How Many Lures Do You Lose?

[Live.2.Fish]

On average, how many lures do you guys loose each time you go out on the water?

For this discussion, lures are all baits, with the exception of soft plastics.

[Guest the_muddy_man]

It depeneds on the bite. If there is a strong bite with a lot of agressive good fish in lure eating areas I am more willing to sacrafice a few baits then if I am just looking for fish in heavy cover. I normally use a plastic first in such areas

[bocabasser]

because i use power pro, i rarely lose any baits. i did break off a chatterbait once, this is when they were really hot and hard to get, but i dove in the water which was 12 feet deep and i got it back. i will every once in a while gut hook a fish and cut the line at the hook, so the fish can survive.

[Lucky Craft Man]

I very rarely lose lures.  If I snag a crankbait shallow or in a laydown, I am going after it (especially if it is one of my Lucky Crafts).  I may lose an occasional lure deep and I have been tempted to jump in and get the sucker, but I haven't yet.  I know I ruin the spots if I go in after the lure, but with the price of some of those lures, no spot is worth it.

[roadwarrior]

I have lost three lures in the last five years, all at the same pond, all on the same sunken grocery cart!

[Guest the_muddy_man]

Don't you hate that RW I bet you know that cart is holdin a big fish too!!!!!!!!!! Did you try trigging a weightless Seno around that Learned that lure from you YOU KNOW

[burleytog]

Creek fishing for trout...2 or 3 a day.  Once lost 2 Super Dupers and a Rooster Tail on consecutive casts last spring.

Bass fishing...rarely if ever lose a lure.  I think I lost one last year.  A DT-10 while trolling.  Saw the log on the graph, it was about 11' deep.  Surely that DT is running about 9'.  Nope, it was running just deep enough to catch the log.   >

[Dan:]

ahahha, we have a sunken grocery cart in our pond too. I usually try to stay away from it. That and the sunken bicycle, even though it usually holds fish nearby.

I usually lose plastics on every other trip or so, i seem to lose jigs A LOT for some reason, but I just got a kit to try out so I've got a bunch right now. I've only lost one spinnerbait, and I've probably lost 4 cranks. All of these were in the last year. I like to use heavier line when I use cranks so I can rip them free.

[roadwarrior]

The pond was behind a Wal-Mart that has recently been torn down. There are five carts in the pond, just off a ledge on the steepest bank. Although I now know EXACTLY where they lay, I can't help but fish them. They don't all hold fish everyday, but at least one of them usually does. I rarely fish hard baits around these structures, but this pond produced my PB fishing a Norman Fat Boy.

If we were counting soft plastics and jigs, my losses would be significant. I feel it is my duty to feed the grocery carts!

p.s. Lures cannot be ripped free from a grocery cart. The carts could be removed, but otherwise, lures have a 100% loss rate when hooked up to a cart.

[squid]

NOT ENOUGH TO HURT MY WALLET...LOL

[Guest the_muddy_man]

Yea RW That senko has changed my fishing :altough I have to confess I USE KNOCK OFFS but that is the single most imprtant lure I learned since coming here and I thank you for your encouragement!

[KU_Bassmaster.]

My best buy in the last couple years has been a lure retriever.  I believe it has a 99.9% success rate if you have the patience to work with it from time to time.  Sometimes it can be very stubborn and may take 10 to 15 minutes to retrieve, but like I said, it pretty much works every time.  Since I have bought it (2 years), I have only lost one hard bait.

It gives me more money to spend on jigs and soft plastics which I still lose on a regular basis. :

[CJ]

I have lost as many as 25 and as few as none.

[BASS fisherman]

I think everyone has good days and bad days on the water.  I can go fishing 10 times and not loose a single lure, but on that elventh trip to the lake, I loose 5 lures that day.  

I had one of those lure retreivers that BPS sells.  Looks like a lure with the metal wire thing that slips over the line.  I got one at a tackle shop and walked down to this river.  First cast towrds a laydown in a creek channel, I got the crankbait snagged on a log.  I hooked up the plug knocker and sent it down the line.  To make a long story short, the knocker got stuck in the crotch of the tree and when I tried to release it, the whole knocker popped off the line and went straight to the bottom.  So basically I paid six bucks for a 30ft piece of string.  And I remember looking at the knot and thinking that I should re-tie it.  But I didn't.  

[Other.]

I get lazy when feeling for nicks in my line sometimes when im fishing near rocks and timber. Its always a sad sight to see my jigs flying all the way to the other side of the lake. Other then that I dont loose many lures.

[Guest the_muddy_man]

Hey Bass fisherman I did something similar I bought this retriever that had a spiral piece of metal and some chains on it . Well I saw the factory knot , and I didn't fix it and I was out a 5 buck plug and a 13 buck lure retriever!!!!!!!!!! Now i just cut my loses so to speak when I loose one I cant get I go and buy a replacement :-?

[=Matt 5.0=]

Very rare for me to lose a lure while bass fishing. I tie a palomar on braid, so I usually straighten the hooks before anything else!  

Saltwater is another story, even a palomar on mono I have lost some stuff. I remember throwing a new Kastmaster one day into a pretty strong wind, all I heard was "SNAPPP" as the line broke and my shiny new lure went about 200 mph into the surf...lol ;D

[Siebert Outdoors]

I probably avg.  1 per trip.  Mostly jigs or a worm hook.  Very rarely do I lose a crank or anything like that.  Why you ask?  Lure retriever.

BTW RW  shopping carts suck.  Lure stealers.

[Guest the_muddy_man]

[quote author=GMan

BTW RW shopping carts suck. Lure stealers.

[Raul]

Jigs should also be in the non accountable class, specially flipping jigs, I loose quite a few of those when they see action. Lures like crankbaits, 1 or 2 per year, spinnerbaits ...... I don 't remember when was the last time I lost a spinnerbait.

[Munkin]

Jigs and soft plastics= a lot

Hardbaits I lost 5 or 6 last year and 1/2 of them were to tiger muskees >. After reading about how to unsnag a lure and buying a lure retriever I break mote baits than I lose.

Allen

[Ky_Lake_Dude]

Probably at least 1 for every 5 hours of fishing.Would be a lot more without my handy homeade plug knocker.

[Alpster]

Almost never lose a hard bait, because I don't use them that much. LOL But when I do I usually have power pro on and I just straighten out the hook and get my $15 LC bait back LOL. It's easy to replace the hooks. Worms, jigs and other plastics are too many to count.

Ronnie

[Catt]

I aint lost a bait in 5 years; it was a spinner bait this red neck bubba bass wanted more than me, jumped after he broke me of with my spinner bug hanging from his lip.  :'(

[boondocks]

I cast a lot of cranks in flooded timber and the one thing I don't leave home without is a lure retreiver. Since I have bought it I have had 100% success rate using it . I have always used it from a boat. I guess I have never treid it from shore, but imagine it would still work.

I know it has saved me hundreds of dollars in cranks over the last 5 yrs. Before I bought one I remember thinking myself "Who would buy something so rediculous?" thinking it was so simple it would never work. Till after an outing where I lost a butt load of cranks and went a bought one. How something so simple can work so good.