The Found Lures Thread

[WaterOtter]

 

Paddled yesterday in the snow and had a good time.  I didn't know the Bill Lewis brand makes crankbaits, but I like the paint on this Echo.  The spoon is interesting too, it has a galvanized hook and "Marathon" stamped into it, so I looked them up and their years of operation were 1929 to 1979.

[Crow Horse]

Not a found lure, but pretty surprising. While I was policing the parking area where I fish (always do it) I found a $100 bill. I thought that it had to be a joke of some kind but brought it to the bank to make sure it wasn't counterfeit. It was genuine and I donated it to a falconer/rehabber that had a Go Fund Me going on for an incubator. Last year I brought to them an injured red tail which required transport to Cornell for x-rays. Being in the same field so to speak (we run a cat rescue/sanctuary), I thought it was only right that he get the money. The Universe provides...

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[AlabamaSpothunter]

12 hours ago, Crow Horse said:

Not a found lure, but pretty surprising. While I was policing the parking area where I fish (always do it) I found a $100 bill. I thought that it had to be a joke of some kind but brought it to the bank to make sure it wasn't counterfeit. It was genuine and I donated it to a falconer/rehabber that had a Go Fund Me going on for an incubator. Last year I brought to them an injured red tail which required transport to Cornell for x-rays. Being in the same field so to speak (we run a cat rescue/sanctuary), I thought it was only right that he get the money. The Universe provides...

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You sound like an awesome human!   Great job!   Rescuing animals is the most noble act we can do as humans imho.   

[Crow Horse]

Thanks for your kind words, but I think you're being far too charitable.

I'm just extra medium.....

[Bazoo]

Been finding a few. 

Does anyone know what that tiny crank air is?

[greentrout]

When I lived in Houston Texas enjoyed fishing Monday morning after the weekend on one of the flood retention lakes in the city. Found many frogs, other top water lures and cranks while walking the bank. These flood retention lakes are great waters for the bank fishermen. They even had tournaments. 

[WaterOtter]

Where I lived in Alabama we had similar little lakes which were a dream for bank fishing, 3 right in our subdivision.  Easy casting as far as you could cast, the banks were mostly clear and the water had no weeds.  It was fishing heaven and I miss those days...  That's also where I got hooked on lure hunting.  After one tournament there were so many lures scattered around the little island in the satellite view below that I didn't know which lures to grab first because it felt too amazing and like maybe it was a trap.

 

[Bankbeater]

I ended up getting skunked yesterday, but finding this Megabass topwater took some of the sting out of it.

[WaterOtter]

Yesterday in my kayak I had to be an ice-breaker to get at some of the lure hot spots, and in other areas I had to backtrack and reroute to get around thicker ice, so it was a great adventure. 

 

I took along my 24' pole and pulled down a few I'd been watching for several weeks but couldn't get at.  There's still one that's even higher than that ...

 

There were still a few hardy fishermen bank fishing in the clear areas.  I bided my time until they moved out so I could navigate through the area.

[fin]

8 hours ago, WaterOtter said:

I had to be an ice-breaker

Be careful out there man. That's a nice haul, but not worth taking a cool dip for. I know how hard they can be to ignore, but usually they're not going anywhere anytime soon.

[TheSwearingAngler]

8 hours ago, WaterOtter said:

Yesterday in my kayak I had to be an ice-breaker to get at some of the lure hot spots, and in other areas I had to backtrack and reroute to get around thicker ice, so it was a great adventure. 

 

I took along my 24' pole and pulled down a few I'd been watching for several weeks but couldn't get at.  There's still one that's even higher than that ...

 

There were still a few hardy fishermen bank fishing in the clear areas.  I bided my time until they moved out so I could navigate through the area.

Sweet score.. my pb came on that white booyah pond magic.

[WaterOtter]

2 hours ago, fin said:

Be careful out there man. That's a nice haul, but not worth taking a cool dip for. I know how hard they can be to ignore, but usually they're not going anywhere anytime soon.

I agree with you about safety, I wasn't cavalier about it. 😏   I did the ice-breaking thing in shallows along shoreline on the car side of the lake/river, and I didn't break ice in deep water.  Also, it would be very bad to break ice in a thermoformed kayak, their hulls aren't as tough as roto-molded polyethylene kayaks. 

