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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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