A question for bait and tackle junkies

[DanielG]

I'm not a tackle junkie. I just fish what I've got. My yellow perch looking crankbait for example. It looks like a bait fish in my lake. Lot's of them. I fish it. It catches stuff. If I lose it I reorder the same one.

Sometimes, I'll be in a store and think... oooo.... look at that one. If I were a fish I'd like that one.

Other times I think. On sale!

Once I was in a salvage store. It's called Mardens here in Maine. They buy up going out of business, storm damage, stuff like that. A wall of KVD stuff was really cheap. I picked out a bunch. Some looked great. Some didn't look like they'd be much use for the species around here. But they were pennies on the dollar. I've got a prettier collection now. I still only use a few, but I've got a 48 slot box and have filled a lot of it with really nice stuff that may never get wet.