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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.
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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
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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.
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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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Location: Ashland WI | horsehunter - 1/8/2015 3:45 PM
14ledo81 - 1/8/2015 1:53 PM
I only have about 30-40. I am working on that though.... STOP
To late. I'm way to far gone already... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I have full tackle boxes I have not opened in 15 years. |
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| My wife and I made room last year. We told ourselves if we don't fish it, or don't see ourselves fishing they have to go. They all got boxed up and donated to Operation Musky. We already wrote off the money when we bought them the first time, and it helps a really great cause. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | This thread is awesome and hilarious! |
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| No way possible to have to many lures. When the aliens take over they'll be the new currency!! RICH!! |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | if you find yourself wondering if you have trip money, gas money, electronics money, boat upgrade money or enough time ... just spend a little time looking at baits and get priorities back on track. it's easy to stop buying baits. get your tools in order and have what you need.
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| jonnysled - 1/9/2015 9:52 AM
if you find yourself wondering if you have trip money, gas money, electronics money, boat upgrade money or enough time ... just spend a little time looking at baits and get priorities back on track. it's easy to stop buying baits. get your tools in order and have what you need.
not a good idea to waste want-money on baits
Great advice. I finally came to the realization that if I quit buying so many new baits and sold some of the ones I knew I didn't need or wouldn't use, that I could take way more trips. So I've already sold off a bunch, and won't buy very many new ones this year and instead I'll take a handful more LSC trips. Also I want to get a new Terrova with Ipilot. I feel like buying baits is similar to buying sports cards when I was a kid. |
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| backdraft - 1/8/2015 6:53 PM 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.... 'Draft I could never participate in this....my wife thinks all of my lures belong to my fishing partner and that I only fish with about 10 that are my own. I have many of my new purchases mailed to his house instead of mine. This says a lot about the level of my addiction! LOL. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Simple Man - 1/9/2015 12:26 PM
backdraft - 1/8/2015 6:53 PM 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.... 'Draft I could never participate in this....my wife thinks all of my lures belong to my fishing partner and that I only fish with about 10 that are my own. I have many of my new purchases mailed to his house instead of mine. This says a lot about the level of my addiction! LOL.
Now you've done it your wife is registered to this site.
For a price we could give you her user name |
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Location: Contrarian Island | I'd venture to guess that 70-80% of the lures guys own have never caught a musky! but they are still fun to look at in the water...  |
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| Picture #1 is all the stuff I bought at the show my third year musky fishing.
Picture #2 is one of my more productive lures.
I've caught more fish on the lure in picture #2 than all the lures in picture #1 combined.
Guess what I am most likely to throw next time I am on the water...
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Location: Contrarian Island | so like 4 then? jk, ok how many lures in pic one have actually caught a musky?
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| BNelson - 1/9/2015 1:05 PM
so like 4 then? jk, ok how many lures in pic one have actually caught a musky?
The brown/copper flasher has a few fish to it's credit. 2 on the black/green "martian" flasher before a 41" pike destroyed it. One on the Rainbow Trout Depth Raider. One on the Gold/Orange Bulldawg. One on the Weagle.
The sorry looking double 10 I think has 10 fish to it's credit.
Not that there's anything wrong with the lures in pic #1, but if I had to replace them all, what I would buy today would be completely different.
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Don't forget to take the Knipex with you that was a good purchase |
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Location: Contrarian Island | for sure... I had a bucktail with something like 22 fish on it before the blade wore thru the clevis...thanks Scottie! and tons of baits w zero fish... if guys are starting out now i'd simply tell them to get double bladed bucktails from 8s to 12s, big plastics and some topwater and be done!
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Location: oswego, il | I have 700+ musky baits. All have seen the water at some point. I buy baits to use them. Some get used rarely and are.for situations/places I dont venture much but when I do it is nice to have the best tool for the job.
now I will go to the show this weekend. Have an idea of a few baits I would like to have, then I will see baits I can use that have just come out, then the swap, yep can use some of those too. Before you know it, I have 50 new baits, few if any duplicates or different colors. Part of the addiction.
a response to the first question. Plenty of people buy on impulse, lack of experience and buy to flip and make some money. Makes for new bait sales. We can decide if we want them. No harm to us. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | ToddM - 1/9/2015 3:03 PM Some get used rarely and are.for situations/places I dont venture much but when I do it is nice to have the best tool for the job. That's my problem right there, if I only fished a couple waters I could easily get away with 50 lures. |
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| horsehunter - 1/9/2015 11:31 AM Simple Man - 1/9/2015 12:26 PM backdraft - 1/8/2015 6:53 PM 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.... 'Draft I could never participate in this....my wife thinks all of my lures belong to my fishing partner and that I only fish with about 10 that are my own. I have many of my new purchases mailed to his house instead of mine. This says a lot about the level of my addiction! LOL. Now you've done it your wife is registered to this site. For a price we could give you her user name Hilarious! You are giving me anxiety just at the thought of her discovering my addiction! |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | sworrall - 1/8/2015 9:06 PM
I have full tackle boxes I have not opened in 15 years.
I want to go to the hideout. |
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Location: Minnesota | I have a box of luresthat I have intended to post on here for sale for about a year now - just haven't got around to it. About half are new/unused/unopened. Most of those lures are ones that I won off raffle tickets at banquets I have attended and I know I won't use them so I am going to get rid of them at some point. Others are used lures that I just don't want anymore.
