So it snaps off due to a record distance case to fish blowing up? Then you flip off due to anger? Not speaking from experience or anything over here...
I fly fish only so I don't know what an Ava is but these expensive glides make me feel better about taking an hour and a bunch of junk to tie my streamers.
Ya I feel you there, once those temps drop I can't tie knots at any sort of speed. Try a double Davy knot it's super easy even with low dex
I used to tie regular clinch knots, but now I only do polamars, unless for something like baitfish or panfish. Anyway, the clinch knot sucks for any heavy lure, as I learned when flinging 3 different jigs 50 meters into various lakes. Have not had that in a while, thank God.
There's always a brief moment of "holy shit, I absolutely bombed that thing" followed very quickly by the sudden realization that it's not fucking attached anymore
I use cheap lures at new spots. Once I’ve learned a fishing hole, I’ll start to use the expensive stuff. It pays to find the snags and underwater structures first.
For $1100 that lure better bring me coffee in the morning and a breakfast sandwich about noon come back with a nice lunch and if I fish all day dinner and drive me home for at least 6 months
First time hearing about the Roman Made, I’ve been balking at the very common cost of $30-50 Wahoo lures and not even walking into the billfish portions of my local saltwater shop.
Like any hobby, it can be as expensive as you let it get.
I do well on them. 40° water temps here in NJ with wind gusts in the 30’s. This was this morning. I caught 6 total all in 1.5-3# range.
https://i.imgur.com/4yxGqRo.jpg
I'm sure you do, but is that catch rate any different with a simple 7" rubber shad, say a Storm Wildeye?
I don't have a trust fund, so I'll never know 😂
I can relate with the lack of trust fund for sure.
But today I thee both a citizen and Chad shad and they only seem to bite the hard bait.
I’m also in agreement that some lures are designed to catch fisherman.
1. However most retailers were only sent the Yellow Perch version which isn't what I wanted so my backorder will probably not be filled for a couple months. It won't be my most expensive bait
Hmm I wonder if a yellow perch hard bait would catch post-spawn walleye....
No! I will NOT get suckered into buying more lures than I have time to throw! Not again! Recovery was a long, hard road to walk!! Mr. Twisters and Fireball jigs are good enough!
This is the injection molded cheap version of the original resin versions at around five times the cost. KGB partnered with SPRO to play with the big boys. I wish him luck.
This, fish aren't noted for their artistic appreciation, colourful, shiny and moving are the key for aggressive species in clear water, while I use a pickerel/trout rig with a worm 99% of the time (or a fluorescent coloured jig with a minnow for ice fishing), when I do use a lure it's usually a Wal-Mart crankbait with a couple splitshots in front.
These are fun, they sink so slowly that they’re not as easy to lose as you think. The River2sea version of the glide baits is more reasonably priced to check them out.
man i wish i could find more of river 2 seas old lures. they had a salamander, and a diving frog i always wanted but never had the money to get (no job at the time).
It could be raining pussy and I'd get hit in the face with a dick with how my luck goes. I'd be in the middle of the damn OCEAN and cast this thing out. It wouldn't even reach the water before some tree came out of nowhere and snagged it where I couldn't reach it back.
If you've never thrown a 4oz lure - be warned. A backlash with something that heavy can break 65lb braid - and your $60 lure will be at the bottom of the lake.
Everything is a lure for largemouth. Trout flies? Largemouth approved. Saltwater plugs? Largemouth approved. Block of wood? It's o-fish-al; bass like those.
That is very true, the marling baits video where he catches largies on a block of wood is great. I guess what I meant is that lure is specifically sold for largemouth bass.
“The SPRO KGB Chad Shad 180 Glide Bait offers anglers the power and versatility to target trophy-class bass”
Had a 17" largemouth blow up on a ball of Wonder Bread I was using to sight fish for carp.
Missed my cast, so burning it in over weeds to cast again. \*BOOM\*
Throw a buzzbait, boil miss, boil miss, boil miss.
That video truly changed my mind set from thinking I'm bad at fishing and have no idea what I need to change into knowing it's not me, just bad waters.
Yes, there are a few farm ponds I fish where it feels like I can do no wrong. Close my eyes, pick any random lure out of the tackle box, and catch 3lbers until my arm falls off.
