What was your first artificial lure?

[SirSnookalot]

Flatfish......1951

[Ojurb]

the first lure i caught a bass with a was 7.5 culprit power worm in okee gold, the first lure i remember fishing with was a squid in El chaure bay in Venezuela caught me a rock snapper (they look like bass but wit an orange belly ) i caught in the bay that we used to live with my dad and we brought it home and dad fried it for me about 10 mins after i caught it it was awesome

[LCpointerKILLA]

zara spook. one i used in the saltwater and tried in the lake. results changed my life.

[flippin and pitchin]

Same bait as Goose52 only mine was white. 1963.  39 cents at Bi-Mart.  My first real bass bait was an Arbogast Hula Popper in frog color. If I take my pill I might remember when that was. :-/

[flipin4bass]

I remember this as though it was yesterday. It was the summer of 1968 and I was 10 years old. My dad took me to a local lake with a Zebco 202 and a pre-rigged Creme worm. I landed my first bass that day, a 2 1/2 lb monster!

[Catt]

H & H Spinner bait with a black-n-white skirt

Hildebrandt Snagless Sally Spinner bait yellow skirt

Arbogast Hula Popper in frog yellow belly

Arbogast Hawaiian Wiggler in White

Creme Creme Scoundrel 6" worm in Catalpa (black with 2 yellow strips)

Heddon Tiny River Runt Yellow Shore Minnow

Heddon Vamp Spook Yellow Shore Minnow

Bug eye Rabble Rouser Crawfish

[zero limit]

not sure but i think it was a bass stopper purple worm,

i still have a couple in my box.

[Goose52]

I remember this as though it was yesterday. It was the summer of 1968 and I was 10 years old. My dad took me to a local lake with a Zebco 202 and a pre-rigged Creme worm. I landed my first bass that day, a 2 1/2 lb monster!

Wow - great catch! My first fish was only a brim - probably 8oz or less...

I don't have a Creme worm laying around, but here's a relative of your 202

[Shane J]

For me, it was a Hula Popper. I was about 10 years old or so, and I hooked up with what was probably around a 5 pounder, and about lost my mind. To this day, I'm still addicted to topwater fishing. No more nightcrawlers after that!

[tholmes]

A Lazy Ike, yellow with red spots that my grandfather gave me. First day out with it, I caught a 3 lb. bass.

A lot of worms owe their lives to that lure.  ;D

Tom

[SPAZ]

Berkley 7" power worm.

[yamisoez]

Blue Mann's jelly worm.

[Eternal Angler]

Berkley Powerbait for me

[bweave09]

yellow trick worm on a heavy red jig head...ugly

i had no idea what i was doing and i havent done it since.

[Hornytoad 10]

rebel pop-r, still got it today.

[simplejoe]

Mine was a Heddon Torpedo and after my first fish with it, I met the Bait Monkey.

;D

[NorCalFishinguru]

A 3" finnese worm. I remeber how amazed i was when i learned that lures could spin and swim and werent meant just sit under a bobber  ;D

[CWB]

Man. it was so long ago.

I think it was a Hula-Popper.

Or a Mepps.

[von]

Berkley powerbait worm in red shad. 

It was the nastiest smelling thing I've ever smelled. Now..I can't get enough of it! Love that smell! Brings back alot of memories.

[Aluma-Bass]

zoom or culprit fire/ice 7'' worm...use to be my color! 

[Scorcher214]

First bass I ever caught was with green pumpkin, zoom trick worm.

[flipinstick88]

Hmmmm........first lure for any fish was a 1/16th oz. beetle spin for catching sunfish.

First bass lure was a 1/4 oz. black, silicone skirted jig with a red, Berkley pork strip.

[TrippyJai]

For me, it was a Mr. Twister single tail grub in the 3" size I think on a black jig head. I still remember that day about 15 years ago when I was about 12, I caught 3 pike and 2 bass. I took it from my friends tackle box and they stopped making that colour.

[Gatorbassman]

I grew up trout fishing so my first artificial was either a Renegade dry fly or a #0 Mepps spinner with a copper blade. I'm not sure wich came first.

[MALTESE FALCON]

One day, back in the 60's I was over Les Helin's house doing homework. His father and uncle were discussing new colors for the Flatfish. Les happened to mention that I liked to fish. When our homework was done, Mr. Helin gave me a box. When I got home I opened the box, and found about thirty F4 & F6 Flatfish. I caught ALOT of bass and pike with those baits.

Falcon