I HATE LOSING LURES!!!!

[ghost]

My Momma always told me not to "hate"...but today HATE was the main theme!

Especially beginning of the season & I just bought them yesterday.  I bought a couple of the Xcalibur One Knocker in royal red & royal shad.  Great looking colors.

First I lose the royal red when I made a cast w/ my Curado 201D & the wind comes up out of nowhere & my braided line digs into itself...& SNAPS..while the lure goes sailing...& I'm dumbfounded...$10 down the drain!

Later on, I thought I'd press my luck & use the royal shad.  Casted parallel to shore & once again the wind come out of nowhere & some of my line get caught on a branch from a tree on by the side of the channel.  I was able to flip the lure on this branch, but did not see that the line was caught on the other branches.  I tried & finesse the lure from the branches but it just got worse, so I tugged on it & there my lure...tangled up in the branches & I'm now out $20....

I HATE FISHING!!!!  Well for today, I hate fishing w/ the wind gusting up when it feels like it...like when my lures are sailikng through.

I did catch a couple bass, but that doesn't make it right for losing $20.  I guess I have to just look at it as sacrificing a couple expensive lure to the fishing gods for a good fishing season for me.

You guys lose any expensive lures lately????

I'm ticked, now I HAVE to replace those 2 next time I go to Cabelas...I really hate fishing...for today.  

[jjbassjj]

i lost my bluegill colored aruka shad(7.99) yesterday...and had to retie with a color im not confident with...and killed them on it.

I lose quite a bit of lures....thats why i try not to spend more than 10 dollars on a bait lol

[Del from philly]

YES, i have lost some...

before the season even started (3 months ago) i was throwing an x-rap, just practicing working it while the water vegitation is low....

anyway, the d**n thing split on the bottom coming off a hang-up and the wire came out. I tryed to keep using it but the boyancy was gone, and hooks were hanging from a wire...NO GOOD!

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Man sounds like one of those days,just like 2 of them I had last week.

Accidentally smacked my parrot dt4 on my trolling motor in my haste to hit some bass I seen bustin a little ways off.Splinters!

 So I tied on my spare...Had a nice little football on the line and my hook ripped free and the bait smacked the side of the boat.Lip came off the bait.There goes another 7.99.

 I had other bright colored cranks but couldnt get a bite since that parrot one is my bread and butter in the stained water I was fishing.

The day after I was casting a SK king shad that I just finished painting and detailing the way I wanted it.A couple casts in somehow my line wrapped in my rod tip during a long bomb cast and needless to say the king shad sailed off into the horizon somewhere to be found by aliens on some distant world light years away.There goes 20 bucks plus my time painting it.INFURIATING!

[skillet]

 Thank the Lords of Fishing, nothing lately!!! I'm probably one of only several folks with the ability to lose a "snagless" rubber frog . Yep, been there done that.

 Fishing from the bank mostly is one of the reasons I'm not just great with crankbaits. In my younger days when I just knew that if not immortal I was pretty close to invincible (have sinced learned differently ), I would get wet over a snagged lure. Folks hate loseing Lucky Crafts, I get my bowels in an uproar over a Rapala!!!

                                 As Ever,

                                  skillet

[Shad_Master]

Last trip of the season last year, I was fishing with a guy that is always complaining about the cost of lures - he had just bought his first ever Lucky Craft CB and decided to give it a try on a submerged rock ledge.  He hooked into a fish that immediately pulled him into a brush pile and wrapped him up - he tried for several minutes to get the fish out when his line broke - he tied on a Crank Bait that was probably 20 years old and fished for the rest of the day (caught fish) but never got hung up - ain't it always the way.

[guitarkid]

I have lost my favorite 3 lures. First I lost my Rapala Long Cast Minnow, Then went to re-buy it , and they do not make them anymore, at least I could not find them. The other lure I lost was my pop-r that I got for christmas. I was just popping along then reeled in and casted it again, then the Stren line broke, the only thing it is good for. Once is bad enough, but twice? Same thing happened had my other all time favorite worm on, A Yum big show paddle worm on a gammie hook. I almost cried when I lost that one. I only had 5 of them (4 currently) I caught them at the Dick's booth at the expo.

Since I have re-bought the pop-r, And tried to replace the minnow but it is just not the same. By the way this is all since Jan. 1

-sorry to be long winded but '08 is not that good to me so far

              -searoach

[Guest muddy]

Geezzz Ghost, last week you purchased enough rods and reels to open a small tackle shop, now your complaing about loosing a 12 buck lure! Just bustin em  

[cbfishalot]

My first time out this year was a couple weeks ago.  I was fishing a tournament on lake Amistad.  The time I was on the water I lost 1 Lucky Craft Pointer, 1 Lucky Craft RC 1.5,  1 Hard Core lipless crankbait,  1 Rattletrap, a couple of jigs, 2 Tru Tungston sinkers, a couple of hooks either lost or straightend,  and a handful of plastics.  Well, it adds up to over $50.00.  But I really don't care because thats fishing and I could spend that in a bar in a couple of hours easy and I weighted in over 27lb on day one and that makes losing a couple of lures not so bad.

[.dsaavedra.]

...Well, it adds up to over $50.00. But I really don't care because thats fishing and I could spend that in a bar in a couple of hours easy and I weighted in over 27lb on day one and that makes losing a couple of lures not so bad.

