The reason why i am making this thread is that i need some reconforting right now😭I lost a Deps250 to a snag. I am shook to the core. Please tell me that you've lost more expensive lures so i don't feel so bad😭I am in pain!

Someone do a wellness check on our boy here.

 

I lost a $25ish dollar carolina rig once (between all components and time to tie... it was pretty deflating)

I've lost more than one bladed jig in the past.  The $15 versions.

 

From a pike bite off, of course.

You guys are not helping at all right now. The stress is building😭

Mega bass 110 jerk bait first cast. Went back to Rouges 

Lost plenty of glide baits and Alabama rigs aka baits I don’t fish anymore lol

Just got home from losing my one and only Megabass Karachi, so thank you! 

 

You actually made me feel better 👍

Took a brand new $75. cast net and tossed in the ocean first cast. Didn’t close the wrist strap!

 

Went back to buying bait………..

i have lost several hand built swim baits. it never gets any easier to deal with. 

In the $20 range, surf casting big swim baits and such. More then once the lure flew a lot farther then the line, you generate a lot of torque winding up and tossing a 4 oz bait with a 12’ rod. Blues steal a lot too.

 

Don’t have any $$$ lures for freshwater.

You lost a $170 lure?!!  I've lost a lot of lures over the years, but nothing as expensive as that.

 

 

 

35 minutes ago, Glenn said:

You lost a $170 lure?!!  I've lost a lot of lures over the years, but nothing as expensive as that.

 

 

 

Not what i want to hear right now lol. And yes, this is the most expensive lure i've lost since i got into fishing in 2000. Not sure how i will get over this.

4 hours ago, Micro Module Police said:

The reason why i am making this thread is that i need some reconforting right now😭I lost a Deps250 to a snag. I am shook to the core. Please tell me that you've lost more expensive lures so i don't feel so bad😭I am in pain!

No lure retrieving gear? 

 

I thought guys that fished lures that expensive had enough retrieval gear to raise the Titanic! 

I lost a 3:16 Gizzard Glide that I paid $200 with on about the 5th cast. Nothing to do but retie at that point. It hurts. But you have to move on…

I haven't lost an expensive lure, but I once broke an expensive rod trying to save a $3.00 lure.

I don't feel your pain, but I sure feel for you. I can't imagine having a lure that cost that much.

 

Probably the most expensive lure was a Baby Bull Gill swimbait. I found it, but I don't normally buy lures that are $15. I still haven't replaced it.

 

I lost a Rapala floating minnow on a carolina rig... then another. One of them I found, the other I got a nice deal on with some other stuff.

 

I guess the most expensive I've purchased was a size 9 Shallow Shad rap - $12 from TW.

I've lost a couple 250's, and one of those times the next cast I lost a Gancraft 230. I set the swimbait rod down for the rest of that day...

Lost a $350 rod combo that I had only fished with for about 3 hours once.

 

Allen 

1 hour ago, RRocket said:

No lure retrieving gear? 

 

I thought guys that fished lures that expensive had enough retrieval gear to raise the Titanic! 

The sad part is that i did have one. But the little guides on the lure retrieve through which you'd put your line through, were too small to go through my musky fluoro leader i had, so i couldn't use it, it was a colossal failure. I just bought this Daiwa lure retreiver, and didn't pay attention to the size of the guides it had. What a mistake.

47 minutes ago, NorcalBassin said:

I've lost a couple 250's, and one of those times the next cast I lost a Gancraft 230. I set the swimbait rod down for the rest of that day...

How did you lose em? To snags as well?

 

38 minutes ago, Munkin said:

Lost a $350 rod combo that I had only fished with for about 3 hours once.

 

Allen 

How did that happen?

My most expensive loss to date…

 

 

…but I now own a custom glide bait that I paid 2X the Bull Shad for, so I may set a new record some day 😅

I lost a 15$ tube lure in Massachusetts striper fishing.

The only problem was that it was attached to a St.Croix musky rod and an Ambassador 6500.

We were striper fishing and just picking away at em, I found a bunch and called my buddies on the radio to come over where I was.

When I called I just laid the rod down on my lap just hanging the tube in the water off the front of my kayak. I looked down and the rod and reel shot off my lap like a rocket, striper grabbed it right on top of the water.

I think I created a bunch of new ways of stringing expletives around.  

I've lost a few Vision 110's.  $25 is about all I'll pay for a lure, and like other members have replaced Megabass with less expensive brands.  

 

Like @Munkin,  I've lost a couple rigs overboard.  Each around $300.  

 

It stung, but I got over it.

Is this some sort of online support group???

Lost one of these when it grazed the bottom on light line… doink and it was gone!

 

 

Ive never shelled out more than ten dollars for a lure.