I Am Done Buying New Lures!

[Dorado]

6 minutes ago, Deeare said:

You mention the reins bubbler shakers.  I just bought 7 packs of them!!   I basically have a bass pro isle worth of stuff hanging on peg boards in my basement.    And 10 rod/reel combos that are $200-$400 each.   Wife doesn't understand until I compare it to shoes or hand bags.   

Sounds about right haha. Those Japanese companies get all innovative and crazy on us and that was starting to be my poison until this nice little intervention thread haha

[Fishin' Fool]

9 minutes ago, Deeare said:

You mention the reins bubbler shakers.  I just bought 7 packs of them!!   I basically have a bass pro isle worth of stuff hanging on peg boards in my basement.    And 10 rod/reel combos that are $200-$400 each.   Wife doesn't understand until I compare it to shoes or hand bags.   

 

Check out those Reins bubbling shakers on a Neko rig. They look amazing.

[bigfruits]

stay off the fishing forums until winter and fish what you got. my big spending is late fall to early spring. weakness is rods vs lures.

[WI_Angler1989]

I've got my Shimano Stradic FK 2500 on my St Croix Legend Tournament Bass 610mlxf rod, a 560$ combo, and yet I STILL can't help wanting a Legend Xtreme.... it's a problem. 

Also, 560$ seems kinda insane now that I typed it out haha

[bassguytom]

I'm right there wth you. I have an addictive personality and have more tackle and lures then I could ever use. I kind of like coming home from work and finding a tackle warehouse box on the counter. It kind of rounds out my day nicely. I keep telling my wife it's better then smoking crack but she is starting to give me the evil eye. She even said it's either me or the tackle. I sure am going to miss her. Lol. 

[blckshirt98]

3 hours ago, Fishin' Fool said:

 

Check out those Reins bubbling shakers on a Neko rig. They look amazing.

 

Bubbling shakers on a drop shot are amazing!  Also has anyone else noticed that the package actually reads "Bubbring Shaker" like it was a bad Japanese to English translation?

[dopey]

Had that happen at my fly shop - talked the wife into stopping and spent an hour looking through stuff and shocked the hell out of her when I said ok I'm done and walked out without anything!!!

[Dorado]

2 hours ago, dopey said:

Had that happen at my fly shop - talked the wife into stopping and spent an hour looking through stuff and shocked the hell out of her when I said ok I'm done and walked out without anything!!!

Fly fishing is my other passion and I won't even discuss how many fly boxes I have. And I only fly fish the Southwest too

[snake95]

My problem is stopping at just one (or two, or any multiple of those numbers...).

 

I try to mitigate the damage by having a policy of only buying on sale.  But there sure are a lot of sales throughout the year!

 

Now, when there is a deep discount in a store I try to tell myself that it's not ethical to clear a place out when some other guys will miss out on the same deal and the baits will actually just sit in a box in my attic for a couple of years.  Sometimes that works.

[iceintheveins]

Trying new things is great for sure. Never will there be a magic bait as no one presentation is the best in all conditions. I am laying off the lure buying to save up for new sonars. Only will be buying what I lose.

[DINK WHISPERER]

I gave myself that talk just this week then somehow talked myself into ordering $300 worth of big swimbaits! I have no self restraint and i admit it......

[Bass fishing is best]

Lures are meant to catch fisherman more than fish.

[ChrisD46]

Let me introduce you to my little friend ... "The Bait Monkey" !

[stevelbuchanan]

If you're not going to cast it on your next trip out, don't buy it. 

If you're trying to cast everything thing in your box every trip out, limit your box to 6-7 lures. 

Buy plastic worms...buy any color...as long as it's purple ?

[Fishes in trees]

I gave up lying to myself a long time ago.  Of course I'm going to purchase more fishing stuff, and not just replacements for stuff that I go through.  I just try to exercise some restraint.   Last week I went into Academy just to "look around" at stuff I might need and I came out with . . .nothing.

 

In a couple of weeks my favorite tackle shop is having their spring sale and the Berkley Trailer will be there and it is unlikely that I will walk away without any purchases.

Last year I got a couple of spinner bait rods that matched my current favorite spinner bait rod.   If I could find another couple of 7'2" Aetos MHxf jig rods I would buy them.

 

 

[Ncflats]

Told myself last week that I was done buying. Now I'm expecting 4 different boxes full of tackle any day now at my front door. It's an addiction...but it could always be much worse. I enjoy playing with tackle just as much as the catching. Ebay does not help the problem and all these new lures popping up in the stores this time of year makes it almost impossible to say no.

[imagine29028]

My first step which I recently came to....only buy baits from a few manufacturers. 

 

As as far as plastics go...is there anything that Zoom or Berkley don't make? Nope...and they are in every single shop/store, so running out isn't a big deal.  Limit the colors to the color water you fish...Green Pumpkin, B&B, Junebug, maybe something red? 

 

Hardbaits...Strike King makes it all...at reasonable price. I don't need a $20 crankbait, that I probably lose. 

 

Hopefully this his method helps me keep $$$ in my wallet and not in my tackle bag.