The Found Lures Thread

[fin]

40 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Dude now that's epic, how was even hung up with the keeper still on ?

 

It was just laying on the ground at a popular bank fishing spot, so in their defense, they might not have fished with it yet, but it did have the swivel snap on it, so I'm thinking they did. And you know, snap to snap, so obviously not Einstein.

[WaterOtter]

There were so many people fishing my lakes last weekend that I couldn't paddle two of them, so I went out today (Monday). 

 

Check out the left column - those all came from a single small lake.  Amazing variety - a buzzbait, a rattle trap, a spoon, a crankbait, a micro crankbait, a frog, a topwater, and a Chatterbait. 

[ATA]

you guys are kidding? the only things I found is hooks and beads and used plastics LOL

[MN Fisher]

12 minutes ago, ATA said:

you guys are kidding? the only things I found is hooks and beads and used plastics LOL

Better than me - best I've found is some round bobbers and empty plastics bags.

[WaterOtter]

3 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

3 hours ago, ATA said:

you guys are kidding? the only things I found is hooks and beads and used plastics LOL

Better than me - best I've found is some round bobbers and empty plastics bags.

You guys are bragging, but I've got that stuff too!

 

I lost my contacts for donating it, so this stuff has been piling up.  The store price of wooden bobbers these days is shocking.

 

[WaterOtter]

Excitement today - while pulling a tangle out of a bush, I came up with a 10" LMB on a Ned rig! 

3rd time now I've found a lure with a fish on it!!

[WaterOtter]

 I also found a classic lure, a Heddon Midgit Digit  in really good shape.?

 

[WaterOtter]

I found a complete rod & reel combo in the river today and joined the elites on this thread.   It's a Zebco Roam baitcaster combo that was seriously coated with crud, but I fished out both sections and brought it home and cleaned it up, and it moves smoothly but it wouldn't reel in at all.  The star drag adjuster was the key - it was very tight up against the stop with no drag.  I'm guessing someone didn't know the star was an adjuster because it wouldn't budge, and the other two knobs wouldn't fix the problem, so he/she got super frustrated and cut off the lure and threw the durn thing in the river.  It still had a sticker on it! 

I tied on a found lure without hooks and cast it around the backyard and ran it through the swimming pool.  It works great!  Of course in the garage the lure tangled with the garage door release handle and I would have lost the lure if I hadn't been able to grab a stool to retrieve it.  ?

[TheSwearingAngler]

Found this guy in a tree my own frog got stuck in. 
Check out where they tied to

[fin]

I may have to try that sometime. Maybe you could bounce it off the bottom without getting hung up as much ?

[TheSwearingAngler]

Haven’t been able to check the giving tree for awhile.. waded out in ankle deep water to collect these last night. That soft plastic is a Lunker City Salad Spoon, I’ve never seen one before but I’m in love with it. Check the buzzbait out…
Dude.. what is this nonsense???

[fin]

This is the first lure I’ve found in a while - a Heddon River Runt. Do they still make these things? Looks almost brand new, only the hooks are a little rusted.

 

 

I found two baitcasting combos that had apparently been underwater for ? years. Somebody must have gotten snagged on them and pulled them out, then they just left them sitting on the bank. They were covered with slime and gunk, all wrapped together in fishing line, and smelled pretty bad, so I could see why someone would not want to mess with them, but I could tell they were pretty decent Lew’s combos. After cleaning them a little, I could see one was a first generation 7’ MH Mach Crush and the other was a first generation 7’ MH Mach1 Speed Stick/Spool. The weird thing is one is left-hand and the other is right-hand. They obviously fell out of the same boat at the same time. The rods cleaned up great. I disassembled, cleaned and lubed the Speed Spool and it works fine. I’m sure it’s not as smooth as it used to be. Looks like the combos retailed for like $200 each. I feel for the person who lost them.

 

 

 

[WaterOtter]

I don't find many classics, but I love it when I do.  This weekend I found a 1940's Mercury Minnow, from Grosse Pointe Michigan (per an internet article that came up on a photo search).  It contains a real drop of mercury to make it wiggle extra enticingly!  I can see the mercury inside the partially clear body, and it's moving around, but the amount is so small I can't feel any wiggle from it.  (There's no water inside, so fortunately none of the mercury got out and is sitting at the bottom of the lake.) 

 

 

[Pat Brown]

22 hours ago, fin said:

This is the first lure I’ve found in a while - a Heddon River Runt. Do they still make these things? Looks almost brand new, only the hooks are a little rusted.

 

 

I found two baitcasting combos that had apparently been underwater for ? years. Somebody must have gotten snagged on them and pulled them out, then they just left them sitting on the bank. They were covered with slime and gunk, all wrapped together in fishing line, and smelled pretty bad, so I could see why someone would not want to mess with them, but I could tell they were pretty decent Lew’s combos. After cleaning them a little, I could see one was a first generation 7’ MH Mach Crush and the other was a first generation 7’ MH Mach1 Speed Stick/Spool. The weird thing is one is left-hand and the other is right-hand. They obviously fell out of the same boat at the same time. The rods cleaned up great. I disassembled, cleaned and lubed the Speed Spool and it works fine. I’m sure it’s not as smooth as it used to be. Looks like the combos retailed for like $200 each. I feel for the person who lost them.

 

 

 

 

 

Almost certainly somebody flipped a kayak by the looks of that find.  Mark a way point and scan with 360 imaging for the tackle boxes ??

