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Location: Lake St Clair | I'm fairly new to musky fishing and I have a out 75. I feel like I need another 75 more.
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| I used to have hundreds, now I keep it around 50-75, typically only use about 5-10 of them though. BR |
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Location: Minnesota | to many to count
50 + rubber baits
30+big blads
40+ top watter
25 trolling baits
100 somthing hair bucktails,
and im still buying wish i never started musky fishing i would be a rich man if it wasent for muskys |
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Location: sneaking out to get on the water ;-) | I have around ten bait styles that I use the most but tons of color combos and slight variations of them. |
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Location: Otsego, MN | Used to have a few hundred. Eventually you just realize you need much less!
At $20+ bucks a lure it gets expensive, and you could have a lot nicer reels and rods than a ton of lures collecting dust. |
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| I have about 2 per hour I get to fish a year... My 13 year-old daughter was just telling me I am nuts for this obsession... I think she is right... |
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| One basement full. You can never have enough that is a myth. |
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| I wanted all my topwater in one box, I have 92 topwater baits....I don't want to count the rest it would take way to long  |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Maybe 80-90. The problem is that musky innovations comes out with custom colors at the shows that you just HAVE to have! They just keep piling up.... |
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| a few 1000's.. scared to count.. starting to clean house though.. if you need 75 more i could probably help you out.. |
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Location: St. John, Indiana | Just take pictures .... |
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| Too many. And Counting!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Eau Claire,WI | Lets see,been bit over 20 years ago,got the "magic" bait syndrome soon there after and have never been the same . I have thousands. I just put away a large conatiner of lures I haven't touched in over 15 years,some never used,some used once,some caught 20+ fish but just lost interest in em,found something better! I have 3,4 and even 6 or 12 of the same lure and color baits,just in case I loose or break one or 3 of them! Add that to about 20 different lures and it don't take long to get a 500 lures. I do collect certain lures from the mid to late 80's.... I also have 20+poles, a box full of reels some work,some don't. I have tried to sell some here but that didn't go as well as I had hoped... So my total is close to well, almost enough but still looking for that " magic" lure that will get me 1 over 50,then I gotta find another and another...Keep on getting lures, it is fun to look at a basement full of em and say you don't have the right one and not enough of em! Sorry about the book,oh,I got a shelf full of those too! LOL |
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Location: Sussex, NJ | I have about 75-80 lures. Each a special place in my Lakewood lol |
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Location: E. Tenn | Too many...but yet not quite enough!!
+ I've made quite a few "blade" baits, y'know D-10's, 8's, spinnerbaits, inlines..
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Location: St. John, Indiana | Paul lets see pictures of that collection |
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Location: WI | Maybe 300. |
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Location: Germantown, WI | Great timing of this topic. After milw show last weekend my son asked me how many I had.....so we counted......176.....about twice as many as I really need |
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| Probally way too many, However NOT ENOUGH Warner Crankbaits |
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Location: On the Niagara River in Buffalo, NY | Half a Garage full and six boxs in the boat and still buying! |
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Location: Ohio | Way too many (4 or 5 hundred), but isn't that part of the muskie bug never enough baits. |
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| 18 that always get a boat ride, 823 more in current rotation, another several hundred that never take a boat ride anymore. My current rate of purchasing is much less than it was 15 years ago! |
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| Over 1000. Thanks dad! |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | I don't feel so bad now |
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Location: Rockwell City, IA | Not near as many as most guys on here.
Couple hundred.
Been selling some on the buy/sell board.
I sell some, then find something else
I "need", pretty much spinnin' my wheels.
