TOTAl LOSS!!!

[SPLMAX SAM]

Took a major hit in October.

Over the summer I collected F18 for the fall fishing season. Had a very nice fishable collection. My buddy and I went out for our 1st attempt at night fishing. A big storm was coming and I mis judged the rain.

We rushed back to the dock and loaded the boat onto the trailer in a pouring rain. Never checked to see if I had unloaded all my tackle. Halfway back on while driving on the freeway, the F18 blew out onto the road and got clobbered

Before and after pictures



Total Loss


Back to the drawing board - garage sale shopping in the fall sucks for finding lures.

[keesvanderlaak]

MAN!! That sucks big time!!!

[karakudki]

I'm sure this mistake you will not repeat it ever again. Some models are hard enough. So I never rush when I leave the water. I'm very sorry for what happened to you. It's pretty nasty!
But you should not get angry, there is a saying in my country: "Every evil is for good!"
I am sending a private message.

[SPLMAX SAM]

Thanks for the sympathy - i was pretty bummed.
One of those F18 was an 8 year old original clown. Lucky I found an identical replacement.

In the last 2 weeks, I have been searching for F18 deals.
I have found several good deals. The replacements so far aren't as nice as the ones lost, but very fish-able

Even found one I think may be from the 60's (2 hook version of the F18). This one will probably hang on the wall.



I have silver coming in the mail (cant wait)

still searching for another silver, new clown, perch, natural perch, orange.

I want to take some of the beat up ones and paint them

Purple Chrome Pink Perch - orange belly


Chartruese pink - orange belly

[bacon]

sorry to hear about your broken lure, i have lost many a lure to breakage of one way or another. it doesnt even phase me anymore. maybe ive just gotten desensitized. if your haveing some custom painted, check out dutch fork customs, he will make anything you can think of, and does amazing stuff with chrome on lures. you can click the link for them on the right side of this page, just scroll down til you see dutch fork custom lures. hes not cheap, but he is in the same ball park as most custom painters you find on the net.
bacon