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Location: Pine River MN. | Thought some of you may enjoy this picture of my wife. On our way up to lake Vermilion we stopped by a small bait shop " just to look". In the back corner she found a Cherry Bomb by hellraiser. Now these are her all time favorite and she wasn't about to leave without it. Fast forward to our first morning on the lake. I had just commented that I haven't had some one lose a lure up a tree in close to 30 years.......yep, a couple minutes later there it sat about 20' up a tree. There was now way it was coming loose. After a trip to town to get a couple screw in tree steps and a small saw, she was back in business. What are some of your stories about getting a lure back? |
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| Was fishing for Musky in a northern MO lake and my wife was bass fishing out of the back of the boat. She cast out a crank bait and ended up with the lure in the water but the line over a limb 10 feet above the lake. I trolled over to see what I could do to get it down and looked down in the water and a musky had the lure by the back end and sticking out of its mouth like a stubby cigar. Not knowing what to do but wanting her to lose out on a chance to catch a musky I told her to set the hook. She did but the musky let go of the lure. Don't know what I would have done if she had got a hook into the fish. |
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Location: Alex or Alek? | When I first started I had the first lure I had personally bought snap off during a bad backlash in about 6 feet of water. My uncle and I sat in the pouring rain for about 20 min trying to snag the #*^@ thing with the net. Needles to say we failed miserable and decided to keep fishing and come back and try again later. We came back after getting skunked and finally snagged it on the first try. |
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Location: New Hope MN | Missouri Wayne - 9/14/2015 5:25 PM
Was fishing for Musky in a northern MO lake and my wife was bass fishing out of the back of the boat. She cast out a crank bait and ended up with the lure in the water but the line over a limb 10 feet above the lake. I trolled over to see what I could do to get it down and looked down in the water and a musky had the lure by the back end and sticking out of its mouth like a stubby cigar. Not knowing what to do but wanting her to lose out on a chance to catch a musky I told her to set the hook. She did but the musky let go of the lure. Don't know what I would have done if she had got a hook into the fish.
Grabbed the line by the hand! prepare for scars! |
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Location: Pine River MN. | Sorry couldn't get the picture to attach |
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| We were fishing Eagle one evening after an entire day of throwing double 10's. You kind of get into that rhythm where casting becomes automatic... Pulled into a spot, clipped on a topraider, glanced at the shoreline and threw a cast...
As I looked back expecting to see my lure hit the water I saw it about 40 feet in the air. The line caught just right where the lure went around the tree once and stuck. There was no climbing the tree and nothing I could do to get it down. As far as I know, it's still there and probably will be until the tree comes down. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | My friend Jeremy makes a killer/very exoensive trolling lure. He gave my nephew one at our club(Consolidated Musky Club Inc. in central WI) banquet this spring. I took the nephew fishing in May on a stretch of river not really suited for trolling, but he insisted we give it a try. I told him to cast it out 20' and to hold the rod tip up as we trolled the one deep hole. We went across the one reef in that deep hole and the lure became snagged, and the line buried into his spool(drag was loose but line was loosely wrapped). I felt it tighten and couldn't stop the boat so I dropped the rod and reel into the river. We circled back with the intent to hook the line and retrieve the whole rig. Brennan and I both looked over and saw the lure come floating to the surface, still attached to the line, and dragged the now washed rod/reel back to the boat.
Fast forward to last week, nephew and I trolling the flowage, with couple of Jeremy's lures on down rods. Snag, got it out, shortened the line length to less than 10'. Another snag, which I went back for and could not retrieve with any method, as it seemed to be in the base of a branch that we couldn't access. Broke the line. As I was retying, I looked over and watched the lure float to the surface. |
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| I think you should name Brennans NS- Bob |
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| dtaijo174 - 9/15/2015 8:10 AM
Missouri Wayne - 9/14/2015 5:25 PM
Was fishing for Musky in a northern MO lake and my wife was bass fishing out of the back of the boat. She cast out a crank bait and ended up with the lure in the water but the line over a limb 10 feet above the lake. I trolled over to see what I could do to get it down and looked down in the water and a musky had the lure by the back end and sticking out of its mouth like a stubby cigar. Not knowing what to do but wanting her to lose out on a chance to catch a musky I told her to set the hook. She did but the musky let go of the lure. Don't know what I would have done if she had got a hook into the fish.
