How many times have you lost a brand new lure first cast?

[Bankbeater]

I can think of three right off hand.  Luckily I have blocked out the rest.

[Sam]

2 times

[Darren.]

Perhaps this is the very reason I fish soft plastics
99% of the time now! LOL

Been a few lures I've lost due to either lapse of 
concentration and casting my crank 40' up into
an old oak tree, or losing a brand new jig to a 
hidden laydown deep in Davey Jones' Locker.

[PennBass]

Bought a $30 Spro Rat. First cast, got it stuck in some low hanging branches. Broke my line by straight pulling, which made the branch (and the rat's tail) bob up and down. Then saw a huge bass jump out of the water to eat the rat and pull it down in the water where I've never been able to retrieve it (or the fish). 

[BaitMonkey1984]

On January 16, 2016 at 6:17 PM, LastCast721 said:

The worst is when your line is tangled at the top of your rod and you don't notice and you cast and your line breaks and the lure flies 100 yards and gone..

This is what gets me. Or maybe me not re-tying as much as I should. But I blame the line tangle. I agree with fishinfiend it seems to happen to me more on the expensive lures. I haven't gotten bitten by the swimbait craze yet so its not terrible but hate even losing $15-25 baits first cast. For that reason, some of these higher priced lures have sat in the tackle box for a few years without getting wet. Stupid, I know.

[Bass2124]

I can only remember 1 time.  It was a Stanley Ribbit Frog.  It was not nearly as painful as the $240 rod and reel setup that went with it (Daiwa Ballistic T3 paired with a Fenwick silverhawk).  Hooked the frog hooks during the backcast on the back of the boat somewhere and when the hooks freed up it catapulted the whole setup 30 yards down stream in the river.  Darndest thing you could ever imagine.  Still hurts to this day.

[Evan K]

It was probably about the 3rd cast with my brand new Lucky Craft Pointer, most expensive lure I'd bought to date, and it broke off in some brush. Made me pretty discouraged.

[Justbass11]

I haven't lost any on the first cast but have lost my fare share that is for sure but it still sucks when that happens.

[Fishinthefish]

On the fox river, theres a popular bend for smallies. On this bend theres a large rock, and 5 feet further down stream theres a tree less than 2 feet off the water over hanging a large area. You can tell its a heavily targeted spot  because it's all different color during fall when the leafs are gone thanks to the lures all over the tree.

[*Hootie]

Umbrella rig. Cast, snagged, gone. My first and last umbrella rig. 

Hootie

[Siebert Outdoors]

More than I'd like to admit.  It typically happens only with jerkbaits.

[desmobob]

How about losing one before you even cast?  Last summer, I reeled in to change lures.  I cut off my lure and got out a new 1/2oz. Stanley rattling jig and carefully rigged a Pit Boss trailer on it.  I tossed it over the side and picked up the rod to cast.  It was then I realized I had never tied it on...   Doh!

Tight lines,

Bob

[PennBass]

One advantage of fishing on small ponds is that when the surface freezes over you can walk around the edge and collect all the lures everyone else has lost on the branches. 

[Pritch13]

40 minutes ago, PennBass said:

One advantage of fishing on small ponds is that when the surface freezes over you can walk around the edge and collect all the lures everyone else has lost on the branches. 

Unfortunately that can be hard in South Florida.

[SoFloBassFiend]

I hardly spend more then $10 on one specific bait, however last spring I got a gift card for my birthday and while at Dicks I picked up a Live Target field mouse. The very first trip I noticed a lot of topwater activity and decided that was the time to catch my first topwater mouse fish. Tied it on and then looked around for my first target. After noticing a small rare stump in the canal I had been fishing I took my cast, landing 5-6 feet behind my target. My first thought was "perfect" placement. I start to work the mouse back to the boat and as it comes next to the stump I see a HUGE swirl and my bait is traveling sideways. I feel my rod load and set the hook. The very first few seconds I'm thinking I've just hooked into a "teener" and it's stripping line off my reel like nothing ever before. My partner then asks where the stump went that I had castes to and glanced over to notice the stump was now missing. After a couple minutes of chasing and struggling I see a dark shadow under the boat. Then I see the snout and open mouth of teeth with my mouse hooks firmly implanted deep inside of a 5 foot gator. Needless to say the stump was the nose of the gator and I had never noticed. $15 down the drain in ONE cast.....

[blckshirt98]

" 5 foot gator"  nopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenope

[jitterbug127]

This is a big reason for braid for me 

[RyanFishing]

I've had this happen multiple times but the one time I remember the most was the first swimbait I bought. It was a 6" Huddleston. I tied it on planning to use it and figure out how it worked and the first cast my line snapped and I saw it sail across the lake and land in the water. Let's just say I wasn't too happy to see my first $20+ bait fly away the first cast.

[lo n slo]

1/2 oz Terminator Spinnerbait, gold/silver tandem willows, white on white. First cast, over hand, sailed high and off to the right, did a few loop-d-loops around the limb of a tall pine. This was right after they came out with them and I think I spent about $10 for one. My cousin laughed so hard he almost made himself sick..

[tander]

I lost a spinnerbait before the first cast. I was just starting to tie on a spinnerbait when I saw a snake coming toward the boat about ten feet away. In trying to scare the snake away, I somehow manage to dump my spinnerbait overboard. I felt kind of stupid but at least I did't break my rod fighting the snake. 

[rippin-lips]

On the very first cast I'll say only a handful. 2nd 3rd 4th 5th ect.. Well that's more than I can remember. Toothy critters can really cost you some money in tackle. 

[Scarborough817]

On 1/17/2016 at 9:38 PM, Big C said:

I cast off my Spro Rat almost every time I use it, luckily it floats.

what line are you using?

[Derekbass02]

I have lost a bunch of different lures before but never on my first cast. I've also never lost one to a pike which is amazing since I have caught pike on everything from crappie jigs to jerkbaits without wire leaders.

[Big C]

4 hours ago, Scarborough817 said:

what line are you using?

50lb. braid with a short 25lb. mono leader.  "Almost every time I use it" is an over-exaggeration, it's more like the worst time possible.

[Scarborough817]

23 minutes ago, Big C said:

50lb. braid with a short 25lb. mono leader.  "Almost every time I use it" is an over-exaggeration, it's more like the worst time possible.

seems like a good setup i can't wait to start throwing mine next year