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Location: Central Minnesota | Right around 100 and growing. So much fun to buy lures. I think a lot of lures catch more fisherman than fish but its a better addiction than crack or meth. Right now I'm more concerned with getting quality rod and reel combos. |
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| How wealthy are you? If you have unlimited financial resources, and you want to, buy as many as you like. But you may feel like a fool later. If you aren't that wealthy, stop and consider whether you need more than you have. If you can't call yourself a rich dude, you might consider these points of direction:
1. Don't buy anything that isn't a proven taker of fish;
2. Don't buy the same bait in more than three different colors;
3. Don't buy any lure that you won't use regularly, you probably don't need it;
4. Don't buy anything (for recreational use) until you're sure all your financial responsibilities and future necessities are covered. |
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| According to my wife too many! Then we take a walk into her shoe closet! Gotta love the shoe closet!!! |
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| I am like alot of you guys---Approx 125 baits---but I limit it down when I load up for a trip---depending on the time of year and lakes or area we are fishing I usually take about 30 with me----even that is more than enough as I most likely will only use maybe 12 - 15 of them per trip. |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | FishingFool - 2/23/2013 9:31 PM
Lets see,been bit over 20 years ago,got the "magic" bait syndrome soon there after and have never been the same . I have thousands. I just put away a large conatiner of lures I haven't touched in over 15 years,some never used,some used once,some caught 20+ fish but just lost interest in em,found something better! I have 3,4 and even 6 or 12 of the same lure and color baits,just in case I loose or break one or 3 of them! Add that to about 20 different lures and it don't take long to get a 500 lures. I do collect certain lures from the mid to late 80's.... I also have 20+poles, a box full of reels some work,some don't. I have tried to sell some here but that didn't go as well as I had hoped... So my total is close to well, almost enough but still looking for that " magic" lure that will get me 1 over 50,then I gotta find another and another...Keep on getting lures, it is fun to look at a basement full of em and say you don't have the right one and not enough of em! Sorry about the book,oh,I got a shelf full of those too! LOL
Paul- I'll bet I have some that you don't, I also know you have lots that I don't. LOL
I'm going to try and make the Wausau show, I'll bring a couple with me. I would really enjoy seeing you again, its been a while since the Cass Lake adventure.
Have fun!
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| Too many, and keep collecting more. |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Last count in 2010 was just over 1200 lures. Best guess is 1500 plus by now. Never enough. Since I troll for a few months a season I need multiples of each good trolling baits. That adds up quickly.
Never enough lures or rods and reels. |
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| To many, but i have some for sale to help you get more!! hahaha |
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Location: Palatine, IL | I am reading this out loud to me wife. Thanks for making me look good guys! |
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Location: Central Wisconsin | Had around 150+ and recently worked on narrowing down my collection to a more manageable 80-90. Different styles of each action of lure and a different size to work with and colors to match different water types. Always adding new ones each season but nice to be able to sell some here to have more money to buy more. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | A Bunch. |
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | A boat load! |
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| Close to 100 baits. Lakewood monster box full and 4 plastic boxes in the pockets full of baits as well. I am sure i have more running around the house somewhere. |
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Location: Muskegon Michigan | My wife and I used to keep near a thousand but we shaved that down to a couple hundred that catch fish. My personal casting box only holds about 40, so when I go out I don't carry many lures anymore. My wife still packs her magnum Lakewood with more then she can fish in a week on the water and still catches most of her fish on two lures. Her and I could catch all our fish on 12 baits casting and 8 baits trolling on most lakes. But there is the boredom factor to consider. One gets bored fast throwing the same thing over and over and over again. Our total varies now every year. We buy trade and build in reaction to where we plan on fishing the coming season. This year is going to be a lot small lakes close to home so I wont be building or buying much big stuff. But hey collecting lots of musky baits is fun. I love it when someone says fish actually eat those?????????? Mike |
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| I've been into it for almost 4 years now. Just cleaned the boat out and reorganized a few weeks back and decided to count. Just over 150 hard baits, spinnerbiats & bucktails. Didnt count rubber but I'd guess at about 20 bulldawgs. Like everyone else, I could cut those 150 in half and not miss them. FYI, I sold about 20 last fall. We're crazy |
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| I used to have hundreds ,,, then I asked myself these questions :
--- have I ever had a follow-up on this lure ?
--- have I ever caught a musky on this lure ?
--- have I used this lure in the last two years ?
If the answer was no ,, I sold it away,,, now I have a few bucktails, a few crankbaits, a few rubber baits and 10 Suicks,,, now its so easy to load the boat !!
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| Thousands. Here is about half of my bulldawg collection. Needless to say I am obsessed
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | SpencerBerman - 2/25/2013 4:47 PM
Thousands. Here is about half of my bulldawg collection. Needless to say I am obsessed
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Location: Lake St Clair | SpencerBerman - 2/25/2013 4:47 PM
Thousands. Here is about half of my bulldawg collection. Needless to say I am obsessed
Which one is your favorite? |
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| SpencerBerman - 2/25/2013 4:47 PM
Thousands. Here is about half of my bulldawg collection. Needless to say I am obsessed
That's not that bad, I see some empty slots where more could fit... |
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| Black Org is my favorite. I killed about 30 of them last season I would guess. Need to reload on them once the boys at musky innovations are done with show season. |
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | Just wait until you start making baits. Every says that it's a great way to save money, but instead it's a great way to have 4x more for the same amount of $$$.
