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Location: oswego, il | Over the weekend I put up 16 more feet of L bracket on the wall to hang lures bring the total to to around 56 feet. Just for example I have just over 100 glide baits. I have 30 Hughes rivers. I have 13 teek neeks. I have even counted how many tr twitchers, Bagley monster shade I have but its up there. I am approaching 800 lures. Yes I have a problem. I know I am not the only one. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | That's absolutely normal.
Nothing to worry about. |
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| I've got 24 Shumway Flashers. Who needs 24 Shumway Flashers! I don't have a rational explanation. |
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| Any pics? |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Todd, You are a Sick, Sick man... Think of the money that you could have saved/invested for your retirement Cabin on Lake X......
Well, at least you kept it from the Ex. |
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| Can't believe You got 13 Teek Neeks cool baits !!!!! |
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Location: Twin Cities | If you are catching fish you don't have a problem, if you aren't then you do... |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | it becomes a problem when you say you have a wall of 800 baits and no pictures for us to drool over.  |
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| That's awesome! It's only a problem if your wife cares. If she doesn't or you're not married make it 1000 haha. Im jealous and wouldn't mind seeing some pictures myself. |
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Location: oswego, il | Ok will post pictures after I reorganize the wall. |
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Location: Perryville, MO | Please do post pictures. The Muskie porn is always nice to see, but especially since I'm in the process of putting up a 36 x 36 building for the boat, truck, and gear. Soon all that gear will have enough space to be clearly seen. I need more evidence to prove to my wife that I'm not the only one. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | hawkeye9 - 7/29/2014 11:23 AM
Please do post pictures. The Muskie porn is always nice to see, but especially since I'm in the process of putting up a 36 x 36 building for the boat, truck, and gear. Soon all that gear will have enough space to be clearly seen. I need more evidence to prove to my wife that I'm not the only one.
Yeah I have around 75 baits. And my wife thinks I have more then most guys.. So yes, post pics of your wall of awesomness, Or anyone else who has a wall of awesomeness should post. SO I can show my wife that not only do I not have enough, but need tons more! |
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | Todd, like most of us, you're a functioning muskieholic. |
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Location: Appleton Wi | You are a lucky dude my mom thinks i'm nuts with maybe 50-75 lures post a pic please! |
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| ToddM - 7/28/2014 9:27 PM I have 30 Hughes rivers. I'll bet at least 3 of those HR's used to be mine. Lol I'm looking forward to your collection photos. |
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| I figure fishing costs about the same amount of money I'd need to spend on therapy if I couldn't fish, so what's the harm?
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Never underestimate the Shumway Flasher. I would tell you how many Shumway Little Giant Flashers I have but lost count a few years ago. I'll have to revisit that one some time this winter...
LarryO - 7/28/2014 9:38 PM
I've got 24 Shumway Flashers. Who needs 24 Shumway Flashers! I don't have a rational explanation. |
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Location: Smith Creek | dfkiii - 7/29/2014 3:43 PM
LarryO - 7/28/2014 9:38 PM
Who needs 24 Shumway Flashers! .
Apparently there's at least 3 of us that do.
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | esoxaddict - 7/29/2014 1:14 PM
I figure fishing costs about the same amount of money I'd need to spend on therapy if I couldn't fish, so what's the harm?
This might be one of my favorite quotes I have seen on this site! Totally agree! |
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| LarryO - 7/28/2014 9:38 PM
I've got 24 Shumway Flashers. Who needs 24 Shumway Flashers! I don't have a rational explanation.
Maybe I can help...
My favorite flasher has three fish on it, the largest being 49.5". It would be stupid not to have a backup of that lure.
My second favorite flasher is a color that Bruce made up for me at one of the shows a few years ago. Since it's a custom combination of blades and tinsel and marabou that you won't find at R&H or anywhere else, it would have been silly to only have him make one.
The "martian" color is an Eagle Lake staple. (it was hot a few years back anyway) I had a day where a good dozen pike up to 41" put a serious hurtin' on my favorite martian. It was pretty well wrecked by the end of the day. If I didn't have a backup? Wow.
Then there's the standard colors. We had a week where black/smoke blades/red tinsel was the ticket. When the fish finally destroyed mine, I had to fish with a different color. I should have had a backup.
I loaned one to Samantha. Three casts later she caught a 45 on it. It's now is no longer mine. I should have had a backup.
Lures get wrecked, they get caught on rocks, sometimes you have to cut the hooks off or even cut the lure apart... It's just dumb to only have one of any given color! |
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Location: E. Tenn | esoxaddict - 7/29/2014 2:14 PM
I figure fishing costs about the same amount of money I'd need to spend on therapy if I couldn't fish, so what's the harm?
I have a lady friend who uses the same logic for shoes and shopping in general!! |
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Location: West Chester, OH | Cheaper than a girlfriend & disease-free!! |
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| Flambeauski - 7/29/2014 4:03 PM
dfkiii - 7/29/2014 3:43 PM
LarryO - 7/28/2014 9:38 PM
Who needs 24 Shumway Flashers! .
Apparently there's at least 3 of us that do.
Yup, one of my all time favorites. I throw it all of the time and should throw it more often than I do. The white one with one silver and one orange blade is my favorite but they all work.
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Location: Maplewood, MN | I'm coming to the realization that I have become a lure collector…. I'm only 21 and have roughly 100 baits and climbing.. Oh, and I tournament bass fish as well. $$$$ |
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Location: Minnesota | Congratulations on the great start Todd... but just remember. Someone, somewhere has way more baits than you. The only problems I see are that you don't fish enough (does anyone?) and you're from Oswego.