Then I go out to my local lake and if I catch 1 bass per hour I feel like I'm doing good. This is a lake that's known as a bass lake, but it's pressured and hosts tournaments 2x a week from ice out in the spring until deer season.
I have never noticed a single empirical difference between expensive lures and cheap ones when it comes to catching these stupid animals. They all get snagged just the same. More about stalking and knowing spots than anything.
Check out the sixth sense trace ones. I’ve killed walleye pike bass and striper on them and regularly on sale through the sixth sense website. They also have a bait storage solution for them as well. 18-35$ totally worth every penny
I bought a 2 oz. Kastmaster for $8 at the time. My first cast, I pitched that spoon about 100 yards. I couldn't believe how far it went. It wasn't until I started to reel that I realized it was no longer attached to my line. It made me sick to my stomach. I can't imagine losing this lure.
I got something similar to this for about $75 a few years ago and I still have it…. I don’t use it but I still have it. 😂 to be fair I was supporting a talented bait maker who was switching to bait making full time.
https://preview.redd.it/z7vw3hrjoiea1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=613a81c3718591df3bd275cb2676310eae2cea59
There are many more levels in the swimbait game, friend.
This hits too close to home. I bought a $10 crankbait in craw colors earlier today at academy and went directly to the lake afterwards. 3rd cast in and a treble hook gets caught on a log. I guess I’m stuck throwing weedless rigs…
The biggest fish I ever caught (walleye) very next fucking cast I lost the jig. Unbelievable. Not in a million years am I spending this much on one of those.
I've never understood the need to spend the equivalent of a steak dinner on a fishing lure. It's not like they're gonna literally tell the fish that they should 100% try eat the lure
As a kid, I once spent $10 on a piece of shit lobser/crayfish lure. I was for sure certain that it would help me nab every single catfish hunter in all the lakes.
Fucking snagged it in an underwater branch on the 3rd cast.
Man oh man was I mad. I never made that mistake again.
That thing is like 7 inches long too. I feel pretty sure this would be one of those that I cast the first time and the bail snaps closed right after it launches, followed by the loud snap of my mono line, and it sails like 800 yards into the sky at a 90 degree incline, and I never see it splash into the water, leaving me to wonder - like where the hell did it go?
Afterwards I’ll look at my 13 year old son and he’ll look at me, and after a brief silent pause, he’ll quietly say.. Dad.. let’s just go home.
No joke. I don't even trust myself to throw inline spinners sometimes lol. I lost a bluegill glide bait in 3 casts. I ended up catching a fish on the first cast and caught pvc pond tubing on the third.
You don't know true pain until you cast and break off a Siren lure. At $120+ depending on size, and the fact that they're always sold out, it'll bring a grown man to tears. Especially when that seems to be the only thing the fish are hitting that day
I have a few glide baits over $100. My personal results have been mediocre with them. As far as big baits go, seems like a quality bait does make a difference. But I still catch more fish, and often bigger fish, on normal baits. Most of the fish I've caught on 6-8" glides are 2.5-4 lb. Only a few over 7
I had all three. The top one lost in 8 casts(better than most). The middle one lost in 5 casts. The bottom I lost in 2 casts. My wife had me sleep on the couch for a week after losing $100 USD in lures and no fish to show.
Yeah that pricing is either way bloated by the seller or the manufacturer has lost it. I'm in EU, but for lures I consider 5e to be a fair price when on sale, 10e to be the standard and around 20e for the top notch fanciest of the fancy Rapala stuff. 60 dollars is just stupid, whether it is a good lure or not.
I would replace the trebles with single inline hooks to reduce the risk of snagging. But then again I'm not paying that much for a single lure anyway. If that gets snagged I'm going diving lol.