A few years ago I counted around 350 in my boat and there were about 2-3x that at home still. |
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Location: Eau Claire,WI | Spencer,THANKS for letting me know that I have NO Dawgs comapred to you! VERY NICE Collection!!! My obsesession is no where near yours! Now if you had that many gliders and cranks I would be in total awe!
Black and orange is my favorite too I only have 10 or so tho! |
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| Trust me my cranks and glider collections are pretty large as well. The problem is that they are packed up in boxes mainly so I cant really take a pic like I did with the dawgs. |
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| 100s and 100s and 100s... Id rather not think about it.. |
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Location: IL | Not enough. |
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| So many that if you were to stand inside my home and throw a cat hard in any direction you would require either the volunteer fire daprtment or a .22 short to resolve the problem. |
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Location: Pittsburgh, pa | I used to have around 1000,, I am down to about 700 now but still keep buying more !!! |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | I have about 100 now. But just looking at those pictures make me REALLY jeleous! Clearly I need more, I gotta start using more dussas and dawgs this year.
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| I have two of those cheap Bass Pro Shops carrying pouches that hold four 3700 Planos each. Those eight Planos packed full is more than enough. Like some others stated, now my main concern is better rods and reels.
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA | 216 and i keep track of maker, model, size and color in an Excel spreadsheet. |
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Location: Angola, IN | It's not about the lures you do have....
It's all about the lures I don't have. LOL!! |
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Location: Apollo, PA | THANKS, I HAVE MORE SELF ESTEEM NOW |
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Location: MN | The Swan - 2/24/2013 4:08 PM
How wealthy are you? If you have unlimited financial resources, and you want to, buy as many as you like. But you may feel like a fool later. If you aren't that wealthy, stop and consider whether you need more than you have. If you can't call yourself a rich dude, you might consider these points of direction:
1. Don't buy anything that isn't a proven taker of fish;
2. Don't buy the same bait in more than three different colors;
3. Don't buy any lure that you won't use regularly, you probably don't need it;
4. Don't buy anything (for recreational use) until you're sure all your financial responsibilities and future necessities are covered.
Buzz kill...big time. |
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| Al, "FishingFool" is not the Paul we befriended at Cass. At least I don't think so. Our old pal Paul slid to the side years ago, like many masters who quietly go their own way.
Paul.....I took him out at Cass and that was the first time I ever had a guest bring a tacklebox that took up ALL the room in the center of my humble 14' boat. He smoked cigs but didn't in the room at his house where he stores his baits. He has less than zero tolerance for a drunk flashing a big white ass in his face in the middle of the night; Thick Shady was lucky to not have that big white ass beaten down that night. Don't ask about his tats. In fact, don't ask him about anything. That's Paul, original Fishingfool. |
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| The Swan - 2/24/2013 4:08 PM
How wealthy are you? If you have unlimited financial resources, and you want to, buy as many as you like. But you may feel like a fool later. If you aren't that wealthy, stop and consider whether you need more than you have. If you can't call yourself a rich dude, you might consider these points of direction:
1. Don't buy anything that isn't a proven taker of fish;
2. Don't buy the same bait in more than three different colors;
3. Don't buy any lure that you won't use regularly, you probably don't need it;
4. Don't buy anything (for recreational use) until you're sure all your financial responsibilities and future necessities are covered.
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Location: Eau Claire,WI | The Swan: I am far from rich! I live rather cheap,no truck payment,my bills are low and don't waste money on excessive things like the newest smart phone,fancy clothes or shoes. I am a bachelor,have been my entire life,no plans to change either!No kids or child support just a big old fat dog that I got from the pound a few years ago. So my prioity is my passion,musky fishing and musky lures. While I do have a ratherlarge collection to the average fisherman it by no means a "huge" collection. I might have over 100 of one lure,( 10" Jake), but only a few of others. I used to go to many musky shows and get some good deals and show colors,now I attend one or 2. You can find deals on the internet and at sports shops. I have collected hundreds of lures that way... It don't take long to get 1000 if you get em cheap!
One other thing,a guide friend of mine once said,"it is better to have 10 lures and know how to use them than 100 you don't know how to use". Not to hard to work a glider, double 10, Bull Dawg top water,or a crank bait. Now but em for 20+ years and you have a "nice" collection of lures! Enough said!
