When the fishing is slow I look a little harder for lures that were abandoned in trees along the river. My wife spotted this Xcalibur xcs200 yesterday. Post up your latest find.

Great Idea for a thread! Here is my latest find!

Jitterbug

 

Nice finds! I found an old flicker shad this afternoon, the hooks were rusted off.

If anyone finds a customized Zara Spook (bone/red gills/orange belly, with hand tied feathered treble and oval split ring), I'm offering $20 for its return.

No pics for this thread at the moment, but 3 of the last 5 river trips have netted a Booyah lipless crankbait in a craw color, a KVD suspending jerkbait (today), and a Shimano Clarus paired with a Shimano Sonora I pulled out of the river. The lipless was in perfect condition, the rod is in good shape, the reel is trash, and the jerkbait needs new hooks if I ever care to use it. Personally I think it's foolish to use a lipless or a jerkbait in a rocky, snaggy river that averages 3-4 feet. 

That's a pretty good haul, though it brings back painful memories of a $300 rig that was pulled overboard by a suspected walleye when I was worm fishing. That finally pushed me to buy some $50 set ups. The hole in my arsenal is still there though, it was never replaced, I need a minute here...

This is off-season for me. I find most of mine in during fall/winter. I haven't found anything for a while now, I've lost more than I've found recently.

 

What I really want to find now is a wireless sonar fish finder. That would be like finding the holy grail.

 

14 hours ago, Glaucus said:

 

 

Never mind, got confused on brands, and can't figure out how to delete the post.  Sorry.

5 hours ago, fin said:

This is off-season for me. I find most of mine in during fall/winter. I haven't found anything for a while now, I've lost more than I've found recently.

 

What I really want to find now is a wireless sonar fish finder. That would be like finding the holy grail.

Same here, after the leaves fall it's like Christmas.  The half dozen or so I've found this spring were mostly deposited by spring flooding. Wireless sonar? Hmmm, that's a new one to me, but keeping up with the latest fishing stuff has been on the back burner the past decade or so.

4 hours ago, TheRodFather said:

 

I'm pretty new here but yes, most everything has been done before- ha ha!

Found this one in Murphy lake.  I was running a crank through a couple of stumps. All of a sudden I Snagged and to my surprised as I reeled. I was bringing in the snag to the boat.  Get my crank to the boat and notice it’s snagged on fishing line.  So I hand line the line back and this rapala was on the end of the line.

 

 She kinda beat. But, the only thing that makes me not want to re-use it is the line tie going into the bill is all rusted. I think it was done there for a while.  So now I’m using it to pin jig shack business cards to my garage wall over the work bench. 

7 hours ago, Mbirdsley said:

the only thing that makes me not want to re-use it is the line tie going into the bill is all rusted.

Judging by the rest of the hardware, that line tie is fine. There was probably a snap swivel or something like that rusted off. That rust will come off the lip. I'd be replacing the hooks and throwing that lure.

11 hours ago, Mbirdsley said:

Found this one in Murphy lake.  I was running a crank through a couple of stumps. All of a sudden I Snagged and to my surprised as I reeled. I was bringing in the snag to the boat.  Get my crank to the boat and notice it’s snagged on fishing line.  So I hand line the line back and this rapala was on the end of the line.

 

 She kinda beat. But, the only thing that makes me not want to re-use it is the line tie going into the bill is all rusted. I think it was done there for a while.  So now I’m using it to pin jig shack business cards to my garage wall over the work bench. 

Nice find! The rfr5 is one of my favorite river baits,  catches smallmouth and walleye.  Some of the largest walleye I've landed were incidental catches while bass fishing with it. The only downfall to it is that the lips will occasionally snap off when hitting rip rap.