What woud you get with $60 - $100

[Bassboss]

What lures, line, hooks, or what ever would you get with 60 -100 dollars?

I got to my x-mas mail before my parents did, and I got 60 bucks from my aunt. And I also have a feeling that my parents are intercepting my mail, so i think I have some where between 60 and 100 dollars.

So what kind of tackle would you get?

Thanks,

[anglerEd]

That depends on what you have and what you would like to have. Big broad question. Can you narrow it.

[Bass Dude]

QUALITY hooks and line---good terminal tackle can eliminate a lot of headaches and tears!!

[Bassboss]

I like craws, spinner bait, frogs, other top waters, cranks, straight tail worms, jerk baits, and critter baits.

I would like to start using jigs, and bigger worms.

[foul hooked]

I'll second hooks and line. Owner hooks for sure.

[Bassboss]

I'll second hooks and line. Owner hooks for sure.

Gammys?

[mrbassky]

I usually get a new rod and reel if I need one when I get a decent amount of cash. You can pick up a bait here and there all year but you only get so many chances to get a rod or reel.  

[Stasher1]

I make my wife buy me rods and/or reels for B-days and anniversaries, and I buy tackle all year so I'd probably use the money for something I wouldn't usually buy...like swimbaits or higher-priced lures like LC's. Or, if you've got a sizeable collection of rods/reels you might think about a nice rod rack.

[memo43]

Stock up on your fav baits an lures, try different colors.

new rod/ reel

or like Stasher said get a rod rack, what good are all those lures/ baits if you rods are all messed up.

memo  

[Mobydick]

Check out some rod/reels....or save it and get something bigger.

                                                                        Ian

[ptomacbass]

get what ever lures you like. You could get a rod or reel too.

[TournyFish001]

terminal tackle locally is what I would burn it on- don't waste $ on shipping with that amount of money- it depends on the person- at your age have fun with it

[DADto4]

I as a Dad would say blow half of it on whatever you want and save half of it for later.

Don't be stupid being 15, you will need some mode of transportation soon right :-?

[CWB]

I'd get a good quality reel on sale. Hopefully you already have a few good rods. I think you can get a BPS extreme combo for $100.00

on sale.

[Danny1991]

Just a few suggestions but Id say either save a little more and get a good rod or reel if you need one or you can never have enough good terminal tackle, gammy hooks maybe some Tungsten sinkers, If you like frog fishing may want to get some good braided line, heard good things about Suffix and Power Pro. I stocked up one jerkbaits and fat free shad crankbaits for most of my Christmas tackle

[Bassboss]

terminal tackle locally is what I would burn it on- don't waste $ on shipping with that amount of money- it depends on the person- at your age have fun with it

About shipping:

During x-mas my dad usually gets gets me a $50 gift card to BPS, also we go after X-mas every year get get some more stuff, so shipping is a not!

[CJ]

I would buy as many jigs as I could, some trailers and some flourocarbon line.

[ejtaylor822]

Would look at rod and/or reel depending upon how I was setup.  Good reel is the way to go if you do not have one.  Otherwise, what do you think you need?

[daviscw]

I would open a savings account and start saving for a boat. Thats what I did several years ago.

8-)

[anglerEd]

Ok man, here is what you do. Terminal Tackle is OK advice, and so are rods and reels... but, Sounds like you have BAITS on the brain and you have a budget. You must have the rod and reel taken care of for the moment. If you need line, for the time being just get Big Game. Hooks, just get Owner or Gamakatsu. Maybe 3/0 to 4/0 for starters, but it wouldn't hurt to have 5/0 for you Ole Monster big worms. Someone said buy a bunch of colors. IMO a total waste of your budget. Buy Green Pumpkin in any new variety plastic you choose to experiment with. Get some Chartruce dye for tail coloring if you want to play with color for the time being. Get some 5' Sencos. Zoom Z-Nails will work pretty good if you don't want to fork out for Yamamotos right now. Yum Dingers are OK too. Buy a few spinnerbaits. Booya or many others should get it done in chart, white, and/or chart/white. Dbl willow and Colorado. 3/8 should be good all around for starters. Jerk bait... you might consider springing for a LC pointer78 in chart shad. Topwater... you could just get some long casting 1/2oz buzzbaits and/or a pop r, but if you can squeeze a Rico in the budget, you realy owe it to yourself to have a popper that good. I forget what else you were after and can't see it from here, but this stuff will get you bit.

