1 minute ago, ATA said:

what was that one lure? if you don't mind to let us know.

Hawiian Wiggler #3 weedless spoon, my 2nd was a Creek Chub Injured Minnow prop top water plug, 3rd a Heddon Jointed Pikie, the plugs were wooden lures with glass eyes that I still have in my vintage lure collection.

Tom

This is my collection of mostly pre-80s lures.  I collected and used these as a kid and into my early twenties.  I haven’t counted them.

 

 

3 hours ago, Tizi said:

This is my collection of mostly pre-80s lures.  I collected and used these as a kid and into my early twenties.  I haven’t counted them.

 

 

wow thats a treasure , very nice collection.

It was fairly theraputic reading some guys lists on here. I’ve only gotten into bass fishing the last few years and already notice I’m a hoarder of sorts. Since we have over a foot of snow and haven’t seen 20° in over a week I put together an inventory sheet myself. My question to some of the mid range collectors like myself, how much do you take out with you for a day on the water? Also, what helps decide what you’re packing for any certain day? Do you pick differently if it’s a frequented body of water versus somewhere you have never been?

I did that a few years back, just the hard baits. When I hit 24 spinnerbaits, I stopped counting, Spooks after 12, topwater, counting frogs, after 30. I have four categories of cranks and every one is in the three dozen or more. I don't fish chatterbaits, but I have around a dozen.

If I were to keep counting I'd begin to think I have an obsession. That's an argument for the bait monkey and he makes so much sense, that arguing is fruitless anyway.

Never counted baits. But I did realize the other day I have 5 packed - 3700s of jerkbaits and 4 full deep 3700s of big hard & soft swimbaits.

SSHHHHH….SHHHUUSSSHHHH. Don’t say that out loud….If you put a number on it, it can be calculated. If it can be calculated and get equation, then a result with an end number. You could convert that to a dollar amount… with that, “Heaven forbid” you ask yourself “WHY”

21 minutes ago, GRiver said:

“Heaven forbid” you ask yourself “WHY”

haha .... Totally agree! Don't be waking up that dog! ... HA

I don't need to count them. I know I have way more than I need, and far less than I want.

@HamSlammer - I am going in to year 4 of bass fishing - so I am in a similar spot as you are

I started and now keep an updated spreadsheet by category (ie, Squarebill Cranks, Cranks - 1 to 4 feet, Spinner Baits, ect..) -- I include line/terminal tackles/rods/reels as well - for me it serves multiple purposes:

---let's me track what I have

---let's me check on what I have so when the Bait Monkey is encouraging me to "add more to the cart" or "You absolutely need more of those" I can take a look and see because he is persistent and persuasive

---I will add notes "Great lure in shallow water" or "Excellent color and size" or "Pike stole it" or never gets bitten which helps me as I learn about the lures

---I also put notes as to what line works (on some I have put "NEVER BUY AGAIN" or "Excellent for cranking" to help me learn about which lines work for me and which do not

---Overall the spread sheet helps me keep a fairly accurate inventory (but I do have to check, specifically terminal tackle/soft plastics every once in a while as I don't update it each time I lose one of them)

I keep lures I use in 3600 Flambeau boxes (labeled with what is in them) - extra lures are kept on a peg board

I typically will bring 6 to 8 - 3600 boxes with me on the boat (in a top zip dry bag) and I typically bring 5 rods with me

Yes, if I am on water/lake I know then I bring lures that have worked there (or are appropriate for the time of year) -- If I go to a new lake I bring a wider variety to experiment with (and a range of rods M/L, M, MH, H)

Nope. I know I own ALL of them....

2 hours ago, king fisher said:

I don't need to count them. I know I have way more than I need, and far less than I want.

x1000 - Me too.

@WaskaCrank12 I do something similar. I haven’t gotten it down to a science of use. I know my go to presentations and when I need more. It’s the other things I want to use and experiment with that I forget I maybe grabbed at the local shop but already got through TW. It does seem like my soft plastics, chatterbaits and spinner baits are my vices. I see a lot of BR members have glorious crankbait collections. Lucky for me, I have a handful and suck with all of them so no need to collect them.

