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Location: Eastern Ontario | The number of guys that buy muskie baits and then turn around and sell them without ever getting them wet.
If you watch the buy sell form you see lots and guys selling multiple unused baits. |
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Location: Elk Grove Village, IL & Phillips, WI | I'd say at least 90% of my tackle boxes (note plural) has never seen the water! |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Maybe I'm different, but I own relatively few baits. Maybe 200. All have seen water. I don't buy baits that I know I won't give an honest effort at catching a fish. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Kirby Budrow - 1/8/2015 12:39 PM
Maybe I'm different, but I own relatively few baits. Maybe 200. All have seen water. I don't buy baits that I know I won't give an honest effort at catching a fish.
This quote right here is why I love this sport. Considering we think that 200 baits is "relatively few"
HAHA! Go musky nutz! |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | True! But lots of them have caught muskies!
FAT-SKI - 1/8/2015 12:41 PM
Kirby Budrow - 1/8/2015 12:39 PM
Maybe I'm different, but I own relatively few baits. Maybe 200. All have seen water. I don't buy baits that I know I won't give an honest effort at catching a fish.
This quote right here is why I love this sport. Considering we think that 200 baits is "relatively few"
HAHA! Go musky nutz! |
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Location: Ashland WI | I only have about 30-40. I am working on that though.... |
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| I have a couple hundred that need a new home. Is 50 cents on the dollar the going rate for used baits or does it depend on the bait? |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Pepper - 1/8/2015 12:59 PM
I have a couple hundred that need a new home. Is 50 cents on the dollar the going rate for used baits or does it depend on the bait?
I think it depends on the bait, how much it was used, if at all? and the type/style and how rare the bait may be. Just my .02
As for my stash. I have close to 300 I think. I would say that all have seen water for at least one cast. I use about 50 of them fairly consistently. but probably 30 - 40 baits (maybe) have been the ones to catch the fish. But can't bring myself to thin the heard any more then it is. You just never know when that bait you haven't used for three years is going to be the ticket
Edited by FAT-SKI 1/8/2015 1:17 PM
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Location: Minnetonka | Kirby Budrow - 1/8/2015 12:39 PM
Maybe I'm different, but I own relatively few baits. Maybe 200. All have seen water. I don't buy baits that I know I won't give an honest effort at catching a fish.
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Location: Eastern Ontario | When we go out fishing we will generally put on the lure we had our last success with and then go to other lures with a history so our winter buys sit in the box if we give them a few casts it is after our proven baits have shown us times are slow.
What would we expect from them.
I gave a kid about 30 baits I hadn't used in a long time and he caught fish from the back of my boat nothing wrong with the baits just were not getting time. |
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | I started out the first many years with about 6 Muskie baits. Now it is a much different world, I have money to buy a new one here and there. And of course once you get on a streak with a bait you need to have a dozen of that one!! I've always said Muskie Baits, Harleys, and girls are about the same....you just cannot have them all!! |
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Location: Money, PA | Thats a shame...that just tells me some folks just don't put in as much time using them...more time buying, browsing or collecting than actually fishing. When I buy a new bait/baits or make myself a new one, they are getting used within a week! |
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| I probably only have 150-200 muskie baits. One thing that I noticed this year was that on any given trip, I'm really only throwing 5-8 lures. Now I try to pack 1-2 single planos and just swap in and out for what I think I need. I think everyone in here can think of 5 lures they never leave home without. I buy around that idea. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | I fished the Larry at least once a week this season and used a total of 6 lures. One lure was always on and the other 5 were rotated when I was on 2 rod water.
Here at home I did 90% of my fishing with 2 lures a firetiger suick and a Rob Dey spinnerbait. I call my spinnerbait Joe named after my friend Joe who doesn't have much hair left either.
Don't ask how many show ponies are in the boat. |
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| You could fish the rest of your life with 25 lures. 50 if you fish in different types of water and need different colors. Factor in backups for the ones that have caught multiple fish just in case you lose a blade, bend a shaft, break a lip or snag a reef. Anything more than 100 total including bucktails and spinnerbaits, and you're a collector. Not that there's anything wrong with that...
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | This is why the lord made the concept of swap meets! Personally, I look at all my baits every winter and figure out what I used, what I didnt, what I liked, what I didnt like, what i might use in the future or not...and whoever doesnt make the cut, SWAP TIME!
But that's just me.
And btw, if you didnt see the many posts I put on M1st or where I spammed FB...we're running a swap meet on Saturday. |
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Location: Northern IL | "Use em till ya loose em" Has been a saying in my boat for years, "providing" it runs straight, runs at the desired depth and at a desired speed. All depths from 2' to 40+' and most speeds can be achieved both on the troll and cast with 9-10 lures. Color is for fishermen. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | 14ledo81 - 1/8/2015 1:53 PM
I only have about 30-40. I am working on that though.... STOP
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Location: Lakeville, MN | I enjoy buying and trading baits, I've had a lot that never saw water before I moved them to get something I wanted to have more.. Not that I necessarily want so sell them I just don't get as much time to fish as I'd like so buying, selling, and trading is turning into a big portion of this experience for me
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| Is there a 12 step support group for tackle addicts? Probably not the best site to ask such a question. |
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Location: MN | mnmusky - 1/8/2015 4:15 PM
Is there a 12 step support group for tackle addicts? Probably not the best site to ask such a question.
Hello my name is John and I am a tackle addict. Do you think you'd get kicked out of an AA meeting for that one?  |
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| They are so shiny and purdy I just want to hug them and hold them and squeeze them! Seriously, I fish maybe 2 weeks a summer, a short fall trip, and a 2 day guided trip down south. I own too many for that amount of fishing, over 60, not including bucktails. I started making my own bucktails last year and am about to make an order to make some more for a buddy to pass the time. I have told my girlfriend to text me frequent reminders this weekend to not buy any more lures from The Musky Shop's sale this weekend. It really is a illness, but so fun. |
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Location: Walker, MN | If I buy a bait, it gets wet. I try to only bring 50-60 in the boat most days, of course I never have the right one. I never want to be the guy with hundreds and hundreds in my boat, it seems a bit unproductive to me.
Then again, some people collect postage stamps. |
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Location: Elk Grove Village, IL & Phillips, WI | I'm sure I will spend way too much money on way too many lures this weekend at the show. It is an addiction! My worst habit, topwaters! I just can't resist them. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | jerryb - 1/8/2015 4:32 PM "Use em till ya loose em" Has been a saying in my boat for years, "providing" it runs straight, runs at the desired depth and at a desired speed. All depths from 2' to 40+' and most speeds can be achieved both on the troll and cast with 9-10 lures. Color is for fishermen. 9-10??? I have more than 100 bulldawgs, I'm obviously doing something wrong. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | We should create a musky lure version of the TV show "Hoarders" and have each one of us take a weekly show and open up our closets, basements, and garages. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | mm3 - 1/8/2015 6:37 PM
We should create a musky lure version of the TV show "Hoarders" and have each one of us take a weekly show and open up our closets, basements, and garages.
as long as I don't have to publicly declare what I spent |
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| mm3 - 1/8/2015 5:37 PM
We should create a musky lure version of the TV show "Hoarders" and have each one of us take a weekly show and open up our closets, basements, and garages.
LOL! Great idea....
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Crazy thing is I've thinned my "herd" down to around a hundred and the Mrs. Thinks I still have too much.
I enjoy the buying, collecting, selling, swapping, and trading just as much. It's a great way to spend the offseason. Just look at the BST board December-May. It gets crazy busy and stuff is on and sold before I even get a crack at it. |
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