[Bankbeater]

I haven't found any lures since around the end of May.  What I have been finding are rods.  I found an Abu Garcia Hank Parker spinning rod and a Berkley Fusion casting rod on the same pond about 2 weeks apart.  Both are in good shape, but you can tell they have been used.  My wife asked me why I was bringing them home instead of putting them in the trash dumpster.  I told her BPS Spring Classic!

[WaterOtter]

That's funny we're finding rods right now -- they must be in season. 

 

On my lakes the bass fisherman have mostly moved to bigger lakes with less weeds, and the bank fishing spots are occupied by bucket sitters.  Since the number of lures are down, I've been focusing more on my bottle collection.   You should see my posts on bottleresource.  lol

[BigAngus752]

When I fish the small lake closest to me I put a garden rake in my boat.  Every trip I bring back at least a softball size bundle of fishing line that I drag out near the bank fishermen spots.  Rarely do I find something attached that I want to keep.  Most recently I got a brand new standard Chatterbait in blk/blue that I kept.  I've already put this Heddon Tiny Torpedo in my stash.  The Berkley catfish rod I just left leaning on a garbage can at the ramp in case someone wanted it.  The only things I REALLY WANT to find are the two Wiggle Warts I have broken off on someone's old line this year. 

 

 

 

[fin]

2 hours ago, WaterOtter said:

That's funny we're finding rods right now -- they must be in season. 

 

On my lakes the bass fisherman have mostly moved to bigger lakes with less weeds, and the bank fishing spots are occupied by bucket sitters.  Since the number of lures are down, I've been focusing more on my bottle collection.   You should see my posts on bottleresource.  lol

 

I just posted those two rods because they were pretty nice, but I've found probably 5 or more other rods, with or without reels, since spring.

 

That's a pretty impressive roll of line you've got there. I've been picking up a lot of trash lately too. Hoping it will help my fishing karma.

[WaterOtter]

17 minutes ago, fin said:

I've found probably 5 or more other rods, with or without reels, since spring

Jeepers, maybe the rods are spawning!

 

21 minutes ago, fin said:

Hoping it will help my fishing karma.

I just saw your post about the owl tangled in the fishing line; saving it helped your karma for sure.  Good job on the rescue!

A few times lookers-on have thanked me for protecting birds when I was taking down lures and line, but I never thought the birds actually needed it.  I had never seen one hung up before!

[fin]

8 hours ago, WaterOtter said:

A few times lookers-on have thanked me for protecting birds when I was taking down lures and line, but I never thought the birds actually needed it.  I had never seen one hung up before!

 

There's some fishing line way up in a tree at that lake that I can't get to. It's actually got feathers hanging on it. I think we just aren't around when birds run into it.

 

There are lots of limping ducks and geese around that lake. The old park manager used to capture injured ones and remove the line/lures from them. He got a job at another park though, and nobody else since him has the patience to do that (including myself). The ducks and geese aren't valued, they are a nuisance to a lot of people, so nobody cares enough to do it and regulations prevent them from killing them. I figure the least I can do is pick up line and pull it down from trees. It's not that hard to do.

 

It's not just for the ducks, there's also bald eagles, ospreys, several types of herons, etc.

[Munkin]

Only thing I have lately is snagging Goya rigs with 75 feet of line attached. 

 

Allen 

 

[fin]

47 minutes ago, Munkin said:

Only thing I have lately is snagging Goya rigs with 75 feet of line attached. 

 

Allen 

 

 

A wind-surfing rig?

 

I finished cleaning and lubing the Lew's Mach Crush reel I had found. It's a much better reel than the Mach1 Speed Spool, and I like the feel of the rod better too. If only the Crush wasn't left-handed. I played around with it some at the lake this morning, but the lefty thing is too much for me. It's hard enough for my uncoordinated self to turn the reel, but setting the drag backwards on the fly and setting the tension knob backwards is too much.

[WaterOtter]

7 hours ago, fin said:

setting the drag backwards on the fly and setting the tension knob backwards is too much.

 

Do the adjusters on left handed reels have left handed threads?  That seems funny at first, but it could make sense so I'm curious, I've never tried a left hand reel.

[Munkin]

7 hours ago, fin said:

 

A wind-surfing rig?

 

I finished cleaning and lubing the Lew's Mach Crush reel I had found. It's a much better reel than the Mach1 Speed Spool, and I like the feel of the rod better too. If only the Crush wasn't left-handed. I played around with it some at the lake this morning, but the lefty thing is too much for me. It's hard enough for my uncoordinated self to turn the reel, but setting the drag backwards on the fly and setting the tension knob backwards is too much.

 

Skakesphere blue moon wrapped around a Goya can casted like a spinning reel.  Weights include surf stinkers, nuts, spark plugs, rocks or whatever can be tied on.

 

Allen 

[fin]

7 hours ago, WaterOtter said:

 

Do the adjusters on left handed reels have left handed threads?  That seems funny at first, but it could make sense so I'm curious, I've never tried a left hand reel.

 

This is the first lefty reel I've ever tried, so I don't know if it's true for all, but only the crank shaft is threaded backwards, the spool tension knob isn't, but it turns backwards for a right-handed person.

 

7 hours ago, Munkin said:

 

Skakesphere blue moon wrapped around a Goya can casted like a spinning reel.  Weights include surf stinkers, nuts, spark plugs, rocks or whatever can be tied on.

 

Allen 

 

Classy. They use water bottles around here.

 

I saw one guy using things that looked like ping pong paddles that were carved by hand. Obviously a pro. He was probably a tournament fisherman.