The right time?

[Ima Bass Ninja]

I was watching some old bassmaster shows recently and it got me to wondering, what tackle that we have today would have been rejected by the pros in the earlier days. Do you think that if fluorocarbon line would have been introduced in the 70's would it have been as popular as it is today or  would have the people rejected it as being trendy and to expensive? Me personally i think chatterbaits would not have made it, i can see some of the old pros looking at it and saying "no way am i using that crazy looking thing". What are your thoughts? What item would not be as popular in the old days as it is now?

[Catt]

None, we were suckers then & we suckers now

[Shane J]

9" swimbaits and 12" plastic worms probably would have gotten a funny look or two.

[D4u2s0t]

if things weren't as popular in the past, it's probably because people couldn't look at new things online, watch the pro's endorse them as easily, and read reviews about them.  If we had the internet in the 70's, people would still be a sucker and buy things.

[Raul]

Fluorocarbon goes back to a very long time, but it was only sold for leader material, not for main line, also, spools of fluorocarbon were teeny tiny and $$$$$$$$$ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  .

Let 's take a look at shakey heads, well, shakey heads and I go way back to the early 80 's, the jighead rig is one of my favorites, but regular jigheads had several disadvantages:

1.- the relation of wight vs hook size was always wrong for my purposes, light jigheads always came with a teeny hook, not big enough to rig weedless the bait, and the ones that had a big enough hook were too heavy.

2.- you had to fish them with an exposed hook and in my neck of the woods that meant you hang up in an eyeblink.

So I wondered, what if ? ..... I get a mold and pour my own jigheads with an oversized hook ? got the mold and began pouring my own jigheads with an oversized hook so I could rig my baits weedless on a jighead. First time my buddies saw me with them they went --->  :-?

I 'm not going to say I invented the shakey head, it 's hard to "invent" something new when ther must be a good hundred guys with the same preference I have that must have also wondered ..... what if ?

I learned to fish on my own and I see no particular reason why a fish won 't hit a bait even if it looks rather unusual, I 'm a tackle junkie and I like to read the history of tackle development, the inventor of the spoon developed it after seeing a fish hitting a spoon that fell overboard when he was having lunch on a boat while fishing, after seeing that he must have wondered ..... what if ?