But I still buy lures that are bad purchases and will probably sell/trade/donate them in the future too. Part of the game I guess |
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| A few years ago I went from 300 lures down to 30 lures ,,, still catch as many fish as I did when I had a boat load of lures !! ,,,,, now I put lotsa lure money into my grand children's college education fund on a regular basis ,,, and ,,, I still catch muskies !! ------ I feel good about it --------- jimjimjim |
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Location: Wisconsin River | Most of my fishing is done in 10' or less. So my lure selection can be limited. I use about 10 lures and at times could get by with 3-4. What's the realistic number between a good assortment and a collection for most people. Saw some posts stating 500+. that's an insane collection! have a friend with 800 or so. I tease him about it on a regular basis. He admits its gotten way out of hand but his garage looks pretty cool. I will admit to having 18 of one bait that is no longer made and an addiction to tubes. At one time ordered 3 of every color. Most of those got chewed up and are no longer useable. Anyone recycle them? I could stand to sell 50-60 and still catch just as many fish but none are new in the box. Anyone interested please pm me? |
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Location: Northern IL | Will Schultz - 1/8/2015 5:34 PM
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.
Not in any position to say only that you do own a lot of bulldawgs and also that you have a great tool to get them back.
Have a good 2015! |
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| A lot of what you "need" depends on where you fish, how you fish, and when. I'm not a huge advocate of having lots of colors of each lure, but there are places were certain lures and certain color combinations of those lures just plain work.
I have lures for fishing down South in the spring. I have lures for Madison. I have lures for Northern Wisconsin. I have lures for Eagle lake, and even different parts of Eagle Lake. I have lures for shallow dark water lakes and lures for deep clear lakes...
There's some overlap to be sure, but if you fish from April to November everywhere from Kentucky to Ontario in all sorts of lakes and rivers, that's going to warrant having more lures than someone who just fishes their "home" lake.
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | jerryb - 1/9/2015 6:23 PM Will Schultz - 1/8/2015 5:34 PM 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. Not in any position to say only that you do own a lot of bulldawgs and also that you have a great tool to get them back. Have a good 2015! Unfortunately I've never been the high bidder on one of your retrievers at our banquet... |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | esoxaddict - 1/9/2015 5:48 PM
A lot of what you "need" depends on where you fish, how you fish, and when. I'm not a huge advocate of having lots of colors of each lure, but there are places were certain lures and certain color combinations of those lures just plain work.
I have lures for fishing down South in the spring. I have lures for Madison. I have lures for Northern Wisconsin. I have lures for Eagle lake, and even different parts of Eagle Lake. I have lures for shallow dark water lakes and lures for deep clear lakes...
There's some overlap to be sure, but if you fish from April to November everywhere from Kentucky to Ontario in all sorts of lakes and rivers, that's going to warrant having more lures than someone who just fishes their "home" lake.
we are talking about slimy fish that will eat a chicken carcass, right? |
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| I know of one. Tell 'ya what. If you're willing to throw nothing but chicken on your next trip to Eagle, I'l send you a check for $200. Deal? |
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| Simple Man - 1/9/2015 11:26 AM
'Draft I could never participate in this....my wife thinks all of my lures belong to my fishing partner and that I only fish with about 10 that are my own. I have many of my new purchases mailed to his house instead of mine. This says a lot about the level of my addiction! LOL.
And I thought I was one of the only people to mail my musky tackle to my best buds house so I don't have to get the standard lecture from my wife. I went and picked up a package the other day and I caught my buddy playing with two of my lures and he doesn't even fish. It was quite funny, even non fisherman find them amazing. |
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Location: Bemidji | I knew I had a problem when I could no longer fit any more baits or boxes in the boat. I felt as though I needed to have them all available just incase I may need to use them! I was faced with the possibility that I would have to start culling my collection... but I couldn't make myself do it, or stop buying more...
I now limit myself to about 400 baits in the boat between the Just Encase deck box and the compartments full of Plano's... I swap out baits as needed for the season or area of the country I'm fishing.
My name is Ethan, and I am a muskie lure addict.
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Location: one foot over the line | Getting baits sent to your buddy's house???? I'll admit, at first i thought ya'll had gone weak and couldn't stand up to the woman, HOWEVER, as i continued reading this thread it slowly dawned on me to the pure genius of this idea. Addiction is back on. |
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| If you send your new purchases to a friend's house please make sure he is not an addict also. |
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| DRPEPIN - 1/10/2015 10:27 AM If you send your new purchases to a friend's house please make sure he is not an addict also. Funny you say that...I usually get an email or a text saying how much he likes his new lures when they arrive in the mail. |
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| I'm guilty. Way too many baits and some never used. Don't tell my girls. I may lose my what I call thrifty status or what they call CHEAP |
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| I don`t use a lot different baits but I keep lots of back ups. I thought I had a lot Until I saw my buddy Mikes collection. He has hundreds of each. You don`t have to be extream but a lot of this stuff is hand made and sooner or later the guy quits gets sick or too old or whatever. |
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Location: NeverNever Lake | Whenever I travel across I-80, I always see signs for the WORLD'S LARGEST MUSKIE LURE COLLECTION. It's funny how they seem to end near Todd M's house..... |
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