Just curious- how often do you lose these baits?  Compare it to other baits you throw.  Thanks.  

Maybe 1 or 2 a season, if that.

The Plug Knocker is your friend.

If I didn't use a trace of wire leader, I'd most likely lose half the baits I throw - especially the $$$ ones.  

A-Jay

 

Never, but I dont throw them either

Almost never with a plug knocker.

 

Only baits I lose anymore are soft plastics and jigs

Only a couple as I have been known to strip down and swim for my favorites.

 

Last Summer I was lucky.  I swam  for one and the first after I dried off, I caught a new PB

3-4 a year, but I fish an extremely rocky lake and they hang up something bad. Actually lost a plug knocker too.

14 minutes ago, Swbass15 said:

 Actually lost a plug knocker too.

Now that's Bad . . .

Wonder what a plug knocker for a plug knock would have to look like  . . . . .

A-Jay

I think I lost one this year . 

 

3 hours ago, scaleface said:

I think I lost one this year . 

 

 

Same one I got, have lost very few deep diving lures. I put mine on the end of a dog lease.

My favorite is Bill Dance knocker with the chains....rare day when I leave a crank in the lake.  Also like to pour some 2 oz egg sinkers with a wire on end with a loop that i attach a duolock.  Great for getting back plastics and jigs...not as reliable though....but works well.

I tend to hang them up a lot because of where I throw them.  Don't lose very many because of a plug knocker.  A lure retriever/plug knocker is the best $4.99 investment I have ever made.

2 hours ago, A-Jay said:

The Plug Knocker is your friend.

 

A-Jay

 

Excluding soft plastics and jigs, I don't think I have lost a single lure in several years.

Hardly ever, but I use 17lb CXX too so . . . .

Quite a few to pike.  I don't fish cranks very often but sometimes its just the best tool available.  I lose more jigs than anything else.  Its the nature of jig fishing to me and I fish jigs more than anything else too.    

I lose a couple to northerns.  A plug knocker resolves any hang up issues.

I only lose 2-3 a year, and most of those are to pleasure boaters running over my line on a long cast.  I would lose a lot more if I didn't use an 18' extendable pole style lure retriever though. 

6 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Maybe 1 or 2 a season, if that.

The Plug Knocker is your friend.

If I didn't use a trace of wire leader, I'd most likely lose half the baits I throw - especially the $$$ ones.  

A-Jay

 

Can you recommend a specific plug knocker?

2 minutes ago, npl_texas said:

Can you recommend a specific plug knocker?

I made my own - just a weight basically ~ 

And it's paying off . . 

This is from a few years ago.

A-Jay

8 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

I made my own - just a weight basically ~ 

And it's paying off . . 

This is from a few years ago.

A-Jay

Thank you

About one every 5 years thanks to the Bill Dance lure retriever. Actually I break 3 times as many baits bouncing them off the TM head than I lose.

 

Allen

I have a home made plug knocker/retreiver for about 40 years that is 6 oz lead weight with sash chain similar to the Bill Dance retreiver shown above.

Losing a few crankbaits after hanging up in brush, trees, chain link fences etc happens, usually the retreiver frees them. Night fishing is when I have more lost crankbaits because of poor depth perception casting into trees on the shore I didn't see well or a bass diving through submerged trees or around dock cables and breaking off.

Tom

11 hours ago, scaleface said:

I think I lost one this year . 

 

What crank is that?

10 minutes ago, Yumeya said:

What crank is that?

Berkely Dredger .

2 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Berkely Dredger .

Excellent might have to pick up a few, how does it do?

I don't think I have lost one this year thanks to the lure retriever, and the plug knocker.