What was your first artificial lure?

[brushhoggin]

the first artificial lure i ever threw was a crankbait when i was around 9 years old. fishing upriver with the pops, didn't know jack how to throw it or where, i was just chunking it right in the middle of the river. i actually got one on, it was big too. it jumped once and was off. i was about as ticked as a kid that age could get. threw my rod down and didn't fish for a while. and when i reeled my crankbait in it was in half. other half was floatin where he threw the hook. since then i've been hooked, and had my mind set on getting revenge since then and have. 

[Skunked in DR]

I'm not sure exactly which one was first, but the first three lures I remember having were: a red and white dardevle, a silver red eye wiggler and the mepps spinner with a rubber minnow (comet?).

The only one I remember catching a fish on was the mepps, was a 1.5lb rock bass.

[Casca]

hula popper

[midnighthrasher]

Since i cannot remember 25 years ago when i caught my first fish i will use the lure that got me back into bass fishing. A Mepps Anglia 3 in pink. Caught a 2lb'er and it was on!!!! Since then i havent stopped. I was going to retire it last year but it got bitoff when my girlfriend caught a huge pike...

[roadwarrior]

Dalton Special, c. 1955

I still have the lure.

http://www.daltonspecial.com/Dalton_Special/Home.html

[K_Mac]

It was either a pre-rigged plastic worm (3 exposed hooks and a prop) or a red and white Lazy Ike. It had to be one of those. That's all we had. @1964

[bugman]

Repala original floating stickbait. My dad would troll the boat up and down a river and we would catch "hammerhandle" Northernpike one after another in the late 60's

[xxmurrxx]

Rapala jointed minnow, I think i got it from my grandpa's box when he passed.

Probably not my very 1st artificial bait but it's the only one I remember from when I started fishing.

[bassin is addicting]

Rapala original floater silver/black

first bass caught when i was told "last cast" and i was reeling in as fast as i could....

been addicted ever since   

[farmpond1]

It's been a long time now.  Perhaps it was a rubber minnow my great uncle gave me.  Or it was some oversized white beetlespin that I never used.  The list remained small and stagnant until high school.  Then it grew with the addition of smaller beetlespins and mepps spinners.  Most of the hooks eventually rusted on the Mepps-or I lost them.

[basser89]

The first bait I remember using was a 2" Mister Twister grub in chartruese. The first bait I bought was a black and silver Humpback Rebel. Man, did I tear the smallies and rock bass up on that bait! Within a year, the little tacklebox I had, had 4 different colored Humpbacks and a couple colors of grubs. Now? Well, we won't go there! LOL

[Stringjam]

The first lure I really remember spending my own money on was a Heddon Torpedo......think I was about 12 or something. 

I was fishing a pond out of a little aluminum boat, throwing that little bugger, when an 8+ swallowed it.  Pulled my little boat around the pond for awhile and then surfaced and shook the bait in a frothing violent maelstrom.   My life was never the same after that.   ;D

That was the first big bass I'd ever seen (this is Missouri.....8 lbs is huge.....and I was only 12, making it huger, still).  The whole experience was so epic for me that I went mental. 

[Triton21]

A River Runt in 1951.  On a old Bronson casting reel an a True Temper rod.

Kelley

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[SkilletSizeBass.]

A motor oil Tournament worm, ribbed worm with a paddle tail on a small pond. I think a black jitterbug was close behind.

[SoFlaBassAddict]

I think my first was one of those old wooden hula poppers that my grandfather had when I was a kid.  That and the old jelly worms.  Man, fishing was so much easier back then.  Catching anything was such a blast.

[Goose52]

Man, fishing was so much easier back then. Catching anything was such a blast.

Ain't it the truth - when I was a kid, I had ONE spinning rod and a little single-tray tackle box with a couple of lures, some in-line spinners, hooks, bobbers, etc. Had great fun and caught quite a few fish.

We seem to have made the whole experience very complicated and very scientific now with $$$ investments in rigs for all possible presentations. I guess it results in more fish caught ... but I'm not sure I'm having any more fun. I guess it helps if you're a tackle junkie and get enjoyment out of just having all that gear ....

[War Party]

Beetle Spin

[Kingbass43]

I think mine was either a heddon tiny torpedo or an original top water rapala on a small pondhttp://www.bassresource.com/fishing-forum/Smilies/fishing2.gif

[NasTMcfingas]

LOL rooster tail white & grey with silver blade, Tiny Torpedo in the frog pattern,  and a white and green spinner bait.

[Bankbeater]

Probably a Big-O back in the early 70's.

[MSPbass]

Arbogast Jitterbug. I think it was bright yellow.

But the first real "keeper" bass was on a pre-rigged, nightcrawler colored, worm I'm sure was Creme; but I took it from my grandpa's tackle box and never saw a package. I remember letting it hit bottom and how my mom always said, "don't let it hit bottom, that's where the weeds are!"

[salmicropterus]

A Heddon Lucky 13 which I realize I was clueless on how to fish it (as I still am LOL)

[bass or bass ?]

Leopard frog pattern Jitterbug. I still catch bass on it 43 years later.

[RoLo]

The Very First?

Hmmmm..........Let me see......ahhhh

Probably the first lure ever made ;D ;D

Roger

[OK Bass Hunter]

Mann's Jelly Worm in Grape.