What's The Most $$$ Lure You've Lost On A Bass

[Huntrava]

This story is awful.

 

Earlier tonight, while I was distracted, a bass took a partially tied spinnerbait OFF of my line while it was tangling in the water.  I was in the middle of changing lures and didn't have a chance to tighten the knot.  Once the two of us realized what was happening, he started fighting, and I grabbed the rod and tried to pull him in.  No luck, he's now wearing a spinnerbait.

 

I feel kinda bad for him (a spinnerbait in your mouth has to be super annoying) and I also feel bad for myself, because I'm out $5.  Anyone have any comparable stories??  Any fish out there wearing some of your bling?

[Fish_Whisperer]

This story is awful.

 

Earlier tonight, while I was distracted, a bass took a partially tied spinnerbait OFF of my line while it was tangling in the water.  I was in the middle of changing lures and didn't have a chance to tighten the knot.  Once the two of us realized what was happening, he started fighting, and I grabbed the rod and tried to pull him in.  No luck, he's now wearing a spinnerbait.

 

I feel kinda bad for him (a spinnerbait in your mouth has to be super annoying) and I also feel bad for myself, because I'm out $5.  Anyone have any comparable stories??  Any fish out there wearing some of your bling?

Quite a few times through my life...  what makes me more sick is the amount of lures/rigs i've lost in one outing.  Being a bank fisherman, I don't always have the luxury of going out and getting a stuck lure, and even when I feel like taking a swim, I can't always find them.  Sometimes they're already broke off and other times they are too deep for my comfort.  

 

But to stick with the topic, I suppose around $30, a bbz1.  Fishing braid and hooked up while fishing a dam, bass swam straight to an opening in the dam, line rubbed on the rough concrete and got cut.  I was more ticked at losing the fish, I knew it was a good one.

[Surpriser]

Lost a few $20+ BBZ-1 swimbaits. It happened only when my line would fray after catching a fish and having its teeth chew up the line. And I would be in a school that was fired up, so I didn't think to check the line after catching 4 or 5 fish in a row. I'd cast out, line would immediately snap, and the lure would fly so far I could never find it again in open water.  

 

Matter of fact, had one fish break the line with a big swimbait in its mouth, go underwater and reappear seconds later, jump and throw the lure, then the floating lure was eaten by another bass before I could chase it down and retrieve it. 

 

I learned my lesson and regularly check my line for nicks now. 

[gobig]

I have lost a few swimbaits worth more than $100

[tcbass]

I have lost a few swimbaits worth more than $100

 

 

 

Wow, your lures cost more than my rods. lol.

[ColdSVT]

Ive lost a few that hurt. A lucky craft pointer (my fovorite one i might add lol)

I casted off a megabass vision once

But what hurts the most is the year long total

ive lost probably 20tungsten bullets, a half dozen 6xds, an a-rig, a few squarebills and handfull of jigs this year

[smalljaw67]

Ive lost a few that hurt. A lucky craft pointer (my fovorite one i might add lol)

I casted off a megabass vision once

But what hurts the most is the year long total

ive lost probably 20tungsten bullets, a half dozen 6xds, an a-rig, a few squarebills and handfull of jigs this year

 

I've lost a few Lucky Craft Pointer 100s due to toothy critters, yep, fished a Rattlin' Rogue for 2 hours and was catching good smallies and the bite tapered off. So after 40 minutes without a hit I decided to go with the Pointer, it is a different look that often works and it did work, I caught one smallmouth and the next cast I hook into a Musky that was well over 40", of course it cut me off and the worse thing about that is an hour later the exact same thing happened again. That was the worst though, I've lost 4 Pointers to Muskies but 2 in one day was it, 30 bucks plus the gas for the truck and boat and it cost me over $100 for 1 day on the water.

[Raul]

You feel bad for loosing 5 miserable bucks in a spinnerbait ?

 

Hell, I loose 4 dollars in one jig maybe 8-10 times a day in which more than half only lasted one cast.

[deep]

Broke off a Morning Wood rat on a bass on a hookset. Recovered it the next day. Lost a bunch of hudds, and one Strongbass, but snags claimed them, not my green friends.

[WRB]

You feel bad for loosing 5 miserable bucks in a spinnerbait ?

Hell, I loose 4 dollars in one jig maybe 8-10 times a day in which more than half only lasted one cast.

You break that many bass off!!! Just pulling your line, those trees are jungle where you fish.

Who would tie half a knot and not finish tying it? Sounds like a fish story to me.

Loosing lures to bass doesn't happen often, loosing lures to snags is a different issue, we all do that. I have lost jigs to back to back to back cast before learning to change jig type or weight....Oh was I ever happy.

Lost my favorite wooden Huddleston to a big striped bass when it ran into a steel buoy line cable...dam stripers!

Broke off a giant bass on another boats anchor rope and had another giant bass break off when it ran over a rocky point, both of the bass may have been over 20 lbs. and still haunt me.