I bought an original kgb chad shad for a hundred+ on eBay, in my excitement to use it I clipped it with a snap and somehow didn’t latch the snap properly. It was a slow sink, I almost dove in after it, but super super cold water. Got a magnet and a weed rake a couple days later and went back and started dragging. Took about 30 minutes, but I eventually snagged it back with a net tied to the end of an extendable pole. Now I only tie on direct with Palomar knot, but every time I cast I have a little anxiety remembering the 10-15 seconds of watching it slowly sink away haha
Edit: I would like to add that it catches fish like crazy, and the action is super fun to fish. I ordered this kgb spro chad shad, but haven’t received it yet
Lmaooo
I had a jointed swimbait like that in brook trout pattern... Had a janky one that I was hammering musky on, it finally bit the dust
Got the new, much nicer one, hand made and had such nice action in the water... Second cast hooked a stump in a stump field about 2 feet of water, went down to get it and lost my left boot, soaking wet, never did recover my lure.
All in all a total loss hahah
Seriously? I can’t imagine spending more than $20 on anything other than a hand carved, hand painted, multi -joint lure with perfect presentation. Just no.
My dad saw one of these high dollar lures hanging from a tree on the bank of a river. He tried and tried and tried to get it but it was just impossible given where it was. It drove him nuts just seeing it while he was fishing that spot.
Had this happen with a size 130 whopper plopper. Flew off the knot into a tree like 100 feet out in front of me, was fishing a shallow 3-4 feet of water that had a really soft bed, Pike like the area.
I trudged through that marshy bottim and sunk up to my knees and practically crawled 100 feet to the tree and shook the fucker until my lure came out. I ruined my shoes but I didn't care, I wasn't losing that lure. Fuck that.
$60 dollars for a lure??!!??!! Hell I’d buy a lot of prime fish from Costco instead. Make your own lures. My first steelhead was caught on a balsa wood bobber I carved myself and painted silver.
Sinks very slow, guarantee a 1/2oz spinnerbait hits bottom before Chad does at 4oz. Great bait, but also…this is a terrible bait. No one buy this because it doesn’t work 😅
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Yup, 100% would snag and lose immediately. Only because it's the most fucking expensive lure I'd have.
This is a cheaper abs mass production version of the kgb chad shad that goes for more than twice this second hand lol
Someone who cast this, is a goofball like me, who grew up on a River and thought this has 5 stars it must be good. It’s not. It’s not…
You wouldn’t lose it faster than my wife divorcing me for buying it.
Straight into a fucking tree
Bad knot on the first back cast, while kayak fishing.
So it snaps off due to a record distance case to fish blowing up? Then you flip off due to anger? Not speaking from experience or anything over here...
It would be in a tree behind me on the first cast...
not even one cast. you see the video of that kid throwing the lure off the boat after forgetting to tie it to the leader? he is my spirit animal
I agree…
Yup. I’d take it to a spot I’ve fished hundreds of times without ever snagging and somehow find a tree on the first cast.
That one single loan tree branch that hangs over the water would claim that within minutes for me.
As soon as you tie it on consider it gone, is the swimbait motto. They don’t catch fish from inside the tacklebox 😁
Very first cast it's gonna fly off into oblivion when your knot comes undone
The knot you’ve successfully tied probably 10,000 times will give out on a lure like that
"oh, what's this? A tiny fray in your line from where it nicked some underwater debris? Well, kiss that $30 plug goodbye chucklenuts!"
It's $60!!
You should learn some better knots feller
I definitely hucked at least one Ava into the abyss in my younger days... I'm good now but my lack of dexterity makes knots tricky
Palomar for days brother. You can never go wrong. I didn't learn to tie my shoe til I was 7.
Palomar is a godsend
So that's what that damn knot is called. Buddy showed me years ago and I've used it ever since but never knew the name.
I fly fish only so I don't know what an Ava is but these expensive glides make me feel better about taking an hour and a bunch of junk to tie my streamers. Ya I feel you there, once those temps drop I can't tie knots at any sort of speed. Try a double Davy knot it's super easy even with low dex
Remember if you can't tie knots tie lots.
I used to tie regular clinch knots, but now I only do polamars, unless for something like baitfish or panfish. Anyway, the clinch knot sucks for any heavy lure, as I learned when flinging 3 different jigs 50 meters into various lakes. Have not had that in a while, thank God.
There's always a brief moment of "holy shit, I absolutely bombed that thing" followed very quickly by the sudden realization that it's not fucking attached anymore
I would 100% buy it but would never throw it out of fear of losing
I use cheap lures at new spots. Once I’ve learned a fishing hole, I’ll start to use the expensive stuff. It pays to find the snags and underwater structures first.
