I have been trying to pare down some of my tackle and I have over eighty spinnerbaits. How many do you carry? I'll bet-way too many. I think I probably use maybe twelve of these baits, of course I do have duplicates in case I lose an old favorite. Do you have too much of anything?

Johnnie... are you really asking us to lay it out there for the world to see? Whenever my wife asks, the answer is always "NO". So with that said, I will need to stick to my story, although I will share that on more than one occasion I have order a bulk load of a certain type of lure only to find out later that I had a some stashed away. I don't need to buy any tube baits for a very, very long time...

The rule is that if you leave it at home, that's when you'll need it...

I still carry the tournament mentality to be prepared for anything and any thought, Oh and always carry 2 of everything. Since I became an out of shape desk jockey I can no longer lift my tackle boxes into the boat. I try to downsize every year, but with each trip the small box gets fuller and replaced with the bigger box and eventually the workshop is empty and the boat is much lower in the water. It a disease. My weakness is hard baits, love them like girlfriends. Next is the soft plastics, which carry tremendous weight when you carry all of them. Spinner baits not so much, two boxes and maybe some fold out, and the blade and skirt box. It kills me when I go with Brendan. He uses a little old band aid box with one jig and catches all of the fish!!!

I would imagine we're all guilty. Those soft baits can really add up tow and I actually use so few of them. By the time I figure out something I like won't produce, it's time to leave. The only reason crankbaits stay in check is I lose a lot of tem from time to time. Johnnie

Guilty!!! I have way to much stuff in the boat!!! But hey you just never know when you might need it! I have spinner baits in a box that have sat there so long the skirts have fallen off. I have cut back alot on buying stuff, because I have found just a few baits that I find myself throwing all the time, and those are the ones I replace often the rest of the stuff is getting moved into the shop for "specialty" use. You know like the 15" worms that I bought for Lake Fork and Rayburn. I know that once I clean the boat out it will run alot faster!! lol!!!!

According to my wife I have too much of everything!!!

Yea what is it with women? Closet full of shoes, clothes and jewlery and they tell us we have to much stuff??!!! Heck I can't even get my clothes in the closet anymore and my pair of tennis shoes and boots set beside the bed because the floor is covered in her shoes??? Whats up with that. How can she tell me I have too much fishing gear? LOL!!!!!

God is great
Beer is good
and women are crazy.

My wife has so many changes of clothes. She absolutely won't be seen in the same clothes twice-but I can wear a pair of jeans for a week and the same shirt if I don't spill Fish Formula on it!

I only have to change if I spill the shad scent on my collar, otherwise I'm good.

And tell me this, how come women never know what they want to buy when they go into a store? They are worse than us at Bass Pro Shops.

After 42 years of marriage,let me say, that women in a store are like us on a lake. It's not just the buying for them, it's the competition of out-buying the competitors-. For us it's the pursuit and competing against the fish- not the actual, catching.

even though im only 13 ive noticed that fishing has a side-effect.....spending toooooooo muchhh money

everytime i come house from the fishing store, my mom tells me " what is more to buy, you already have everything"

That is what my mom says. She tells me that I am spending too much money and I already have too much stuff, lol. You have seen my stuff, I don't have too much!

yeah hahaha, i can probably fit 5 times of what u have in my tackle box (aka, war chest)