Shore Fishing With Hard Baits

[masterbass]

I just want to vent a little.  Yesterday I lost a red eye shad and a rc stx jerkbait.  It gets me a sick to my stomach throwing money away.  That is all.

[Mccallister25]

It happens. I dont like it any more than the next guy. I cant tell you how many RES, KVD 1.5, and jigs Iv lost while bank fishing. It's just part of it.

[Deleted account]

15 lb Big Game and palomar return me almost 100% of the cranks and lipless I can't shake free, and as a bonus, sometimes with a branch bearing gifts...

[HeavyFisher]

Ever since I switched to 50lb braid I haven't lost a lure : ) Sometimes I do get snagged and wined up dragging half a small tree out of the water along with my lure lol

[SirSnookalot]

I just want to vent a little.  Yesterday I lost a red eye shad and a rc stx jerkbait.  It gets me a sick to my stomach throwing money away.  That is all.

Never use a lure you had intended on owning the rest of your life.  Last years bait run I lost about 25-30 lures in a few weeks, hope the same thing happens again. 

[bigbill]

While in a rush to fish one time I just couldn't get my casting down. I had lost five new lures I had. The trees looked like Christmas when I left they had plenty of bling. We all have bad days. The worst part is I had 100 yards of casting room with over hanging trees with plenty of room.

With my new bait ball lures I'll make sure my oldest son is with me he will go swimming to get back even a $2 lure he hates to lose anything.

[Fishes in trees]

Doctor, Doctor, it hurts when I do this  . . . . . . . Well then, son, don't do it no mo.

[Missourifishin]

One day I lost 7 lures and only caught 3 fish. I was disgusted. Then over the course of 2 days this week, I caught about 40 fish and only lost one lure towards the end of the second day. There will be ups and downs of course. But if you can't be afraid to lose some lures if you want to catch fish.

[bigbill]

We can't put a price on fun now can we. I'm lucky I guess some seasons I may lose one or no lures. Is there an average loss of lures per year that's the nature of the breast acceptable to you?

I can accept losing one per year. But I have lost more bps topnockers than any other lure. The rapala original floater F 7 in blue is second.

I would hate to lose the $10 and up lures

[Smallmouth Hunter]

Looks like someone forgot their swim trunks.

 

 

 

There are a few ways to solve this issue:

 

1. Weaker hooks so you can bend em open, but you risk having a fish straighten them out.

2. Swim for them.

3. Try letting them float up. Try pulling from another angle.

 

Most of the time when I lose a lure I end up finding it a few weeks later on the other side of the pond. When I break off in a lake, there is basically 0 chance of finding it again.

[OkobojiEagle]

A lure is a TOOL used to catch fish.  If you aren't accomplishing the job with one tool, use a different tool.

 

 

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[buttonreel]

It's worse when you just start fishing. Your knots aren't very good and your casting accuracy is awful :/

[Tylertut]

If I am someplace relatively private, I will strip down and swim for it. I usually wear trunks in the summer for this very reason. I have left a couple lures stuck places and it still grinds my gears just thinking about it. It's just something you gotta deal with while bank fishing.

[Catt]

If I figured the cost per fish I would stop fishing!

[boostr]

While in a rush to fish one time I just couldn't get my casting down. I had lost five new lures I had. The trees looked like Christmas when I left they had plenty of bling. We all have bad days. The worst part is I had 100 yards of casting room with over hanging trees with plenty of room.

With my new bait ball lures I'll make sure my oldest son is with me he will go swimming to get back even a $2 lure he hates to lose anything.

 

Yeah it does suck done it a few times, but try this if you get a lure stuck in a tree. I have one of those telescoping paint roller extension and hose clamped a heavy duty hook at the end, it doesn't have to be a fishing hook any good sturdy hook will do. Just leave it in your vehicle or go back the next day and retrieve your lures out of the tree. Have done it several times with success retrieving lures out of trees.  ​  It also helps if you carry an extra rod with you, makes a great retrieval tool also. Now for the ones that get stuck under water... swim at your own risk.

[bigbill]

A company my son works for manufactures split rings that open up when a certain pound test is reached. They come in all different test ratings.

I do carry a lure retriever too.

[ClackerBuzz]

use braid to leader on all ur reels. it makes ur shore fishing rods twice as versatile. just remove the leader when ur around nasty cover.  and as mentioned use lighter wire hooks so you can bend them out.  just be sure to play the fish and let the rod do it's job.

when you're done playing these games buy a kayak. you're fishing addiction will never be the same

[geo g]

I fish from the bank at least 5 days a week.  In south Florida the banks are full of vegetation and pads.  Fishing a hard plastic with trebles is out of the question.   They would get hung up, and pulling them out shoots them back at you at unbelievable speed.  I have gone to the hospital with trebles buried to the top of the bend several times.  I learn the best from practical experience, sometimes painfulyl!!!!!     A fluke weightless, senkos, frogs, plastic swimbaits, or worm is the way to go.  Texas rig them and they will come through the thick stuff with little problem.  Fish love them and your a lot safer then with trebles.  Keep the medical bill down!

[Bluebasser86]

I busted the lip of a Megabass Vision 110 Magnum at Table Rock a couple weeks ago. Never hit a rock, tree, nothing, just went to twitch it after the cast and it skipped across the top. Nothing like having a $29 stick with treble hooks you can't do anything with. 

[SirSnookalot]

 

 

I fish from the bank at least 5 days a week.  In south Florida the banks are full of vegetation and pads.  Fishing a hard plastic with trebles is out of the question.  

Pretty true for the most part, I lose very few lures in freshwater because I don't use them.  I lose lures getting snagged on coral, open water losses are almost always due to being cut off.  Solution sounds easy, use wire, but wire usually means a lot less fish caught.  The 25 or so lures I lost during the bait run was worth every nickle it cost me, so much fun then.  

[bootytrain]

Ive lost over $100 in Jackalls and Lucky Crafts over a weekend lol

[BigMoneyGrip]

The 50lbs braid helps. When I was fishing from the banks and got hung up, I would either drag in what I was hung on, or I'd straighten the hooks. Spending $20 on a spool of braid saved me $200 in lures.

[AK-Jax86]

Last lure I can remember losing was a few days ago I cast my *** frog into a tree, the wind took it and it did the dreaded wrap around multiple times. Other than that I just lose plastics which comes with the territory. I hate when I am using a new 6" senko and catch a dink and lose my senko, it's ticks me off what a waste

[HeavyFisher]

The 50lbs braid helps. When I was fishing from the banks and got hung up, I would either drag in what I was hung on, or I'd straighten the hooks. Spending $20 on a spool of braid saved me $200 in lures.

 

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[Avalonjohn44]

I bank fish and kayak fish.  My primary lake is pretty snaggy and I fish my trusty LC1.5s all through it.  Lure retrievers don't seem to work for me, and I've tried the extending golf ball retrieval pole with little luck as well - most of my baits are stuck farther from shore than the retriever or the pole can reach...  I have two methods I use to get every single snag out, I've only lost one hardbait in the last two years.  The first is braid, like a lot of other folks have mentioned.  Sometimes you even pull up a branch with a couple of other bonus lures on it... But I don't like using braid all of the time, so my second method is wading/swimming out to my lure.  I have swum after baits as early as March and as late as November (I remember one particular thanksgiving weekend wading into a frigid Shenandoah river after my bait...).  As far as I'm concerned, it's the only foolproof way to get 99% of your baits back.