I'm a newbie and keeping seeing posts with the name Bait Monkey in them. What in the world does it mean?

The "bait monkey" is what drives people to buy fishing equipment.  

Please read the FAQ's.  It's in there.

Thanks!

go to cabelas sight have your credit card ready YOULL FIND OUT ;D :

The bait monkey is the little voice in the back of your head that keeps telling you "Buy that lure, IT WILL CATCH THAT LUNKER!" "Buy that rod, YOU NEED IT TO LAND THAT LUNKER!" "Buy that reel, YOU NEED IT TO LAND THAT LUNKER!" "Buy that extra large, no one in there right mind could fill, tackle bag. AFTER I GET THROUGH WITH YOU IT WILL BE FULL AND YOU WILL STILL NEED MORE TACKLE."

That guy is the monkey. Personally, I hate him. :

GET OUT OF MY HEAD, MONKEY!

The bait monkey got me good today.

I went into BPS here in Springfield to renew my $12 fishing license, and came out with over three hundred bucks worth of gear.  

But, most of that was in a sweeeeet new St. Croix Avid casting rod, that I think will be perfect for c-rigging. (7' MHF) Paired it with a Quantum KVD signature reel, which seemed to me to be a heckuva nice reel for 89 bucks.

Is that really want the bait monkey is?  I thought it was that little guy standin on my shoulder tossin baits in the basket at the bait shop when i wasnt lookin.  Then I get home and wonder where all this stuff came from.

Please read the FAQ's. It's in there.

Thanks!

Never in doubt, BR is the best resource for information on any aspect of bass fishing, now it even includes The BaitMoneky.  ;D

Raul is the creator of this demon.  So everytime I buy new fishing tackle I blame Raul.  Thats why Raul is one of my good buddies even though I blame him for a lot of useless tackle aquisitions.

the bait monkey has gotten me a couple of times too, sometimes its good, but mostly i feel bad that i spent all that money, but all in all, go away!!

I 'm not the creator, I just named the critter.  

the thing that reaches into my head then my pocket and makes me spend at least 20 bucks every time i pass Bass Pro Shop. Usually on stuff i don't REALLY need

It's when you wake up one morning and find out that you have more baits than you do money.

I imagine the bait monkey to look something like this.

Or like this......

Most times the bait monkey is small and somewhat manageable, but be warned-there are times when he goes from monkey to 500 pound gorilla.  In a heartbeat.

Once again, I'm proud to be the oddball here.

I use one lure.... The Hud.... and I have 6 or 8 of them laying around in various states of destruction. Probably won't need any more this year.

Oh.... I use the Bastrix Bluegill in the Spring.... but bed fishing was so crappy this year, that I still have plenty for the next.

I'm sponsered by a line and a reel company (I don't think I'm allowed to advertise them, right ?) so that's covered.

Anyway, I think I bought $30 or $40 worth of hooks in Febuary.....

Oh, and $30 on some Crappie jigs way back then too.

But bitten by a bait monkey ? Certainly not me :-)

I spend plenty money on gas to get me there.

Peace,

Fish

The bait monkey is what made me blow this weeks paycheck on fishing gear. I came home with a couple of sacks of gear and realized I had bought mostly stuff that I already had and no matter how much I thought I badly needed extras while standing in the fishing section of walmart, I really didn't need them. The only useful thing I did get was a can of mosquito dope.

Now I know why they staple your receipts to your sack when you check out at the sporting goods section. But I can't take the stuff back because I'll only wind up exchanging it for more stuff that I don't need. :-/

Ain't that the truth!

 How dare you say out loud that it's stuff you don't need!  Somebody's wife might read this!!!!!  C'mon man!

My personal BaitMonkey is my little guy standing beside me going "daddy I need" this, that and anything plastic, shiny or flourescent. I swear my son has 10 times the amount of tackle that I do. At least he is not reading Cabelas or BPS catalogs on the throne yet.

I dunno whose "monkey" this is...but they need to put him BACK IN HIS CAGE!  That little monster cost the wife and I $350 on a little (ok...all day) excursion up to the Bass Pro Shops in Baltimore.  

The upside (I suppose) is that the wife is really enjoying fishing and wanted a tackle box and some things of her own!  <insert the sound of the Bait Monkey snickering>  The downside is that she wanted one of everything in the store, lol!

My personal BaitMonkey is my little guy standing beside me going "daddy I need" this, that and anything plastic, shiny or flourescent. I swear my son has 10 times the amount of tackle that I do. At least he is not reading Cabelas or BPS catalogs on the throne yet.

Just wait a little bit, it will come for shure.

Yeah, sounds like my son, just gotta have it.......

bait mokey = fisherman crack, it's a disease!  Feel free to join in,   .................  My name is__________  ___________ and I'm a tackleaholic, and I need help.

to me the bait monkey is the urge to buy things that aren't "needed" for fishing but things that you really don't need at all but just "have to have" because this new crankbait will get  the fish that your 1st 396 cranks won't.

My personal BaitMonkey is my little guy standing beside me going "daddy I need" this, that and anything plastic, shiny or flourescent. I swear my son has 10 times the amount of tackle that I do. At least he is not reading Cabelas or BPS catalogs on the throne yet.

Ain't it wonderful!  My "little guy" got married last month so I will probably stop buying lures in quantities of two now.  Only at Christmas and his birthday.