How many bass fishing lures does it take?
May 7, 2009 by Daniel Ambrose
Have you got an ungodly amount of bass fishing lures? I mean really, just how many bass fishing lures does it take? Recently, a friend and I were doing a little bass fishing and this is how these things get started.
It was a peaceful sunny day at the back of my friends twenty acres where we were just getting started bass fishing in his private lake, when my friend pulled out this huge tackle box from his pickup and started fingering through all these different bass fishing lures.
Now I looked at my friend and then the massive quantity of bass fishing lures he had displayed and I could not help but ask him, “are you going to open a bass fishing lure shop?” He looked at me, just a little dumbfounded, in my opinion, and said “you never know what them varmints are going to take a notion to strike at.”
Now who in the world talks like that? I laughed until I nearly cried, and then I asked my friend “if you had used all of the bass fishing lures you had in your tackle box, why did you not just get rid of the lures that did not catch any bass?
He responded; “maybe they were not hungry that day.”
Now I kid you not, there is something to be said about the honesty in which he truly believed himself to be responding to my questions, and folks, we are not in Tennessee, not that I have anything against Tennesseans, but who in the state of Indiana, born and raised, talks like that?
But lets find the moral of our little story; “how many bass fishing lures does it take?” Well, I do not claim to know how many bass fishing lures it takes, but I will say that if your spending thirty minutes sifting through them to find the perfect bass fishing lure, the bass may eat their fill before you ever get your line into the water. Hence, another day they may not of been hungry. I know this may seem silly, but I could not resist sharing it with you.
And, for my friend, who will remain anonymous, I meant you no disrespect, just remember that I write about the things I love, so you know I love you. 
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I am a confessed lure addict. I carry about 40 lbs of lures with on my boat. I cannot pass up a fishing store without buying something. I simply like to buy and then cast new lures. I like to feel them in my hand, clean and un-wetted. I bought my first lure in 1963 from Mr. Olberg for $1.39, a twin prop, surface contraption that I snapped off on the first cast….before it hit the water. My wife once bet me I couldn’t fish an entire season with just five lures…..I did it and she paid! (rubber worm, jitter bug, spinner bait, jerk worm and a jig). I’m from New Jersey but if’n I want to talk like, ” I be throwing dis here jig into dat wood yonder way and prayin fer a bite, I tell you what…” then mind your own business. That’s sum funny sh** right thar…..