KGB Crappie, $200. There's nothing really to compare it to for realism of a small crappie glide.

3 hours ago, Rockhopper said:

That is why I always laugh at this conversation. Guys cant bring themselves to spend $60 on a chad shad, but will go through a couple hundred in plastics and not bat an eye. Make it make sense.

Guilty

Deps 250. New paid about $85. Nothing on the market compared for that price at the time.

Will probably outlast the 53 bags of speedcraws I have at 5-6 dollars a bag.

The only bait over $10.00 that I have purchased has been Spro Bronzeye frog.

Megabass 110 is the most expensive lures I have. Have several 3700 boxes of crankbaits that are now around $15 a piece.

Many years ago, I bought some Lucky Craft baits for approximately $18 a piece. I've only used them a couple times. Probably not worth the price since I hardly use them.

I have paid (much) more than that for a couple wood lures when I was thinking about collecting older lures. Those lures never see water and I later decided not to collect older lures.

For lures I use regularly, I think I paid $9.99 for some XCalibur One Knockers back when XCalibur existed. I wonder what the current price is for XCalibur One Knockers?

For actual use, I'm quite cheap and try not to buy any lure that costs more than $10.

If I told you & my wife found out I would be a dead man.

You start throwing largish swimbaits it can get expensive quickly.

Several that are $100 - $150.

Glides

Rats

Wakes

$29.99 is my cutoff for hard baits. When it comes to soft baits I don't bat an eye at multiple purchases which exceed $100. Let us not forget how much we / I have "invested" in storage boxes as our masses continue to grow. This is a sickness that only death will us part.

I have some swim baits… but mine are cheap swim baits….around $25.00 give or take a few bucks.

I honestly don’t fish them like I should…. I don’t want to loose them. I just don’t chuck them where I should, I’ll take a cheap lure and put it in the rough stuff and around trees and rocks.

So I really don’t have any that cost a lot …. I know myself.

Think I’m too cheap.haha

I don't think I've brought anything over 12$, thankfully I never got into tuna fishing 😃

i have "swimbaits" that are in the $150-200 retail range. do they work better than the abs versions? sometimes, if that action is what the fish want that day, yeah. My KGB chad shad sinks more slowly than my Spro chad shad and some days that is the ticket. Not saying better or worse, but different.

1 hour ago, wolfe_ohara said:

i have "swimbaits" that are in the $150-200 retail range. do they work better than the abs versions? sometimes, if that action is what the fish want that day, yeah. My KGB chad shad sinks more slowly than my Spro chad shad and some days that is the ticket. Not saying better or worse, but different.

The very reason I just bought Zappu Floating board.

I fish swimbaits! Some are a pretty penny! My best one $160 DS customs glide bait. Incredible bait. He makes a few different ones. But my favorite is a floating glide. You can add suspend dots to it or upgrade to beefier hooks to make it suspend. It’s a niche bait. I crush fish on it. My PB on it 8lbs 2 ounce MA largemouth.

I have 4-5 Mega Bass Ito 110’s, 3 Mega Bass deep-6 cranks, and I think mega bass 300x .

I just have to be careful where I throw them or else I am sacrificing them to the northern pike gods. I don’t throw those baits in lakes with high populations of little hammer handle pike. I will throw them in lakes if there is a chance of catching a 30+ northern along with bass. Generally speaking, I don’t get bit off by bigger pike. Plus the trade off of losing one is worth it by potentially catching a big pike and bass

I now own 3 Deps250s and 7 Deps175. This doesn't mean i got them for MSRP lol.

I bought a bluegill swimbait that was expensive. Maybe $50? I really need to use it more. It did catch a couple bass the summer I bought it.

I’d say currently my most valuable would be a couple Hinkle shads. I sold a handful last year for $550 each. Like someone said, it’s not that some cheaper baits are better, but that they do different things. I’ve caught big fish on Hinkle’s. I’ve caught big fish on swavers. But they do different things.

I also agree with what was said on spending money on one swimbait vs a million soft baits. I’ve really only been back into conventional tackle a couple years and I’ve spent more money on jigs, trailers, and plastics than ever before lol.

I have a bunch that are worth more than $275 but that's the most I have ever paid.

I recently did a seminar on big baits at a tackle store so I needed to put them on display. This is the only time they have ever been on a pegboard - I store them in a big plano box.

25 minutes ago, JediAmoeba said:

I recently did a seminar on big baits at a tackle store so I needed to put them on display. This is the only time they have ever been on a pegboard - I store them in a big plano box.

You win.

18 hours ago, Rockhopper said:

You win.

Lol. Not out to win, just enjoy fishing big baits.

Grow Designs Flag 170, 175 and the 150. I am always on the lookout for drops of these baits. Not super expensive as a lot of swimbaits but easily the most productive for me.

14 minutes ago, Big Swimbait said:

Grow Designs Flag 170, 175 and the 150. I am always on the lookout for drops of these baits. Not super expensive as a lot of swimbaits but easily the most productive for me.

I have the 150, 170 and 255. I have had mixed success with them. Lots of follows on the 255 but no catches yet (I’m in the northeast).

How do you typically fish them if you don’t mind sharing?

22 hours ago, JediAmoeba said:

I recently did a seminar on big baits at a tackle store so I needed to put them on display. This is the only time they have ever been on a pegboard - I store them in a big plano box.

You know, for years I thought @A-Jay jerkbait collection was "the one." I think this tops that.