Bad day.

[Kirtley Howe]

Got to the river at about 4pm today. Fished until 7:30pm. In that time, I caught NO fish. I did, however, loose both of my chatterbait lures, my best spinnerbait, one swimming jig, and one conventional jig. And 2 crankbaits. Kind of an expensive day with zero results. Gonna' have to save my pennies so I can stock up on lures again. Total bummer.....

[TnRiver46]

Ouch!!! It happens, I would have given up after losing the first two chatterbaits 

 

I bet you will slay em next time

[gim]

How did you manage to lose lures without even getting any bites? Snags?

[Kirtley Howe]

3 hours ago, gimruis said:

How did you manage to lose lures without even getting any bites? Snags?

I was fishing a new section of river that I had never tried before. I found every snag and rock in the river, I think.  And I am far to stubborn (or stupid) to give up easily. 

[flyfisher]

I lost 5 flies I tie to toothy over zealous pickerel that had bad aim and each one takes about 30-45 minutes to complete.  Three of them even bit through 20lb mono after I switched that to prevent bite offs...they had bad aim I guess.  It is part of the game.

[pdxfisher]

Hopefully the fishing gods will accept your sacrifices and make your next trip your best ever!

[Zcoker]

Dang, that's a lot of hardware lost. Were you fishing from the bank or on the water? If on the water, might want to look into getting some kind of lure retrieval tool. 

[Team9nine]

 

The river overlords have accepted your sacrificial offerings and granted you permission to return to said waters again with promises of a more productive outing. So it is said; So shall it be!

[Kirtley Howe]

6 hours ago, Zcoker said:

Dang, that's a lot of hardware lost. Were you fishing from the bank or on the water? If on the water, might want to look into getting some kind of lure retrieval tool. 

Strickly from the bank. I hiked in to a new section of river and was totally unprepared for the number of snags there. If it had not been so much effort just to get there, I would have quit after loosing the chatterbaits....

6 hours ago, Team9nine said:

 

The river overlords have accepted your sacrificial offerings and granted you permission to return to said waters again with promises of a more productive outing. So it is said; So shall it be!

As my mother used to say  "From your Mouth to Gods' ear".

[Swamp Girl]

3 hours ago, Kirtley Howe said:

Strickly from the bank.

 

Ah, that explains it. Sorry for the losses.

[king fisher]

There has got to be a country music song in there somewhere.

[Bankbeater]

I've had days where I've lost a bunch of baits.  Makes me glad to get home and do some chores.