Fishing Anyone????

[Gypsy Heart]

These are the baits that the girls and I have found last spring and 9 of them so far this year....The blue and white Little Cleo Wigl is my favorite... The Muskey Whacker is 16 x 3 and I think I will hang onto that ! Everytime the ice starts to go out,we find them along the banks.....Might not classify as treasure....but somebody somewhere was swearing over their loss!

 

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[Bavaria Mike]

I usually put my fish tackle finds somewhere so it can be seen by someone, hopefully a fisherperson finds it and can use it. Have given away a few pieces to people fishing, they enjoyed the find, LOL! HH, Mike

 

[hollowpointred]

hey at 5 or 6 bucks a pop, maybe you could call em treasure!! actually the really old ones can be worth some cash. of course, in the condition you might dig one it prolly wouldnt be worth much, but i always keep my eyes open for them at garage sales.

 

[silverswede]

Heck of a nice collection of lures. you can almost hear the fisherman cussing when he broke of those $10.00 plugs. If anyone lives near a lake where the water he receded due to drought, etc. run your detector around and along exposed submerged logs and trees for an abundance of spoons and spinners. they hang up there and the hooks rust off dropping the lure. Some are quite valuable.

 

[mchamby]

gypsy you found some nice lures there and a fish stringer too. Lets see I can name some of them. You have a daredevil, mepps, hulapoper, opps I forgot what was in the pic., anyway you can see I'm one of those fishin gals. I have a hard time deciding between that and mding when fishing season opens. HH
mchamby

 

[The Seeker]

Those are some amazing fishing items you have there ...did you find all them today? I usually use Chubs and worms for bait but those fine pieces will fetch a few buck on E-Bay.....

 

[thumper]

Them are some neat lures.......I've never found one yet.......but not looking on the river banks neither.....I gotta try that........great finds

 

[Southcacalaky]

Fishing lures are not cheap, I cannot recall saying anything nice after I lost one... HH Art...

 

[Burdie]

Say GH some of those lures are the same size of the fish I catch down here. Well maybe a little larger than I catch. Neat finds girls. HH Burdie

 

[River Rat]

GH,

Nice finds with the lures...brings back memories of fishing with my dad.

HH
RR

 

[Angela (Australia)]

Hey Gipsyheart, if you don't like fishing, now might be a good time to learn to! What I would give for those lures! When I find sinkers or lures, they go straight into my tackle box. I've given a lot of sinkers away, for friends to melt down and remake them. Keep up the great hunting!
Cheers Angela

 

[rvbvetter]

Yep That looks like about everything I use to not catch fish. When I go out, I'm a catch and release type fisherman thats still working on the catch part.
I always carry a disclaimer with me that says no fish were harmed while on my latest fishing trip.
Thinking about switching to real bait. Just so I'll have something to fry up at the end of the day.
Anchovies anyone? HH

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Good finds rtde3......I am a fisherwoman...love flyfishing ....the girls and I have way too many lures...or not enough....hahaha...My daughter Cheyenne insists she is going to be a fishing guide and have her own TV show...we fish alot and so we find alot of lures also.....I usually sell the non keepers at my annual garage sale.. and have a couple of collectors who like the older ones we find.....
Best fishing story....we were camping last year with some friends and Cheyenne was fishing the middle of the river....one of the guys got a nice 9 inch bass on his line....so he handed Cheyenne the pole and told her to reel it in .....she was struggling like crazy and jumping the river rocks to drag it to the bank...none of us could figure out why she was having such a hard time pulling that little fish to shore......she got up on the sand and started dragging her fish to shore.....hahahaha....out popped a 42 inch musky onto the bank......evidently it had hit the bass as soon as Cheynne got the rod. Everyone was just laughing their butts off...so she got a two for one fish!

 

[treasures4me2find]

Congrats on all your fishing treasures. There are some great finds. I do a lot of fishing and lures are expensive. Nice collection of lures.

Ken

 

[packerbacker]

No musky around my parts. I went to a bar in WI one time called "The Musky". I think it was a little town called Black Creek, not sure. They had a bunch mounted on the walls. They have a trash fish here in CA they call a pike. Nothing like a Northern! My brother has moved back there again to Berlin and he has about 190 ft of river frontage on the Fox and a huge park next door. I'll have to take my detector when I go back to visit. Lots of old places back there. Great finds as usual!

 

[dave-enc]

gypsy, what a great collection of fishing lures. like the othrs have said im sure there is osme unhappy fisherman out there.
hh
dave+bobbie

 

[beeper]

HEY those look like the ones I lost!

 

[lookingaround]

hello every one i am new,
i was wondering to the person who found the fishing stuff, did you use a magnet that you threw into the water?

 

[TimmyNY]

very cool stuff Gypsy

do you find this in the water or in the brush along the edge?
keep your eyes open for the older stuff some of it is worth big bucks as you probably already know.

Tim

 

[Michigan Badger]

gypsyheart I used to live on a bayou in western Michigan and we would sometimes find very old lures caught in the weeds. We sold the property in the early 90's but even up to that time it wasn't uncommon to find old plugs from the 30's - 50's. All the hooks had long ago rusted away but the main bodies held up.

Just this final note, a few years back someone in Grayling Michigan found a rare fishing lure at a garage sale. I was told they sold it on ebay for several thousand dollars. I met an antique dealer who knew about the transaction. I guess some of the very early lures are considered "art" to some rich folks. Go figure?

Happy lure hunting