So just yesterday I got snagged on some submerged wood with a lure I was not willing to lose... a 16$ chatterbait jackahammer I just bought an hour prior. With no one in sight to judge being that it was a residential pond I went in almost up to my neck to get my jackhammer back. Although I was drenched and slightly ashamed I was happy I got it back haha Any one else have some funny stories or ones you may be ashamed of lol I would love to hear them?? ?

2 years ago I snagged a new CB

Dove down 10 feet to retrieve.

Caught my then PB on the very next cast.....Think I scared my partner for life with my fat *ss

26 minutes ago, NHBull said:

2 years ago I snagged a new CB

Dove down 10 feet to retrieve.

Caught my then PB on the very next cast.....Think I scared my partner for life with my fat *ss

Hahah nice! A PB on the next cast will make it worth going after for sure ?

I don’t like the idea of hooking my hand 10 feet underwater when the lure is stuck to a log. So no. I also have never bought a lure over $9.99 

Not a consideration for me.

 

Wettest I'm willing to go is up to my waist and that's if I'm dang sure of depth and bottom composition. Even then I'd think hard about even trying a treble hook bait. If the water is even slightly cold...let's say 60 and under...no chance don't care how expensive it is. I said in a prior post about lures you won't throw that id never pay so much for a lure that I wouldn't throw it...that said you gonna throw it gotta be ready to lose it.

1 hour ago, DitchPanda said:

Wettest I'm willing to go is up to my waist and that's if I'm dang sure of depth and bottom composition. Even then I'd think hard about even trying a treble hook bait. If the water is even slightly cold...let's say 60 and under...no chance don't care how expensive it is. I said in a prior post about lures you won't throw that id never pay so much for a lure that I wouldn't throw it...that said you gonna throw it gotta be ready to lose it.

So true man I usually do only buy stuff I’m comfortable with losing or it’s cheap enough that I don’t mind grabbing a few. I don’t wanna have to do that again so I think I’ll stay at that cheap disposable price point. Just because something is cheap does not mean they are not quality proven to work baits and lures. It’s easy to get caught up in the hyped up products

2 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

Not a consideration for me.

 

It was a megabass?

2 minutes ago, Joejoe2112 said:

So true man I usually do only buy stuff I’m comfortable with losing or it’s cheap enough that I don’t mind grabbing a few. I don’t wanna have to do that again so I think I’ll stay at that cheap disposable price point. Just because something is cheap does not mean they are not quality proven to work baits and lures. It’s easy to get caught up in the hyped up products

I'm not saying a jackhammer doesn't work...it obviously does. But for me being shore bound makes lure retrieval from snags challenging. So instead of buying a jackhammer at $16 I'll buy two chatterbait customs from Tackle warehouse for $14. Are they a jackhammer? No. But they are a very nice bait and at $7 they don't make you want to throw your rod down and stomp on it when you lose one. Another good option is the siebert outdoors fogy...it has a different hunt action plus you can get tons of skirt colors and you can get it wire tied with a specialty colored blade for around $5. 

This is another reason I make my own skirts and buy jigheads separate to put them on. By using a BOSS or siebert head and building a skirt I can make a nice jig in the exact color I want for around $2. Id love to use dirty jigs since they make great stuff..but $5 for a jig I'm gonna lose is a tough pill to swallow. That said I've bought siebert jigs before and they are great but same thing...from shore I lose a lot of jigs so why spend that money?

Naegleria fowleri, AKA the "brain-eating amoeba”. 

 

‘Nuff said 

Not a lure but a cork . When I was 15 my father lent me his favorite , to him lucky cork . Along with the cork these words of wisdom. ..." Don't lose it " you know the rest of the story...line snaps ,cork floats away at max speed . My cousin and I swim untill we were exhausted . Got home With the cork . Dad hears story and says , " I was only kidding you , that's not a lucky cork "

I've waded in the saltwater to get lures from oyster beds.  When I fish deep lakes I always have a lure retriever in the boat.  It probably works 70-80% of the time.

Not after a lure, but I went in after the top half of a two piece rod before. 

I have jumped in to save lures, and fish in both, fresh and salt water numerous times.

I jumped in to get a rod and reel , and glasses but never a lure .

On 8/13/2020 at 10:35 AM, TnRiver46 said:

I don’t like the idea of hooking my hand 10 feet underwater when the lure is stuck to a log. So no. I also have never bought a lure over $9.99 

Same here Im not getting my head underwater to grab hooks with my hand. And if its it a spot that i can reach with my head above water then i can reel down to it and poke it off with the end of the rod without getting out of the boat.

 

Just saw a local news story about a guy who drowned in a pond trying to save his RC boat that starting sinking. Not worth it even for something much more expensive than a lure.

The jackhammer is the only lure I would go in to get. Not even a whopper plopper would get that treatment, went into snapping turtle infested pond water up to my ankle last week to get one unhooked from a bottom carpet like mat. 

Nope.

 

But I will say as a bank angler the bow technique works for me most of the time when I get snagged.

Yep

I've gotten wet to save a 50 dollar swin bait.  I've also gotten wet to save a 9 dollar crank bait.

I went in once to retrieve the side plate from a BPS Johnny Morris reel. It was cold. And I didn't actually find the side plate. But they sent me one for the low, low minimum real repair price of $19.95.

I did it once to save my friends Triple Trout he snagged in a pond. Only time I've ever done it there was a big bass attached to my lure I was swimming for.

Yep. Got a new crankbait caught on a tree branch and went into the water to get it.

 

Success!!!!!

 

Won't do that again.

 

Unless I can reach it, I don't get them out of trees either.

 

 

I did it twices, I believe. One to save my favorite LC jerkbait, but it was prettt shallow about chest high. Second time was for bull shad that I just bought. I don’t dive to save the lure just swim to opposite side of retrieving just like when you try to in snag from boat. 

I wet wade for river smallies and trout, so yes, I always will go after a lure, even if it’s 4 dollar mepps spinner. I lost a $3000 hearing aid trying to swim down and get a 9 dollar crank bait in the Cacapon river of WV.