Agreed Borch. Many times my wife is along when I make many purchases. I have never had any issues when I talked about what I was going to buy with her before hand.

Harvey/Borch, I think you took my comments about "hiding it from the wifeski" literal ... I meant it in jest.

Besides family stuff, fishing is my main hobby. Knowing that, my wife always tells me to pickup what fishing stuff I want (within reason) as gifts for various occasions (e.g. anniv, b-day, fathers day, xmas, etc) and the kids give me gift cards to put towards more fishing stuff. She knows I have a lot invested in fishing, but neither her nor I really tracked a total figure. It wasn't until recently when it dawned on me to inventory it to determine if I need extra insurance that I realized how much ... boy was I shocked.

Don't mean to sound defensive, but did not want FMers thinking that I am the type of spouse to "hide" thing from the wife - cause I am not.

NCLaker,

I figured you with just joking. We all have made that same comment. One of the reasons like that Progressive commercial were the guy is buying boat, motorcyle and RV insurance and his wife makes the comment that "We don't have any of those things" Followed by his...Well, Uh yes I do...I mean we do...

Just telling a story about where being upfront helped me out.

Thanks Borch .... Honesty/being up front makes life so much more simple.

Havent counted and dont want too.. All I know, its pretty bad the number I have... As I have rubbermaid tubs with unopened packages of sticks and divers stored away. But, whats a guy to do, you never know when they will discontinue the best color going..

Don't you just hate it when they do that. It's almost always a hot color too.

Then it's the race to get the remaining stock before someone else does.

I know what ya mean when ya say a good pattern gets discontinued. Rapala stopped making one that I kill walleyes on. I think it is called "crawfish" pattern and only have one left that is chewed up pretty good. Every time it hits a rock or something my heart sinks. I'm thinkin I'll need SCUBA gear to retrieve it. I wish Rapala would put the model # on the lip too

Ya that was hot for me too as well as the Hot Craw or Fire Craw. Whatever it was called. The Jointed ones.
As far as discontinueing hot colors its my pet peave. I mean what knucklehead picks the colors to discontinue? Its always good colors we use and catch fish on. Never the crazy off shoot colors that just sit in your box colecting dust.
I think its all a ploy to get us starving for them for a few years so they can bring them back later in small numbers and charge $2 more a piece saying they are collectors or something.
Thats why when I find a bait that works I buy as many as I can. Especially if they are on sale.
Still looking for some Hot Renoskie Crystalina's.

I was told this from a guy at Rapala --- colors get discontinued based on national sales or something close to that .... so even if a color is really popular in a regional area or especially a smaller local area, if they don't sell enough overall they're discontinued. It gets frustrating.

My biggest fear is "when I die " my wife will sell my fishing gear for what she thinks I paid for it
LAS

Loonasea my fear is that she sells mine for less than her used books. Thats why I plan on her going 1st. That and I dont want her to have to go through all that comes with a spouse dieing.

Well I'm now at 162.....Man I love Ebay.....

Got me a hole 18 cranks lol... guess it's time for some shopping

Killdeer, I wouldn't recommend trying to keep up with some of these guys ... unless you have a lot of equity in your home and are will to spend it on cranks ... LOL

I usually add 4-10 each year. Now that I have to be a bit more selective due to space I am more towards the lower end the past few years. No need to do it all at once unless you really want too.