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| New Member to the list here.
I have a question, Perhaps it has already been asked here if so I didn't find it.
Recently my cabin was burglarized and among the items stolen was all my muskie tackle. For some reason they left all my rods and reels but tackle boxes and their contents are gone. For insurance purposes I am currently trying to create an inventory of the missing equipment. I suspect that the claims adjuster will balk at the dollar amount of all my muskie tackle.
If you had to estimate the dollar amount to replace all your muskie tackle (Just what is in your tackle boxes), how much would it be? I am hoping to see a lot of responses here. I am not stating what I am coming up with for my own amount so as not to influence any of your responses.
Thanks In advance.
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| Why did you bring this up??? Did my wife call you and ask??
Answer just starting out and already Muskie tackle $799, not counting bass , walleye, etc which OMG way too much! |
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | Probably a hair under $6,000 when you look at the musky lures being worth about $15 each at current prices. That's being conservative.
Edited by Almost-B-Good 12/4/2009 1:53 AM
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Location: Algonac, MI | Just lures....
Over $10K, after a quick glance... Hate to even tally it all up....Nope, can't do it...have to admit to my disease, then.
Edited by Contender 12/4/2009 6:33 AM
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| Get a catalog and start writing down lure names and prices. If you have any pictures of your tackle that will help. |
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Location: Roscoe IL | YIKES!
Over $6,000 just in lures. and that's a conservative estimate. With all the muskie shows comming up, I need to keep this in mind! |
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| I would say almost as much as a new car’s depreciation value in two years. |
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Location: In a shack in the woods | I don't even know where to start. At least $2500 plus another $2500 in rods and reels.
This is just Muskie equipment. |
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| Probably roughly $4000 |
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| spent well over 2,000 this year alone! and i didnt even go to any shows this past year! |
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Location: Pickering, ON | Delete this post immediately! If any of our wives happen to see it we're friggin screwed!
I've got myself back into one Lakewood Monster, so I'll say $2000 or less.
Even then, at least 1/2 of them are probably still virgins.
Edited by JeffinPickering 12/4/2009 10:02 AM
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Location: Otsego, MN | For sure over $2,500 and Probably close to $2,000 in rods and reels. It doesn't seem to bad when you accumulate it over a few years. (That's what I say to my wife, when she gets mad at me.) |
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| "Ya know how a Muskie Fisherman/woman becomes a Millionaire???????? He/She starts with 2 !!!!!!" Hahahahahaha. Now that's some funny Shizzle. |
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| Figure $18 for the average lure, I've probably got 400 lures?? That's $7200 right there. Add in the cost of your lakewoods, hooks, snaps, split rings, pliers, knipex...
Rods and reels aside, I'd say $10,000.
Factor in your rods, net, reels, line, truck, boat, and all the clothes you need to fish until ice up?
I'd be willing to be that most of us have probably $75,000 invested.
If you really want to feel stupid, figure out how much money you've spend all inclusive. Tackle, trips, guides, gas, EVERYTHING.
Then divide that by the number of muskies you have caught. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Jeff, Thanks..... Now I'm really depressed, as the muskies haven't been jumping the boat lately.........Stupid Fish
I think $4,000. - $5,000. just in fishing lures, and one from last winter's O.P. auction at $310.00 (Can't bring myself to use it, it's so pertty)
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| I think it's probably in the neighborhood of only $300-$400. (Why is it that you feel like you have a small "man-thing" when the amount is that low?) 
But as they also say, what I have gets the job done for me! |
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Location: Des Moines IA | I just insured rod, reels, and lures for 10,000$, and the boat just got insured for the same. |
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| Seems like a good time to remind people to take pictures, or even better a video, of all of their equipment for insurance purposes. A lot of us have a significant amount of money invested in this sport, protect your investment and get it documented and insured properly. Also, don't keep the only records you have of your equipment in the same location as your equipment. Save your photos in your email as well as on your computer. That way when the house burns down with all of your equipment, your camera, and your computer still in it you have concrete evidence of what you had to show your insurer.
