The 26 Euro Bass Lure.

Against my better judgement I bought a IMA KIMOMO sf-125 bass lure for £18 sterling - which including postage works out at €26. To my parsimonius upbrining this is equivalent to spending a couple of grand on a wheel-barrow.

However IMA KIMOMO SF-125 is a seriously well designed piece of kit which swims a stable depth of One foot with an enticing wobble to the rear end OR at the surface by raising the rod tip . A feat which is easier said than done - which I appreciate from a previous life of designing pelagic fishing gear for vessels up to 2 thousand tonnes and all the hydrodynamic limitations of keeping things at a stable depth that that imposes.

However because KIMOMO is a surface or near-surface lure you are inclined to think that your €26 is reasonably safe.

Case Study: Cast 4 Kimomo is stopped dead in a slamming take and promptly wrapped around a boulder followed by a snapped line a missing bass and even more missing Kimomo.

The best laid plans etc...........

i would have called the coastguard

did your face look like this after it happened

https://www.facebook.com/ReelFishingPho ... =1&theater

Lost a salt skimmer not so long ago. Waded out to chest at low tide. In breathables. I just thought at that instant.
F@@k it. No way might be gutted but not worth risking it anymore.

See tide line on cliff.

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Sucks alright, snap offs with expensive lures is another torment watching it sail off into the sunset. They go a mile too when there is no line attached to them.

All you can do is save yourself a fiver next time:

http://www.ebay.ie/sch/i.html?_odkw=IMA ... sacat=1492

Having smarted for a bit, yesterday morning I got out the trusty 11' fly rod and tied up Oz's Livebait fly - total expenditure around 50 cents- and in the same spot on cast 6 or 7...........
Thanks Oz!

nice.....

nice one!!

Haha had an experiance like that with a k10 Focus went from trying to catch Bass to trying and catch my k10. I got it back after about 40 minutes