Since Bomber has discontinued the Bomber FAT A crankbaits i been buying up all i can of the bomber Model A too just incase there next. I also stock up on every lure thats harder to get too. I hate it when they discontinue a good working lure. I spent about $400 on crankbaits this month alone.

I hear you on that, the color part isn't as bad as there are a number of good painters who can duplicate colors for you but when a bait goes it is hard to replace. The only thing is plastic baits can be done pretty well by the right person, I really liked the Guido Bug craw baits, they were the best flipping and pitching craws and they got discontinued but a friend on mine now makes them and they are identical to the original.

When BPS discontinued the hottest topwater lure i have ever used i'm still upset over it. It was the Topnocker. I purchased some spooks so i may try to paint them the same as the topnockers. I have a set of topnockers in all the colors they offered at the time too. I never tried them all yet since the topnocker in chartruese was catching fish so good. Luckily i still have some left but it taught me a lesson to stock up on all my hottest lures because we never know when they will be discontinued.

I have a complete air brush setup from my motorcyle/dirtbike days sitting here. Its still brand new and now i need to learn how to use it.

I went to a new spot fishing from shore with people all around us fishing and no one was catching anything at all even with livebait. I threw my topnocker and popped it and paused it before and after the weeded open holes. I caught a 3lber right away from a weed pocket. My son was using a norman thin N in chartruese and nailed another 3lber in the same area. The norman thin N is another hot crankbait. I taught the kids to reel it slow and wiggle the rod tip to make it rattle more too. The people near us were shocked that we just pulled up and caught fish.

When i find a lure is very productive i buy them for my kids too.

I just placed orders with Joes Flies and Mepps too for spin fly's and inline spinners. My tackle room is bigger than the one the infisherman boys have, well almost. I'm filling it up with soft baits and hard baits too besides line and reels/rods.

red bug colored gambler gigi stick. still make the bait just dropped the color.

I just took on two more torpedo's two more of my favorite lures are discontinued. I just dropped more $$ buying up what i can on clearance. I just took two more hits. I'm not crazy about these new colors that are comming out. Plus one lure is totally different.

This older stuff still works awesome......

This is also funny the garcia 5 star rods and the DAM Quick spinning reels I purchased in my teens are in antique shops now. I still use this stuff for trout. Does that mean i'm an antique too?

Not only did i get old so fast my fishing equipment did too....I need to accept change i guess. With old age I can't do anything about it.

I have 2 old Poe's wooden crankbaits, and 2 luhr-jensen hot lips (orange belly with the dark brown and black back). For the life of me, I don't know why they stopped making that color of hot lips, unless smallmout populations were being depleted. Back in the 80's, they changed the way Zara Spooks were constructed, making them slimmer and heavier in the back end. It made it easier to cast and make it walk, but won't sit in one place like the old ones. I can make an old one work for over a minute without pulling it any further than a foot out.