GREAT WAY OF PUTTING IT!!!!

thankfully i dont lose too many lures :-? just doesnt seem to happen to me. pretty much the only time i lose lures is if im fishing from shore or if i cast into a tree. otherwise if im in my boat i can drive over to the lure and then drive the opposite direction that it got snagged and the lure will pop free.

i remember once my dad was fishing one of my shad raps and it was a discontinued color, and he got snagged and went to back up the boat and his line went under the boat and the t-motor sliced right thru the line and my lure is still at the bottom of jameson lake :-[ i was pretty P.O.'d about that one.

[BassFishingMachine]

Well I am a shore fisherman, so I feel your pain. This time of the year, particularly January - Mid April seems to be the most frustrating time of the year (at least for me) for bass fishing, the fish aren't usually biting well, you lose alot of lures trying to cast extremely close to stick piles, and cover, because the fish just aren't biting anywhere else, which makes you become a extremist. I just don't like these months for fishing.. but it beats stayin home.

I wouldn't say its been "too bad" so far for me, since January - now, I have lost a expensive jig (6$) I lost it on a stick pile, I thought I felt a tap, and set the hook, and it was a stickfish , that one I got pretty sad about, such a beautiful jig, it was a real tiny football jig in 5/16 ounce, smallest I found for football jigs, It was black/blue, I do have one left though in grn pumpkin . I also lost 2 rapala husky jerks, one on a winded cast like you described, where it got caught on a branch, and the other a nice pickerel grabbed, and swallowed the thing, resulting in a line snap when I set the hook >. I got the last laugh though, cause if im correct swallowing rapalas I'snt good for your health  , mwhaha.

What can you do man, its just part of fishing. Like they say, if your either not fishing in the right place, or your not tryin hard enough , thats the way I look at it . But the "sacrafice to the fishing god" is a good way to look at it too, haha. Wonder who created those 2 sayings I listed... probably the bait companies lol.

[norm2525]

Probably my worst luck of losing lures was last year. I lost two LC staysees in the first twenty minutes. Then he tells me " that might be where I sank those brush piles." information that would have been useful after I lost the first one. Oh well, it turned into a heck of day. Caught my PB kentucky and hybrid. So you win some, you lose some.

[LCpointerKILLA]

I lost a megabass vision 110 in this blueish green color I had for a year, a couple weeks ago from nicked line. My line was nicked several feet up from the lure. I was just about as mad as you are

[burleytog]

If you aren't willing to lose it, don't fish it.

[ghost]

Muddy, yup I was telling ya'll 'bout the rods & reels I bought.

I had some left over cashola so I bought the One Knockers, only to lose both in less than an hour.  Should've known after I lost the first one NOT to throw the other one I had.

Live & learn...but then I thought that I would freak out if I lost one of my new rods or reels to something really stupid.  I know a lure is a lure, but it fishing isn't all that w/o out the lures.

I did learn a lesson, NOT to buy anymore expensive lures.

[BASS fisherman]

If you aren't willing to lose it, don't fish it.

Bingo!!!

[Vyron]

I did learn a lesson, NOT to buy anymore expensive lures.

I told this 2 my self many times , but ...

I keep on buying expensive tackle all the time

[Grey Wolf]

If you're not loosing lures  , you're not fishin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Catt]

You have 2 choices to make; lures in your tackle box or bass in your live well

You can't have both

[rondef]

I have been told that you  aren't fishing unless you loose a lure or two.  I also hate loosing lures but it happens to us all.

[Tokyo Tony]

I also hate losing lures, but it comes with the territory.

I currently have three "outstanding" jerkbaits that I lost but I know exactly where they are.

1. Last week made a foul cast, lost a LC Pointer 78 in a tree, but I know exactly where it is and plan on getting it when I fish the pond in my pontoon (by the way it took a lot of strength to snap that freakin' Yo-Zuri Ultrasoft line, 12 lb test - that stuff is strong).

2. Last fall lost my favorite LC Pointer on a laydown while shorefishing.  I had caught 100+ fish on the lure, and it was the very first LC bait I ever bought - size 78, Chartreuse Shad, bought at Dick's before they stopped carrying the brand.  I'd changed the hooks on it at least three times.  I know exactly where that laydown is in NH, and will fetch it next time I'm up that way.  It is probably destroyed because of the long winter, but at least I'll get it back for memory's sake, or maybe it will adorn my keychain in the future.

3. Same pond in NH, lost a white X-Rap on a different laydown, but I will get that one as well next time I'm up that way.

Last spring I lost a chatterbait on that same pond on yet a different laydown, and several months later I retrieved it from the tree, even though it was covered in algae.  It's still in my tacklebox  ;D

[Tokyo Tony]

You have 2 choices to make; lures in you tackle box or bass in your live well

You can't have both

There is a third option: learn how to cast.

Just kidding  ;D

[SV1000]

Man I used to love summers on Amistad. Some years the water was high, sometimes it was low, during the low years me and my grandpa would motor around after running our trotlines looking for baits that were previously underwater.  

Every year I came home with a few...sometimes I hit gold and found a Big "O"  8-)

Can you guess the era???

My first time out on Gibbons Creek I lost one of my favorite Baby 1-Minus but I shrugged it off. And an hour later, as I'm idling by a tree I see a Bandit, not 7' off the water...now it' in my box. I am puzzled why the person didn't retrieve the lure. The only thing that comes to mind is they were in a kayak.

[Mrs. Matstone]

Just lost a custom crankbait that even has my name engraved on the bottom of it a few days ago. Let me tell you I was bummed. Naturally it just happened to be the longest cast I have ever made in my life. Too bad my line was no longer attached to it and it landed right in the center of the lake. First them this has ever happened to me. I hope it will be the last but everyone tells me it probably will not be.