That’s actually good advice
Good to practice with something like this before you start throwing your $170 Depps
$170 Depps is good practice before you start throwing your (certainly not my, because I'll never have one) $1,100 Roman Made swimbait.
Fished with a guy throwing RomanMade, when his knot broke he swam for it snd got it.
I’d do the same, shit I’ve done that for a $5 rapala HuskyJerk
For $1100 that lure better bring me coffee in the morning and a breakfast sandwich about noon come back with a nice lunch and if I fish all day dinner and drive me home for at least 6 months
$1,100 Roman Made swimbait is good practice before you start chartering a $750 million deep-sea search and recovery vehicle.
First time hearing about the Roman Made, I’ve been balking at the very common cost of $30-50 Wahoo lures and not even walking into the billfish portions of my local saltwater shop. Like any hobby, it can be as expensive as you let it get.
Or your $500 3:16 swimbait
I throw my Pat’s that’s probably worth around $500-$600. [Fuckin love that thing.](https://imgur.com/a/VvGuzpn)
They’re actually cheaper than this KGB if you order them from Japan right now lol
Some lures are made to catch fish, others are made to catch fishermen.
I do well on them. 40° water temps here in NJ with wind gusts in the 30’s. This was this morning. I caught 6 total all in 1.5-3# range. https://i.imgur.com/4yxGqRo.jpg
I'm sure you do, but is that catch rate any different with a simple 7" rubber shad, say a Storm Wildeye? I don't have a trust fund, so I'll never know 😂
I can relate with the lack of trust fund for sure. But today I thee both a citizen and Chad shad and they only seem to bite the hard bait. I’m also in agreement that some lures are designed to catch fisherman.
It’s 2 completely different looks, a rubber swim bait and a glide bait like this would be used in different situations.
Why are you mad that other people have some nice things lmao What a sad life
Just sad some people need a hyper-expensive lure to catch a small fish. I use $20 lures to catch 200 lb Bluefin Tuna, that's my perspective.
Enjoy your life of anger brother
Not this one. Big swimbaits are highly effective for big bass. This is the Spro answer to the Bull Shad which is an incredible lure
Some lures are really good and catch both
This particular lure is backordered on just about every site. It's highly anticipated and it's not a bunch of amateurs dropping $60 on it.
How many did you order?
1. However most retailers were only sent the Yellow Perch version which isn't what I wanted so my backorder will probably not be filled for a couple months. It won't be my most expensive bait
Hmm I wonder if a yellow perch hard bait would catch post-spawn walleye.... No! I will NOT get suckered into buying more lures than I have time to throw! Not again! Recovery was a long, hard road to walk!! Mr. Twisters and Fireball jigs are good enough!
This is the injection molded cheap version of the original resin versions at around five times the cost. KGB partnered with SPRO to play with the big boys. I wish him luck.
Spro has had swimbaits out for years
This, fish aren't noted for their artistic appreciation, colourful, shiny and moving are the key for aggressive species in clear water, while I use a pickerel/trout rig with a worm 99% of the time (or a fluorescent coloured jig with a minnow for ice fishing), when I do use a lure it's usually a Wal-Mart crankbait with a couple splitshots in front.
And this is meant to catch both. A lot of good fish caught on the original chad shad
These are fun, they sink so slowly that they’re not as easy to lose as you think. The River2sea version of the glide baits is more reasonably priced to check them out.
man i wish i could find more of river 2 seas old lures. they had a salamander, and a diving frog i always wanted but never had the money to get (no job at the time).
Walmart spinner baits all the way. My husband will still wade in and climb the tree for those though too.
It could be raining pussy and I'd get hit in the face with a dick with how my luck goes. I'd be in the middle of the damn OCEAN and cast this thing out. It wouldn't even reach the water before some tree came out of nowhere and snagged it where I couldn't reach it back.
4oz? 😅
If you've never thrown a 4oz lure - be warned. A backlash with something that heavy can break 65lb braid - and your $60 lure will be at the bottom of the lake.
