$100 Worth of Fishing Lures in a Drained Lake! 

3:20 Brendon I saw another bait in the tree

Keep up the good work love these vids, always look forward to the one just after Xmas that you do.

I love the fish searching for fishing lures series

It’s always nice to find fishing gear. I spend quite a bit of time intentionally hunting for lost fishing gear when my local lake draws down in late summer or fall. I’ve retrieved pounds of lead that I re-melt and cast into new jigs and sinkers. I find that a fair bit of the soft plastics are usable once cleaned and allowed to dry out for some time, usually a few weeks and the plastics that are not good can often be remelted after cleaning and allowed to dry over several months. Metal spoons and blades, especially brass can often be polished out. I repaint those hard baits that are too worn to use as is. I polish clear diving bills using 1K to 2K wet/dry sandpaper and plastic polish and a rotary tool. Don’t discount spinnerbaits, buzz baits and chatter baits that have hooks that are too corroded to use as is. I’ve successfully installed new hooks by cutting off part of the existing hook and using heat make a loop for adding an open eye hook to the bait. If you’re careful you won’t melt the lead. Sometimes I have to cut some of the lead off of the shank area below the head to expose good metal and I do re-temper and anneal the loops I make in the metal. This does mean that you’ll have a free moving hook instead of a fixed one (which so far actually seems beneficial and doesn’t seem to negatively effect hook up ratios) and there won’t be any retainers for soft plastic trailers, but they work fine for me. I’ve caught fish on such modified lures that otherwise would have gone to scrap for the lead. I have not been able to do this with jigs however. If the hooks are gone on those I simply wash and usually am able to re-use the skirts and melt the lead heads to make new ones. Great video. Finding free fishing gear is always a good time especially when the fishing isn’t good because of water conditions.

I love the lure hunting videos ! An idea for you to make a video using these lures to catch fish for an episode...

always a great day when you upload much love man always looking forward to future uploads and all the stuff in the works.

Lately I've been seeing you catch more lures than fish but you got me hooked on these videos and I can watch from beginning to end. Spring is coming up fast out here in California so I'm hoping for good fishing soon.

The fly you found is actually called a “streamer” mostly for pike in the netherlands when it is colder weather, because you can fish it very slow.

Interesting to find two of the same. Funny thing is, I found one of those the other day too lol

Always exciting to see a new video from you

Love hunting for lures!! Great find!

Soooo cool!

Quick question: have you ever had to deal with a karen when you go lure hunting or fishing?

Nice video brendan, keep the good work up!

What do you do, with everything you find? I know you say “ new hooks and into the tackle box” but do you ever actually use them? Would be a fun video! Catching fish on lures you’ve found and repaired.

Love the videos I’ve been a old fan

Hey man where’d you get that long stick for getting lures out of trees?

I need me one of those extender sticks...

Yippee! Fishing lure hunt! 💖

good video

I'd watch you magnet fishing. Gotta be a lot of stuff considering how much stuff you have found in your videos ..I have a neighbor who collects bobbers on his walk home from work and I buy them from him because he doesn't make a whole bunch of $$$ in his job

Can you make another tackle bag video?

Friends commentary the entire video…. “Yup.”

Are you also a disc golf player? That looks like a disc golf retriever you are using.

What's your favorite lake in Ohio to find lures?

Am Don Kenyan asking if we can saply you with fishing flys

Where do you lure hunt because I want to get lures lure hunting to

What happens to the hooks on those lipless cranks? Do they fall off that easily?

please post more often 😥

3:26 jerk bait, not crank bait.

Being in Ohio you must find a lot of dead bodies looking for lures. LOL

3:20 you skipped a lure

That was a musky fly those are Actually expensive

30th like !