The solutions.... buy a warehouse full of lures and move to Eagle Lake, ON. |
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| Think of all the shoes your wife could have bought. Reminds me of an episode of Sex and the City. Na, you're all right. Money better spent. |
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Location: oswego, il | Here are some pics. I still have 9 full 3700 series plano boxes of baits not hung yet. I posted sections of my neek neek, HR, bagley, slammer, tr twitcher and jointed trolling baits. I know, I am working on that bench! Used my smart phone should have used my camera.
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| That's insane. I just started seriously chasing muskies a few years ago and have just under 100 lures in a musky monster that is chucked full with planos in the sides also full.. I already find myself only using a handful and have several lures in there that I don't see myself ever using again.. Other than a couple here or there that I'm told are the hot lure or I see something new that I like- I don't see myself buying many more (maybe 4-5 a year tops)... While it'd be great to have 1000 lures, how many do you actually use? What does the average guy have on here? |
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Location: Thief River Falls MN | Hangin' musky lures over the door upside down is bad luck dontcha know.... |
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Location: Twin Cities, MN | Yikes, I thought I was alone......
I buy and make my own bucktails every year. I try them out, then chop them up and put different blades on, and then eventually figure out I have WAY too many that I will never be able to use and then sell some with the intent of not buying anymore.
It is the last part about not buying anymore where my plan always seem to go awry .....
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Location: oswego, il | I did not know that was bad luck. I am looking for more wall space!
fishfinder87, lures are tools. Do I have too many, yes. There are some lures up there that are sentimental and will never be thrown, a Kyle Stefanski bucktail and a few Russ Schaller cranes for example. I do find that certain baits work better on certain lakes and colors as well. The right tool for the job. I have fished alot of lakes and collected alot of lures for those situations.
One thing for sure, I don't buy the hot bait or the big hype lure anymore. I may but I look at lures now and think how and where can I use this effectively compared to what I already have? Is it a better mouse trap? Even still sometimes they are and sometimes they are not. Been pleasantly surprised and surprisingly disappointed by bait purchases.
I have heard it said many times people might go on a trip and only use 10 baits. I have been known to put on one bait and not take it off the whole weekend. Right tool for the job. I would however like to pick my 10 baits from this wall vs 100 baits. Its also been said that a musky can go 15ft with the flick of its tail. Very true. What if it doesn't want to? I have seen 1' be a huge difference in a musky's strike zone. Right tool for the job. Must be working, only two days on the water this year I have not boated a fish.
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Pal - 7/31/2014 8:58 AM
Yikes, I thought I was alone......
I buy and make my own bucktails every year. I try them out, then chop them up and put different blades on, and then eventually figure out I have WAY too many that I will never be able to use and then sell some with the intent of not buying anymore.
It is the last part about not buying anymore where my plan always seem to go awry .....
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Location: Minnesota | Nice wall Todd!
If you want more space - you could hang a coated wire rack from the ceiling and hang lures from it. If I did that I would build a shelf above that rack that is about 2" above the bottom rack so I could put tackle boxes, etc... up there and not worry about hooks getting caught on the shelf or stuff above.
I hang all of mine overhead in my "musky room" using clothesline - the wall looks cooler though. |
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Location: oswego, il | 12 foot ceiling could be an issue for me! |
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Location: NeverNever Lake | Todd, this is inspiring to those who thought that THEY had a problem... |
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| Fair enough Todd. I guess I am already in that phase of looking at a new lure and asking myself if it is any better of a tool than what is already in my box- but I guess the more years and places that you fish, the more tools you are going to end up with. I'm sure as I continue, I'll end up with several hundred myself- but at this stage, it still seems like a lot. I also would agree with not hanging lures over the door.. Not so much for luck, but I wouldn't want to see three treble hooks fall on me when the door is shut too hard lol |
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| Not enough Todd. Better get shoppin! |
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Location: Des Moines IA | Let us know when the wife and family want to have a garage sale to fund that trip to Haiwaii...  |
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| Very nice collection. If a tornado hit your place it would cause a deadly vortex of Muskie plugs for sure. |
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Location: Planet Meltdown | That's impressive. Tony Grant might have you beat though. His lure room is something dreams are made of. |
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| Todd,
I have a question for you. When you look through all those baits, do you remember which ones caught fish or didn't and which ones caught the important fish in your career?
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Location: oswego, il | Rich, I sure do. As stated earlier there are baits that will never be thrown, there for sentimental reasons as well. Baits that have very specific use for very specific times on individual lakes.
I am surprised about one thing, so far after posting pics only one person has wanted to buy baits in the wall. |
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| I don't want to know how many I own. My wife just stares at me when I mention Thorne Bros. or the Muskie Shop. |
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| enjoy life. I have near 2,000 baits in my shop we use the ceiling to hang lures. living on st clair its standard practice after 50 years of musky hunting. . |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | If your fishing muskies 20 well chosen is more than enough. If your a lure collector no limit. |
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| I endorse this "problem". I have it too. I was in the process of organizing my lures in a similar fashion in the basement, when I blew my back out moving boxes. I'll get to it next offseason. I probably got maybe 400-500 baits I've amassed over 25 years. |
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| It,s a problem for me because I have hundreds of lures and haven't fished muskies in two years. It,s just too painful unless I can troll. Oh well, maybe someday again. Until then I'll have to be satisfied with bass and bluegills, and I really don't mind. Have noticed that the majority of my lures have gotten much smaller over the last 5 years.
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| Perfectly normal Todd.There might be a slight indication of a problem when you have that many in 3 or 4 locations(cabin,underground bunker,wherever),a big Lakewood or 2 and 1-200 in hidden Planos in your boat.Think of the support given to the economy. |
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Location: oswego, il | Beav, you need to come out to lsc. Out here now doing well on baits I got on sale for under 10 bucks! I even found a ziggie floating yesterday! |
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