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| I know most of us have favorite lures and the thought of loosing them makes our heart skip a beat - it can be like loosing an old friend! Please share your funny, scary, sad, disappointing stories about how your lost your favorite lure. |
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| I'll start - with a doubly sad story with a somewhat happy ending (at least for me). Several years ago I was casting a bumblebee Stealth in the Split Rock Point area on Lake of the Woods. The Stealth was a very cool, flat-bottom crank-style lure that had very wide (4-5 feet!) side to side meandering action on the retrieve. It was originally made by Topline Tackle which is no longer in business. Anyway, that day I was retrieving my Stealth which was just about back to the boat. As I prepared to start the figure 8, a low-40-inch muskie startled me as it darted up from the dirty water, T-boned the lure and danced along the side of the boat on it's tail until it was 3 feet behind the boat. At that point, it dropped back into the lake with my lure fastened to its mouth as I stood there dumbfounded because my lure was no longer connected to my line. Turns out my coastlock snap had opened during the head-shaking tail dance in a strange way and my lure came free. Not only had I just watched one of my favorite muskie lures disappear, I was concerned about the well-being of the muskie that was going to have to live with it at least for awhile. Sure hope she was able to get rid of it on her own. A few years ago I posted this story here and one of you put me in touch with the original manufacturers. I contacted them and they were able to get me a replacement Stealth! |
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| Not sure how this happened, but a friend just emailed to say one of his best Bull Dawgs from last year's Canada trip is no more!  It WAS a Thorne Bros exclusive all-glow mag dawg with black bars and a red head but they've been out of stock for awhile now and don't plan to re-order. I think I'll take a pic of mine and post it to the swap forum to see if anyone has one they'd care to sell or trade. Maybe he'll share is story of how it came up missing. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | When I first got into musky (5 years ago) fishing I bought two lures. A DCG 10 black /nickle and a mag dawg natural walleye. The natural walleye caught me my first 4 skis... Quickly becoming my favorite lure...
Last year on opener I took my boat out with my brother. I owned a 17ft lund fish and ski. (Key word owned).
As we were getting to the spot in the morning my boat started chugging and spitting black smoke. There were high 20mph winds. About 300 yrds from my spot my boat took a complete crap... died right there on the spot. I used the two oars in my boat to paddle the rest of the way to my spot as I waited for my buddy to come and tow me into the dock. As I waited I decided I was going to fish. Put on the mag dawg and started casting. three casts late I had a roughly 44" fish follow me in, I did the 8 and SHE ATE! I loosened my drag and then watched her take the line under the boat, she headed right toward the prop of my boat...... SNAP! wrapped herself around my prop shook her head once and the lure was gone... So in roughly 15 minutes I lost a boat, my favorite lure... and a fish.....
oooohhhh man..... bad memories.... |
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Location: deephaven mn | last year lake of the woods fish were biting on crank baits being bounced of the shallow rocky bottom, i hooked another turns out it was a upper 30's northern. only one hook through the upper lip, so i was just going to flip the hook out will while fish was still in the water. i flipped the hook out and fish swan away nicely,i then noticed my bait was gone, must have got the line throught the pliers when removing hook. #*^@ that was the hot bait !!! a minute later the fished surfaced with bait across the top of its head and eyes, i don't think it could see, this fish just sat there. we snuck up on it and went to net it and it went down never saw it again. that week it was my favorite bait. hope this fish shook it off.......arrgh |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | A few years ago I was fishing alone on Pelican trying to raise the mighty Big Bertha and had a major backlash that caused a failure of the swivel on my leader. Never had a leader fail like that ever, and of course there flying into the blue yonder about 50 yards away I helplessly watched my beloved perch colored original Manta that boated many fish splash and sink into the abyss. Sad day indeed. |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | My brother launched my lucky topraider into the woods ( I was not in the boat, other brother says he never even snapped the leader closed) he then refused to go look for it.. And refused to admit it by telling me he broke off on a 50+... What a joker, eh? |
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Location: Northern IL | I understand some may have emotional ties to a favorite lure or rod etc but to be honest I've never had a favorite lure or anything else, cold huh? However I have had baits a couple in particular, both black and silver Erines that I had for a long time and literally caught hundreds of pike on them before kinks in the wire caused their departure, we just watched the fish swim away with them. Some lures run perfectly straight for a long time and others are impossible to tune right out of the box. These couple baits got hit so many times they looked furry. Sure it was a disappointment I guess, but you move on, they make more. Sure I hate loosing any bait that I spent good money on but as long as there's another lure that runs at the precise depth were after and does so at the speed we want,,, its just another bait! |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | Not really my favorite lure but it was the hot lure of the week: tequila sunrise curly sue. Had a fish hit way out on the pause, set the hook HARD and all of the sudden nothing. Reeled up to find my leader with a broken snap. 30 seconds later my would be PB comes to the surface trashing with the lure in its mouth. Waited a while hoping it would surface next to the boat and I could net it but no luck. Wasn't a good day for me. Hope it shook the lure, it was a big fish. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | i had a black nickel bladed "Fuzz Wubby" bucktail with black hair..on Eagle one year with Donnie Hunt and Craig Eversol in the boat we decided to have a casting distance contest...well you know how this one goes...about mid flight i got a bit of a backlash and snapppp...there goes my fav bucktail at the time that was raising A LOT of big skis on Eagle... she's sitting on the inside of Colemans reef if anyone finds her...  |
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Location: Des Moines IA | My favorite Weagle is about 20 ft up in a tree. Planning on a recovery trip to get her real soon actually .... |
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| I lost a bright orange manta in about 3 FOW. Clear water, sand bottom, sunny day. You should have been able to find that lure from space... Not really a favorite lure, though. In fact, I don't think I've ever HAD a favorite lure. |
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Location: MN | I had a bucktail made by local Lake Vermilion guide Dave Swenson that caught a countless number of Lake Vermilion skies. Thanks to a backlash+P-Pro line the bucktail went flying and now lays to rest somewhere around Arrowhead. Major bummer.
