I lost it all to the Bait Monkey years ago, and I'm at peace with my fate.

Lost my original vintage wooden Huddleston trout lure to a big stripe bass at lake Pyramid in the 90’s. The lure cost back in the early 90’s was $60, the hand carved lure by Ken Huddleston today is worth several $100, if you can find one to bid on. 
Tom

When your line snaps mid-cast and you watch your new expensive lure sail off into the abyss....

 

2 hours ago, OkobojiEagle said:

Is this some sort of online support group???

It absolutely is. It has been almost 24h since i lost it, and it's as if it happened 5 minutes ago. I am shook.

About 4:30 into this video, I cast off a Donut Shad, into an off limits area on a nuclear power plant lake. I couldn’t even try to recover it.

 

 

Shower Blow.

I lost an Alabama rig on the third cast.  It keeps me awake at night.  It was ten years ago.  

I don't buy really expensive lures so my 'most expensive' has to be the Rattlin' Rap that a pike bit off some years back.

 

18 hours ago, Munkin said:

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

 

Allen 

I also did that brand new combo I went to set it down and somehow missed most of the deck and over it went .

Multiple A rigs, bladed jigs, lv500s

20 dollar Jack Hammer not like after they came out. Most expensive bait I have bought to date. Would say I don't buy expensive baits but even what was once affordable baits are now 10$ or more. 

lost my last 2 clown hudd 68s today, which isn't my most expensive loss but still stings a bit.

Seems like I lose a couple of Megabass 110 jerkbaits each year.  This past spring a friend kicked a $400 Loomis spinning rod of mine overboard with a $250 Daiwa reel attached.  The lake then proceeded to rise 30 feet.  I persisted, and found them when the water receded, 6 months later.  The reel could not be salvaged, but I restored the rod as good as new. 

The most expensive thing I have lost is probably an A-rig.

 

I have also lost two Megabass Vision 110s in the course of 20+ years of fishing them. They are currently $25 but I remember when they were originally $30. That pales in comparison to the multitudes of crankbaits I have snagged on something.  And that doesn't even come close in dollars to all the jigs I have deposited in various lakes in 30+ years of fishing. Personal opinion,  jig fishing has become more expensive than fishing swimbaits, crankbaits and jerkbaits. 

 

 

If it makes you feel better, I had a bass snap my St. Croix travel rod last week. Cost more than your lure. Felt like an idiot. I was horsing a big girl up onto a raised dock without a net and SNAP. Turns out five pounds of angry bass greatly exceeds the 3/4 oz the rod is rated for. 

One trip to the river, only a couple hours, I lost $30 worth of crankbaits. My wife was fit to be tied. I make up for it by not losing any a few trips here and there I reckon.

I lost an A rig on the fourth cast.. I never tied another one on… 

 

My Dad lost his favorite spinnerbait when the entire favorite rod and reel flew out of his hands on a cast..  lure, line, rod, and reel all gone in an instant… Boy was he mad.. 

Sorry.  I've only lost a Rat-L-Trap and some Texas rigs this year.

This year has been OK, knock on wood. Hung an SV3 on a stump first time out. Couple Teckel frogs lately. Nothing over $20. 

 

I usually blow through Magdrafts in Spring. Keitech jigs postspawn. 

 

I have a Duo 110 pencil that's been bit off three times. Swam for it twice. 

Mr. Torpedo Fish (aka, Northern Pike) and his extended family have a nice collection of my lures from this year - mostly in the $15 - $18 range individually, but total about $170 - I have 4 inch long steel leaders on most of my rigs now, yet they still find creative ways to saw the line off - looks like 6 to 8 inch leaders are on the list to purchase this winter........ @Micro Module Police you've got this, get back on the water and haul in a PB !

Knock on wood I've never lost a hard swimbait. Still, casting of a Hudd or Citizen doesn't feel great lol. I think my worst day was casting off a Vision 110 and a Rerange on back to back casts. 

I lost a Kerashi last week and last month lost a Pompador.

The Pampador floats but the line snapped on the cast and it orbited the moon and I lost it on re-entry. The wind kicked up and I could not see it floating in the waves. I probably spent an additional 10 bucks in gas searching for it, but never saw it again.😭

This: Shimano Armajoint

Big pike, big, big pike !!!

 

 

50 minutes ago, MassYak85 said:

Knock on wood I've never lost a hard swimbait. Still, casting of a Hudd or Citizen doesn't feel great lol. I think my worst day was casting off a Vision 110 and a Rerange on back to back casts. 

Every cast with a rerange is anxiety inducing with that snap! noise they make. 

2 hours ago, Reel said:

This: Shimano Armajoint

Big pike, big, big pike !!!

 

 

Are these worth getting? Wanted one in the 190 size since they came out, but barely hear anyone talk about them, so i assumed they're "nothing special".