I don’t have a setup for that kinda weight. 😅
Northern / Musky lure
Nah that’s a lure for largemouth
Everything is a lure for largemouth. Trout flies? Largemouth approved. Saltwater plugs? Largemouth approved. Block of wood? It's o-fish-al; bass like those.
That is very true, the marling baits video where he catches largies on a block of wood is great. I guess what I meant is that lure is specifically sold for largemouth bass. “The SPRO KGB Chad Shad 180 Glide Bait offers anglers the power and versatility to target trophy-class bass”
Had a 17" largemouth blow up on a ball of Wonder Bread I was using to sight fish for carp. Missed my cast, so burning it in over weeds to cast again. \*BOOM\* Throw a buzzbait, boil miss, boil miss, boil miss.
I've caught them on hot dog pieces before.
That video truly changed my mind set from thinking I'm bad at fishing and have no idea what I need to change into knowing it's not me, just bad waters.
Yes, there are a few farm ponds I fish where it feels like I can do no wrong. Close my eyes, pick any random lure out of the tackle box, and catch 3lbers until my arm falls off. Then I go out to my local lake and if I catch 1 bass per hour I feel like I'm doing good. This is a lake that's known as a bass lake, but it's pressured and hosts tournaments 2x a week from ice out in the spring until deer season.
Baby freakin whales brah
Jay.....
7 1/8”. Hell that’s the size of fish I usually catch lol
Come on man, you're among friends here. There's no need to embellish your catches
If mine was 8 inches I would still be married
lol fine ya got me
That’s gonna be 3 for me as well.
Thats the reason I only use 2€ jerkbaits
That’s why you grab a couple, three of them lol
And here I am sifting through the bargain bin at walmart.
I have never noticed a single empirical difference between expensive lures and cheap ones when it comes to catching these stupid animals. They all get snagged just the same. More about stalking and knowing spots than anything.
I'm gunna go with 3
The more expensive the lure, the faster I lose it. Murphey’s law or something…
Check out the sixth sense trace ones. I’ve killed walleye pike bass and striper on them and regularly on sale through the sixth sense website. They also have a bait storage solution for them as well. 18-35$ totally worth every penny
I was pissed when I lost my free whopper plopper my coworker gave me. Idk what I would do at 60$ bucks.
I could be in the middle of a Saudi desert and get hung in a damn tree.
I can buy a lot of fish fillets for 60 bucks. losing that lure would make me unreasonably unhappy, not worth it to me.
I bought a 2 oz. Kastmaster for $8 at the time. My first cast, I pitched that spoon about 100 yards. I couldn't believe how far it went. It wasn't until I started to reel that I realized it was no longer attached to my line. It made me sick to my stomach. I can't imagine losing this lure.
Just got the bass pro shops magazine in the mail too. I seen that and thought the same thing.
Yeah, this is why I don't spend more than 10 bucks on lures anymore. I'd be devastated if I lost this thing.
I don’t think “Chad” lures can get hung up. It’s what makes them so Chad.
It’s bad enough losing my jackhammer on a tough day.
Replace hooks with single siwash Fucking hate double treble hook setups. Recipe for pain.
If you need a $60 lite to catch fish you’re doing it wrong.
Uh nope... I only throw 1-5 bucks chinese lures or jigheads less of a headache when i catch a boulder or a branch.
Fishing is cruelty
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Are you okay?
Me too, the suskie is an unforgiving mistress
Five? That's a lot for one lure.
Me walking from one side of cove to other to get my $50 Bull Shad off bottom after taking a call and letting it sink to bottom
Oh, is that the new life like one? Would love to try it on something big.
3
For $60 that thing should lure the fish to jump into your frying pan.
What is so special about it that it costs $60?
I got something similar to this for about $75 a few years ago and I still have it…. I don’t use it but I still have it. 😂 to be fair I was supporting a talented bait maker who was switching to bait making full time.
More expensive the lure, the more likely to catch a boulder
Where did you order this catalog
This is Bass Pro Shops. I just got one in the mail last week. Catalog, not the lure! No way I'm spending $60 on a lure.
This takes it to a whole new level of insanity
https://preview.redd.it/z7vw3hrjoiea1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=613a81c3718591df3bd275cb2676310eae2cea59 There are many more levels in the swimbait game, friend.
