One of the only times I remember fishing with my dad as a young child is when he got a lure stuck in some brush about 10' out from the bank he was fishing from. The sun was just coming up and I remember him sending me into the misty, foggy water to get it out. I must've been 6 years old and the water was cold.

I don't even remember if I got it back. I was probably crying and carrying on. No wonder my dad didn't take me fishing much when I was little. He rarely fished near home and spent his fishing trips in Canada. If he had live longer I'm sure he would've started taking me when I got older.

While I've never done it for a lure, I've gotten out of the boat twice in the marshes of Southwest Louisiana and waded 20 yds. to get a 6 lb+ bass that were tangled in lily pads.

Ats the end of eva fishing season I just goes out wit me chain saw and cuts down evey tree overhangin de lake.  I finds me lotsa goody good stuff.  

Can't understand why the sherrif put my as$s in the pokey.

I told him "Thems lucky crafts up dere"  but he don't never listen.

probably jes want em for his own self.  

thats hilarious avid ;D

I made the lowest ranking member of the crew retrieve it, the daughter-in-law. ;D No, seriously she volunteered, I swear! :

I try to retrieve them but here on Bull Shoals due to all the rock you can do thousands in damage to your boat trying to retrieve a lure so sometimes as hard as it is I have to just leave them. I have not lost one of my Luck Craft lures yet so who knows what will happen then.

I'll do whatever it takes to get a lure back.  First, I'll move my boat around the snag to try and free it up.  Second, I'll put my arm in the water as far as I can to try and reach it.  During the summer, I've been known to dive in after it.

Sometimes when I fish, I'll reel in someone else's snagged lure.  Sometimes I lose mine.  I think it all evens out in the end.

Several times (in warm water) ive had a buddy hold my rod (haha ) and ill follow my line down the water to my lure and and manually retrieve it till its mine again.

you can always get some scuba gear  ;D  One thing that i saw in a bargin bin in a Pulaski,NY bait shop was pretty cool device. Its a clip that you attach to your line (snaged lure at other end) below the clip is a small piece of metal with severa small chains dangling from it. The idea is to use your taunt fishing line as a sip line, you attach the lure retriever to your line and with a separte string attached to the retriever you slide it down and the chains should get tangled on the treble hooks. Now using the sting attached to your retriver you yank that lure off of what ever its caught on.  

       Although i can't testify as to how well it works, because i've never had to use it, the idea seems very feasable.

lol,...beat me to it,..we just send Nathan down  ;D

you can always get some scuba gear ;D One thing that i saw in a bargin bin in a Pulaski,NY bait shop was pretty cool device. Its a clip that you attach to your line (snaged lure at other end) below the clip is a small piece of metal with severa small chains dangling from it. The idea is to use your taunt fishing line as a sip line, you attach the lure retriever to your line and with a separte string attached to the retriever you slide it down and the chains should get tangled on the treble hooks. Now using the sting attached to your retriver you yank that lure off of what ever its caught on.

      Although i can't testify as to how well it works, because i've never had to use it, the idea seems very feasable.

It works great. This is the one I use.

Hey where did you get that lure retriever and what is it called?

I am currently using just a 12 oz sinker and sending down my line with a snap.  It works knocking a lure loose.  

He got it from Bass pro shop..That is the one I have also..

Funny story I live on a big lake that has million dollar homes and I live in one of the homes that is halfmillion..anyways not bragging just part of the story..I threw a $5 bandit flat max crank bait by one of the houses in the that has a few submerged stumps..It gets hung and no problem I will use my 10 lure retriever to get it..I get the lure however the line breaks and my lure retriever is lost in about 5 feet of water..It is summer so I decide to get out,im not catching any fish anyways so I decide to become Jaq Costeau..Any how I am wading in the water by this guys house..my dog is barking and the guy that owns the house comes asked to see what is going on..Well I am quite embarrassed needless to say to I instead of telling him how cheap I am that I am looking for the head of the 10 dollar lure retriever I tell him I lost my rolex in the water and I am trying to find it..He decides he wants to come in and we are looking and he finds the head of my retriever..Lol..We never find the rolex..I felt bad about the white lie but me, my wife, and my mom laught about the missing rolex all the time.

awesome thread....

I'd say craziest thing I ever did to retrieve a lure....

Was land the seagull who flew through the line as my uncle was casting.

Even though the bird wasn't hook...he insisted on reeling the getting the bait back, even if it meant bringing in the bird.

We netted the bird as it was snapping at me, my uncle, AND the rattle trap.  

Everyone made it out o.k.

Not to be a debby downy on the issue, but make sure if you ever have to cut a line, you leave as little line as possible as to not harm any wildlife.

 

If someone where to go out once a week here on Bull Shoals to the ridht places with some scuba gear they could probably keep their own tackle box full of other peoples lost lures. :-?

I was fishing in the upper niagara river with my brother, and my cotten cordell got snagged on a rock. The pain in the *** thing was it was close enuff that I could clearly see it. I sat there for liek 10-15 minutes trying to bounce it loose from all different angles. I eventualy got fed up and stripped down to my boxers (took off as much clothing as I could so I would have some nice dry warm ones when i got out LOL), I was up about chest deep, and I was JUST able to poke it out with the tip of my rod. My whole rig was totaly submerged. Thank god for the durability and reliability of Shimano reels ;D.

Try getting this lure back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3AepYiNcDQ

For a nice laugh: