Ditto on the lipless crank baits. They love to zing into trees before I can stop them.

The only thing more ravenous than Charlie Brown's kite eating tree is the infamous lure eating tree-only there seems to be more than just one of them.

 

It's been my experience that the TYPE of lure being eaten is less relevent that the cost of said lure (or it's ability to be replaced).  Expensive and difficult to replace lures are definitely high on the lure eating trees menu.

Crankbaits and trigs. Theres a chatter bait in a tree in my front yard!

I used a  hound dog type retriever successfully first time today, got a spinner stunk on underwater tree, retrieve got it right off.

plenty of downed trees/branches in the creek where I fish, It loves t-rigged anything. Got a notion to throw a big grappling hook on a chain and drag that stuff out with my truck.

For me it's a spinnerbait because once it wraps around the branch it will spin around a dozen more times in a split second, no trebles to catch on anything. I also tend to put the spinnerbait up against the bank more often and in little nooks and crannies between branches.

So red and white bobbers don't grow naturally on trees? We see them all the time and always just called them bobber trees. This forum is awesome! I learn something new every day!

Late winter, 2014...I was at a sports show in the Twin Cities and bought a few Doctor Spoons because some guy I was talking to said they worked great on pike and muskies in Canada...

 

June of 2014...Lake of the Woods...water is the highest it's been since the early 60s...3 ft, maybe more above normal...the 1 1/8 oz., red and white Doctor Spoon begins to produce toothy fish like crazy.  A big, silver, toothy fish swims off with the first one on day two.  Daredevels work...but nowhere near as well...I've got one left...can't tell you how many pike it caught...I don't have that many fingers and toes...even if I were quintuplets...and a bunch of musky...even a few smallies...

 

The other thing I can't tell you is the number of times we beached the boat to get out and pull that spoon out of trees, bushes, crevices in on-shore rocks...to catch fish that week you needed to be right next to shore...late Friday...maybe an hour before dark, I zing that spoon into shore a little too hard, it hits a rock and bounces up into the bottom branches of a cedar tree.  I's pretty stuck, but I get a good angle on it and finesse it out, onto the big rock and twitch it into the water about 6 inches off shore...count it down to about 3 feet, give a soled twitch...and stick it solidly into another cedar that is underwater.  Fought with that SOB for 20 minutes, and eventually broke the line and watched that spoon pop out and flutter to the bottom in 15 ft. of water....

 

I took a dozen up with me this year...

 

F@#$%^& cedar trees...

Sheesh, first it's Bigfoot, then a concrete sea monster.. Then the paranormal, followed by gigantic spiders. Now it's bait eating trees. I'm heading back to the Whiskey thread, lol.

Usually it's that one skinny little branch that blends in and I don't see it until the bait is hanging from it.

rat-l-traps at dark!

 

noob tip: if bait has not wrapped around the branch yet, aim rod at branch and reel bait until it is about 2 inches from branch. lift rod until the bait flys off branch. the trick is not lifting the rod too fast and keeping it in one long motion all at the same speed.

So red and white bobbers don't grow naturally on trees? We see them all the time and always just called them bobber trees. This forum is awesome! I learn something new every day!

sound like there ready for christmas 

where i live i fish mainly shallow water reservoirs. with that being said apparently the trees here like a squarebill

More rocks than trees in the lakes around here now (tree line is a loooong way away from the water with the drought), but I'm most prone to forgetting just how well lipless cranks cast and lose those more than anything else above the water. However, the rocks have a serious appetite for jigs.

My homemade lure-gitter mostly collects spinnerbaits out of the local trees, along with recovering my own stuff. 90% of the time, it works every time!

 

 

 

 

This was my bait-eating tree catch of the season though, a Bucher Top Raider that somebody hung about 30' up. A 3/4" oz weight and a big treble on a scrap few dozen yards of 100 lb. braid made a nice, castable grappling hook.

 

I have a megabass popper in tree right now with attached line tied to discreet location in bush while I figure out how to get lure down.

 

Got my lure back today, used my telescoping branch trimmer to reach it.

My homemade lure-gitter mostly collects spinnerbaits out of the local trees, along with recovering my own stuff. 90% of the time, it works every time!

 

 

 

 

Cool.  I'm going to make one.  I ordered a JDM rod last month and the seller shipped it taped to a very nice, brand new, twist-lock telescopic aluminum pole inside the box.  Best part is, it will fit in my rod locker.  I just need to bend up some heavy music wire to make the "spring" for the end.

 

Tight lines,

Bob

For me it's been lipless crankbaits because I can chuck them the farthest/highest.  They find all the tall branches close by and the low hanging branches at distance.

This is why you take a kid fishing. Those little rascals can shimmy up and get most baits back.

My most productive shallow crankbait ever is up high in a tree . I just could not figure out a way to get it back .

Stihl lure retriever will do the trick.