Break it and fish - or what?

[Quillback]

For a Rock Crawler, I would go and get it. 

[rps]

Locations and patterns are a dime a dozen. Go get the lure. If you need to, come back later.

[Champ188]

I'm with Randy.^^^ Retrieve your lure and go find some more fish. That's the way you build your supply of fishing areas. I'd almost rather find 'em than catch 'em anyway. 

[vernon]

 

I'm with Randy.^^^ Retrieve your lure and go find some more fish. That's the way you build your supply of fishing areas. I'd almost rather find 'em than catch 'em anyway. 

We're kind of similar in that regard I guess.

There is one big difference though.

I take it one step further in that I'd rather look for 'em than find 'em.  

Talk about building up a supply of "areas"!  We're literally talking infinity here.

And it also takes all of the suspense out of deciding whether or not to go fetch that dang stuck lure.

[176champion]

I guess i have been real lucky about retrieving my hung up lures..... i lost one wiggle wart but it was on the roof of a boat house that i couldnt reach and i have lost 2 ned's...seems every time i try the ned i loose it...lol

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

 

I guess i have been real lucky about retrieving my hung up lures..... i lost one wiggle wart but it was on the roof of a boat house that i couldnt reach and i have lost 2 ned's...seems every time i try the ned i loose it...lol

A couple years ago i lost 20 neds in a day. I was using the shroom heads without the weedguard.  Now i make my own with a weed guard. Makes all the difference in the world

[Bill Babler]

Had the very same thing happen last week, only this was with a custom painted megabass.  I'm still fishing it on pretty light line and I snagged it up in the lower branches of a cedar, about 8 to 10 ft. down.  There were about a dozen other trees right there that I very much wanted to fish, so I hit my gps lock and marked and then snapped it off.

It was late in the evening and I thought I would be the first guy back in the morning and went on fishing.  I did catch another couple of big LM out of the cedars and felt pretty good about my decision.  I went back the next morning and there it was gleaming down there and I dropped my hound dog and pulled it up.  If it had been a single tree, I would have went ahead and gotten it out.  I was on a great pattern there "for one day," so I took a chance, and got lucky.

Here is a very good tip by Kevin Vandam.  When he hangs a lure that he wants to keep he does not approach that lure head on.  He approaches it from water he has already fished.  He pulls up to the lure and then retraces his steps back thru the pre-fished water, or backs out with his motor on a very low setting.  He then resumes from the spot where he snagged the lure.  If you pull directly in on the bait on high and then swing back out you have totally disturbed the bank in that area that was holding the fish.  If you use stealth and approach and then back out the same way you entered you leave a lot smaller foot print.

[cheesemaster]

 

Had the very same thing happen last week, only this was with a custom painted megabass.  I'm still fishing it on pretty light line and I snagged it up in the lower branches of a cedar, about 8 to 10 ft. down.  There were about a dozen other trees right there that I very much wanted to fish, so I hit my gps lock and marked and then snapped it off.

It was late in the evening and I thought I would be the first guy back in the morning and went on fishing.  I did catch another couple of big LM out of the cedars and felt pretty good about my decision.  I went back the next morning and there it was gleaming down there and I dropped my hound dog and pulled it up.  If it had been a single tree, I would have went ahead and gotten it out.  I was on a great pattern there "for one day," so I took a chance, and got lucky.

Here is a very good tip by Kevin Vandam.  When he hangs a lure that he wants to keep he does not approach that lure head on.  He approaches it from water he has already fished.  He pulls up to the lure and then retraces his steps back thru the pre-fished water, or backs out with his motor on a very low setting.  He then resumes from the spot where he snagged the lure.  If you pull directly in on the bait on high and then swing back out you have totally disturbed the bank in that area that was holding the fish.  If you use stealth and approach and then back out the same way you entered you leave a lot smaller foot print.

That KVD guy seems like he knows a thing or two about this sport. Thanks Bill.

[176champion]

I usually back trace the path i was moving and go the opposite way, seems to work so far.