What was your first artificial lure?

[little_stephen]

As kind of a sub topic from the thread about who taught you to fish, I was wondering if anybody remembered what they tied on to their line the first time they cast something that wasn't a bit of live bait?!

I think, or atleast I'm guessing my first was a grub..... i used to loot my dads old (&dust covered) takle box for bits I could use to bass fish. (most of his stuff was for big northern pike or musky & was the same size as the bass i was targeting).....

I remember my first hook up..... I was reeling a mr twister G-Grub back to me off theside of a pier (knowing nothing about cover and where bass might be) and the fish starteled me so much I almost dropped the rod. Lost that fish becasue it wrapped itself around a post on the pier.

First bass I ever caught was a tiny little bass that TRASHED my horny toad one random summer day. i was shaking so much I almost dropped the little thing smack in the middle of the canoe....

[Grey Wolf]

Probably was a inline spinner , really don't remember because it was over 45 years ago.

[Wayne P.]

A white with red head Bass Orino in the 1950's 

[little_stephen]

is it sad that Ive never caught a bass on a spinner bait!? lol   i dont even own any inlines.

[angler1]

An inline spinner that I got at sports authority when I bought my son and I our first rods. Before that day I had never fished a day in my life.

[Chris]

It was an old deep runner Rebel crankbait that I borrowed from my grandfather's tackle box. It was bone color with an orange belly that had a prop on the back that I took off. We where fishing on a lake in Virginia and I tied it on and cast the length of the dock we where fishing off of. I was bouncing it off the pilings when a bass smacked it. The next bass I caught was on an old Big O.

[snguyen95]

a watermelon red flake trick worm

[turret_plug]

BEETLE SPIN!!!!!!!

I never caught a thing on it. That turned into another few lures...... now I have a $250.00 tackle box. It's amazing how many of those things you will buy to try to catch a darned fish.

[Raul]

My first encounter with the BaitMonkey took place 36 years ago, this is what I purchased:

1 Mepps Aglia #2 gold blade

1 Mepps Aglia #2 silver blade

1 Mepps Comet # 2 dressed gold blade

1 Rapal Original Floating minnow size 5 Blk/silver

Who would have know that the first encounter with the chimp was the raod to bankrupcy ? Since I met him I 'm always dead flat out broke   :-/.

[noogai13]

an original storm wildeye swim shad, in florescent yellow. lol i used six pound test mono and an underfilled spincast reel and cheap rod. XD

[SWMIBASSER]

Renowski perch colored inline spinner/swimbait. About 2.5" overall length.

Caught on a closed face Daiwa Spincast reel, and el-cheapo rod.

After that the ones I used the most, and even used allowance money when I was 8-10 years old was Lindy Fuzzy Grubs and Little Fox foxy jigs.

I'm going to buy a small assortment of fuzzy grubs this year. I quite using them because they weren't as 'cool' as some of the other stuff used bass fishing. But I caught a TON of fish using those things.

Actually those were my first artificials but my first artificial just for bass fishing was a purple and white pre-rigged worm.

[OH-bass614]

a bomber flat a in firetiger color my grandpa bought me with a coleman retractable spincast combo on my first cast i was reeling it in real slow and didnt even notice the bass on it untill i brought it to shore and i was hooked for life

[CHEVYRIDAZ]

Bag of old motor oil color Renegade 4" worms in NC. Caught me many bass and blue cats as well!

[SJex]

Black Berkley Power Worm.

[topwater.va]

Bandit shad colored 100 series crankbait.

[Hammer 4]

Oh Wait..on second thought..it was a Red Devil..got that when I was about 8 yrs old..so over 50 yrs ago.

Geez, it was so long ago..lol I think it was a Mepps can't recall the size, but it was the one with the black blade, with yellow dots on it. It did catch a few fish too.

[bmadd]

My fishing started with bluegill. For that I used small jigs with plastic grubs. Then we had a pond placed behind my house and our neighbors and I had my first experience with bass on a Heddon Tiny Lucky 13 that I took out of my dad's tacklebox. Used to use that all the time but now I keep it on my dresser. It will never see the water again.

[lk ozark]

Lazy Ike. Black/white, 50 years ago.

[tnbassfisher]

It was either a Rooster Tail or a Rebel Crawfish. I remember my Dad getting me both of those when I first started lure fishing.

[Goose52]

A Shyster in-line spinner - perhaps this very one which I've had since the early '60s.

I wish Shyster (which is still being made) had better distribution and more colors/sizes as they are a superior bait to the Roostertail ... IMO.

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

A Shyster in-line spinner - perhaps this very one which I've had since the early '60s.

I wish Shyster (which is still being made) had better distribution and more colors/sizes as they are a superior bait to the Roostertail ... IMO.

Yep shyster was the first artificial I ever fished with as well.Never caught anything but was too young to know any better or what I was actually trying to do. At that time I thought fish only ate worms. ;D

A few years later I was probably 10 at the time and am a self taught fisherman.First bass I ever caught was on stanley spinnerbaits while still living in good ol Barberton Ohio. I had no clue what these baits were at the time but I happened to see an episode of Bill dance using one in a small river while I was flipping stations one day and I said "wow that looks easy".I went to K-mart and grabbed the first spinnerbait I seen, a stanley vibrashaft, and walked to a local creek with some decent current in it and caught many dink sized bass with my zebco reel and shakespeare rod. Been catching bass on them ever since and is probably why Stanley is still one of my top brands.

[Crestliner2008]

My how times have changed. Back in the early 60's, my Dad bought me this red head/shiner patterned plug called a Lucky 13. Made by Heddon and of course, out of cedar wood. I still have that old plug, which now has many tiny holes, nicks and scratches in it, from bass and pike. The year before, he got me my first baitcaster; a "knucklebuster" called a "Silk Cast" by Pfleuger. Still have that too, along with a tubular steel baitcasting rod called the "Heddon Pal". Yep....times sure have changed.

[The Rooster]

May 1996, a friend of mine asked me to go fishing with him and swore to me that it would not be like I was imagining it would where we just sit waiting on a bite to happen for hours while being bored the whole time.

By the end of that day I was hooked for life and I knew it then and there.  We had only used nightcrawlers that we had found in his father-in-law's back yard the night before, but we had caught so many bass that it was just mindblowing to me.

A month later in June, Walmart where we both worked at was going through inventory and clearancing out all the stuff they didn't want around for it.  They had grab bags full of lures for $1.00 each and I got one.  It had a number of (to me) insignificant items in it like hooks, cheap floats, marabou jigs, but also contained 3 nicer lures and one of them was a Strike King Spindance spinnerbait (endorsed by Bill Dance at the time) in chartreuse color, 1/4 oz.  This was my first artificial bait I ever tied on and quickly became my favorite bait for a very long time after this because I tied it on for the first time while fishing a pond near my house and caught 5 good sized bass in about 2 hours.  I was just convinced it was the best bait ever made. 

[the crab]

A white 3" mister twister grub.  The next artificial to catch me a fish was a mepps aglia long in-line spinner.

[Blue Streak]

A Mepps in line spinner. Caught a whole lot of smallmouth and spots wading creeks with those.