Crankbaits, just part of it.

Called "Jig Point" by some locals. I've donated a dozen or so football jigs (four this year) over the years. It's worth the trade off though, catch em at the right time of the year and you can get a limit in 2-3 hours. A lot of craws hang out among the boulders and it makes for one heck of jig bite.

I think I'll need to get a lure knocker next season.

14 hours ago, txchaser said:

Not counting soft plastics, it would have to be Jackhammers lost to wood.

Unfortunately this.....Also lost a few squarebills and a couple 110's to the same fate.

I try to lose soft plastic and jigs... If you ain't losing them, you are NOT fishing in the right place.

 

Stanley Ribbets . Three times my  line snapped on a solid hook-set . Next year I'm employing braided line .

I lost so many jerkbaits the past year.  Probably 300 dollars worth...sigh

Mostly Bandit cranks baits since that is the crank that I throw the most. Stock up on Black Friday.

Strike King plastics... very happy to make those replacement payments as the cost of doing business ?

Ned rigs in along rocky shores.  Second most would be chatterbaits.

Menace grubs. I went through a few this year. As far as losing baits I lost a crank and an in-line spinner to the trees. Was a pretty good year for not losing baits. 

Lots of zman trd's on zman Ned jigs.... I'm sorry the things I muttered bout you while snapping off Ned 

10 hours ago, Smells like fish said:

Lots of zman trd's on zman Ned jigs.... I'm sorry the things I muttered bout you while snapping off Ned 

 

Ned rig jig heads for me as well. I would loose at least 2 every time I was out. 

It's always the same...Senkos and Fat Ika. If you ain't getting hung up, you ain't fishing

in the right spots.

 

Crankbaits of all types, especially Lipless. Jigs, bullet weights and worm hooks. Ned rig heads.

Blade baits by far. Just part of the game.

Definitely Ned Rig

lost quite a few jigs this year due to unretrievable snags 

Not counting soft plastics, I believe the lure I lost was this alabama bream football head jig from Dirty Jigs that I fish around rocks a lot -- reason for losing is pretty self explanatory. Second place is a Berkley Cutter 90 Shallow, which like the name implies is my go to jerkbait in shallow water.

Sounds like a lot of people on here need to invest in a lure retriever.

 

Allen 

Flippin jigs are the only thing I lost this year. Putting em in the heart of flooded trees, and being used to pitching Texas rigs for the most part cost me a bunch of em this year. 

senkos, dragging them across the bottom

Ned rigs, and that was mostly in one trip to NY to fish with my brother.  Had to go to Bass pro about halfway through the week to get more heads.

This hilarious loss of a bait when you just tied a knot and you drop the bait in the water. Then you realize you cut the line in the wrong spot.

For the amount of fishing I did this year i.e. a metric ton, I didn't lose a ton of lures, but I had a number of rod disasters.

 

 

Lures: 

$11 musky swimbait I forgot on rivers edge

Rattling roumba x 2 (1 to a pike, 1 to a crack in the lure)

Duo Spybait: hooked a big smb that got stuck on a deep log

1 Big O Crankbait to a snag in heavy river current

1 huge jenko hook/8 inch keitech to a snag

1 R2S Spinnerbait to a SMB when I didn't know how to rig a spinnerbait properly

1 R2S Spinnerbait from a lazy knot

1 small swim jig shortly after hook set. Not sure what happened. Possibly a pike. 

Probably 3-8 small jigheads to pike or musky.

 

Hopefully won't lose quite as many next year, though only a few of these were preventable. One mistake I made was to be lazy and not carry a net when I was fishing for bass and thought pike/musky were unlikely. I had a couple accidental hookups and they ended up breaking off at the side of my kayak when I couldn't grab them easily. Net would have solved this. Resolved to always carry a net from now on.