Lew'sDavid Fritts Get'r Back Lure Retriever

Saved my expensive swimbait lure stuck deep on a log.

I’ve fished with this retriever 3 times and it’s already saved me 10 large deep diver crank baits and even pulled 2 extra up last week.Started trolling deep divers bumping the bottom in 10-15 feet of water, then coming up on humps and shelves which is just asking to loose them, but it really surprises them into a reaction strike. My fishing buddy had one of these and saw it work one time and ordered mine. Won’t never be without this tool again. After using it some I’ve learned you really need to be vertical to get the quickest hookup and it’s not automatic. May take multiply drops to get it to snag the lure but you can feel the hook up plain as day.Really impressive and interesting to play with, specially when you can come home with more crank baits than you left with.

I got on the lake early at 6am, and by 9am I still hadn't caught a fish. Several boats around me were catching some on shad like crankbaits, so I tied on a 8XD, which dives 16' deep. I got desperate and casted toward a tree sticking out of the water, hoping to go just over the highest branches. Well, the crankbait went 6" too deep, and both trebles got stuck in the branch. I previously wrapped the string of the Lure Retriever around a section of pvc pipe, so it wouldn't just be a mess in my tackle box, but the string really twists up. I pulled out the retriever, attached it to the line coming from my pole and down to the snag. I tightened up the fishing line and let the the retriever go down. It didn't go so smoothly, so I had to really wiggle the rod around to get it to slide down. After a few bangs, up came the crankbait floating to the top. Saved me a $15 lure on the first trip! Would be 5 stars if the string was better quality and had some means of managing it.

If you fish from your boat, this is a must have. This has saved 5 lures so far that have been stuck on branches in the lake. We attached it to a fishing pole to help with line.

I hope my husband knows what tf it is on Christmas day! It would be nice if it came in a package (even if the bag had a simple label with the name of the product on it!), and it should come with an instruction sheet with info on the product, website, or where to find more info (i.e. videos). For this reason, I would not recommend this, especially as a gift. (It wouldn't cost you much to get boxes, and print labels and instruction sheets You can do it yourself! You can make a quick instructional video and load it onto Youtube too. Running a successful business takes effort, my friend.)

If you fish crank baits, lipless cranks, shakey heads anything with exposed treble hooks and your always getting hung. YOU NEED THIS!! I have quite literally saved hundreds If not thousands of dollars with this retriever getting my lures back in the boat. I now throw baits in places I would NEVER have considered before, because I have so much faith in being able to get my lures back in the likely event they get hung.If your reading this to help decide, spend the money it’s well worth it.

Purchased in 8/21. I have used alot of different lure retreivers in my life and this one is the absolute worst.I used it for 6 months and I have rescued only 2 lures out of about 25 hang ups. Normally with and other lure retreiver, I average retreiving my lure 80% to 85% of the time. The Lews Git'r back retreiver will more times than not, pinch and cut the line and leave the lure forever intombed in a watery grave. I use 35 lb to 65 lb braid and 20 to 25 lb. floro. Line breakage should not be a issue. At first glance it looks like it would work great, but the balance is off and the retreiver twists around the line eye of the retreivere when trying to knock the lure free, resulting breaking the line. I have failed to rescue, 4 thunder crickets, 2 crankbaits, 6 jigs and numerous soft plastic texas rigs and drop shots. I really thought that it would shine retreiving crankbaits, but NO. So, if I was you I would pass this retreiver by. Its kinda like qubic zirconium, looks like a diamond, but it just wont cut glass.

Paid for itself 10 times over the first time I used it. Dropped my bait casting rod in about 15’ of dirty gross water full of sticks and fallen trees. Wouldn’t have been safe to dive down to try and get it. Rigged up a rod with 5 hooks on it and drug it across the bottom pulling up log after log with the lure retriever. Finally after about 2 hours of pulling stuff up from the bottom, I pulled up a big log that had my $200 rod attached to it. So happy I got this. No way I would have been able to get it back without this

Actually worked like a charm! Saved 2 lures the first day I took this thing out.

Excelente calidad, esta muy bien hecho y practico de usar!Muy buena marca

Fonctionne bien. Par contre la corde se tournoi beaucoup. J'ai dû changé la corde. Aussi pour le prix il pourrait y avoir un dévidoire de corde

Pain to get on line