 

Plus, the lures will be gone as soon as people can walk on the ice to get them, and I wouldn't want them hanging there and luring someone onto the ice before it's thick enough to walk on safely    👍

[fin]

22 hours ago, WaterOtter said:

the lures will be gone as soon as people can walk on the ice to get them

Ha. I don't have that problem, I'm in Georgia. It's rare we freeze over, let alone freeze over thick enough to walk on.

[WaterOtter]

Yesterday I used a vacation day and went paddling on a stretch of river I hadn't been to in a while (left column), and then I hit a nice long smooth stretch of river that I've never been on at all (right column).  Weather's warmed up into the low 40's, so no ice anywhere this time.

 

Notables:

-3rd buzz plug I've ever seen.

-Hula Popper 2.0 - first time I've encountered this color in the wild

-I found my first Shimano lure (a World Rush 56F Flash Boost).  This square bill actually has a piece of shiny aluminum inside which is suspended on springs and jiggles and flashes like crazy.

Pretty cool engineering.

 

[WaterOtter]

I am on a a roll, so I paddled two more river/lake areas today and did pretty well.  Then I stopped by a park on a large lake on my way home, and from shore I found an 8" Yo-Zuri Mag Dive.  This thing is a salt water lure, and it's monstrous!  They must have been after a monster.

 

[fin]

@WaterOtter what is that lure that looks like a jitterbug? It looks different than a normal jitterbug. Nice color on it. Is it supposed to be a cicada?

[WaterOtter]

14 hours ago, fin said:

Is it supposed to be a cicada?

Yup, a jitterbug cicada.  I found one last year too, in a different color.  It seems like a good idea and good execution, except the hooks are undersized on the ones I found.  $3.15 through aliexpress.

[Sam]

One of my clients was a prestigious golf club outside of Washington, DC. I was allowed to fish their main pond for the beautiful two and three pound largemouth mouth.

 

Running the length of the pond was the golf course sprinkler flexible hose that I was careful not to snag. Did not want to be responsible for damaging the golf course's sprinkler system.

 

Well, I finally snagged my new white spinnerbait on the flexible hose. No way the spinnerbait was going to let go of the hose so I cut the line and chalked it up to experience.

 

Flash forward two months when I returned for another meeting and I snagged the hose again. But was it the hose? My bait had snagged something that was moving slowly over the bottom and then it happened! What I was pulling towards me was the white, and dirty, spinnerbait that was hooked to the sprinkler system hose and I had snagged.

 

But the spinnerbait was not hooked on the hose. It was either pulled off by the bass or bluegills and left on the bottom or it fell off onto the bottom by itself and I managed to snag it.

 

Yes, I snagged the actual spinnerbait with the 12-pound fluorocarbon line attached. The sprinkler system hose was not involved or damaged what-so-ever.

 

Still have that spinnerbait and it works fine.

 

 

 

[Bazoo]

Need some help IDing this little crank. It's about 1 3/8" long. It actually has a pretty good action. I fished it some but with no luck. Not sure if it's cheapo or decent stuff, I suspect cheapo.

 

 

Unfortunately, I lost the gold H20X crank. Snagged it under water and had to break off. I had caught 2 fish on it.

[Peacedivision]

7 hours ago, Bazoo said:

Need some help IDing this little crank

The little guy is a BPS XTS mini minnow

[Bazoo]

14 hours ago, Peacedivision said:

The little guy is a BPS XTS mini minnow

I appreciate the help. Nice find then, it hasn't caught anything yet, but it has a nice little action.

[fin]

Here’s some that I’ve found over the past few months. I’m not finding as many good ones as I used to for some reason, but there a few decent ones in here.

 

 

 

[WaterOtter]

It's clear you're not in the midwest because there's only 2 or 3 Rapalas.   10% of my finds are Rapala.  Also, I see your waters are free of Flickershad.

 

What's this thing?  It looks creative.

[riverratryan]

So go back a to thursday, I was out at a local lake, and found an h20x crankbait, well my buddy @Bazoo ended up identifying it as a lure he had lost, so I gave it back to him.  Well yesterday I was fishing and lost a Strike King Bitsy Minnow in Green Tomato, today we both fished and he somehow snagged my lure and gave it back to me!!

 

 

[riverratryan]

I forgot to add in @Bazoo snagged my bitsy minnow with the h20x crankbait he’d lost and I’d given back to him..