spoopa Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Well today i went and tested out one of my topwaters that i was making. Everything was going good and the lure walked like a dream. I do another cast and next thing i know my reel malfunctions and i have a birdnest and then the line snaps! To top off all this madness my lure goes flying off the line into the lake. I just made the lure and it walked really good so i decided that i should go get it. To my luck the wind was blowing towards the shore so i just had to wait a lil bit until the lure came floating back to shore..... but like usaual it can never be that easy lol. The lure was floating right into a brush of submerged bushes. I still wanted to try to get the lure so i waded out into the water as deep up to my neck and i got my lure back in time just before the bushes. Well it wouldnt of been so bad but the water temprature at my home lake right now is in the low 60s to high 50s. lol it was all worth it though. So i bet some of you guys on here have some pretty wild stories about getting lures back, so i was wondering if any of you guys and gals wouldnt mind telling some stories about these incidents8O Thanks Jacob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
braveviper Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 I only try to get back the ones I payed money for. If I lose one I made....I just make more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayupnorth36 Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Trout were hitting pretty good on a little stream in the UP, and I was down to my last Royal Coachman fly, cuz there are lots of snags, so I go through a few flies. Anyhow, I cast about 6 inches too far, hooked a log, decided to wade out and get it. The water was clear, looked to be about 4 feet deep, so i'd be getting close to the tops of the waders, but not quite. Stepped off a sand ledge into about 8 ft of water (I'm guessing... I never did touch bottom!) and came up sputtering and floating hatless downstream. I stuck the cork handle of the rod between my teeth and sidestroked for shore, with 20-30 gallons of water in my waders. sadly, not the first time I've swam that way. Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diemai Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Back in the early 90's I used to frequently fish a gravel pit near my hometown ,......there was one particular shallow bay there which was a bank for pike ! But if you cast the wrong direction or let your lure sink too long(been using metal lures back then) , it would definately snag up ,....something big was out there on the bottom ! After having lost more than two dozens of spoons and spinners there through 2 or 3 seasons , I decided to buy myself fins , snorkel and goggles to get down there to retrieve my lures , it was not that deep , maybe 8 to 9 feet . Well , as the water had become warm enough for a swim in mid June , I took a dive and discovered an old wooden rowing boat , that someone had obviously sunk there on intention , since its bottom was cast out with concrete a few inches thick , .....it layed there on its keel on the bottom of that bay ! But after first investigations and first lures gathered , everything down there became invisible , since of the bottom sediment , that I had stirred up to render the water to a black coffee color ! Swam back to shore(about45 feet) and cut down a small three , cut off all branches and utilized it as a pole , that I afterwards stuck into the lake bottom next to the sunken boat to always find it again after every time , that I had taken the gathered lures back to shore . Since I could not see anymore in the murky water , I just always held the hull of the boat with one hand and used the other one to reach into the boat , and also the sediment around it , grabbing a handful of lures everytime ! Anyway , I had retrieved most of my own lures and also found a lot of lures that other anglers had lost , all where metal lures , only one "Nils Master" crankbait among them(still have that one) . I had re-polished , painted and decorated them all again and r Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROWINGADUBAY Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 About two months ago after the water went down on the wisconsin river the first time my buddie mark and me were fishing a well known bend in the river and he spots a branch with two rapalas and a thill slip float so he decides to climb the tree, well he get up to the branch and hangs on it thinking it would break but it doesnt it just bends downand he starts sliding down the branch and finally falls in the water like a backwards belly flop ass first I did'nt laugh at first cause it was pretty shallow but he was ok beside some scratches on his hands The next day I broiught a tree trimmer and wore my waders .I trimmed the lures off but left the branch intact for next unsespecting fisherman then checked up and down the bank and found a couple other odds and ends in the trees I'm gonna wait a while and give them to Mark for his B-day or something like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LooksLikeSinbad Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Last year I lost a few decent lures in the trees overhanging the water at this small local pond that I fish. There is no wading or swimming allowed so I waited until winter and just walked the shoreline on the ice picking lures off of the branches. It worked like a charm, I think that will be a season ending tradition from now on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoopa Posted May 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2009 @ diemai Looks like you found yourself a treasure chest full of goodies. I want to go diving for lures at my home lake but all the spots that i know of that have lures are all the deep jigging points and they are pretty deep to get lures from:cry:. But if i was to try to get the lures i could possibly get some old scuba gear from my grandpa:?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diemai Posted May 1, 2009 Report Share Posted May 1, 2009 @ spoopa Yeah , just too bad , that most of those "lure graves" are located much too deep for someone having an allergy to any sports like I have ! Won't trust myself going deeper than maybe 12 feet max. , but that was already many years ago ,........ by now I have already started all those little aches and drawbacks of a working man slowly approaching his 50's:lol:! But I know a few spots at a highly pressured water , that I frequently fish , where I can ocassionally find some lures ,....... these are exposed trees , poles in the water , submerged ropes , etc. . About half of the lures on the pic I have found in there through the years , some just came drifting by , others were just washed ashore and stuck between roots or the rock embankment , and others again got accidentally hooked to my own line and/or my anchor . Not shown are the metal lures , that I have gathered in there ,.....these must be more:yes: ! This way I can even out my own losses sometimes,........at least in terms of hardbaits I still seem to be on the winning streak:lol: ! greetz:yay: , diemai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
