My wife bought me a new tackle bag for Christmas. As if I needed an excuse to fill up four more tackle trays...

I trigger my tackle itch. I tell myself I need to buy stuff. The bait monkey is not real just like the Easter bunny. You are the monkey.

 

It can't be...next you are going to say Santa Clause isn't real either.

Cool stuff. I just bought a cf handle I don't need but if I do get that new alphas sv it will be standing by.

For me, it's boredom brought on by not being able to go fishing, so the monkey gets held at bay from March to October. All of my reels, rods and electronics over the last ten years have been purchased in Nov. Dec. or Jan.  I think I'll just rip those out of my calendar next year and see if that doesn't eliminate the spending.

It can't be...next you are going to say Santa Clause isn't real either.

Hey now...Santa has brought me some good lures in the past. And Bluebasser86 is right. For me though, it's this little thing called money. Payday is a sad day for my wallet.

Do you actively look for them though or stumble upon them?

 

I'm not a 'window shopper' by any means; I'm a 100% 'Target Shopper' who comes with a Command List

If it's not on my Buy List , I can walk past millions of dollars of angling merchandise without blinking an eye.

What's more, if the items on my list are not in stock, I may never revisit that store again.

 

I shop 'online' 99.5% of the time.   

In this manner you're in the comfort of your home, you are going to find 'everything' you want,

and you're not going to burn any gasoline and rubber. As though that weren't enough,

online distributors like Amazon & eBay invariably undercut the prices set by the brick & mortar retailers

 

Roger

I don't have an itch to scratch.  Not only do I fish 7 days a week, I catch them everyday too.  I fish with no more than 5 or 6 different items, seldom buy anything else.  When I'm not catching fish is when I'll look at different lures.

I lost a 3/4 oz Acme kastmaster (hung it up on a rope by a dock), went into DSG, walked right to the rack picked 3 and didn't look at any thing else in the store.  I may have spent 3 minutes there, which was more time than I cared.

I don't know.  I can usually go into BPS, or Cabela's, and just look around without buying anything.  If I go into a mom and pop tackle store and find something I have never seen before, then I have a problem.

Usually its awful weather for me because then I just spend more time looking at tackle and it just goes down hill from there

Do you actively look for them though or stumble upon them?

I am always actively searching for sales. I travel for work so I get to check out DSG, BassPro and/or Cabelas pretty often.

Sales. Bought a lews tournament mg for $90 today really shouldn't have lol.

This sounds like remorse. Remember, there is no remorse in fishing.

Flea markets. The crankbaits I want are not found in a store.

Usually its awful weather for me because then I just spend more time looking at tackle and it just goes down hill from there

Not downhill, it's uphill! All the stuff UPS brings makes me feel GOOD!! Lol

I'm not a 'window shopper' by any means; I'm a 100% 'Target Shopper' who comes with a Command List

If it's not on my Buy List , I can walk past $million of angling merchandise without blinking an eye (If I need it, it's on my list)

What's more, if the items on my list are not in stock, it's not likely that I'll ever return to that store.

 

I shop online 99.5% of the time.    In the comfort of my home, you can get 'everything' you want, you're not burning

your gasoline and rubber, and the brick & mortar retailers cannot beat the prices of online distributors like Amazon & Ebay.

 

Roger

 

 

This is exactly how I feel.  If I had a GOOD local-family-owned-type shop though, I'd really REALLY like that and gladly pay a little extra to fondle and talk...  Er, fondle gear and talk to people.  Not the other way around.      

The bait monkey is not real just like the Easter bunny. You are the monkey.

And there it is. I knew it, I knew it.

Hootie

I find being awake is usually what makes me want to buy fishing gear but I do sometimes get the urge while I'm sleeping as well.

X2!!!

Winter, it has to be winter

I trigger my tackle itch. I tell myself I need to buy stuff. The bait monkey is not real just like the Easter bunny. You are the monkey.

Try telling the bait monkey that

I totally will. It's pretty simple to me. We buy stuff because we tell ourselves that we need it. It just shows that we have no willpower. We have an addiction that's really no different from a drug addiction. We 'feel' bad if we don't get our fix.

The ones who can resist and only buy what they need. They have the willpower the rest of us don't. I wish I could be like y'all.

Winter, it has to be winter

I would agree winter kicks it in high gear. I know when I fish in the summer I don't want to buy as much. I will go into a store here and there to stock up, but never binge like I do now.. I just got some stuff in. And I put another order.. I know I ordered over $60 in plastics alone, and plan on putting in another @70 this Friday on some spinners.

This thread, and all of it responses hahaha

This thread, and all of it responses hahaha

Ahh yes, having money to rigorously spend on fishing is funny....

It's one of the main reasons I work so much hahaha.

Its a running joke at work with my managers to get all the overtime out of me they can now, they know once spring rolls around I won't take a minute over 40hrs

I get the itch bad when I feel like not having something is possibly hindering me from catching a fish

Lately, it's been anything named clearance.