The Found Lures Thread

[Cdn Angler]

1 hour ago, Fred Allen said:

I found this washed up on shore today with about 6 feet of line on it. Must have come off on a cast and then eventually floated to shore. Hooks are still sticky sharp and good so maybe not long ago.

 

 

Nice find! I've caught a lot of fish on that lure in that colour. 

[the reel ess]

On 12/2/2016 at 12:50 PM, everythingthatswims said:

I've always said that if I lived on a lake and had a dock, I would have contraptions that would collect lures underneath my dock with ropes to pull them up when I wanted to check them

On the lake I grew up on some people would put chicken wire around their pilings to keep boaters from fishing under their docks. Mostly it was to keep people from jigging for crappie under their docks. When the crappie were spawning you definitely wanted to jig around these.

[WaterOtter]

Had fun on the water today and found these lures.  I went early while the temps were in the 30's so I wouldn't get in the way of fishermen.  I'd never seen a hula dancer or a jointed chatterbait CFL before, and I've never seen a jerkbait like this one.  It has big eyes molded and painted like jitterbugs' and hula poppers'.

I'd never seen this either ... a plastic swimbait hooked up on a hook, with a sinker further up the line.  It didn't come with a bobber, so I think the guy was fishing it like a live minnow.  At one point it had been tied onto a line normally, because there was also the remains of a normal fishing knot tied onto it. 

[Shadow1]

Have found many lures over the years . . . however, my best find was while fishing for smallies in western Maryland . . . I got my lure hung up on a log in about 3-4 feet of water. I waded out saw my spinerbait reached into the water and saw a wallet wedged between the log and a rock. Got it out of the water, opened it up to find $200, a driver's license, and credit cards. My wife found the guy on Facebook, and sent him a PM. I sent all of his stuff back. He lost it the year before. 

 

 

[snake95]

I recently "misplaced" a go box with two swimbaits (Gantarel Jr. and S-waver), Covert spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, and at least one whopper plopper, plus other stuff.

 

I may have left the box at a fishing spot.  I actually don't remember.  This will be the motherlode for someone that finds it.

 

Kind of sucks but I hope a kid that is into fishing finds this collection and then gets a ton of use out of it. 

 

 

 

[Bluebasser86]

Another plopper from last Wednesday.

 

A local guy in a FB group I'm in messaged me that he'd lost a custom made balsa crank at the lake by my house. Sent me a picture and the general area that he'd lost it. Took less than 5 minutes after work this morning.

[Fred Allen]

Found 2 nice ones in the kayak today. On a wood near where they fish from the shore. 

 

 

[Phishtank]

Found these the other day walking the rocks. 

[fin]

On 4/19/2021 at 10:22 AM, snake95 said:

I recently "misplaced" a go box with two swimbaits (Gantarel Jr. and S-waver), Covert spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, and at least one whopper plopper, plus other stuff.

 

I may have left the box at a fishing spot.  I actually don't remember.  This will be the motherlode for someone that finds it.

 

Kind of sucks but I hope a kid that is into fishing finds this collection and then gets a ton of use out of it. 

 

 

 

Ouch. My worst nightmare. I've found so much stuff, I know my luck is going to turn one day. I've left my tackle bag at the lake before, but was lucky enough to get back to it before anyone got it.

 

Sometimes lures come back. You may find one in a tree someday.

 

I haven't been finding a lot of great lures lately, but a while back I found a 9mm Smith & Wesson sitting underwater a few inches from the bank. It was right next to the road, someone must have been trying to throw it out the window of a moving car into the lake. The serial numbers were filed off. Turned it in to the cops.

[HaydenS]

2 hours ago, fin said:

I haven't been finding a lot of great lures lately, but a while back I found a 9mm Smith & Wesson sitting underwater a few inches from the bank. It was right next to the road, someone must have been trying to throw it out the window of a moving car into the lake. The serial numbers were filed off. Turned it in to the cops.

Yikes!

I was fishing a farm pond and lost my entire jig box.  I had just started fishing jigs, so there was only $50-$75 worth of stuff in it.  I think it bounced off the four wheeler.  A few people fish there so hopefully it got someone into jigs!

