Latest Tackle Purchase Thread (Bait Monkey Victim Support Group)

[thinkingredneck]

Nothing I hate more than a theif!  

[wet_dream]

Received a couple more lures from my DSG order from last week. It's a mix of my freshwater and saltwater lures. Love these Skitter Walks for back bay striper fishing. Maybe I'll try them out at my local pond and see if I can get a bass on it. Still waiting on those Whopper Plopper 110s.

[tcbass]

11 minutes ago, wet_dream said:

Received a couple more lures from my DSG order from last week. It's a mix of my freshwater and saltwater lures. Love these Skitter Walks for back bay striper fishing. Maybe I'll try them out at my local pond and see if I can get a bass on it. Still waiting on those Whopper Plopper 110s.

 

 

Whopper Plopper 110s are my favorite open water topwater bait. Well worth the wait!

[TxHawgs]

On 8/16/2017 at 0:09 PM, bigbill said:

Someone ripped me off when they took my plastic see thru box of $25 each cranks. I had custom painted lures too. Now I'm replacing them. I probably had $500+ in that box. Look out for dirtbags.

@bigbill man that sucks, been through it myself, Twice! Did it happen at a lake near a certain ramp so others can watch out for themselves? 

[bh91]

Just when I thought I was done buying for a long time ..

 

Gander mountain said otherwise 

 

 

And then some other stores had to get in my way on the drive after work 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll be done after I buy a couple plopper 110, jackal lures , 

 

 

 

 

[thinkingredneck]

Went a little crazy at an outlet website and bought a lot of riptide swimbaits (salt water by culprit) and culprit worms, jig heads.  Caught bass on the salt water swimbaits.  Fun..

 

While visiting my daughter in OR, bought maxima mono line and some old cranks I hadn't seen before.  

 

I fish from a kayak.  Thinking about a jonboat for fishing with friends and family.

[Attila]

Well look what I found...as part of my "product testing" oath, I'm going to fish this side by side a Shadow Rap Shad in the same pattern on Wednesday in post frontal conditions.  Should be an interesting time.

 

[finatic]

20 minutes ago, Attila said:

Well look what I found...as part of my "product testing" oath, I'm going to fish this side by side a Shadow Rap Shad in the same pattern on Wednesday in post frontal conditions.  Should be an interesting time.

 

 

I got the perch and halloween. Bass were slamming the perch last night

[finatic]

Bait monkey got me the other day at Dick's. Even upgraded the tackle box...

 

[Attila]

22 minutes ago, hawgwash said:

I got the perch and halloween. Bass were slamming the perch last night

 

Yellow perch are the main forage up here and I've been doing well on jerkbaits in that pattern too.  I'm wondering which one will yield more fish in the post frontal conditions...will be a fun experiment.

 

10 minutes ago, hawgwash said:

Bait monkey got me the other day at Dick's. Even upgraded the tackle box...

 

 

Nice lure purchases, some great patterns there.

[buzzed bait]

had quite a few things come in from various orders and i hit the new field and stream store nearby with a $20 off $100 coupon and a $50 gift card!  was very impressed with the field and stream offerings vs the previous offerings when it was only a dick's sporting goods store!

 

 

jointed claw 178

 

 

 

irod gen 2 "jr swim" swimbait rod

 

 

another site and TackleWarehouse orders:

 

 

Field and Stream score:

 

[RichF]

Decent stuff from Gander at 60% off. Still spent more than I wanted.  Same thing with the Keitech.com haul...Felt good buying it but now I just feel shame. 

[punch]

Gander.. found a Lews Tournament Pro G series RH new in box for 60% off. 80 bucks! Yes please. 

[fishballer06]

3 hours ago, buzzed bait said:

had quite a few things come in from various orders and i hit the new field and stream store nearby with a $20 off $100 coupon and a $50 gift card!  was very impressed with the field and stream offerings vs the previous offerings when it was only a dick's sporting goods store!

 

 

jointed claw 178

 

I live one mile from the original (and flagship) F&S store, and they don't any nice swimbaits like a Gan Craft. Nice find!

[UPSmallie]

 

Not going to lie, probably the most I've spent on a lure   Look forward to using it for sure though.

[Scarborough817]

8 minutes ago, UPSmallie said:

 

Not going to lie, probably the most I've spent on a lure   Look forward to using it for sure though.

i bet it wont be the last 

[MassYak85]

1 hour ago, UPSmallie said:

 

Not going to lie, probably the most I've spent on a lure   Look forward to using it for sure though.

I was in Dick's over the weekend and they had a 5$ off megabass lures sale....I was sooooo close to grabbing one to try but I talked myself out of it. One day. 

[Attila]

2 hours ago, UPSmallie said:

 

Not going to lie, probably the most I've spent on a lure   Look forward to using it for sure though.

 

The force is strong with this one...:)  Now that takes cajones....

[Falkus]

Brother Core #2 has arrived 

[frosty]

8 hours ago, UPSmallie said:

 

Not going to lie, probably the most I've spent on a lure   Look forward to using it for sure though.

I bought one a couple months ago... first thing I caught? A daggone bluegill 

[bh91]

 

Yup .. thanks to that one lure Id thread

[lmbfisherman]

On 8/21/2017 at 1:08 PM, Attila said:

 

Yellow perch are the main forage up here and I've been doing well on jerkbaits in that pattern too.  I'm wondering which one will yield more fish in the post frontal conditions...will be a fun experiment.

 

 

Nice lure purchases, some great patterns there.

Let us know, I'm especially curious since you are an Ontarian too.  I didn't pull a trigger on one yet because I'm not sure if it is really not that much better than any other lures I have. 

[Attila]

4 hours ago, lmbfisherman said:

Let us know, I'm especially curious since you are an Ontarian too.  I didn't pull a trigger on one yet because I'm not sure if it is really not that much better than any other lures I have. 

 

Long story short, the wind really did me in yesterday. Casting a 1/4oz lure in 25km/h wind just isn't feasible. I was fishing it on my 7' MF spinning outfit with 20lbs braid and 8lbs fluorocarbon leader. When I did cast with the wind I found that the fish hit during the very long pause I was incorporating into the retrieve which started with a short swimming retrieve followed by 2-3 quick jerks and then the long pause. What I found most interesting was that some decent sized perch were hitting it as well.

 

After a couple of hours I decided to tie on a Shadow Rap Shad and started connecting with bigger fish using my traditional jerkbait retrieve consisting of really heavy and big jerks with no pause incorporated. I was really surprised I didn't get more fish on the long, head up pause that came with the Ripstop versus the fast action retrieve I used on the Shadow Rap Shad. Ultimately the fish decided what they wanted and they let me know.

 

To give the Ripstop a fair shake, I'm going to try it out again in better fishing conditions which I hope to fish in next week. I'm also going to be throwing it on a 7' MF spinning outfit but will be using lighter line, probably 15lbs braid with a 6lbs fluorocarbon leader.  I'll report my findings back here in this thread.

 

Cheers, and have a great day.

[buzzed bait]

was able to snag a deal on some out of package, but new little creeper trash fish.  25 in total!

 

[kickerfish1]

1 hour ago, buzzed bait said:

was able to snag a deal on some out of package, but new little creeper trash fish.  25 in total!

 

This post gives me the creeps!