Sale baits "you'll make work"

[KP Duty]

I'm a mix of excess and frugalness.  My frugal side gets going on TW's clearance page.  I see baits that are such a good deal, I think 'I'll make it happen with those at that price'.  Just placed my summer sale order and picked up a few that were too cheap to pass up.

 

$17/100ct Yum dingers.  For .17 cents each....I'm going to wacky/shakey/neko them.  I'll make'em work

$2.48 Jackal flick shake 9.8" pumpkin pepper.  Too big for shakey/neko....I'll male'em work on a c-rig/t-rig.

$5.48 Bagley B"s.  Sure they ain't what they used to be, but they are good enough for $5 and change.

Anyone else pick some stuff up they normally wouldn't because of the cheap price?

 

 

 

[scaleface]

27 minutes ago, KP Duty said:

$17/100ct Yum dingers.  For .17 cents each....I'm going to wacky/shakey/neko them.  I'll make'em work

Texas rig those boys . Thats my number one lure for fishing heavy brush . When they get tore up use the bottom half for Neds . If they offered  the hundred packs in Bama Bug or Junebug for 17 dollars , I'd jump all over it .

[Choporoz]

30 minutes ago, KP Duty said:

Anyone else pick some stuff up they normally wouldn't because of the cheap price?

Lots of sharing here about what happens to that clearance stuff eventually 

[zpelletier]

Shipping kills it for me. If I pick up anything on clearance, then tax and shipping adds $10, it’s not longer a good deal in my mind. 

[Cbump]

Was going to buy the yums after seeing your post but I don’t like black/blue flake. 

[casts_by_fly]

I don’t usually add on baits that I don’t use but I’ll add on colors or styles. Case in point, I just got an order yesterday. I had addd some fat Albert’s to try on swim jigs. They also had the tab tail in the same length and the same price. Why not try them too and see the difference. I picked up some black cherry colored paddles for the spring when black/red/gp is the go to color.  Never tried a space monkey, so let’s add on a pack of those. 

[Team9nine]

Can’t say I’ve never done it, but it’s a rarity. I usually just stock up on what I use when on sale, but like @casts_by_fly will occasionally try new colors or similar styles in a brand if cheap enough. 

[Hook2Jaw]

You don't have to make a YUM Dinger work, they just do.  I prefer them in shallower water to heavier stick worms.

 

Me, I'm a man of trying to save money constantly after growing up poor.   I haven't truly adjusted to having a little change in my pocket going jangalangalang, but I'll go to the Academy store and give those H2O baits a ring up at the counter.

 

A lot of store brands and cheaper baits are off the table for me, but I've got more YUM, Z-Man, and ZOOM than you can shake a stick at and exist on 100 acre public fishing areas going ring around the Rosie with 10 boats on the regular.

 

I've caught a lot of fish on cheap, on sale baits and will keep trying them to find the best bass for my buck until I'm gone.

 

My latest on sale experiment was the Strike King KVD Deep, and I had several days on the water this January where I put 15 bass on it on those pressured public fishing areas.

[scaleface]

21 minutes ago, casts_by_fly said:

I don’t usually add on baits that I don’t use but I’ll add on colors or styles. Case in point, I just got an order yesterday. I had addd some fat Albert’s to try on swim jigs. They also had the tab tail in the same length and the same price. Why not try them too and see the difference. I picked up some black cherry colored paddles for the spring when black/red/gp is the go to color.  Never tried a space monkey, so let’s add on a pack of those. 

You need to make another post , you're at 666 .

[KP Duty]

57 minutes ago, zpelletier said:

Shipping kills it for me. If I pick up anything on clearance, then tax and shipping adds $10, it’s not longer a good deal in my mind. 

Shipping is free for $50+....but the tax thing is really hitting me.  Seems like yesterday there was no tax on my online orders.  JDM orders are the only tax free tackle these days I guess.

[ironbjorn]

There's days I'll just take some Senkos and terminal. T-Rig, Wacky, Ned, Shakey, Jig (Senkos actually make a decent trailer when cut down, another good way to utilize shredded Senkos). I'm all about "making it work" because it will, and along with everything else in life, fishing is only as hard as people want to make it.

[casts_by_fly]

18 minutes ago, scaleface said:

You need to make another post , you're at 666 .

 

Meh.

 

Just now, KP Duty said:

Shipping is free for $50÷....but the tax thing is really hitting me.  Seems like yesterday there was no tax on my online orders.  JDM orders are the only tax free tackle these days I guess.

 

Did you know we are closer to 2050 than 1990?  'Seems like yesterday' would be a couple years now that companies have been forced to collect state sales tax on internet purchases.  In theory before then, you were supposed to pay sales and use tax on your state tax filings for out of state purchases.  States were losing that sales tax because people weren't.  

3 minutes ago, casts_by_fly said:

 

Meh.

 

 

Did you know we are closer to 2050 than 1990?  'Seems like yesterday' would be a couple years now that companies have been forced to collect state sales tax on internet purchases.  In theory before then, you were supposed to pay sales and use tax on your state tax filings for out of state purchases.  States were losing that sales tax because people weren't.  