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Location: Contrarian Island | toooo many....I think over 500.. maybe over 600... but the older and more experienced I get it seems I end up using less and less each year.... It's fun to have lots of shiny lures but look at how many lures most of us have then look at each lure and ask yourself if you've caught one fish on it...every couple winters i go thru my lures and if it hasn't hit the water in a few years or caught a fish it may hit the buy / sell board... ; ) guys complain about an $8 sucker but have 100s of $20 lures that may never put a fish in the net for them....kinda funny to me... ; )
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Location: Alexandria, Minnesota | Too Many!!!!
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| Hey Captain Larry are you still guiding on Chautauqua? |
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| The Swan - 2/24/2013 4:08 PM
How wealthy are you? If you have unlimited financial resources, and you want to, buy as many as you like. But you may feel like a fool later. If you aren't that wealthy, stop and consider whether you need more than you have. If you can't call yourself a rich dude, you might consider these points of direction:
1. Don't buy anything that isn't a proven taker of fish;
2. Don't buy the same bait in more than three different colors;
3. Don't buy any lure that you won't use regularly, you probably don't need it;
4. Don't buy anything (for recreational use) until you're sure all your financial responsibilities and future necessities are covered.
Sounds very responsible but it's difficult when emotion is involved. |
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Location: Hudson,WI | Way to many!! But i just bought more. Might be time to start attending MAA (muskie addicts anonymous) meetings. |
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| ill have to join that too.after 18 year and hardly parting with stuff you collect alot .most i just cant part with. |
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Location: Red Wing, Minnesota | Too many - Not enough |
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | Too many to count. When i'm on 'em , way too many. When i'm stuggling not near enough. |
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Location: South-Central VA | I actually don't have that many muskie lures. I have a small selection of cranks, gliders, a few topwaters, a handful of plastics, and some bucktails. I don't know if I have much more than 100 lures. Of those, I use about 10 consistently. I have confidence is a few, and that's what I throw. I tend to invest my $$$ in other gear.
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| I would have to say well over 1000. I would have to say over half are the big wooden trolling baits from everywhere I can find. a lot of topwater baits that I've been collecting for 20 some years. I guess I don't even hardly count any of the bucktails and stuff that just hang in there. sad every year go to musky shows always wind up with probably 100 baits by the end of the show season. And then there is summertime, always find a pattern or color i just need to get! Probably pushing 2000, pretty sad. Good thing the wife loves to muskie fish with me. I always try to tell her this stuff is for you to!:-) |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | I sold about 150 hard baits and bucktails over the last two years to trim the herd.. I typically only throw a handful of baits, but I like to have those "place & time" baits, too, and for dark or clear water. My rubber collection isn't as bad as Spencer's, but it's getting pretty ridiculous. I probably have in the neighborhood of 300 or so, still. |
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| I'm not sure....you can count them if you want. May have another hundred in boxes. |
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Location: St. John, Indiana | Lets see some pictures !!!! |
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Location: SE Wisc and Vilas County | have a couple hundred. been selling some to pick up new stuff. i find myself casting the same 20 baits anyways. overall i still keep buying them. |
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| 33 lures here. I - like byteme90k - also keep track with a spreadsheet. It does not seem like much after seeing Spencers collection of rubber. Main difference is that he fishes 275 days per year and I about 7-14. Althought it sometimes seems like fun to have such a huge collection, I will keep my apartment and two tackle boxes well organized and hope for warm weather to be able to use them soon. |
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Location: Plymouth IA | Wow i am going to send this link to my wife been muskie fishing 40 years now and after reading this guess we need to buy more lures. |
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Location: WI | 145 after adding a couple Hardheads at the WI Musky Expo. That # is sure to go up with George's Mn. Musky Expo in 4 weeks. |
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| Was thinking I should show the wife some of these posts....but then again, I've already been divorced once!! |
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Location: MN | A few hundred, but haven't bought any through the winter.
Muskie expo and Thornes spring sale are coming up. |
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| Including crappie, bass, muskie, and salwater maybe 1000 to 1500. Muskie around 50 of course I just started muskie fishing last year. |
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| Depends who's asking. If its my wife-I say I know people with a whole lot more. |
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| For this year or past years? collecting is part of the addiction! |
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| Like most use to have Hundeds. Now (1) Box of Crane Baits/Grandma's (1) Box of Bulldogs (1) box of Blades (1) mixed box of top water, couple trolling bait for when my arm gets tired. (1) Box of sweet vintage stuff my dad had, Ama Bamma's Plueger Mustangs, Wooden creek chub pikes |
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