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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | Reading the "Found depth raider" forum I'm wondering if the Brotherhood of Muskie Boys will ever get to the point where you'll return found lures, rods. or what ever. With some of these lures getting to the price where it hurts if you lose them, whats to say that a serial number couldn't be applied. When found it's your responsiblity to find the owner, contact him and return the lure some how thru the network. Or does it stay finders keepers, losers weepers?
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| My Double Secret Believers all have serial numbers. Only problem is the big fish that leveraged the tail piece off one last fall, absconded with the end that had the serial number on it!
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | I bought a hand made bait at the swap last year and it has the number of the bait on it. Kind of like what an artist does to signature thier prints. I guess it a little far fetched to think that this could really happen, but is it possible? |
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Location: Madison, WI | You could just GPS chip all of your baits!
http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article1.asp?datePublish=2003/09/...
About the size of a dime!
I'm not sure if I would go searching out the owner, but if someone said "I lost my favorite bait, this is what it was" I would contact that person.
Edited by Magruter 1/31/2007 9:38 AM
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY |
Heck, i need to put one of those little gps in my golf balls!  |
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| It would depend on the bait and where I found it.
If I snagged a beat up old a Shad Rap I'd probably just doss it in my box and forget about it.
But if it was a suick that had clearly caught tons of fish? Well... I'd probably throw it some before I got on here and described it  , but I'd try to find the person who lost it. If it was an autographed bait, a custom, or a really expensive bait, or just one that I figured probably meant something to someone, I'd try to find the owner. A cheap bait that could easily be replaced like a jig? Probably not. |
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| The closer the bait looks to something that might be very special to someone the harder I would try to get it back to them.
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | I found a Flame Orange Manta on a SE Wisc Lake, No wait I was Looking for a Flame Orange Manta on a SE Wisc Lake
I would post it to see if someone could claim it based on Desc and Where found if no response keep it
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| Flourescent orange on a sunny day dissapears completely in 6 feet of clear water. Turns this weedy sandy color that blends so well with the bottom the only way to find it is to step on it!
Somewhere out there there's a guy with a Manta who tells his buddies "look at this thing -- I FOUND this bait in 6 feet of water, saw it through the ice. How the hell could anybody lose this? |
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| Just like finding a twenty dollar bill, I doubt if I would go around asking if someone lost it. However, if I heard of someone loosing it, I'd make an attempt to return it to the rightful owner.
If I found a lure with a serial number on it, I doubt if I would go out of my way to find the owner, unless there was an easy way to identify the owner.
Interesting subject. I've thought about labeling a couple of lures (I'll never sell) with my name and phone number.....hoping to never loose one, but if I did and was found, it might be returned to me. |
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Location: Medford, WI | Any musky bait that I happened to find of any significant value (such as in working order), I would probably put up a post on here and muskyhunter saying I found that type of bait and person who lost could email with which lake. Wouldn't do any searching for owner unless, as those above noted, the bait was clearly custom-made for someone.
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Location: On your favorite spot | Good Musky Karma - I'm still a believer. That's why I didn't buzz those jackasses who cut in front of me last fall or cut the hook off their trailer strap at the ramp (among other things that crossed my mind). You gotta give it back if it's something special. |
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| I found a musky snax on Pelican. Looks like someone casted that thing and the line just snapped. I've got an idea who it belongs to....hehehehe. |
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Location: The desert | LOL!!!! I bet that thing was covered in 5 feet of muck 20 minutes after it hit the bottom, after I dove in while it was still in flight and tried to grab it before it disapeared.....heck I tried to burry a hook in my arm, I was grabbing for anything!! |
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| Finders keepers........all the way man! |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Ask Shane West about Karma.
He found a box full of baits along side the highway, and made the effort to return it to its owner. it was reunited with the guy who lost it. Good folks from this board floated him all kinds of free stuff from that action. Do on to others, bro.
Karma, good or bad, comes back around. Shane, K-bob, Lolleitta, and Muskymaj must have done something REALLY wrong for me to be part of their lives! LOL! |
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im a firm believer in Karma |
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | This was a good assortment of thoughts about what could be done. You have one side that would make an effort to try and one one side that wouldn't. You really can't be upset with the guys who would keep it, although you might have something to say to them if you recognized some lost equipment at the launch.
With this I would like to propose to the this site coordinators a question, How about putting a section on the sight where you can post a picture or description on what was found, where, when and date it. Lets say after 2 weeks on the post if there isn't any response, the effort has been made and it's yours.
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| Lost and found thread, I like it!
Let me be the first to start!
Lost:
1 bright orange super shallow Manta, black spots, new
North end of Silver Lake, Kenosha County ~6 FOW
200# Stringease solid wire leader w/#4 stay-lok stap attached
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| I'm not saying I would keep a whole box full of baits or rod and reel or anything, But If I snag a depth raider while trolling,.....well.....I got a new depth raider. |
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | Pete I'm saying if the bait had a serial number on it you could put that on the site to be returned. Now how does that happen. Plastic baits could be etched or burned in? Wood baits burned in or stamped in? Its a real bummer waiting for open water season.
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Location: Wauwatosa, Wisconsin | THAT LOST MANTA - did it happen to have some braided line attached?
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| LOL, not sure that it did Greg -- think it broke off pretty close to or at the leader. They fly far when they're no longer attached!  Always wondered how far that thing glided before it stopped, and if maybe a fish grabbed it on the way down, because we went back and forth over that spot 4 or 5 times. Clear water, not a lot of weeds. One would think it would be easy to find. |
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| Lost:
Lure: 7 inch bumble bee (jail bird) pattern Stealth (by Topline Tackle - purchased around 2001).
Locaton: Split Rock Point, Sabaskong Bay LOTW (west of Nestor Falls)
When: The week of July 8-15, 2006
Not expecting my lost lure to be returned to me, but I'm REALLY interested in replacing it. Maybe you can help. I'd like to buy one from one of you that may have this 7-inch model lure and pattern that you don't use. (color isn't as important - I can repaint it if necessary) Or, if someone can give me the name of the people who used to own Topline Tackle (I think from Minnesota) and how to contact them, that would be awesome, too.
I've attached a pic of my pike-pattern 7-inch Stealth so you kind-of know what it looks like. It's flat on the bottom and rounded on the top with sort-of a football shape.
Thanks for helping me,
D2Bucktail
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Location: Janesville | I have a black one that you can buy. I just have to find it I only have 2500 musky baits hanging in the basement and i tackle boxs. . Email or pm me
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Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | Just call me "Even Steven......"
Though if I found a bait that I knew was of significant retail value I'd post something about it. As far as more common baits, there could and probably is a story attached to every lure that has gotten lost and or recovered thereby giving it sentimental value. Lets not get too carried away. How many balls of tangled line have you hooked into with a lindy or three way rig or $3 rapala etc attached. Did YOU try find the owner...I think not.
Karl
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Location: WI | If I found a box of lures at a boat landing or something similar I would defiantely try.. but pulling a lure out of a lake is so random that it semms like a needle in a haystack to find the original owner. |
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