I recently moved north, so I've been retiring and setting aside my old favorite lures as I shift to match the new conditions, and I've started playing around with rails on the wall and shadow boxes to figure out the best ways to display them.

 

Here's the first shadow box I've used.  I bent baling wire to support the Hula Popper and its skirt.

 

Anybody have good ideas and tips on what works best?  Pictures would be especially appreciated.

cool idea. if i ever catch a monster PB in my home state and get a replica mount maid, i'd probably mount the lure alongside it.

I "display" them in the plano boxes on the bottom shelves.

I keep my old baits in a 40 year old double sided Plano tackle box.

 I have a beautiful driftwood root I caught a few years ago on the bottom of the Tennessee

River. I have it displayed in my Man Cave and decorated with a number of antique lures, 

mostly inherited from the 50's and early 60's.

 

 

Nice looking display, but they still eat a Hula Popper up this way also!  haha 

I have a display on my back wall of my garage with a bunch of vintage baits I've found hanging from a wire with various fishing related signs, awards, and a bass mount positioned around them. Probably 20-30 baits, maybe more and always adding to it. 

Curio cabinet, souvenir spoon racks, and a glass top curio display table

@Choporoz any chance you would post us a picture of your lure displays? 

6 hours ago, FishinBuck07 said:

they still eat a Hula Popper up this way also! 

Haha, great point!  This isn't one I've fished, I was experimenting with it because I had just finally gotten it down after watching it for a year and a half, 32' up in a tree.  I'm trying to figure out what works best before I get out the ones I'm most sentimental about. 

My retired lures are all stuck on snags, at the bottom of the lake.

17 hours ago, Smells like fish said:

@Choporoz any chance you would post us a picture of your lure displays? 

My wife is still arranging rearranging newish house...not sure where the others are...lol...maybe not unpacked yet

I had an idea - hang the lures using fishing line inside and old aquarium, like the lures are fish swimming in the aquarium. ?

Usually a fallen tree at the bottom of the lake

I only have three hard baits that I retired after I caught a PB on them. They're just sitting on my desk sans hardware at the moment, not sure what I'll do with two of them. The third is the jerkbait that I got my first DD on recently, and once I get a replica made I'd like to have the lure mounted along with it.

Nothing  I only retire losers..   

In box under all the rest of the tackle, after I harvest the good split rings and hooks.  However, brass and shells I shot with my grandpa are siting on a 100+ year old piece of barnwood.  The 12x18 barn wood came from one of my dads buddies, that has a little 3 inch plastic trout mounted in the middle of it.

 

Might put some of the old lures I’ve got on the piece of barnwood.

My wife tolerates hearing me talk about fishing, watching fishing on the tube or my phone, going fishing, buying fishing stuff, breathing fishing, etc. When my son in law and brother come for holidays, or any days, we can't shut up about it. I'm thinking that decorating the house with fishing lures might be a bridge too far.  At this point I wouldn't dare suggest hanging a dingy bait collage on her walls without wearing a kevlar helmet and bulletproof body suit.

The logs on the bottom of the lake retire mine for me.

You guys beat me to it. All my favorites get a proper burial at sea. 

I have some old Creek chubs I’ve gotten on eBay and garage sales. I been collecting a little . My wife hates it. One day I think she’s gonna use it as firewood. That’s why my collection is a little.. I go too much and I might be pushing my luck.

On 1/27/2022 at 10:06 PM, king fisher said:

My retired lures are all stuck on snags, at the bottom of the lake.

 

Thats how mine usually get retired. I guess you could say they passed on in the line of duty. ?