Fishing lures

[mike b]

I went out today wading but didn't find anything very old but did find a few new fishing lures along with a few clad coins. Three of these are from today but all of them are from this month. I give them away and or clean them up and put new hooks on them. I don't fish a lot but always have some on the boat. Last year I found about 40-50 lures that were good enough to use again. They give a funny signal on the Equinox that you cant walk away from so they get cleaned out from an area pretty quick. Today was a new beach so I'm sure there are plenty more.

 

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[Digger RJ]

Nice!! Congrats!!

 

[CASPER-2]

those are stainless Hopkins - they can be years old and still come out clean
i easily have over 100 of them - mostly i get Kastmasters in my salt waters - i think both are used for stripers and blues
I used to avidly fish - so would add good ones to my box - gave some away too. Now i save them
figure when i retire I can go down to the beach and sell them long with my sinkers saved to make a few extra
bucks. I got a lot of sinkers and have molds to remelt the bad ones and make new ones if i want
this is an older pic of just some of my lead

 

[Trezurehunter]

Those are some neat finds.

 

[mike b]

Kastmasters of all sizes are easily most of what I find but are mostly in the worst condition. I don't have the room to store them unless they can be used again.

 

[dts52]

Great finds, guys. I was hunting a local lake which had been lowered in an effort to kill off the invasive seaweed. Place is heavily fished. Found lots of Phoebes, Cast Masters and spinners - most beyond hope. Also found quite a few lead sinkers. I used to fish a lot in the past and I guess I was doing it wrong because I see now that some folks are using 4 ounce sinkers with #2 circle hooks to catch recently stocked 9-inch trout

The nice part is that all that old terminal tackle gives loud, clear signals.
dts

 

[CASPER-2]

Kastmasters of all sizes are easily most of what I find but are mostly in the worst condition. I don't have the room to store them unless they can be used again.

Kastmasters are usually brass and even if no good for fishing - are good to recycle
i have some that can be saved (some are like new) others are real old and holes at both ends are worn thru (will be scrapped)

 

[CASPER-2]

one site said that the Hopklins are stainless - others say heavy chrome
i think heavy chrome - ive found some down deep and like i said - found a lot of them and not a single one
is discolored or corroded ---same as yours - dont cost much to get a bag of attatchment rings and new hooks
the small Hopkins go for on average for 4.99 and longer ones go for around 9.99
so if youfix them up - and went down to a popular fish spot you could probably easily get $2-$3 for them
i sold a bunch of ocean sinkers at a tag sale for 25c a piece and guys were fighting over them
you can get more for them also - I know guys that just throw them away

 

[dts52]

I’ll try to sell a bunch of this stuff at our annual community tag sale. My nephew gets the lead sinkers. He uses them for black powder ammunition. I think I’ve found enough to keep him well stocked for several lifetimes.
dts

 

[CASPER-2]

Great finds, guys. I was hunting a local lake which had been lowered in an effort to kill off the invasive seaweed. Place is heavily fished. Found lots of Phoebes, Cast Masters and spinners - most beyond hope. Also found quite a few lead sinkers. I used to fish a lot in the past and I guess I was doing it wrong because I see now that some folks are using 4 ounce sinkers with #2 circle hooks to catch recently stocked 9-inch trout

The nice part is that all that old terminal tackle gives loud, clear signals.
dts

Thing is - I have lots of spots that are always replenished every year with fishing stuff
I have places that have old and some real old fishing tackle down deep - like you said lead goes off great and
brass lures go off great too - so if i get in a spot and I dig the older ones down a foot or deeper
i get excited cause it means they were never gone over or were missed and there could be
real good keepers down deep there too

 

[CASPER-2]

I’ll try to sell a bunch of this stuff at our annual community tag sale. My nephew gets the lead sinkers. He uses them for black powder ammunition. I think I’ve found enough to keep him well stocked for several lifetimes.
dts

Thats what we used to do with a lot of them - bought musket ball molds and made our own
then i bought sinker molds and melted the old ones into new ones
then i bought a dive weight mold and made my own
the molds were not very expensive and i could easily turn a profit making any of these
for resale - i have I think over 400 lbs of lead right now -- its one of those things i will
do when i retire (I hope)

 

[mike b]

This was for only one scuba season, its about 35 pounds of scrap metal including brass, copper, lead, lures. Aluminium got thrown out in recycling. The most lead I found in one dive was so heavy I couldn't get to the surface and ended up attaching my collection bag to the anchor line, it was more than 10 pounds. When I detect under water I have a lot of weights on to hold me to the bottom so 10 extra pounds made a big difference.

 

[CASPER-2]

i had a spot like that - thought it would hold some older coins and gold but its a popular fishing spot
all huge rock bottom - bedrock i would say and all crevasses and nooks and crannies some with sand traps
i would get a blast in a large crevasse and would fan up 5 - 10 or more
they use huge ocean sinkers here because of the currents - i filled my pouch to the top and had to quit because ran out of room
I actually had fun retrieving them once i got it in my mind that i was not gonna find any thing better - i got a few coins
but nothing special - i want to go back - i barely put a dent in whats there and i only snorkeled - depths are probably loaded
just took a new pic of most of my lead - got a few more containers in the house not in pic

 

[CASPER-2]

im hoping one of these days to head to NY and give waters a try - guess i need a permit?

 

[cudamark]

The most common lures I find here are the Kastmasters and Crocodiles.

 

[TooManyHobbies]

Casper, don't overlook the reloading market. I'm sure you could find a few guys that reload their own bullets. You have the lead for it. Waterfowl hunters also use lead weights for their decoys.