 

June 2018 was the supreme court ruling that forced the change.

[KP Duty]

7 minutes ago, ironbjorn said:

There's days I'll just take some Senkos and terminal. T-Rig, Wacky, Ned, Shakey, Jig (Senkos actually make a decent trailer when cut down, another good way to utilize shredded Senkos). I'm all about "making it work" because it will, and along with everything else in life, fishing is only as hard as people want to make it.

I also rig my used senkos as chatter/spinnerbait trailers.  I'll use my 5" senkos 3x at different lengths before they get too short....then it's trailer duty.

[Cbump]

I need to start repurposing senkos for Ned and trailer duty like that. 

[Deleted account]

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

You need to make another post , you're at 666 .

Evil Monkey...

[keagbassr]

Yea, I've got  a lot of baits that fall into the to good a price to pass up category that I don't use. I just call them my  'when I'm unemployed/ retired/ poor I have to use them' stash.

[Deleted account]

I am convinced I can make any bait work. I have this thing I do with guys who think the bait makes or breaks the day, where I will let them pick 3 baits that they think will be the worst choice on a given day and I'll fish just that.

[FrnkNsteen]

I've got boxes full of plastics that were "So cheap I couldn't pass up". Most have been sitting on the shelf in my bulk boxes ever since. 

 

I try to avoid doing that anymore. Now I try to only buy things to replace items I've lost or used up, or grab things that match a certain need I am trying to fill.

 

For instance, before our last trip up to MN I knew the rusty crayfish were in the lakes up there so I bought a few bags of Chigger Craws that I thought would "Match the hatch" Ended up using them all up. They worked awesome, just not very durable. I just kept saying "There goes one leg" then "Well, both gone,... Time for a new one" Funny how that doesn't hurt as much when you're catching fish!!

[fin]

When I’m going through my cabinets trying to reorganize stuff so that it all still fits, I run across those same items that just sit there year after year that I got such a great deal on.

 

I still have stuff I got at Academy back when they were having those crazy clearance sales where stuff was like 90% off. I don’t regret that stuff, but the items where I saved a buck but got a color that doesn’t work, I really regret those because every now and then I will pull them out and try them, trying to make them work, as you say, and I’m disappointed every. single. time. It’s like being haunted by the ghost of a bad decision.

[zpelletier]

8 hours ago, KP Duty said:

Shipping is free for $50+....but the tax thing is really hitting me.  Seems like yesterday there was no tax on my online orders.  JDM orders are the only tax free tackle these days I guess.

If I’m spending $50 I feel like I’m not getting a deal anymore, and then I’m paying more in sales tax. 
 

I feel like so many people on here (not me, I have no money) have so much stuff they know they’ll never use, we should have some kind of swap, or just a thread for swapping “unwanted” tackle

[KP Duty]

2 hours ago, zpelletier said:

If I’m spending $50 I feel like I’m not getting a deal anymore, and then I’m paying more in sales tax. 
 

I feel like so many people on here (not me, I have no money) have so much stuff they know they’ll never use, we should have some kind of swap, or just a thread for swapping “unwanted” tackle

A lure swap would be the shizz.  I do have too much tackle, but I see all these dudes on American Pickers that have buildings of stuff...old crap they never intend on using.  Makes me feel less guilty about my bookshelf of 3700's.

[Cbump]

2 hours ago, zpelletier said:

If I’m spending $50 I feel like I’m not getting a deal anymore, and then I’m paying more in sales tax. 
 

I feel like so many people on here (not me, I have no money) have so much stuff they know they’ll never use, we should have some kind of swap, or just a thread for swapping “unwanted” tackle

I tried offering up a swap. No one wanted to. 

[zpelletier]

6 hours ago, KP Duty said:

A lure swap would be the shizz.  I do have too much tackle, but I see all these dudes on American Pickers that have buildings of stuff...old crap they never intend on using.  Makes me feel less guilty about my bookshelf of 3700's.

The mindset that was a product of the Great Depression, “you never know if you’ll need it someday” not the worst idea IMHO

 

6 hours ago, Cbump said:

I tried offering up a swap. No one wanted to. 

I guess people would rather just keep their stuff. I’m a little surprised, if I had tackle I knew I was never going to use and I could trade it for something useable, I’d be all over it. 

[Cbump]

9 minutes ago, zpelletier said:

The mindset that was a product of the Great Depression, “you never know if you’ll need it someday” not the worst idea IMHO

 

I guess people would rather just keep their stuff. I’m a little surprised, if I had tackle I knew I was never going to use and I could trade it for something useable, I’d be all over it. 

well I have a pack of 7” baby bass senkos and a pack of zman finesse frogs I’ll trade. 

[FrnkNsteen]

39 minutes ago, zpelletier said:

The mindset that was a product of the Great Depression, “you never know if you’ll need it someday” not the worst idea IMHO

 

I guess people would rather just keep their stuff. I’m a little surprised, if I had tackle I knew I was never going to use and I could trade it for something useable, I’d be all over it. 

Except that you would be trading stuff nobody uses for stuff nobody uses! LOL!

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