On 2/12/2019 at 5:12 PM, TnRiver46 said:

Can I have that one back?? I never really look for them but I certainly pick up any that I find. I would love to find a lucky craft or megabass jerkbait, because that will be the only way I ever get to fish with one haha

Let me catch some bass with it this summer and then it’s yours 

12 hours ago, Battles2222 said:

Let me catch some bass with it this summer and then it’s yours 

Hahaha! The one I lost was a storm twitch stick

56 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Hahaha! The one I lost was a storm twitch stick

That's what that is. I have a couple, great baits for the money.

9 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

That's what that is. I have a couple, great baits for the money.

Good to hear !! I've only had one and now @Battles2222 has it ..... Hahaha

On 2/11/2019 at 9:42 PM, FCPhil said:

I wish lures like that were hanging around the ponds I fish. All I find are nasty old senkos and tangled bobbers!

 

(I did find a pad crasher once though...)

Found a frog yesterday in a tree I’ve walked past a thousand times and have gotten multiple lures out of this month. Either I’m crazy or someone has been fishing a frog in a half frozen pond recently and got it stuck

Funny this subject came up.  Two days ago I took the boat out for a couple hours and found a bobber  floating as soon as I launched.  It would move the opposite direction whenever I got near it.  After the 3rd approach of this happening, I'm thinking there is a fish on that other end of that thing.  It wasn't long before it was ... I am gonna see what the hell is on the other end.  I finally got it only to find a small crappie lure.    I'm confused at this point...  One what caused the bobber move so quickly away from me when I approached and 2ndly, who the hell ties a crappie lure on in conjunction with a bobber ?    I look at it this fool deserved to lose it and it was a 2 for 1  for me.  I no sooner grabbed that when I look out and I see a rapala floating a few yards way in open water that just happens to be what I wanted.   Later that day I lost a brand new rattle trap in about 40' of water after a nasty backlash.. more like a birds nest...sigh

Does anyone else like to search for lures in trees and in the shallows at local lakes? 

 

No

On 2/16/2019 at 10:20 AM, roadwarrior said:

Does anyone else like to search for lures in trees and in the shallows at local lakes? 

 

No

You seem to be the type of person that lost a lot of lures. now I’ve found them all. Sorry 

Whopper plopper 110 and a rapala shadow rap shad in the same tree. Thanks!

Probably my best quality day I've ever had. Only found 2 other baits not in the picture. The wart is a suspending pre-rap. 

When my brother and I were kids growing up in Wisconsin and Minnesota in the late '50s, finding a lure that someone lost was real excitement.  We didn't have "disposable income".  What money we came by was usually from finding returnable bottles and getting the $.03 each for taking them to the corner store.  Lures were valuable to us and finding a usable one hanging in a tree was always a significant event. 

 

I don't think I ever had more than 3 or 4 lures at any one time back then.  We never had the sort of good fortune when lure hunting that several posting here did, but we always had our eyes open, and we would go to great lengths to retrieve one when we spotted it.  We were even known to quit fishing and go home, park my friend's boat (aluminum rowboat with 5 hp Johnson) and take our 50 year old Old Town canoe back in to where the lure we spotted was hung up.

 

Losing a lure was almost unconscionable.  It could ruin an entire week, or longer, if I lost a precious Hula Popper.  We were even known to go over the side of the boat to make an underwater recovery when a favorite bait got hung up and there was no other way to unsnag it. 

I am addicted to lure hunting! I live near Lake Sakakawea. On my best day I found 44 lures (2018). I take off with my lab on my SUP and roam the shores for hours. It’s purposeful exercise. (I also pick up other odd findings.) I’ll bet no one knows the shores and islands of the big water better than I do.