A Rogers Big Jim that I picked up at an antique store caught more   bass for me   , than any crankbait I ever had . I was parallel  casting a bank and lost high in a tree . That lure had "it" .

 

Second from bottom .  You can see the lure in the mouth of these three bass but it caught many more .

RIP to my Vision 110 last winter. I kept it in the box for competition, but felt the need throw it in my pickerel infested pond one day. Twitch, twitch, gone... goodbye forever!

My dumbest lost lure?  Tying on a new custom made hair jig.  Just got it .......had never cast it.......cut the tag end off and drop it over the side.  See where this is going?  Yep.......cut the main line.  *Bloop*

 

I was sad

3 minutes ago, Jaderose said:

My dumbest lost lure?  Tying on a new custom made hair jig.  Just got it .......had never cast it.......cut the tag end off and drop it over the side.  See where this is going?  Yep.......cut the main line.  *Bloop*

 

I was sad

 I dont think I ever pulled that one but I can picture it happening .

To the countless jerkbaits that have fallen victim to a pike that I've never even felt...

Just lost my favorite spinnerbait yesterday. Too many times having to bend it back in shape after a fish and it broke. Saved the blades though, so they will live on.

OK - here's another one. You know the player that sits on the bench for years, then the coach finally sends him into the game, he makes a couple good plays, then gets his knee thrashed - career over. Sorta like the ultralight MirrOlure in the red circle below. I bought all those MirrOlures in 1967 or prior. The ultralight baits had probably never even caught a fish back then. They "sat on the bench" for about 45 years and then I put one of them "into the game." Tied it to the 4 lb. mono on my ultralight rod, caught 2 bluegill and 2 bass with it, then hung it on something underwater at the end of a long cast (fishing from the bank) and had to break off.  If I had been really young, like in my 30s or 40s, I guess I would have gone swimming for it. BUT, since I was nearly 60, I decided to let it go - it finally got off the bench, and had an honorable departure to the deep - lost in action. April 28, 2011.

RIP micro MirrOlure...

41 minutes ago, bagofdonuts said:

Just lost my favorite spinnerbait yesterday. Too many times having to bend it back in shape after a fish and it broke. Saved the blades though, so they will live on.

Get some terminators and you won't have to worry about that. Price is almost triple the cost of regular spinners but worth it.

17 hours ago, Bassguytom said:

Me too! Back to my LC pointers I go!

I almost did, but I loved it so much I ended up replacing it, and I am sure glad I did.

I'd mourn a shiny, right-out-of-the box shad Rap I lost on THE VERY FIRST CAST but I didn't know him long enough to form an attachment.

5 hours ago, Jaderose said:

My dumbest lost lure?  Tying on a new custom made hair jig.  Just got it .......had never cast it.......cut the tag end off and drop it over the side.  See where this is going?  Yep.......cut the main line.  *Bloop*

 

I was sad

Your personal best gulped it on the way down... 

I once lost a Ganns spinnerbait after it crushed some bigguns.  I had a picture of it put on milk cartons. 

19 hours ago, Yeajray231 said:

Your personal best gulped it on the way down... 

Lol.........that helps!  Thanks!

On 11/22/2016 at 6:12 AM, scaleface said:

A Rogers Big Jim that I picked up at an antique store caught more   bass for me   , than any crankbait I ever had . I was parallel  casting a bank and lost high in a tree . That lure had "it" .

 

Second from bottom .  You can see the lure in the mouth of these three bass but it caught many more .

I saw a guy on FB with about a dozen Big Jims for sale. I almost bought them to see if you wanted them. 

My favorite Spook, for most of the last decade, was a Super Spook Jr that was one of the few I've owned that would walk easily with a feathered treble on the back. It was one of those 'one in a hundred' lures that just seemed to out catch other identical ones I have.  I was fishing the downwind side of a cut between two islands and had just released my second brute in five minutes.  In my haste to get that puppy back out there, I never checked my line. The knot popped just as I released and that awesome lure sailed over the tree line of the island never to be seen.  I even offered a reward for anyone finding and returning it.