First Cast Hookup Using a New Lure

["hamma"]

 A bit of irony?,.. I found this post tuesday, and reading it I thought back to first casts with a new lure success, and remember it happening,.. but couldn't remember what lure it was.

  The irony?,... I finally got to get out and fish yesterday with je1946 off my boat, and not even thinking about this thread, it actually happened. I tied on a brand new kvd deep diving jerkbait, tossed it out there, and halfway back to the boat, it produced the only largemouth of the tough day, just a small one, but one just the same. And then remembered reading this thread Tuesday, and had a good laugh,.. irony?,..or destiny?,... hhmmmmm!

[ClackerBuzz]

I'm packing my bags for Lake Forest, California~

[d-camarena]

First cast with a river2sea s-waver 128s got me a pretty nice fish. 

I have not caught a fish on that bait after that lol

[KP Duty]

I could probably think of more examples, but the slider worm comes to mind.  It was lake of the ozarks in the early 90s, and I was fishing a club tournament when my much older and more experienced boater told me we would be on a finesse worm bite.  I thought 'great...I've got just the kalin weenie worm and a jighead.  He told me that I need to see how his finesse worm (slider) behaved and it was indeed different than my weenie worm.  He took 1st and I took second because he provided my bait and head.  I'll never forget that.  Seemed like every cast the were destroying them .

[YoTone]

whopper plopper 90. i actually caught  one on my first cast, then later on i fished another location and again nabbed one on my first cast. 

After that  i went mental and bought 2 130's and 2 double ploppers.

[OCdockskipper]

On 11/3/2016 at 9:31 AM, ClackerBuzz said:

I'm packing my bags for Lake Forest, California~

The negative is we only have two little lakes & a pond in the entire city and the lakes are only available to people who live on them.  My friends brother does have a house for sale on one of them if you are interested...  

[Bassun]

I've had a few first cast hits, but none resound with me save an old haggard jitterbug of my dads.  It wasn't new, but was new to me and hooked me on jitterbugs for the better of a couple years.  However, a friend of mine used one of mine that did stick.  About 25 years ago, a few of us were "camping" by an old farm pond.  Aka, we basically had a fire and were BS'ing and semi-fishing throughout the night.  Someone had said there was catfish, so we used it as an excuse.   I had my gear, most had just worms, livers and such.  My buddy was making fun of this about 4" topwater bait with a prop on the back.  It was big, black, and cheap.  Some off brand, of which the name escapes me now, that I had not yet used.

I told him, "I guarantee you a fish, if you tie that on and cast it to the far side of the pond and slowly real it back in."  I think I ended up tying it on for him, if memory serves, but he did chuck it out about as close to the far bank as he could get.  It splashed down with a horrendous noise, and nothing found it interesting.  He slowly began reeling it back, and with each passing crank he increased his skepticism quite verbally.  I kept telling him, slower... slower.  Finally, he stops, drops the rod down to his side, and say's something along the lines of "Is this slow enough for you!"... and that was all it took.  The granddaddy of the pond exploded on it.   He squalled, tried setting the hook a few times before he cranked in enough line to actually get any pressure on the fish and ended up landing the biggest fish of the night.  I'm guessing probably 5 or 6 pounds of large mouth, which was a beast for that small West Virginia pond. 

Needless to say, catfishing went by the wayside for a few hours and we were all torpedoing, jitterbugging, frogging, whatever I happened to have available, the top of this pond.  We caught a few more, but nothing of any size.  

[Brayberry]

The only thing that comes to mind is back about 15 years ago I had just placed a BPS order that had come in the day before a tournament.  I had purchased some 4" Zoom Dead Ringers to try out on a local lake.  Tournament starts, and we get a fish or two but nothing special, and we come up on some flooded cypress trees.  I decide to try out my new worms, and boom, fish on my 1st cast.  We ended up catching bass like crazy all day and all they'd hit all day was the 4" Dead Ringers.  I had only bought 1 bag of the things, and by lunch time we were desperate, and out of new worms.  We started tossing out worms with no tails, worms ripped to shreds, mystery creations trying to melt pieces into "new" worms.  Ended up winning the tournament,  and promptly went home and bought many bags of the 4" Zoom Dead Ringers, I'm not sure I've ever caught a fish on them ever since

[BASS302]

I've never caught any fish on the first cast with a new lure.  The best I've ever done is 12th cast with a new lure.  It was the first time I fished using a redeye shad.  I caught a catfish.  When I went to unhook it, the fish flopped and the rear treble hook went underneath my index finger fingernail.  So I had this 2 1/2 lb catfish flopping around hooked to the front treble, and my finger stuck to the rear treble!  There's all this blood from my finger on my shirt and when this couple walks past, I'm sure they are thinking it's fish  blood on my shirt.  "Luckily" the fish flopped a couple more times and made the hole in my finger large enough so the hook (which was past the barb) slipped out.

[frosty]

1 minute ago, BASS302 said:

I've never caught any fish on the first cast with a new lure.  The best I've ever done is 12th cast with a new lure.  It was the first time I fished using a redeye shad.  I caught a catfish.  When I went to unhook it, the fish flopped and the rear treble hook went underneath my index finger fingernail.  So I had this 2 1/2 lb catfish flopping around hooked to the front treble, and my finger stuck to the rear treble!  There's all this blood from my finger on my shirt and when this couple walks past, I'm sure they are thinking it's fish  blood on my shirt.  "Luckily" the fish flopped a couple more times and made the hole in my finger large enough so the hook (which was past the barb) slipped out.

Now my finger hurts and I threw up in my mouth a little 

[Jaderose]

This very thing is what got me going on Bass fishing,  Used to be a "Zebco with a bobber and nightcrawler" kinda guy until the day I found....FOUND...a Mepps Comet Minno lying on the ground.  I tied it (poorly) on my trusty 20 dollar rig and threw it out and started reeling it in.  I had no idea how I would even know I had a fish because I couldn't see anything.  KA-WHAM!!!!  I'm guessing that bass was maybe 1.5 lbs but it hooked me for life.  I don't throw the Minno very often now but I ALWAYS have one on me.  In fact, I think I'll give it a toss tomorrow.  Best time of year to throw one.  I also loved those little Snap Beans.  Love to find some more of them