yeah they act like bass! im saying the list of baits i provided is where i stay and don't get to complicated,  if i do get new baits i want to try i do. I'll throw it when i think it will work. i dont pick up the newest and greatest lures that's just silly. yesterday i went and got a bunch of beetle spins  But my weakness is soft plastics ill buy them whenever for no reason.

Glad you took that the way it was meant.  We anglers... well those that haven't been on liquid water since ice up, anyhow, can get awful crotchety this time of year.  Good to see some others realize sometimes it really is just "funnin" with someone.

I've given up on the mighty bite, helicopter lure, banjo minnow, flying lure, vibraspin, and laser lure. I still love pulling hogs out of the slop with my Ronco pocket fisherman though. I don't sleep much.

I find myself trading lures for other lures when I lose faith in it.

I've had a Lucky 13 for 30+ years that I've never caught a fish on.  I still haven't given up on it.

 

Holy Moses, why the @#$%^ not? 

I've abandoned some that I could never get a bite on... Just didn't want to waste time throwing over and over when it wouldn't produce. I'm all about catching...so I switched to soft plastics for most everything.

 

 

  100% agree.  

 

 I'm going into my second year of bass fishing.  I'm leaving all my big jigs (the one with weed guards) at home.  I will still use those shaky head jigs (with no weed guards) but I'm not going to touch those jigs with weed guards.  Two whole bass on jibs the whole season has taught me a lesson - no more wasting time on those things.  I'm not sure about spinnerbaits yet.  I only caught two bass on spinnerbaits last year too.  I will say I banked fish 99% of the time.  I have been reading books on bass and read in spring they like to chase things above them that are moving and moving fast, like a crank bait or spinnerbait.  One of my last bass of last season came on a boat dock and casting a plastic worm in shallow water.  Instead of jigging the worm up and down like I usually do I reeled it in slowly, stopped for a half second, reeled it in some, stopped, reeled, over and over.  That caught me a small bass.  Still it caught one.  So that tells me I can use soft plastics to swim along fast just as well as crankbaits and spinnerbaits.  

Have had a weakness for hardbaits in the past and I have tons of em both in boat and at home. I usually have two rods with duoloc's on them so I can change often till I find what feels good and seems to be catching. Sometimes when the stars are right I load an empty plano with about ten lures to try for the day...sometimes more. I also put all used lures for the day in that box so that I can set it out to dry easier and help prevent rusty hooks.

Some lures just seem to Hunt better than others.

Tight Lines

I no longer buy or carry around lures that I have little confidence in. There is just way to much ''iffy'' stuff out there on the market and I will never go back to being a walking tackle store.

Yep. But I'll still haul them around for a while until I need some room and then I'll set them aside. I've got a few kids I give them to.

 Two whole bass on jibs the whole season has taught me a lesson - no more wasting time on those things.

I was like that once before with jigs, then...

I pretty much fish 1 to 3 baits per season/conditions/location (sometimes 4), so if I give up, i gotta go home, so no.

One of the best posts I have ever read.

 

I don't get caught up the technical aspects of fishing, lures, rods, reels, lines and hooks don't mean much to me, only the fish matters.  I use maybe no more than 6 different kinds of lures.  Spoons, flukes, bucktails, hard jerkbait, some kind of a spinner (bait or inline) and a plastic worm which seldom gets used.  They all catch bass and I use them in saltwater too.  I may not own more than 6 or 7 hardbaits, keep using the same ones, lose one and I only replaced what I lost.