How much does the lure have to be worth before you'll go swimming?

[JediAmoeba]

3 minutes ago, Smells like fish said:

Btw/ I got 1 word for you... Lucky Craft tungsten mh-2s spinnerbait! Err, yea 1 word. It even comes in its own clear hard plastic lucky craft branded box. I feel like I need a cigarette after just typing that... 

Lucky craft has spinnerbaits?  Tungsten spinnerbaits?

3/4 oz though.  I have those exact kvd pliers...and I am all out of bananas

[walleyecrazy]

I am an extremely strong swimmer, and a former swift water rescue tech. I have swam and trained in some crazy stuff, and I would never consider going in after a lure. The possibility of being hooked and pinned to the bottom or a tree, though small, is enough for me to know that it isn't worth the chance. I carry a lure retriever with chains hanging off it with me every time I fish. If that can't get the lure back then so be it. I would rather leave the lake depressed that I lost an expensive lure than to not leave the lake at all. 

[Armtx77]

Yeah, I'm fine with paying to play with OG Senkos. I'm also fine with that Senko only catching one fish, before losing the ghost.

 

I'm not going after anything that has been in a fishes mouth, unless I see a shiny new Rolex in there.

[jimmyjoe]

   If we're talking about lakes, I might go in if it's close to shore. Might, I said. It would have to be awful expensive .... and shallow, too.

   If we're talking about the Mississippi, then there's no way I'm going into that sewer-of-the-Midwest.    jj

[Bankc]

The price of the lure isn't an issue for me.  If it's too expensive to lose, then I don't buy it.  

 

But I'm not above climbing a tree or walking out into the water.  And the cost of the lure isn't a factor.  I don't like losing stuff, especially if I can get it back.  But I won't go swimming for it.  About as far as I'll go is as deep as I can get with my shoes off and my pants rolled up as high as they'll go.  I won't get my clothes wet for one.  But I will climb a tree, so long as I think I stand a good chance of reaching it.  I like climbing trees.  Always have.  

[MGF]

I've gone into the water for lures more times than I can count. Money doesn't have much to do with it.

 

I don't do anything that I'd consider dangerous and I don't want to blow out a spot that's producing.  Given the right situation and conditions, I go get it.

 

Oh, somebody mentioned swim goggles. Don't dive below the surface while wearing them. You'll get your eye squeezed. Probably just a blood shot eye but if you go too deep it could be a serious injury. You have to use a mask that allows you to blow air into it as you dive deeper (your nose has to be in the mask). As the air in the mask compresses and the mask is sucked into your face, you simply blow some air into it through your nose. That keeps your eyeballs from being sucked out of your head. LOL

[J Francho]

[Cdn Angler]

I went in the other day bank fishing for pike or muskie for a 6th sense jighead and like a 5 inch keitech. So about $7 of stuff. It was hot out,  I was snagged on a branch I could see was high in the water column and more importantly it was so crazy windy that it was almost impossible to fish and I had not caught anything and wasn't going to. Shirt off and into the drink I go. Just broke the branch off and swam/walked back to the bank. It was kind of nice even. 

 

I don't think I'd ever start rooting around with my hands on bottom. If it is shallow i kick the lure or grab the line; if deeper I'm out. 

 

Swim goggles are for lost rods, keys etc. Sadly they have been used. 

 

I didn't know the pressure could harm your eye with goggles. Never had that happen thankfully, but I'm usually not diving crazy deep or for long. 

 

On another skunky outing last week I spent a good 10 minutes whacking a tree branch and got a chrome Norman crankbait. Never used one, but it looks mint.