[Finessegenics]

Pretty neat, found this washed up on the bank today 

[Bluebasser86]

I've got a whole pile of baits that I've found this year sitting on my bench in the garage. I know there's another plopper 90 in loon in the mix, a couple Fat Free Shads, an original Rapala, RES, Lunkerhunt Prop Frog, the biggest dang H2O crank I've ever seen (looks like a 10XD but it's a H2O). Most recent find was what appears to be a brand new Sexy Dawg I pulled off the back side of a stump Saturday. 

[fin]

15 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I've got a whole pile of baits that I've found this year sitting on my bench in the garage.

I've found a lot of lures, but I don't think I've ever found any in my garage. ?

 

I don't find many baits this time of the year. This is my time for losing lures.

[MAN]

21 hours ago, Finessegenics said:

Pretty neat, found this washed up on the bank today 

Man thats cool looking...wonder what model that is?  Gonna try to order one for my collection

[Bluebasser86]

7 hours ago, fin said:

I've found a lot of lures, but I don't think I've ever found any in my garage. ?

 

Happens to me all the time. I'll be going through a box or peg and find a bait that I have no recollection on when or where I bought it, but there it is so I must have at some point. 

[Finessegenics]

5 hours ago, MAN said:

Man thats cool looking...wonder what model that is?  Gonna try to order one for my collection

Bomber Fat A

[MAN]

10 hours ago, Finessegenics said:

Bomber Fat A

Oh ok ...then I have that model in my collection.  The unique bill and tail end made me think it was a limited run model of some sort.  ...well now I must go find that cool color.  Thanks again!

[TheBasslayer]

A few years ago, I snagged the first and only whopper plopped I’ve ever bought in a tree. A year ago, I snagged a branch in the same spot, and it had my dirty whopper plopped on it! The branch must have fell into the water during a storm in the year that it was missing! And I’ve also saved a jerkbait in the same circumstances, but it was only a week or 2 apart from snagging it and getting it back.

[Luke Barnes]

I found a white and chart Chatterbait in a tree when I first started fishing. Tied it on and caught my PB at the time! Now i have more chatterbaits than I'll ever use probably haha. Even a dedicated setup for them. So that was the start of the addiction! 

 

A buddy was fishing a t rig beaver bait and broke off. About an hour later we are back at that spot and I snagged the line with a lipless and pulled it all in for him and got his lure back!

[fin]

Found this laying on the bank a while back. I've found a lot of nice lures, but I think this is my favorite lure of all time. I like some of the other models better though.

 

 

[QED]

Found these during this past week.  We're having a drought in CA so the water level at my local lake/pond is down several feet.  Very few people other than me using finesse baits which is why I seem to be the only one catching anything.  Since I started fishing there a few months ago, I haven't seen anyone else catch a fish.

 

 

[fin]

It seems like fish retreat to the deepest parts of the lake when the water level starts dropping dramatically. Makes fishing tough. When it first starts dropping, it can improve fishing, but after a certain point, it dies off and doesn't come back until the water comes back. I've been wondering what these droughts are doing to the fish population out west.

 

It's a good time to find skirts, even if the rest of the jig is deteriorated. Skirts last many years underwater.

 

 

[thediscochef]

I found my own lure last week, about a week and a half after losing it.
I recently use a skirtless chatterbait with a finesse TRD on it (has yet to send me home empty handed) and had lost a larger one on a boulder. On that trip I lost two jigs to rocks and had two decent size fish spit hooks. Sad but it happens.
 
Fast forward to about a week ago, I go out to that same spot which is sort of a cove next to a busy boat ramp. I regularly fish the rock pile inlet to that cove from the ramp side. I went to the opposite side of the inlet than usual. I look down and the lure from the prior week was right next to my foot on the boulder I was standing! Remarkably clean, just laying in a puddle of water. Took it home and repainted it, good as new. Caught a small largemouth on it this evening.

[Bluebasser86]

Found a 1.5 KVD crankbait in what use to be a red craw color but was sun baked into a pinkish color. Worked too hard to get a spinnerbait just to find out it was an Ozark Trail, didn't even know they had them. Also found another Whopper Plopper 90 in the T1000 color that looks brand new. I just gave a young man a couple ploppers because he'd never fished one and his mom didn't want to spend the money on them, so maybe some karma coming back to me, although I don't need any more of them. 

[QED]

At this point, I can fill a tackle box full of found lures.  These are all salvageable by hook sharpening or treble hook replacement.  I've found many times more worms and jigs but they were beyond help.