Never counted but know this,

As far as terminal tackle, hooks weights etc,

I'll likely never have to buy again.

Soft plastics? Probably a lifetime.

Other than a favorite crank, jerkbait and spinnerbait, I'll be handing the bait monkey his a**.

9 hours ago, WaskaCrank12 said:

@HamSlammer - I am going in to year 4 of bass fishing - so I am in a similar spot as you are

I started and now keep an updated spreadsheet by category (ie, Squarebill Cranks, Cranks - 1 to 4 feet, Spinner Baits, ect..) -- I include line/terminal tackles/rods/reels as well - for me it serves multiple purposes:

---let's me track what I have

---let's me check on what I have so when the Bait Monkey is encouraging me to "add more to the cart" or "You absolutely need more of those" I can take a look and see because he is persistent and persuasive

---I will add notes "Great lure in shallow water" or "Excellent color and size" or "Pike stole it" or never gets bitten which helps me as I learn about the lures

---I also put notes as to what line works (on some I have put "NEVER BUY AGAIN" or "Excellent for cranking" to help me learn about which lines work for me and which do not

---Overall the spread sheet helps me keep a fairly accurate inventory (but I do have to check, specifically terminal tackle/soft plastics every once in a while as I don't update it each time I lose one of them)

I keep lures I use in 3600 Flambeau boxes (labeled with what is in them) - extra lures are kept on a peg board

I typically will bring 6 to 8 - 3600 boxes with me on the boat (in a top zip dry bag) and I typically bring 5 rods with me

Yes, if I am on water/lake I know then I bring lures that have worked there (or are appropriate for the time of year) -- If I go to a new lake I bring a wider variety to experiment with (and a range of rods M/L, M, MH, H)

That's a good start for only four years, but compared to some Forum members you are still in puberty with a collection that size.

I started to count mine once, stopped when I got to 75 lipless cranks. Decided that I really don’t want to know. That was years ago. Heaven only knows what I’ve got now.

I stopped counting for a while. I don't even count my rods and reels once they go over 50 combos 😂. I think right now they are about 60 to 70 combos.

I would never attempt that. That type of reality would scar me for life. It would be like trying to calculate Pi to the very end. No thanks, I will live in naive bliss. On the plus side, I don't believe the wife would attempt counting either.

Last year I counted my spinner baits for fun and had 125 and 30+ chatterbaits. Got 10 3700's with cranks and top water and I've run out of room to hang plastics on my wall. In my defense, I've been at this for 50 years so it's not hard to accumulate to much tackle and some of the baits are over 30 years old.

This thread should be retitled to........ HOUSTON we got a problem 😅

If I tried to count all my lures I'd be 75 before I could hit the water again and I'm only 50. I know for a fact I have 100+ jerkbaits because my wife counted them while I was sorting them on the deck of the boat one day in the garage and she let me know.(never doing THAT again)

Let me just say I've got enough stuff that I can fish my whole life and my son who is 4 can fish his whole life and we'd still have PLENTY left over. I couldn't even begin to guess.

Most of y'all have invested in 401k...I invested my future in something I'll have much more use out of....

This thread tickled me when I first read it....standing out in the cold garage the other day I decided to count 4-5 boxes of topwater's on the shelf. After surpassing 150 in topwater alone, I hung it up. This did not include the 20 plus topwater's hanging on the peg board NIB neither.

I just received over 100 spinnerbaits in the mail alone....yes I have a problem but it could be worse!

On 3/4/2020 at 9:34 AM, jbsoonerfan said:

I don't have that many fingers and toes.

Missing poster!

On 3/4/2020 at 9:35 AM, Russ E said:

I buy a lot of tackle this time of year during sales.

I have it organized, butI have not even attempted to count it. my storage under the boat deck is full and I probably have that much or more in storage at the house.

 

Another 2k+ post member also mussing.