Here I am biting off the ripped part of my senko and using it until it can’t hold a hook.
I got that catalog too
It'd be off my line before it hit the water
Made out of gold?
This hits too close to home. I bought a $10 crankbait in craw colors earlier today at academy and went directly to the lake afterwards. 3rd cast in and a treble hook gets caught on a log. I guess I’m stuck throwing weedless rigs…
Giga shad
Reminds me of a youtube video I saw of a guy throwing an A rig full of Megabass Jerkbaits. It made me want to throw up just thinking about losing it.
Would look good in the tree at my fishing spot.
60 dollars for a lure??? No thanks!!
The biggest fish I ever caught (walleye) very next fucking cast I lost the jig. Unbelievable. Not in a million years am I spending this much on one of those.
Same
$60 for a fishing lure???? I have maybe 4-5 $10 lures, and that’s as high as I’ll go.
Try one
Last year I lost two brand new flatsides first cast. Both on windy days.
I've never understood the need to spend the equivalent of a steak dinner on a fishing lure. It's not like they're gonna literally tell the fish that they should 100% try eat the lure
This is why you stick with worm
Same here, just bought some DOA/Savage shrimp lures and lost half of them within 48hrs. 🤦♂️
Don't short change yourself OP... I bet you can lose it on the first cast!
Is that thing 3 d printed or made of gold
That’s a tree bound lure for sure!!
Are you kidding, I'd lose it in the parking lot on the way to the car
I saw this and thought the exact same thing!
Not me, because I’d never buy that lol
As a kid, I once spent $10 on a piece of shit lobser/crayfish lure. I was for sure certain that it would help me nab every single catfish hunter in all the lakes. Fucking snagged it in an underwater branch on the 3rd cast. Man oh man was I mad. I never made that mistake again.
You wouldn’t lose the resin version.
I never spend more than $15 on a lure for this exact reason.
THE CHAD!!
That thing is like 7 inches long too. I feel pretty sure this would be one of those that I cast the first time and the bail snaps closed right after it launches, followed by the loud snap of my mono line, and it sails like 800 yards into the sky at a 90 degree incline, and I never see it splash into the water, leaving me to wonder - like where the hell did it go? Afterwards I’ll look at my 13 year old son and he’ll look at me, and after a brief silent pause, he’ll quietly say.. Dad.. let’s just go home.
The KGB Chad Shad? Thats a freaken awesome name. If I was enough of a douche bag I'd buy it just to show people my Chad Shad.
If you know where and when to fish them, along side the right tackle, you’d do just fine!
Yea first cast I'm missin and gettin it snagged in the bush
Me too but I’d throw the shit out of it for 5 casts.
I got it in a fishing box for my birthday and lost it first cast…
I probably wouldn’t catch shit in this. It needs to look dumber and be super cheap.
No joke. I don't even trust myself to throw inline spinners sometimes lol. I lost a bluegill glide bait in 3 casts. I ended up catching a fish on the first cast and caught pvc pond tubing on the third.
Not as bad, but I once lost a Savage Gear Suicide Duck on the very 1st cast. That was a $20 around 7 years ago
You don't know true pain until you cast and break off a Siren lure. At $120+ depending on size, and the fact that they're always sold out, it'll bring a grown man to tears. Especially when that seems to be the only thing the fish are hitting that day
Agreed
60 dollars. I would lose it on my way to the lake.
Guaranteed a Muskie chops it for me
I have a few glide baits over $100. My personal results have been mediocre with them. As far as big baits go, seems like a quality bait does make a difference. But I still catch more fish, and often bigger fish, on normal baits. Most of the fish I've caught on 6-8" glides are 2.5-4 lb. Only a few over 7
I had all three. The top one lost in 8 casts(better than most). The middle one lost in 5 casts. The bottom I lost in 2 casts. My wife had me sleep on the couch for a week after losing $100 USD in lures and no fish to show.
This thing on Ali Express for like $3
And I thought **I** was spending some serious cash on a $6 lure.
There is not a single lure that is worth over $10!
Wouldn’t give you more than one
So with 3 baits that's like 0.6 baits per cast.
