if I'm going through my boxes to thin the herd late in the year, you can bet the ones that produced the least will be the first to go.

[CWB]

Usually when I hang one up in a tree I can't reach or snag something I cant get it off of I give up.

[Missourifishin]

I don't give up on them either. But they might not see the water again for a long long time.

[SirSnookalot]

I only use a small handful of different ones, so the answer is no I don't give up on any of them. 

[Grizzn N Bassin]

it depends im a junk fishermen i throw a lot of stuff. so what ever is catching them i throwing and what ever isn't working is not being thrown. but for the past few years the pond shave been really liking cranks, jigs ,spinners , topwater baits ,senkos, and various soft plastics. i carry those all the time ... never leave them home then ill have a plano of new baits i want to try and i try them . I never give up on a bait i think should produce for me. 

[BrianinMD]

I takes a while for me to completely give up on a specific bait, but there are a few that don't see water very often. Some I don't have confidence in but others I fish with do well with them. I will keep them around and if what I am trying is not working I will give them another shot.

[Hyrule Bass]

i have lures ive given up on for awhile but tried again later when nothing else was working to have successful results. like the rapala husky jerk, had all but given up on it about 4 years ago, it was my only jerk bait at the time. tried it in cold water in february and caught two bass back to back, one a 4lber. my first winter time bass and have caught more since then on the husky jerk. same thing with a jitterbug till last year i caught my first fish on one, in the middle of the afternoon under a dock. now if i could just get a pop-r bite, never caught a fish on one, so now i rarely even tie one on.

[tholmes]

I guess that I have a stubborn streak when it comes to lures. I won't ever completely abandon a lure unless I've fished it in a wide variety of situations over several seasons. If it's consistently non-productive, it goes in the box on the shelf labeled "Garage Sale Stuff".

 

Tom

[Raul]

No, I do not give up on lures, how can I give up on something I haven´t tried ? hundreds of baits I own haven´t been tried yet, so ....well, I don´t know if they work !

[Avalonjohn44]

I am pretty quick to abandon a bait and not pick it up again until next season.  Work, kids and wife, I have limited time to fish and I become impatient if something is not producing and I think something else will.

[Wbeadlescomb]

Man I give up on baits that I know work not entirely sure why. I used to throw a Carolina rig with a lizard all the time. I tied one on earlier to throw tomorrow because I found a couple of packs of elaztec lizards that are supposed to float. Haven't thrown one in atleast a year or two. The football jig replaced it for me little but better quality fish atleast that's what it seems like.

[dfris]

Yea, I give up pretty quick to be honest. I have my core, and If a new lure cant produce what I feel is equal to my core lures, Its gone. Example, I purchased one of those Skeet Reese square bills. I throwed that sucker a million times. I didn't catch a thing on that lure. Picked up a core kvd 1.5 and bam, fish on. That $15 lure was a waste of money for me. Not saying its a bad lure, but for me and my techniques it is. Also for what ever reason Rapalas do not work for me either. A lot of people love them, but for what ever reason I cant get them to work for me.  

[Fish Murderer 71]

I don't, cause I'll throw different lures till I find one that works.  Yesterday I spent the entire morning going up and down a wind blown point went through Jigs, worms, cranks, rattle traps, and a spinner bait, and finally caught one with a chatter bait. So then I tried for about an hour with no more luck and switched to a rouge- in about 2 hours I had caught 26 bass with 4 being hybrids.  Next time I may not catch a thing with the rouge and fill the boat with something else.  NEVER BE CLOSED MINDED TO ANY BAIT!  .be willing to try anything, cause the bass will only bite on what THEY want, not on what I want to throw

[tommiller76]

Rarely do I buy something that I do not think will catch fish or that I am just going to forget about and give up, especially with the prices nowadays. With that in mind when I do swing and miss I always carry them for the rare occasion when they may produce but mostly I always keep a few of these in my bag for the less fortunate kids in my area. Far to often I see kids fishing with very bad to absolutely horrible tackle and lures and nothing compares to that kids face when you give them a new lure for their tackle box. When you do something like this you may just change that kids life forever.

Good luck and be dafe...

[s freud]

I've come back to a tree, climbed it with a saw and cut down a small branch to get back a good lure that is working for me... But in general, I don't give up as early as I should on lures.

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Usually when I hang one up in a tree I can't reach or snag something I cant get it off of I give up.

[Darren.]

I've abandoned some that I could never get a bite on... Just didn't want to waste time throwing over and over when it wouldn't produce. I'm all about catching...so I switched to soft plastics for most everything.

[papajoe222]

I've had a Lucky 13 for 30+ years that I've never caught a fish on.  I still haven't given up on it.  I have, however given up on my HulaPopper collection which I donated to the recycling bin a season or two ago.

[Jeff H]

I have a "wall of shame" above one of the benches in my basement workshop.  Some lures just don't produce as well as others and I don't fight it.

[Raul]

I've had a Lucky 13 for 30+ years that I've never caught a fish on.  I still haven't given up on it.  I have, however given up on my HulaPopper collection which I donated to the recycling bin a season or two ago.

 

One man´s trash, another man´s treasure; I´ve caught hundreds of fish on Hula Poppers, my only beef are the hooks ( factory hooks are trash ) and the rubber skirt, which I think the lure doesn´t really need.

[Hooligan]

. but for the past few years the pond shave been really liking cranks, jigs ,spinners , topwater baits ,senkos, and various soft plastics. i carry those all the time ...

So what you're saying is the past few years, ponds have bass in them that act like bass?  I mean, that's a general bass fishing assortment right there in the list form, really.

 

Do I give up on baits?  Generally no, because I wouldn't have bought them in the first place.  Rarely do I pick up new "trial" baits to fish unless it is specifically to execute that bait in certain situations.  I rarely buy the latest and greatest to play with "just because".  Have i given up on a particular bait because of other reasons? Absolutely.  Durability compared to catch rate.  Fishability, or over-all quality.

[Grizzn N Bassin]

So what you're saying is the past few years, ponds have bass in them that act like bass?  I mean, that's a general bass fishing assortment right there in the list form, really.

 

Do I give up on baits?  Generally no, because I wouldn't have bought them in the first place.  Rarely do I pick up new "trial" baits to fish unless it is specifically to execute that bait in certain situations.  I rarely buy the latest and greatest to play with "just because".  Have i given up on a particular bait because of other reasons? Absolutely.  Durability compared to catch rate.  Fishability, or over-all quality.

yeah they act like bass! im saying the list of baits i provided is where i stay and don't get to complicated,  if i do get new baits i want to try i do. I'll throw it when i think it will work. i dont pick up the newest and greatest lures that's just silly. yesterday i went and got a bunch of beetle spins  But my weakness is soft plastics ill buy them whenever for no reason.

[WIGuide]

I won't usually give up on something unless it's not what I thought it was. If I buy a bait that has horrible action or at least not what I was looking for I'll throw it a bit but if it doesn't produce it usually gets parked. I also have some baits that I bought as a kid just because I needed more of "_______" but couldn't afford something decent. I have some of those that I've given up on.

[Bankbeater]

I think that any bait will work given the correct time and place.  I have some baits that haven't been in the water for a couple of years, but I still use them every once in a while.

[Deleted account]

I pretty much fish 1 to 3 baits per season/conditions/location (sometimes 4), so if I give up, i gotta go home, so no.