Grabbed the line by the hand! prepare for scars!
This guy should tell his Vermilion lure story or stories, now that I think about it |
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| First time out this year I was tossing a Dadson didnt realize they casted that well and lost one in a tree just out of reach. Went back with a long rod to get it back but it was gone. Also let a buddy use a fat bastard and after it got dark he didnt realize we were as close to shore as we were and bombed 50ft up right into a willow tree. FTL> |
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Location: Pine River MN. | malenurse - 9/14/2015 5:18 PM
Thought some of you may enjoy this picture of my wife. On our way up to lake Vermilion we stopped by a small bait shop " just to look". In the back corner she found a Cherry Bomb by hellraiser. Now these are her all time favorite and she wasn't about to leave without it. Fast forward to our first morning on the lake. I had just commented that I haven't had some one lose a lure up a tree in close to 30 years.......yep, a couple minutes later there it sat about 20' up a tree. There was now way it was coming loose. After a trip to town to get a couple screw in tree steps and a small saw, she was back in business. What are some of your stories about getting a lure back?[/QUOT E]. I don't know why I can't upload pics after I've downsized them (.facebook_1442366177943.jpg) (.facebook_1442366230853.jpg) Attachments ----------------  .facebook_1442366177943.jpg (140KB - 335 downloads) .facebook_1442366230853.jpg (101KB - 323 downloads) |
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| An uncle of mine used to have a Suick that had more battle scars than nearly any other lure I've seen. He used to soak it in the livewell before he used it because he said that it was the only way it would work right. Well, one day while fishing on LOTW he had a fish come up and swing at the lure and after a short bit of time his cortland musky master had failed and the fish, and lure were both gone. The other guy in the boat fired out a cast and that same fish followed in with my uncles magic Suick stuck in the top of its head. They figured it missed the lure and snagged itself and then cut the line with either teeth or gills. Unfortunately they didn't get her to come back up but we circled that and every other near by island for the rest of the week hoping the lure would show itself which it never did. That place is now simply known as Suick Rock and it never gets passed up without fishing it. |
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | I did a big Oops as I was invited out to show a friend how to musky fish on Okauchee (mistake #1). After making a couple of large size Bloody Mary's and putting them in the drink holders on his pristine vintage Lund. I proceeded to launch a 12" Jake that I new right away was headed into a 40ft pine but watching it wrap around this branch I gave it a tug back and "Walla" it unwrapped itself. The only problem was it was headed back on the same trajectory it left and after a "watch out" out of my mouth it landed smack dab into the fresh Bloody Mary. It made a mess out of that interior of that Lund which didn't make my buddy too happy, but I got the lure back with a coating that no biatmate would ever accomplish. Oh well I didn't get asked to come back too often after that and when I did we used my boat.
The good news was it was his bloody mary......
Netman
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Location: oswego, il | The things we do for love! |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | That tree climbing is risky. A friend of mine did it and a branch broke and he fell breaking his back! Be careful out there...some things just aren't worth it! |
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Location: MN | Geez all that for a Cherry Bomb? Wonder what you would do for a Dadson in a tree? Glad it worked out that you got the lure back an came down without getting hurt. |
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Location: oswego, il | He did it for a cherry bomb? You guys don't get it, read my previous post! The man is a hero! |
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Location: Pine River MN. | That not me climbing the tree, that's my wife. Try telling a farm girl that she shouldn't climb a tree. |
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Location: oswego, il | That changes everything!:-) |
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