Do you ever stop losing lures?
Jun 24, 2020 01:27:46 #
Well I've been accused of a few things on here before, but that's the first time anyone has accused me of being overly pc. What?
Jun 24, 2020 02:09:31 #
Spiritof27 wrote:
Well I've been accused of a few things on here before, but that's the first time anyone has accused me of being overly pc. What?
Yeah, what's that about?
Jun 24, 2020 08:08:14 #
Jun 24, 2020 08:19:50 #
Jun 24, 2020 11:40:32 #
ZoeyC2000 wrote:
Good Morning Mr. Smoky,
I will have to remember that :)
Zoey :)
I will have to remember that :)
Zoey :)
Good morning ms. Zoey. You can sometimes hear something even better. Drive a screw driver into the ground, or maybe a knife. Put your ear against it and sometimes you can hear a really big fish when it swims by. It makes a distinctive sound wop, wop, wop. Whoppers always sound like that.
Jun 24, 2020 12:22:24 #
HawksFan03 wrote:
Must you guys try so hard to be politically correct? That's right! This isn't polotics! This is fishing stories. Good stories. Thanks. Y'all just a bunch of old farts and I am enjoying laughing my brains out. Y'all are funny!
HawkFan03
HawkFan03
Tie better knots. It is amazing how that helps. Also, go with a 4lbs heavier line set and what you think you need. You will sacrifice casting distance but it does matter when you are not losing $4+ lures or a bag of plastics per trip.
Jun 24, 2020 13:31:38 #
Spiritof27 wrote:
Well I've been accused of a few things on here before, but that's the first time anyone has accused me of being overly pc. What?
Of course he wasn't talking about you. He was talking about one the many, many PC folks on this forum. Why there is...well, there is...Um...Zoey. Except I don't think she has made it to old fartdum yet...never mind.
Jun 24, 2020 13:52:18 #
Garry
Loc: Wellborn, Florida
Bcmech1 wrote:
If you aren't losing a lure every now and then, you are fishing in the wrong places.
AMEN!! Brother, Bcmech, at least get hung up, regularly
Jun 24, 2020 15:21:13 #
Rusty Halo
Loc: NE Indiana, Auburn in DeKalb County
I have carried in my tackle box for a long time a tool to retrieve lures that get hung up. It has a ring about 2 inches around with what appears to be two triple-barbed hooks but without the barbs on opposing sides and a loop on which is attached a very heavy line. The ring is attached to your fish line on which the lure is attached and it slides down to the lure. Then you play with it a while to see if you can get a "catch" on whatever it is the lure is hung up on and you tug on it to loosen it. It really does work. I have saved many a lure and lots of money using that little contraption! I should find it and send along a picture. May your tight line have a fish on it!
Jun 24, 2020 16:04:38 #
loose a lure.... haaaa, Ive been fishing my whole life, almost guaranteed first cast... jig gone... and ultimately every 5th cast or so, byeee.... its the name of the game.... I have found I am the buy 5 or 6 of what I really like, thatta way when i snap one off doesnt seem like I lost one,.... just my strategy, you get down to 1-2 of those favorites time to re-up.....
Jun 24, 2020 18:18:35 #
Fishing Fool
Loc: redding, ca
I have never losrt a lure...the days I'm not fishing!! Who do you think keeps the tackle companies and golf ball companies working? It's guys like me that it doesn't bother to lose a few golf balls or lures as long as its' not my rod and reel.
Jun 24, 2020 18:33:17 #
Jun 24, 2020 19:00:56 #
I live in Alaska and commercial fish. Every year I lose fish as well as lures to sea lions. They aren't as cute as the tour guides would like you to believe. They have huge appetites and have learned to follow trollers and take the fish off our lines. Years ago you could shoot one or two and they would stay away. Now they're protected. What's almost worse to lose is a 50 or 35 pound cannonball when you snag a reef or hang the bottom. Lead here is $3.00 a pound so it's painful all the way around.
Jun 24, 2020 19:11:21 #
bottomcoon
Loc: Tahlequah, oklahoma
Everyone always gripes at me because I hang up a lot. I do. My theory is if you're not hanging up you're not putting bait, or lure, where the fish are. I'll work hard to retrieve my lures & I bought that expandable to 15 ft lure retriever from flambeau that works wonderful plus the weighted retriever on a cord. I do enjoy salvaging a lure lost by another fisherman.
Jun 24, 2020 19:22:09 #
Fishing Fool wrote:
I have never losrt a lure...the days I'm not fishing!! Who do you think keeps the tackle companies and golf ball companies working? It's guys like me that it doesn't bother to lose a few golf balls or lures as long as its' not my rod and reel.
daaaayyyuuum, you had to bring the golf balls into this... lol
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