Does anyone retire lures

[Shady]

If so, how do you display or keep them? I have a few with memorable catches/fishing trips and trying to figure out what to do with them...

[tufnik]

I continue to use "memorable lures," but they eventually get lost to snags or fish break-offs.

[Shady]

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to avoid...

[perchy]

Hang them in my cubicle at work lol

[Yak Fish]

I have just a couple. I retired one lure after it caught 50, 30"+/- a couple inches in a single afternoon. It got beat up pretty good but it caught fish until I went home. Those are the days ya live for so I have that one hanging up.

[mweber02]

I retired one lure after it caught 50, 30"+/- a couple inches in a single afternoon.

I think my arms would have fallen off...

[Yak Fish]

I think my arms would have fallen off...

Believe it or not, I stopped fishing because I was so worn out. There was a school of nice fish and it was just "one of those days"

[DanMarino]

Nope. I keep using them until the lure is lost, or I get bored. When I find an effective lure, I will buy more of the same model and color for when the good one is lost.

[RockFlag&Eagle37]

It depends, if I catch something exceptionally memorable, then I will.

The most recent one I retired is a failed wooly bugger that I tried to tie. I used it as a trailer on a double shad rig and it was the first lure I tied that I caught a fish on. I'll probably see if I can frame a picture of me with the shad (which wasn't big) and the lure below it. Right now it's just hanging on the Camo lamp on my bar.


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[plastic boat]

My wife picked this up at a yard sale. I will change the fake lures to real ones when I get a chance
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[Shady]

Nice, there's a very similar one hanging in my son's room

[jet]

shadow box from michaels is a nice display

[bignose]

My wife picked this up at a yard sale. I will change the fake lures to real ones when I get a chance
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I'm not sure that they are "fake" lures.They look like some classic plugs. You may want to check some internet sites on collectible lures.

[RockFlag&Eagle37]

I think they are fake, just look at the hooks. Although, if you put a few shiny, sharp gamakatsus on there you might be cooking with peanut oil.


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[Mark]

I have "retired" one lure. I caught an especially nice SM bass near Three Mile Island. (No, it didn't have three eyes!)

It hit a surface fly I had tied. I caught the fish at dusk and my buddy took a photo of me holding it as the sun was setting. Nice photo from the pre-digital camera days. Hard to believe how we could have gotten along before pixels and actually having to wait for film to be developed to see our pictures.

I took that fly and stuck it to the frame that now holds the photo.

In a related matter, my brother recently picked up a tackle box for me from a yard sale. It had some neat stuff in it including this old crank bait with a metal lip:

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I researched it on-line and learned it was made post WWII by the forerunner of today's Mirrolures company.

I thought I had a prize but learned it was worth only between $5 and $10 to collectors.

My brother paid $2 for the tackle box so I guess that wasn't a bad "investment."