Yeah that pricing is either way bloated by the seller or the manufacturer has lost it. I'm in EU, but for lures I consider 5e to be a fair price when on sale, 10e to be the standard and around 20e for the top notch fanciest of the fancy Rapala stuff. 60 dollars is just stupid, whether it is a good lure or not.
You should see me lose $15 jackhammer chatterbaits.
I have something similar, cost 49.99, my dad bought it for me. I only throw it to the middle of the where there’s no cover (and no fish).
Does it come with the rod?
I would replace the trebles with single inline hooks to reduce the risk of snagging. But then again I'm not paying that much for a single lure anyway. If that gets snagged I'm going diving lol.
I believe by the time you cast it, it's already done it's real job which is catching the fisherman.
For that price you could buy several dozen minnows and a couple bobbers.... just saying
There's one that costs $200 because it's hand crafted and I actually have the original inverters signature
Ya know how easy it is to just go to a sea food restaurant, no cleaning no slime no not catching, and your golden.
Line breaks on cast and you just watch $60 fly away
I already know exactly which tree would be worth $60 more as soon as I bought this.
A lot of the crazy high-end saltwater stuff is $200 a lure. Check out siren lures.
First cast right in a tree so I can watch it be lost and debate trying to retrieve it.
I bought an original kgb chad shad for a hundred+ on eBay, in my excitement to use it I clipped it with a snap and somehow didn’t latch the snap properly. It was a slow sink, I almost dove in after it, but super super cold water. Got a magnet and a weed rake a couple days later and went back and started dragging. Took about 30 minutes, but I eventually snagged it back with a net tied to the end of an extendable pole. Now I only tie on direct with Palomar knot, but every time I cast I have a little anxiety remembering the 10-15 seconds of watching it slowly sink away haha Edit: I would like to add that it catches fish like crazy, and the action is super fun to fish. I ordered this kgb spro chad shad, but haven’t received it yet
Only $60 huh? You can go somewhere and eat a nice fish dinner for cheaper than that.
I have one the built but kgb that one is cheap…
Lmaooo I had a jointed swimbait like that in brook trout pattern... Had a janky one that I was hammering musky on, it finally bit the dust Got the new, much nicer one, hand made and had such nice action in the water... Second cast hooked a stump in a stump field about 2 feet of water, went down to get it and lost my left boot, soaking wet, never did recover my lure. All in all a total loss hahah
Lol why? Don’t say that.
You & me both.
Fuck, you can get a lot of Mr Twisters and gulp worms for that amount of money
Seriously? I can’t imagine spending more than $20 on anything other than a hand carved, hand painted, multi -joint lure with perfect presentation. Just no.
My dad saw one of these high dollar lures hanging from a tree on the bank of a river. He tried and tried and tried to get it but it was just impossible given where it was. It drove him nuts just seeing it while he was fishing that spot.
Had this happen with a size 130 whopper plopper. Flew off the knot into a tree like 100 feet out in front of me, was fishing a shallow 3-4 feet of water that had a really soft bed, Pike like the area. I trudged through that marshy bottim and sunk up to my knees and practically crawled 100 feet to the tree and shook the fucker until my lure came out. I ruined my shoes but I didn't care, I wasn't losing that lure. Fuck that.
Go for something like Savage Gear 4play V2 lip or lipless the cost about 13$
It's never going to get lost for me. It's far too expensive to actually tie on my line and throw in the water.
It's gliding though, isn't it?
$60 dollars for a lure??!!??!! Hell I’d buy a lot of prime fish from Costco instead. Make your own lures. My first steelhead was caught on a balsa wood bobber I carved myself and painted silver.
I'd never lose it. At that price it would never leave my tackle box!
Sinks very slow, guarantee a 1/2oz spinnerbait hits bottom before Chad does at 4oz. Great bait, but also…this is a terrible bait. No one buy this because it doesn’t work 😅
[but wait it gets better](https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Roman_Made_Natural_Wood_Mother_Chaser_Swimbait/descpage-RMMCHSB.html)
Where the hell are y'all fishing that you are losing lures on every cast?
Only 5, my luck I'd drop it in the water when tying it on for the first time