The sad part is that's not all of it, its just all of it that I can find. God forbid I get the chance to go fishing with someone else and don't get a chance to run by my boat. Well, I sure as hell am not going to trust that the person I am fishing with is going to have what I need. To most of my friends dead shrimp on the bottom or under a cork is a perfectly acceptable way to catch a fish. There's nothing wrong with that if it floats your boat, it just doesn't excite me all that much. Fishing with market bait makes me feel like I hunting cattle in a feedlot. So I will no doubt drop 40 or 50 bucks on the minimum amount of artificial bait for me to convince myself I am properly equipped. I got issues.

If you guys would like to start a support group. I would join. :)

I have the same problem although I've been learning to control the addiction. There are really only so many baits you NEED. Soft plastic, suspending, and topwater. Pic 3 different colors for each style and maybe a couple different variances and you're golden. Spend more time fishing and less time worrying about what they wanna eat...Those confidence baits are a killer..

They were called worm bags when they came out 20 years ago.

I've been told I need an intervention :-/ ha

you need multiply that addiction by a few digits to compensate for my offshore gears .. the equipment is outrageous (stella & synit can put you in the dog house and i have a collection issue), poppers or swim bait starts at $40 and my jig box is at least 120lbs of lead.

and then i have inshore gears addiction like we all suffer

I haven't been bit by the by that bug but I have a feeling its coming. I have a few cobia jigs, but nothing too out of control. The chronarchs I use for trout and reds are more than the Takota's I use for snapper/aj. I use a Curado EJ for cobia. I don't know how people fish with flippy floppys (spinning reels) much less drop a grand on one. If you have a Stella Collection, my mirror on the wall tells me you are the sickest of us all.

Baits catch more people than people catch fish

That is fact

I catch from 4000 -5000 fish a year on two types of plastic and two types of hard baits and that's it ,

But your the chosen one W.

I was thinking the same thing! Haha

Dude. I need those broken back corkys. How much? 😊

I dont have any broke back, just bend the tail down. Never seen a broke back.

I use to buy tons of crap, I have two big rubbermaid containers full of baits one is bass baits and the other is saltwater tackle. I have probably bought less than $50 of tackle in the last two years. I got to the point where if I can't catch fish on the baits I have then they're not biting! I could probably of bought a nice boat with the money I use to spend on fishing gear.

That's an impressive collection of baits. All in one boat, at one time.

looks like us.. except we just have academy bags full of different baits stashed throughout the boat :(

I use these bags. Just chunk the plastics bag in here. No need to pull stuff out and organize. The large one first two rows of 6 comfortably and I've been known to cram more in.