[The Rooster]

Jigs are pretty cheap being a couple bucks each so you could put $10 or $15 on them and get quite a few and still have money left. I usually get them WITH rattles so I can either leave them on or remove them if I want to use them without them. More economical that way.

Otherwise, if you don't have very many good hooks then I'd get some of those. I like to have at least about 20 of each of the ones I use the most such as 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hooks. I go through a lot of those with 7" worms or lizards. It's one of those things you sort of overlook buying until you nearly run out. I've done it many times, didn't want to spend a few bucks on them since I already had a few so I would get a new spinnerbait instead, but after you have a day where you snag repeatedly and break off, then you're down to having only 3 or 4 left and your buddy is slaying the fish with the same setup as you, you start to sweat wondering if you'll have enough to last the rest of the day. So now I consider the hooks WAY more important than new baits. If you get the bulk pack that has about 25 in it, you'll save a buck on them and you'll never regret having that many of one kind if you use them a lot like me.

Don't overlook line either if you have last year's line (from this passed summer) still on cause it might be in need of a change. These purchases of line and hooks aren't as fun a lot of times as the new lures are but they're way more important overall, and once you learn to think about it like I do then it'll never seem unimportant again. To me it is as fun as getting a bunch of new lures cause I can relax knowing I'm ready to go fishing with no worries.

And just think, the last time you went fishing you didn't have any of the new lures you're thinking about getting and you probably didn't miss them, but you'll definitely miss not getting new line if you need it or not having enough good hooks for T-rigs, C-rigs, weightless wormin', drop shotting, and a host of other setups. If you really want to get some new lures then check this out. You can make way more lures and do more things, even catch more fish, from a few hooks and a bag of plastics than you can with a single lure costing just as much as them all together. Add some good tungsten sinkers, a few ball head jigs for shakey rigging, maybe some glass 8mm beads for rattling rigs, and you really have a lot of options.

And some of that can be bought for $20 or less, plastics and all.  Example - 2 bags of Netbait Paca Craws in 2 colors = $6, 3 bags of Gammy 3/0 EWG hooks = $9, and 2 sacks of 1/4 oz bullet weight lead sinkers = $3, total $18 plus tax, and you have 15 complete T-rigs from all that with a few spare craw bodies to replace the torn up ones with as you fish . That's the cost of about 3 decent lures otherwise. I'll take the T-rigs any day!!

[Bassboss]

Ok I know I'm gonna get this

     Gamakatsu® EWG Worm Hook Kit (thanks rooster)

     4 PACK tungsten weights

     Ppro braid

     Gamakatsu® Monster EWG (Extra Wide Gap) Hooks 6/0 or 7/0

     Rage tail annas

     Some cheep jig

     an evolution jig

     a cheepish swim bait

     Gamakatsu® Treble Hooks

So I know I'll get that, I'm still open to suggestions so don't hesitate to keep on posting in this thread!

thanks,

[The Rooster]

What are you gonna use the treble hooks you plan to get for??  

Also, what sort of swimbaits are you looking at??  You better make sure you don't get one that's too heavy for your rod you have now.  I'm getting some Sebile Magic Swimmers for Christmas, in the 3/8 oz size.  Those will work with most any medium powered rod and not be too heavy to cast with it.  They're the smallest size they make it in, the ones that say they're 95mm long.  Roughly about 4 inches that is.  My local tackle shop has the Castaic swimbaits in the same length but I think they're heavier than that.  I didn't look too much at those though so I don't know what weight they are.  

[Bassboss]

What are you gonna use the treble hooks you plan to get for??

Also, what sort of swimbaits are you looking at?? You better make sure you don't get one that's too heavy for your rod you have now. I'm getting some Sebile Magic Swimmers for Christmas, in the 3/8 oz size. Those will work with most any medium powered rod and not be too heavy to cast with it. They're the smallest size they make it in, the ones that say they're 95mm long. Roughly about 4 inches that is. My local tackle shop has the Castaic swimbaits in the same length but I think they're heavier than that. I didn't look too much at those though so I don't know what weight they are.

I'll be getting the trebles for cranks, and it's just nice to have some around if I get some rusty hooks on something that has trebles.

And thanks for the warning about the swimbaits. I made a post about getting a heavy swim bait and using it on my rod, I found out that it was not a good idea before I got it.

PS-rooster; Shiflueger posse!!!!! I love it  

[Glenn]

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