The Found Lures Thread

[fin]

Found a Yumbrella wrapped around an overhanging branch at a popular fishing spot. They must have snagged the branch mid-cast. Ouch.

 

 

Somebody did a pretty poor job of running the hooks (and closing the snaps) in this picture from Academy,  but the one I found is similar. There’s not a lot of space between the hook and the bait, and the bait won’t slide back to reveal the hook, so I’m debating whether I even want to try using it in its current state. I can see missed bites and lost fish. I don’t even like a-rigs, but I feel like I have to at least try it since it was free.

[fin]

I’m on a roll lately. I haven’t found anything decent in months, and then in the past couple of days I found these in addition to the Yumbrella. 

 

OG Tiny 4, H20X popper, XPS Staredown suspending jerk and Googan Clickbait.

 

Jury’s still out on the clickbait. It’s different, I’ll give it that.

 

Two front hooks on the XPS are new to me. I guess that’s designed to keep from scratching the paint?

 

[Bankbeater]

I found this Rapala Deep Diver 90-7 in the mud yesterday.  The hooks are rusted off, but the paint looks to be in good shape.

[Peacedivision]

Bit of a bummer with a happy ending. Found this morning not on the bank but in a very much alive and distressed seagull. I guess someone hooked it, cut their line and bailed. Bird was hooked through the foot and backside with braid wrapped completely around its head and beak. Couple crushed barbs and some snip snip and bird was released.

[Timpson]

I have found 3 of these over the years any idea of the maker

[Peacedivision]

56 minutes ago, Timpson said:

I have found 3 of these over the years any idea of the maker

Bass pro tourney special crank maybe?

[Tucson]

On 9/21/2024 at 12:21 PM, Peacedivision said:

Bit of a bummer with a happy ending. Found this morning not on the bank but in a very much alive and distressed seagull. I guess someone hooked it, cut their line and bailed. Bird was hooked through the foot and backside with braid wrapped completely around its head and beak. Couple crushed barbs and some snip snip and bird was released.

Good Man!

Found these on Roosevelt Lake in Arizona last week:

 

 

[Bazoo]

On 7/7/2024 at 9:19 AM, WaterOtter said:

Hi Bazoo, looks like a saltwater lure because of the heavy hook, possibly galvanized finish, and the tail looks like it's possibly imitating squid.   I've never seen these, but I find saltwater lures occasionally in my Michigan lakes, I think because in heavily pressured lakes people try to find something new to get the fish's attention.

Thanks. I've never tried it... yet.

 

On 8/20/2024 at 5:45 PM, fin said:

I’m on a roll lately. I haven’t found anything decent in months, and then in the past couple of days I found these in addition to the Yumbrella. 

 

OG Tiny 4, H20X popper, XPS Staredown suspending jerk and Googan Clickbait.

 

Jury’s still out on the clickbait. It’s different, I’ll give it that.

 

Two front hooks on the XPS are new to me. I guess that’s designed to keep from scratching the paint?

 

BPS advertises the hooks as being scratchless to the paint on the packaging.

[TheSwearingAngler]

This is my most interesting find so far this lure hunting season… I mean how many more whopper ploppers are these kids going to throw into trees?
 

I can’t tell if this is old or just looks old… any input from the crowd?

Anyway might throw it at lunch just to see what the action looks like, not sure if the hooks will survive a strike.

[Pat Brown]

Kind of a cool story for this thread - A couple weeks ago back in mid-september. It was my son Jacob's birthday who is an avid bass fisherman his self.  And his birthday. He wanted to do a fishing party at the pond and we did that this year and I was fishing around a creek channel on a really windy day in September for his party and I came across a red ear color popping frog made by spro.  I am a huge avid frog fisherman and it is my favorite way to catch bass and up to that point I had never purchased a spro frog and thrown it myself but this frog appeared to be unused and had simply broken off and floated to the bank on this windy day. So I put it in my pocket and vowed to throw it eventually when the time seemed right. 

 

Fast forward to this past few weeks and a lot of really big fish have been migrating up shallow and wanting really fast moving small baits. 

 

I finally convinced myself to tie on that spro-popping frog and went out to my local shallow pond and fished it on a really good looking day and had some violent bites that did not connect but gave me a lot of confidence in the bait. 

 

I then decided to tie it on at a spot that had recently been producing some big fish in the evenings and lo and behold. I caught a 6-pounder on it and she literally swallowed the Frog. I had to cut the line and unfortunately the Frog is no longer in my possession but she swam away okay and she was already digesting it by the time I released her. 

 

As a result of all of this excitement, I went ahead and tied on a replacement spro popping frog and went to another spot that's been producing a lot of big fish lately and caught my biggest fish so far of the Fall on that one. 

 

An interesting chain of events spawned by one found lure! 