Edited by Mak51 6/26/2012 12:08 PM
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Location: Contrarian Island | manta EA? yah no real loss there! ; ) lol. |
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| BNelson - 6/26/2012 12:05 PM
manta EA? yah no real loss there! ; ) lol.
"Dude these lures are GREAT! You gotta have one of these! Man, I raised at least 10 fish on mine last week, and the guys I was with only caught one each!!"
live and learn... |
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | I like to make bomb casts( get my moneys worth) one of the guys i shared a boat with last year was fairly new to casting big baits and apparantly thought that in order to do it right meant do it harder. I watched one of my baits sail off into the blue and gave him his cost. Wasn't an hour later another one went sailing. He stayed calm the rest of the day, but both of those baits just had a fresh over the winter weighting and paint job. Both sleep with the fishes! |
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| In 2010 I landed a DCG 10, black w/ nickle blades at the MN swap meet for $5. That bait carried me for the whole 2010 season, catching half of my fish, including a 55". 3 weeks after boating my PB, I went to change lures and the bait slipped right out of my hand and landed in milfoil that was to the roof. I went to Thorne and bought a new one, and cut alot of the maribou off, but have not caught a fish on that one yet. Interesting!!!
"Sometimes losing is winning" |
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Location: La Crosse, WI | I bought a 10 inch Phantom at the Milwaukee Muskie Expo when they just came out. The bait was sweet, Green Bay Packer colors. I raised several fish with it and had a couple hits that just didn't get the hooks. Took my buddy out, he puts the bait on his pole without me noticing. He gets a backlash his first cast and down she goes! His face was priceless, I couldn't be too mad at him. |
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| MuskieMike - 6/26/2012 11:42 AM
My favorite Weagle is about 20 ft up in a tree. Planning on a recovery trip to get her real soon actually ....
Mike, I'm still a little confused by that cast....were you trying to knock a squirrel out of the tree?.....you might need a chainsaw 
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Location: Northern Illinois | I was all excited when I first started muskie fishing and I had the boat out about 5:00AM on lake that was as calm as glass. I really didn't know to use 80lb+ line or anything back then and probably just had a basic knot on the line as well. Anyway, I had a Mepps Giant Killer Tandem on the line and I chucked it for a super long cast. I got a back lash right away. The funny part was I knew I was going to lose the lure a few seconds before it hit the water because I could see it sailing overhead like a comet and I knew the line wasn't attached.
Edited by mm3 6/26/2012 10:58 PM
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | MuskieMike - 6/26/2012 11:42 AM
My favorite Weagle is about 20 ft up in a tree. ....
"What are you fishing for ****ing squirrels?!" Herbie. |
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Location: Des Moines IA | Sure enough ... Saw a squirrel up there, and was thinkin' about dinner!!!!!
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| BNelson - 6/25/2012 12:29 PM
i had a black nickel bladed "Fuzz Wubby" bucktail with black hair..on Eagle one year with Donnie Hunt and Craig Eversol in the boat we decided to have a casting distance contest...well you know how this one goes...about mid flight i got a bit of a backlash and snapppp...there goes my fav bucktail at the time that was raising A LOT of big skis on Eagle... she's sitting on the inside of Colemans reef if anyone finds her... ;)
do you use something like 65 pound test line?since i use 100 lbs i have never lost a single lure due to backlash,magdawg included. |
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