Think I just figured out what I'm doing tonight! |
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Location: Contrarian Island | i know guys w/ more...and this is pretty sick but I have a spreadsheet for my insurance agent with all rods/reels/electronics listed...no lures....and it totals $13k. Lures...geezuz....probably another $10k...sick.
Edited by BNelson 12/4/2009 2:11 PM
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Location: God's Country......USA..... Western Wisconsin | I live in fear that when I die my wife will then know how much I really spent on tackle. |
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| And we wonder why there aren't more musky fisherman. Ha!
It would be a good test for all of us to take a look at our equipment, usa a fictional budget of say $750 for rods, reels and lures... and tell ourselves, this is what I need to go to war. And you know what, we probably would catch the same amount of fish year to year. And since I make all my lures, I can keep my Calcutta in the mix.
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Location: Pickering, ON | muskyone - 12/4/2009 2:20 PM
I live in fear that when I die my wife will then know how much I really spent on tackle.
By then you're home free! lol
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Location: Indiana | I have two large Dunwrights stuffed full. The value of baits in them is $2990. Like mentioned above I have a spreadsheet. That is the value, I even have what I actually paid, which is a much smaller number. I keep this for my insurance agent and snap a new photo every winter. |
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Location: Southern Ontario, Detroit River and Lake StClair | I got ripped off a few years back. When I took it to my insurance company they said not a problem and that they typically paid $3-$4 per lure for fishing gearing. When I told them that Muskie baits usually ran in the $20 per bait area they just about sh!t. they ended up paying it out but only after I provided pictures of the baits and boxes and got estimates for a couple of different shops for replacement value. Now I have separate rider for my fishing gear thats good for $15,000 about $12,000 of that is all Muskie gear thats been collected over 20yrs+. Every year before season I do inventory and take pictures then hand them over to my insurance company. I'm not sure how things work in the in the USA for insurance but it was relatively cheap to have it added to my house insurance and good piece of mind knowing its FULLY insured.
Good Fishin'
Tim
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Location: syracuse indiana | well like i usually tell my clints they are fishing out of my kid college fund lol its that high...bill |
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Location: Iowa | My tackle is probably in the $2,000 range. Rods and reels are probably just a tad under that amount. I too take pictures every winter, and double check my coverage. |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | 4-5 grand for tackle. Half a million with boats and lake house. |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | As my wife may read this post at some time, I would very precisely estimate/guess that I have between $6 and $9 tied up in ALL my muskie equipment, not counting both of my Berkley Ball Bearing Snap Swivels! |
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Location: Michigan | This is bad... Just Muskie stuff...
Trolling lures 5000
Casting lures 6000
Collector Lures 4500 |
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Location: indiana | i read somewhere a good line..... "my greatest fear is that when i die, my wife will sell all my musky gear for what i told her i paid for it". |
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| Boy you all have the disease baddddddd. I have maybe two buckets of lures, and now I build a few. Maybe a few hundred in lures and more in rods and reels. Might have to go count it all tomorrow. I may be in for a shock.  |
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| Plows $2500,Perchbaits $1250,Wishmasters $1500,Perrywinkles $750,Hi-Fin Trophy Divers $2000,Depthraiders $650,Wiley Lures $800, Other Trolling Lures $3000
Casting Lures $5500 TOTAL=$17,950.00
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Location: Irvine, KY | After one year roughly $1000 in lures and another $2000 in rods, reels, leader material, release tools, etc,.
I love my new toys!
Edited by Muskiecut 12/6/2009 4:13 AM
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| I've been divorced for about 7 years. The court accepted her value estimate of my tackle at that time. I did not contest her figures. Since I don't know anything about statute of limitations regarding such as above...... |
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Location: Tinley Park. Fish Cen IL. Bass & Vilas Cty.Muskie | 3 big Muskie Boxes of baits(sleeves laid down- baits just packed inside), 2 full size dressers of baits and about 40-3700 boxes packed with bass baits(30-50 each) and maybe 5 boot boxes packed with bass baits. I just stopped buying any great deal of bass/Muskie baits from 1980-2000(pre china).I was spending $200/month for last 3 years on Internet swap sites. |
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| I've my own lil baitshop everyone says, I fish at least 300 days a year for every species so you do the math, don't forget to include the ice fishing gear. |
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| I think most fishermen have memorized every lure in their tackle box. I would suggest that you make a list, look up the prices on Rollie & Helens, and derive a precise number. Rollie & Helens (web site or catalog) is a good source because they have a wide selection and "typical" prices.
