First high dollar bait

[WaterWolf44]

I'm sure this topic has been done before but why not do another thread. I was wondering what your first high dollar swimbait was that started you down the path of expensive swimbaits. Mine was a fish30acre Money Shad I got from a fellow member @NigelBBassin78when I first joined the forum.

[wtrwsel]

First Swimbait was a $20 Mattlures Blue gill. High dollar $100 Wood PB Rat. 

[JacksonF]

Used Toxic wnc. I thought I was out of my damn mind for spending $60 on a bait. Now look at me…… lol

[BPayne]

6” Bone BullShad 2 Knocker….was “high dollar” to me for a bait last year.  Now I’m delving into the $200+ baits and feeling like a crackhead!

[BittyRanger]

Code name bass my wife got for me as a gift lol. Bless her heart she didn’t know I didn’t have the proper gear to throw it but that didn’t stop me. 

[danthefisherman]

As others have implied, “expensive” is a relative term. To me at a young age, anything I had to buy and couldn’t find discarded on the bank was expensive. I saved up my pennies to purchase a Sebile Magic Swimmer 95 used off of eBay for $4. That became my most prized bait and I still have it today.

 The most expensive I’ve thrown after that was a deps 250 and baitsmith magnum.

[JustBassinAround916]

First big/exspensive was a Gantarel lol couldnt believe i was spending 30 something dollars on just one "lure" now the most exspensive purchase after a year or 2 was a cali dream ghost

[Jonnybass64]

First bait over 100 dollars was a fish everything paperweight. Caught one dink on it then casted it off. Classic stuff 

[xSoCalBassKingx]

First high dollar bait was an OG 250 I got for 150 from a buddy. It was the bloody carp color and I traded it for a saltwater reel I don’t even use. Still haunts me

[StriperAddict]

My first big money bait was an OG A.C. Plug 9". That was 100 years and 1 million dollars on baits ago. Still have that plug and it still fishes today

[Mossypumpkin]

Deps 250. Cast it off about the 5th cast ever with it. 

[BigBassLife133]

My first big dollar bait is a K9

[chevro1et]

First "big money" bait was a 7" Bullshad.  First over $100 was a Wade Hoggs.  Still have them both, and still active in the rotation.

[Steven C]

Mine was a Deps 250 probably 2010- 2012ish whenever they were the holy grail. My buddy was friends with Matt Paino and got us a few. I ended up with a trout and flash carp. Took one out to my dads pond that had a few 5-8lb bass in it. The first few casts every fish in the pond came out to look at it. I thought “this is going to be insane “. Well the first time to Clear Lake and second cast she goes into orbit. I was so sick I couldn’t even tie the other one on. Ended up selling it to another buddy and got enough to cover both. Didn’t buy anything that didn’t float for a long time. 

Edited March 1, 2022 by Steven C

[SVT THUNDER]

A couple of OG HPH’s that cost $175 ea. I thought it was stupid money back then. I don’t even know how many I’ve owned at this point. Really regret selling any of the early models now. Awesome baits. Now $175 seems like a bargain compared to what I spend on certain baits.