WaterOtter

Hi Bazoo, looks like a saltwater lure because of the heavy hook, possibly galvanized finish, and the tail looks like it's possibly imitating squid. I've never seen these, but I find saltwater lures occasionally in my Michigan lakes, I think because in heavily pressured lakes people try to find something new to get the fish's attention.

Saturday

Found a Gan Craft 128 Yesterday. Probably the priciest lure I've found. And today I found the 6th can floating in a lillypad patch, so now I have the whole 6-pack! 😆

As I've said before, when I'm out I pick up trash to build up good Karma for the week, and sometimes Karma rewards me with a nice lure ... well today Karma rewarded me with so much more!!

A first for me, today I found a lure in the lake that was still in its unopened packaging. (Actually, it looked like someone threw it in the lake along with their empty wrappers)

Good point, the upper end does look like it's been redone. What intrigued me on that spinnerbait is that the construction with the hair and tape looks classic, but it's not aged. I did a brief search now, and it's probably a muskie lure, which also makes sense for it's size. I found it on a very small lake that was dredged last year, so now it has a small well and was stocked with pike, but people are losing huge, deep lures, so it looks like they think the whole lake was dredged and it was stocked with fully grown fish.

Today Anybody know what the spinnerbait with the gold blade is? It has a trailer hook with a plastic on it.

Here are the most presentable of this year's accumulation so far. Ratio of keepers to trashed has been around 55% as usual.

Last weekend

That's the stuff I love seeing!

The lures are back! It's nesting season again

It's clear you're not in the midwest because there's only 2 or 3 Rapalas. 10% of my finds are Rapala. Also, I see your waters are free of Flickershad. What's this thing? It looks creative.

Yup, a jitterbug cicada. I found one last year too, in a different color. It seems like a good idea and good execution, except the hooks are undersized on the ones I found. $3.15 through aliexpress.

I am on a a roll, so I paddled two more river/lake areas today and did pretty well. Then I stopped by a park on a large lake on my way home, and from shore I found an 8" Yo-Zuri Mag Dive. This thing is a salt water lure, and it's monstrous! They must have been after a monster.

Yesterday I used a vacation day and went paddling on a stretch of river I hadn't been to in a while (left column), and then I hit a nice long smooth stretch of river that I've never been on at all (right column). Weather's warmed up into the low 40's, so no ice anywhere this time. Notables: -3rd buzz plug I've ever seen. -Hula Popper 2.0 - first time I've encountered this color in the wild -I found my first Shimano lure (a World Rush 56F Flash Boost). This square bill actually has a piece of shiny aluminum inside which is suspended on springs and jiggles and flashes like crazy. Pretty cool engineering.