For most dedicated musky hunters, I think the amount would be in the thousands of dollars.
Brian
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Location: lake x...where the hell is it? | i got about 150 baits at an avg. of say $15 each, $2300!!! |
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| I think we can be overwellmed with our purchases. Might be a better IDEA to invest in private security at the launch and at our cabins............LOJACK everything!!!!
What is our world coming to?
Think twice about personal purchases from unknown individuals for sure.
Lakes |
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| i fish for musky,walleye,salmon,and occasionally weed carp(aka bass), crappie and gills, perch and every other species i fish all year long and have enough tackle for 2 extra people at all times
i would say 20,000 in tackle
and 30,000 in boat and toys
its not enough yet
look out fleet farm here i come
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Location: MN | Muskies Inc. should have a seperate meeting called Musky Lures Anonymous for all of us musky lure addicts.
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| Boat.............................................$60,000
Truck to tow boat...........................$55,000
Lures.............................................$20,000
Rods and reels................................$ 5,000
Building to store stuff musky stuff...$100,000
Catching muskies........PRICELESS |
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Location: Johnsonville, Wisconsin | I figure $300. I'm not big lure buyer, just use what works and I'm not a guy who changes baits every 10 min.
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | $30K boat
2 custom Frank Rods
2 GLoomis
4 Okuma rods
Too many muskie reels to name
13 salmon rod/reel combos
300 lures
AND I REALIZED THIS MORNING THAT THE GARAGE DOOR WAS OPEN ALL NIGHT LAST NIGHT!!! |
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| $3500-$4000 in rods,reels, tackle. I usually add about $300 a year in tackle to fill in colors and new lures. Don't really need to, but in Canada if you need a lure, they pretty much don't have what you want, so I carry my own store with me. I sure don't carry all the boxes in my boat, but if I need something I've got it in the cabin. |
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| Only my second year into the hunt and just over $3000 worth of tackle. |
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Location: Suburban Chicago | Roughneck1860 - 12/4/2009 8:25 PM
...Now I have separate rider for my fishing gear thats good for $15,000 about $12,000 of that is all Muskie gear thats been collected over 20yrs+.
Good thinking Tim. I did the insurance rider thing a bunch of years ago to cover accumulated fly fishing gear. It was just 5K but I always felt good about it. I upped it to $10K when we switched carriers.
My wife is completely in the dark about what stuff costs, but she's not stupid either. In the event of my untimely death (seriously) my wife KNOWS not to just firesale the stuff on the front lawn or anything. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Mmmm. . . Why did this have to come up again. Brings a tear to my eye when I think about it, but as i continue to think about my equipment my frown turns upside-down. Closing on a new home tomorrow and I can't wait to put up the new "wallpaper". . . A wall of colors, a wall of lures. |
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| HAHAHAHA I always hang all my stuff on a wall during the winter and tell the wife it is to keep it from rusting in the Lakewood...... |
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| with all the money most of you guys have invested in lures. my question would be of all of your lures how many do you still use? do you go through hundreds of lures over the course of the season or do you have your favorite few that get fished most of the time. |
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| Guest - 1/19/2010 10:35 PM
with all the money most of you guys have invested in lures. my question would be of all of your lures how many do you still use? do you go through hundreds of lures over the course of the season or do you have your favorite few that get fished most of the time.
Over the course of an average season, fishing maybe 35 days?
I probably use two dozen different lures. I might use 4 or 5 during a week up on Eagle, and yet I bring half of my lures up there with me. Why IS that... |
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| I was thinkin ole Muskydew was an OK stick, but then I looked at the $240,000.00 he has invested (see above) and now I'm thinkin....for all that Jack, he should be better
Marty Forman |
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Location: Eagle River, WI | all of it. except for what is needed for food, clothes, and gas. |
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How much money do you have tied up in tackle?