Have you ever counted your lures?

[NYWayfarer]

[newriverfisherman1953]

No, but my wife might have 

Her: “You have too much fishing stuff.”

[Boomstick]

3 hours ago, king fisher said:

I have never counted, but I assume others have more than me, and that is not fair. My wife claims I hold the record, bait monkey assures me she is wrong.  

I don't know but I've seen Mike Iaconelli's collection on Youtube and it's pretty impressive from new and current lures to old, discontinued lures, some of which are just kept as mementos. If you show your wife his collection, she'll either never complain again whenever you buy tackle or go marry him instead (I don't know which category your wife falls in ?)

15 minutes ago, newriverfisherman1953 said:

No, but my wife might have 

Her: “You have too much fishing stuff.”

I'm lucky! My girlfriend sees that I maxed out the room on my rod rack and had some overflow lures in an old cabinet the boys used as kids so she goes and buys me a special cabinet for fishing tackle where the bottom holds 3600/3700 trays and has rod holders on the sides.

[J Francho]

[suzuki2903]

no way! because then i might come to my senses and not buy anymore lol

[tander]

I have got 9 3700 boxes with

nothing but hard baits , I am

not going to count, don’t want to even know.

[soflabasser]

I have not counted all my lures but it is enough to catch lots of nice fish.

[Manly Studson]

2 hours ago, NYWayfarer said:

X2. I don’t count lures. But I do know what I need without too much thought about inventory. My mental notes about fishing seem to stick better than other kinds of notes.

[ghost123123]

Not enough because there are too many days when I don’t catch enough fish to satisfy my addiction!

[crypt]

8 hours ago, Fishes in trees said:

No

this......I don't wanna know.......

 

[Harold Scoggins]

Anyone need any Risto Raps? I'm sitting on over 300 NIB. (I'm kidding, they're NFS)

[Munkin]

Simple for me; 1 basement,  1 garage,  and 1 dining room each full. There are baits in the SUV, front porch,  back porch,  and office but those are not full yet. 

 

Allen 

[Bankbeater]

I have 24 3700 boxes full of lipless crankbaits, jerkbaits, topwater, and crankbaits for various depths. I might count them sometime, but since spring is around the corner I don't think I'll have time.

[Log Catcher]

I haven't counted mine. They haven't built a calculator with enough numbers for me to get a total. I have more fishing tackle than my wife has pairs of shoes.

[DanielG]

10 hours ago, MIbassyaker said:

Is this useful for something? Or just obsession compounded by free time?

 

I'm not sure what, exactly, I would get out of keeping a count of every lure.

I think this might be sort of like a "who's is bigger" kind of question.

[CarpCasey]

11 hours ago, Junger said:

I keep them in a spreadsheet, so I guess I do.

 

262 lures, 920 terminal tackle, 798 plastics.

 

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one that does this. I have all my soft plastic catalogued on an inventory app by lure type then brand then color. I can search by any keyword after that 

[schplurg]

Count them? No. Organize them on a spreadsheet? No way! Open them and look at the pretty crankbaits? Ya kinda!

 

I don't have enough baits yet to worry about keeping an inventory. I'm not organized (or crazy  ) enough to do it anyways!

 

Does anyone make a bait inventory app so you don't have to manually type in every bait? I wouldn't do that either (well ya never know), just wondering how you guys do it. I'm still buying mostly cheap baits so it's no big deal if I have duplicates.

[J Francho]

How would an inventory catch more fish?  I mean, it might be something you do, because you like to keep track of stuff, but what's the real benefit?

[RedRob]

I have 8 3700 and 8 3600 boxes loaded in a 7771 and 787 boxes. Then have a couple shipping boxes that have duplicates of all the baits I use most. As plastics get low I restock my box. hooks get low get another bulk pack out. Break a spinner off replace it. When those items I know I use go on sale I buy enough for 10 people for the next couple years. 

[gilkeybr]

It would be easier to measure by the pound instead of by count!  Thats when you know you have a real problem!

[Columbia Craw]

1 x 6s squared divided by Pi to the 8th power...........  quite a few

[kayaking_kev]

I don't have near as much stuff as a lot of you, but I do keep a list of the name, color, size, weight, diving depth, and what rod I will use for it. Most of everything has been purchased in the last year and a good bit of it this Winter.

 

6 Whopper Ploppers

3 Spooks

5 Frogs

4 Poppers

3 Lipless

3 Swimbaits

23 Crankbaits

4 Squarebills

25 Jerkbaits

8 Original Chatterbaits

1 Jack Hammer Chatterbait

6 Spinnerbaits

2 Underspins

20 Jigs

46 packages of plastic

 

Not including panfish stuff.

[Bluebasser86]

On 3/4/2020 at 6:08 PM, Harold Scoggins said:

Anyone need any Risto Raps? I'm sitting on over 300 NIB. (I'm kidding, they're NFS)

You had my attention.

 

My oldest asked my how many lures I had while we were fishing the other day. I told him I had no idea, he asked if I had 1,000. I told him we'll just go with that.

 

I honestly have no idea, no desire to know, it would take me a few days just to find all of them that I have squirreled away.

[Harold Scoggins]

2 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

You had my attention.

 

My oldest asked my how many lures I had while we were fishing the other day. I told him I had no idea, he asked if I had 1,000. I told him we'll just go with that.

 

I honestly have no idea, no desire to know, it would take me a few days just to find all of them that I have squirreled away.

I was at the right place at the right time when they discontinued those at put them out in a bin for $1, now I have enough Risto Raps to last a couple of life times. As far as a total count of all lures, I think it was around 20 years ago I started to count my cranks, jerks, and poppers and ended up stopping at a little over 3000. I don't know how many I have, it's a few. If you consider I've been buying and collecting for 50+ years, then a number like that doesn't sound all that crazy. It was around that time of my failed count that our insurance agent wanted it when we were updating our homeowners policy. When I asked him if he wanted to help me count them, he then said he would settle for pictures. 

[Born 2 fish]

I have 30 3700 boxes full no way am I counting them. I’ve been adding to the collection for 25 years.