Price of lures

[walleye977]

Im I just cheap or is the price of lures gone way up 5 to 6 bucks for a jigging spoon with some buck shot just seems nuts to me. I know these places don't pay there workers top dollar and seems like they hardly ever go on sale just my 2cents.

[schweady]

Here, I caught all that grief for buying so many of them a few years back. Laughs on them.

[Hawg]

A lot of times the packaging cost more than the production price of the lure, then theres the marketing, the people that do the marketing, the liciencing, the patents, the molds, the shipping, the profit of the end seller, and on and on and on. You're buying more than a 3 cent hook and a quarter ounce of lead (which by the way has tripled in the last 3 years). On top of all that, it's a small market and products only stay hot and sell a lot for a couple years.

[gurkster]

Its nuts to me too. I also bought to much stuff years ago. Now I have a good assortment to choose from without having to buy more...or so I tell myself.

[cableguy2]

I buy a bunch every year and tell my self I do not need this much, it only takes one good lure. But I always seem to try everything and I assume I will buy more this year. Guess you can never have enough

[DLD24]

I just buy a couple lures whenever I go to the store in my head it feels like I'm not spending as much vs buying all of them at once

[BronzeBrother]

I just buy a couple lures whenever I go to the store in my head it feels like I'm not spending as much vs buying all of them at once

Ya that's what I do too, stings less and it is easier to justify with the mrs... LOL!

[OnAFly]

justify, hide, it's all good

[Fishin4fun_MN]

I am going to try making my own. Sounds fun and easy and fun. Who knows, maybe a future business.

[jbird68]

I'd like to get a good number of slab grabber spoons but just don't want to spend a that much plus shipping. I wish I could just find some in the stores around here.

[walleye977]

99% of the time if it doesn't have free shipping I don't order. I'm not one to spend 50 or 100 bucks to get free shipping thats why I like gander over cabela's. I've spent a few dollar on the newest and greatest lures but once they have been out for a few years they could come down in price.

[blackdog1101]

I've seen some pretty nice jigs on the big E auction site made by home enthusiasts. They are far less expensive than normal retail. I don't need any jigs currently but I've got some bookmarked for the future. Worth browsing when you have some time.

[masoct3]

What I can contribute is at the Ice Show, the vendors who had the bins of "pick and choose your lures" for, say $0.90, pay about $.10 or less, albeight each bin has a couple hundred and the dude had about 25 bins, but just saying.

At the end of the season, I see discounts on the Northland tackle, and I just wait a year....A YEAR!!!