Tom

[einscodek]

$40 lunker punker .. last year .. last thing I saw was a series of big splashes, a hookset, swimbait rod going parabolic, something big tangling itself into the weeds, 40# braid breaking off

not sure what hurt more losing the lure or the fish or said lure dangling in the mouth of said fish or all of the above

immediately upgraded from 40# to to 65# braid the next week for the heavy setup..

[flyfisher]

I haven't bought any high dollar swim baits or anything like that so the tops for me were some pricey jerk baits i bought to try out.  Stupid pickerel sawed them right off...oh well.  Now if we are talking about gear lost that is a different story......

[Raul]

You break that many bass off!!! Just pulling your line, those trees are jungle where you fish.

Who would tie half a knot and not finish tying it? Sounds like a fish story to me.

Loosing lures to bass doesn't happen often, loosing lures to snags is a different issue, we all do that. I have lost jigs to back to back to back cast before learning to change jig type or weight....Oh was I ever happy.

Lost my favorite wooden Huddleston to a big striped bass when it ran into a steel buoy line cable...dam stripers!

Broke off a giant bass on another boats anchor rope and had another giant bass break off when it ran over a rocky point, both of the bass may have been over 20 lbs. and still haunt me.

Tom

 

Like this, plus huizache brushes that can´t be seen in that pic, where big mommas lurk:

 

 

BTW, did I mention I just love to fish rockpiles too  ?

[BasshunterJGH]

The most expensive lure I have lost a bass on was a spro little John, about $12. I lost a spro bbz1 once not on a fish but I made a bad cast and got a small backlash, line broke bbz1 went flying. Unfortunately is was a slow sink if it wouldve been a floater I could've retrieved it:(

[everythingthatswims]

I lost a BBZ-1 yesterday being an idiot (not a bass), I cast parallel to the bank, and my line went over a tree branch, so I went to swing the bait back over the tree branch and my line got chafed and popped, water was very deep next to the bank and it was a slow sinking bait. Went back later and managed to ruin my 6' cast net  trying to retrieve it, I didn't know the bottom there was full of snags... Gotta pay to play! The way I see it, losing a swimbait or two in a year is the same as losing a few jigs, spinnerbaits, cranks, etc. every so often, swimbaits just seem worse because the $$$ leaves all at once!

[rippin-lips]

I'm prepared to lose $10-20 each time I go out. Sometimes you lose nothing and sometimes you lose a good bit. It's nothing to lose a few tungsten weights and hooks plus go through a 1/2 to full pack of rage craws in one outing. That's $10-12 easy. It's all part of the game.

[geo g]

Over the years I have lost a bunch of spinnerbaits, expensive frogs, and loads of top water baits.  But the most expensive was a big swimbait.  Down here we have loads of weeds and narly stuff in our shallow waters.  I now use 65 pound braid with the real expensive stuff.

[BasshunterJGH]

I'm prepared to lose $10-20 each time I go out. Sometimes you lose nothing and sometimes you lose a good bit. It's nothing to lose a few tungsten weights and hooks plus go through a 1/2 to full pack of rage craws in one outing. That's $10-12 easy. It's all part of the game.

^^ Agreed. One day I went out fished for 8 hrs and lost $55 worth of lures. That hurt:(

[Preytorien]

I don't use nearly as expensive of lures as most guys on here. Then again, I don't often use cranks or swimbaits, so that takes a big portion of the expensive lure market out of the running.

 

My most expensive though was a couple weeks ago, I bought a Spinbait 80.....did pretty well with it in a very clear pond near my house, caught a few 3lb-ers then a few casts later it simply broke off the line and went *ploop* in the water about 40 feet offshore. I think it broke at the knot, it was heartbreaking.

 

I'll probably order another one this winter, i'm not a cranking fan so I can handle the wait.

[C0lt]

im still waiting for someone to say they lost a mattlures or something.

 

I lost a hook and a solid body frog to a snapping turtle today, missed the frog and got my line. 

[MIbassin]

im still waiting for someone to say they lost a mattlures or something.

I lost a hook and a solid body frog to a snapping turtle today, missed the frog and got my line.

gobig said he lost 100+ dollar swimbaits. Mattlures doesn't make 100 dollar swimbaits, I'm waiting to hear the story of someone who lost a RM mother

[rippin-lips]

[IAY]

If I am throwing them, I am willing to lose them. The worst day I had was when I lost 2 Jackall TN70s and a MB Pop Max.

[starweldpro16]

An X-Rap 10 in  on a BIG smallie. Screw the lure,I want the smallie back! 

[F14A-B]

LC Pointers, Jackal 60 & 70 series... Both baits hover at $17 a pop... Yep I've lost them...

I have also destroyed Dt6's a good deal.. @ $8 a pop it can add up, gotta pay to play.