Located in the midwest a couple of our smaller lakes near me sometimes ice up and this was one of those years. Finally thawed out a couple weeks ago and we have had some strong windy fronts come through and yesterday when I was shore fishing I looked down and found a major craft crankbait and reminded me to maybe walk the shore and look for lures. I knew of one cove that the wind usually blows strong and found 8 lures...some paint needs some work and need new hooks but I will put them back into service.

Just wanted to say if fishing from the shore take a close look around never know what you may find.

Sweet! There is a set of 5 ponds about 20 minutes from here that gets hammered hard all year. Tons of beaver dam wood in it. Overhead trees. A lot of inexperienced anglers lose a lot of baits. That’s usually my first stop after ice out because it thaws first and that’s the only time of year I’m going to fish them. It’s usually good for a few lures that the split rings or hooks have rusted out and the lures floated up. Maybe half of my squarebills have come from there.

My first 3 vision 110s were acquired this way

4 minutes ago, webertime said:

My first 3 vision 110s were acquired this way

I too found one vision 110 last year, onlybone I have...I have lost some cheaper jerkbaits in this lake and hope I can find them once the hooks rust off....

Day 2, same stretch, its a cove and maybe all of 50 yards if that....some interesting lures, I thin one is 13 fishing jabber jaw, the lip/bill moves, storm square bill and a really nice vision 110 1/2 jerkbait...

I fish some heavy pressure ponds in the Midwest. I always look around. Find all kind of lures. I pick up the soft plastics and bring them home too. People are bad about leaving those everywhere. I leave the sunglasses and fishing pliers and all the other crap incase they come back. Or grab them and leave them on the walking trail.

14 hours ago, Joedodge said:

I pick up the soft plastics and bring them home too.

Do you reuse for them, like melting and pouring in molds? I have a couple gallons of used soft plastics. I planned on repouring them but havent went through with it. I have so much new stuff that its not worth the time or trouble.

I found a nearly brand new Rock Crawler yesterday. Unfortunately in a baitfish color, but still a nice find.

If you like looking for lost lures, we've got a thread for that.

11 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I found a nearly brand new Rock Crawler yesterday. Unfortunately in a baitfish color, but still a nice find.

If you like looking for lost lures, we've got a thread for that.

Well shoot, thats where I should have posted ...Doh...thanks for the link.

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

Do you reuse for them, like melting and pouring in molds? I have a couple gallons of used soft plastics. I planned on repouring them but havent went through with it. I have so much new stuff that its not worth the time or trouble.

I was picking them up to keep other stuff from eating them. And just kinda cleaning up were I fish. Then saved them to melt. But I decided not to get into all that headache lol