 

 

You can just barely see the last remaining moments of that spro popping frog in red ear's life as it is going down her throat.

 

And here's the giant a couple days later on the one I got to replace my lucky find.

 

 

It's always interesting when a found bait changes the game for you!

[Peacedivision]

Found these yesterday, anyone have details on the weird 2 piece crankdown thing besides it looking like a hook tangling nightmare?

[tholmes]

18 minutes ago, Peacedivision said:

Found these yesterday, anyone have details on the weird 2 piece crankdown thing besides it looking like a hook tangling nightmare?

Looks like a "Flex-Ike" made by Kautzky of Lazy Ike fame. I remember these from around 1960. My Grandpa used to have a couple in his tackle box.

 

Lazy Ike Corporation – My Bait Shop, LLC

 

Tom

 

 

[Peacedivision]

low tide crankbait finds, had to snag em out of the grass with a swimbait. I think the chartreuse one is a strike king, the other two red baits look like no name Amazon specials.

[Munkin]

Need to get some pics of what I have found over the last year. Since the local Dick's started selling 6th Sense I have been finding a ton of their baits. Hope the 6th Sense lipless are good baits as I now have 8 of them.

 

Allen

[Bluebasser86]

On 10/28/2024 at 11:18 AM, TheSwearingAngler said:

This is my most interesting find so far this lure hunting season… I mean how many more whopper ploppers are these kids going to throw into trees?
 

I can’t tell if this is old or just looks old… any input from the crowd?

Anyway might throw it at lunch just to see what the action looks like, not sure if the hooks will survive a strike.

That's a great find, a pre-Rapala Chug Bug. Those are fish catching machines. I still have a couple and still put them to work.

 

I've been slacking on my posting here, but it's the time of year when I really find a lot of baits now and even makes trips just for finding baits. I went fishing/lure hunting 3 times in 3 days a couple weeks ago. The fishing was good and so was the lure finding. I found the first big swimbait I've ever found, even if it was just a BPS glide.

This Black Label balsa was just floating next to a laydown. I actually yanked a nice largemouth out of the tree right as I motored over to pick it up. It was a little dinged, but I coated up the cracks so it should be good to go. They're very nice baits, and not cheap, so that was an exciting find. 

I found one of these one day, and the other the next, 2 Megabass 110's in 2 days isn't bad.

The 3rd day was more of a lure hunting day than a fishing day. I didn't find as many as I'd hoped (never do I supposed), but the quality was good. Know what's better than 2 Megabass in 2 days? 3 Megabass in 3 days! The almost brand new 110+1 JR was snagged in some water willows 10' off the shore. Looked like someone must have been shore fishing with it, which I'm sure they now realize was a terrible idea.

 

 

 

[TheSwearingAngler]

26 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

That's a great find, a pre-Rapala Chug Bug. Those are fish catching machines. I still have a couple and still put them to work.

 

I've been slacking on my posting here, but it's the time of year when I really find a lot of baits now and even makes trips just for finding baits. I went fishing/lure hunting 3 times in 3 days a couple weeks ago. The fishing was good and so was the lure finding. I found the first big swimbait I've ever found, even if it was just a BPS glide.

This Black Label balsa was just floating next to a laydown. I actually yanked a nice largemouth out of the tree right as I motored over to pick it up. It was a little dinged, but I coated up the cracks so it should be good to go. They're very nice baits, and not cheap, so that was an exciting find. 

I found one of these one day, and the other the next, 2 Megabass 110's in 2 days isn't bad.

The 3rd day was more of a lure hunting day than a fishing day. I didn't find as many as I'd hoped (never do I supposed), but the quality was good. Know what's better than 2 Megabass in 2 days? 3 Megabass in 3 days! The almost brand new 110+1 JR was snagged in some water willows 10' off the shore. Looked like someone must have been shore fishing with it, which I'm sure they now realize was a terrible idea.

 

 

 

Great haul…
 

I find that same 90 whopper plopper in “I know it” color every year at one of my favorite ponds.. always makes me wonder A. Is it the same guy? B. Did he catch his PB on one years ago and so now it’s all he throws?

[Bluebasser86]

13 minutes ago, TheSwearingAngler said:

Great haul…
 

I find that same 90 whopper plopper in “I know it” color every year at one of my favorite ponds.. always makes me wonder A. Is it the same guy? B. Did he catch his PB on one years ago and so now it’s all he throws?

I find so many ploppers, it’s usually that color or bone. A lot of time they’re tied to very light line and way up in a tree too. I always wonder if they were cast up that high or line broke on the cast and they landed in the tree.

[Bankbeater]

This year's haul not counting tools, plastics, and terminal tackle.  The wildest thing I found this year was a fizzing needle.  I'm not sure why anyone would want to fizz a bass that was caught in a 10' deep pond.