On 12/30/2019 at 9:08 PM, swhit140 said:

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.

Oh my. That hurts.

On 12/29/2019 at 4:13 PM, Fried Lemons said:

Blade baits by far. Just part of the game.

I probably lost more of some other lures, but only because I don't throw blade baits year round.  

 

However, blade bait loss-per-cast is far and away the highest of anything else I use.

Lost most: crank baits fished from shore.

 

Caught most with: crank baits fished from shore.

 

Lost 2 identical ones in one day. Bought a few replacements and lost one of those the next day too. That's why I buy a lot of my cranks at Walmart for $2.

I fish in a very rocky snaggy river that loves bottom contact baits even more than I do! I lost about 20 skirted jigs in 2019 and countless small jig heads with plastic.

Crankbaits and ned rigs.

Spring time saw alot of wacky rigging. For some reason my usual combination of throwing square bills to find them and jigs to pick them apart did not work this past year. Caught a few on chatterbaits which gave me more confidence in that bait. 

 

During the summer I caught alot on a DT-6. 

 

Fall saw the return of jigs and square bill's as my weapons of choice. I did however begin to catch them on jerkbaits when I found large schools of shad. 

Lost a lot of jigs, but I use them more than anything else. Rocky areas with current keep my supply turning over regularly.  

1.  Provider jig heads (a bunch on the bottom or in structure)

2.  Whopper Ploppers (3)

Gulp baits for me

Ned rigs, Rat L Traps

16 hours ago, Sam said:

Whopper Ploppers (3)

That's gotta hurt.  Bite offs?  That's the only way I can see losing a topwater.

Mostly Ned rigs since I throw them a lot. Next would be Bandit 100's, my favorite shallow water crank.

22 hours ago, billmac said:

That's gotta hurt.  Bite offs?  That's the only way I can see losing a topwater.

Billmac, I threw them into the wood and grass on the Chickahominy River and it was too shallow to get the two out of the wood and the grass just ate up the third one.

3 hours ago, Sam said:

Billmac, I threw them into the wood and grass on the Chickahominy River and it was too shallow to get the two out of the wood and the grass just ate up the third one.

Fish are quite inconsiderate, hanging out in such hard to reach places.

11 hours ago, Sam said:

Chickahominy River

That doesn't even sound like a real place.

40 minutes ago, billmac said:

That doesn't even sound like a real place.

Beautiful river with Florida Strain bass.

 

The creeks are excellent with lots of wood and grass and small creeks running into them, along with some docks and piers sprinkled in.

 

It is the Historic James River's tributary just west of Williamsburg and the river the pros run to for the BASS regionals out of Richmond.

 

Maybe one day in the future you will fish it.

Water levels were way high in Georgian Bay this year, which made familiar scenary almost uncharted territory.

 

New baits lost in 10 casts or less:

-Jackal Gantarel jr to a northern in 6 casts

-bill lewis echo to wood in 2 casts

-owner swing blade to chunk rock

-2 Xraps to northerns

 

I didn't lose as many jigs in 2019 as I did in 2018, but still lost a half dozen. Lost a number of different ned heads, it's just the nature of the game. I'm rigging up some 50lb mono leaders for my big swimbaits this year, no more drive bys.

I lost a shallow crank bait, a spinner bait, and a chatter bait this season. Plus a bunch of soft plastics. All pike bite offs.

I lost a few spinnerbaits and some jigs (both finesse and 3/8oz arky head jigs) due to pike.  Those toothy scoundrels got on my nerves when it came to getting bitten off this past year!!

I didn't lose many this year, it would be the Jigs of the ones I did lose.

This was only a $4 BPS jerkbait (and I was 5 miles from Bass Pro), but I was not about to lose it on a day when I was catching nothing. 

 

I was soaking an anchovy looking for stripers on the San Joaquin River in Feb '19 when I thought I'd throw a jerkbait with my other rod. Snagged it right away.

 

The "bait rescue" begins at about 1:20 if you wanna skip my blabbering.

 

Sometimes you take any victory you can!

 

 

Lost: crankbaits and jigs

Replace: keitech 3.8 fats and SK Menace that I use as trailers. 

16 minutes ago, schplurg said:

This was only a $4 BPS jerkbait (and I was 5 miles from Bass Pro), but I was not about to lose it on a day when I was catching nothing. 

I feel that deep within myself.

 

One late summer I lost a Spook when I went to fish for a minute before I hit the office.

 

I spent every bit of 10 or fifteen minutes pitching a fluke at it, trying to catch a treble and ease it back to me. It consumed me, trying to get this floating plug, that I bought at Walmart on clearance for like $2. I forgot about the fish, that I really needed to be back on the road to work, everything.

 

I got it back, though!

22 minutes ago, galyonj said:

I feel that deep within myself.

 

One late summer I lost a Spook when I went to fish for a minute before I hit the office.

 

I spent every bit of 10 or fifteen minutes pitching a fluke at it, trying to catch a treble and ease it back to me. It consumed me, trying to get this floating plug, that I bought at Walmart on clearance for like $2. I forgot about the fish, that I really needed to be back on the road to work, everything.

 

I got it back, though!

Sometimes you take whatever victory home with you that you can.

I always lose a lot of 4" t-rigged senkos to dink river smallmouth -- they hammer them like little freight trains, and rip 'em in half because they can't completely get them in thier mouths.  The bigger fish just slurp them up, get caught, and the worm usually lasts a few fish.

 

Also, as usual, I lost a few shakyheads (of all things) to both pike and bowfin.

 

And a couple of 1.5 crankbaits to what must have been logs.