03-09-2012, 10:05 PM
Hi Just wanted a fun thread for us to discuss how much money we spend on lures for bass fishing and how many of those lures we actually have confidence in and use often.
I have probably 50+ Hard lures like topwater plugs, spinner baits, crank baits, swim baits, buzzbaits and Sputterbuzz.
And around 20 different soft plastics.
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Here is my Hard Plastic Bass lure fishing box. (the other side has all my bullet weights, catfishing tackle and crappie jigs, rigs, and bobbers:
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Out of that entire box I use a Black or White Spinner bait 80% of the time. I use the Tennessee Shad cranks and the large red/white Cotton Cordell CC Deep CB most when the spinners aren't working. The other topwaters like my buzzbaits and Sputterbuzz's get used when the conditions are good for topwater. The rest just sit there and are used on days when I can't get a strike at all on my favorites. There are lures there that I have never tied on. LOL.
My soft plastics box is below:
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I use the White 4" Swim bug from (wavefishing.com) now the most. I used to use the Purple Firetail 6" worms the most before I got the wavefishing softs. Now I swear by them. I haven't been able to test the waters with my new wavefishing soft alot yet but you can be sure I will be using those alot this spring and summer.
After just two days fishing with the wavefishing lures I cleaned out this soft plastic box and put all their lures in there and retired my old softies. The only worm I kept in my new soft box is the 6" purple firetail worm because it has proven itself as a bass catcher over the years for me when nothing else works.
That's my tackle and you can see about 65% of it never gets used. There has to be over 200$ + in lures there and 5 of them are my go-to baits that I use consistently.
How about you? Post your lures here and let me know.[:p]
Mike.
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I have probably 50+ Hard lures like topwater plugs, spinner baits, crank baits, swim baits, buzzbaits and Sputterbuzz.
And around 20 different soft plastics.
[#005050]Click images for larger high quality view.[/#005050]
Here is my Hard Plastic Bass lure fishing box. (the other side has all my bullet weights, catfishing tackle and crappie jigs, rigs, and bobbers:
[inline BassHardLures.JPG]
Out of that entire box I use a Black or White Spinner bait 80% of the time. I use the Tennessee Shad cranks and the large red/white Cotton Cordell CC Deep CB most when the spinners aren't working. The other topwaters like my buzzbaits and Sputterbuzz's get used when the conditions are good for topwater. The rest just sit there and are used on days when I can't get a strike at all on my favorites. There are lures there that I have never tied on. LOL.
My soft plastics box is below:
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I use the White 4" Swim bug from (wavefishing.com) now the most. I used to use the Purple Firetail 6" worms the most before I got the wavefishing softs. Now I swear by them. I haven't been able to test the waters with my new wavefishing soft alot yet but you can be sure I will be using those alot this spring and summer.
After just two days fishing with the wavefishing lures I cleaned out this soft plastic box and put all their lures in there and retired my old softies. The only worm I kept in my new soft box is the 6" purple firetail worm because it has proven itself as a bass catcher over the years for me when nothing else works.
That's my tackle and you can see about 65% of it never gets used. There has to be over 200$ + in lures there and 5 of them are my go-to baits that I use consistently.
How about you? Post your lures here and let me know.[:p]
Mike.
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