Suggestion To Get Back Into Using Old Baits

[SENKOSAM]

You know how you used to look forward to receiving catalogs from BP or Cabelas in January? (I don't anymore). You know how guilty it makes you feel when you have to look at all those storage containers filled with old baits you gave up on over the last decade or more? Well here's the solution to getting interested in using old lures that have potential.

 

Make a photo catalog of each bait design and colors. Have a separate folder for soft plastics and a second for hard baits.  After a week or so review the pictures and try to remember what attracted each design/color when you first bought them. You may find the lure attractive in the sense that all you've read, watched on tv or seen used a certain way, may have distinct possibilities for this or that lure.

 

Leafing through some new and old BassMaster magazines got me thinking about the lures they used in the articles that might fit the bill without having to buy more just because a specific company's lure was mentioned.

 

The nice thing as that you don't have to pay S/H or tax! LOL

[LgMouthGambler]

I still use PopRs, ChugBugs, Rattletraps, etc. that I've had since the early 90`s. As long as they don't get lost, I just put new hooks on them and keep slinging them.

[mnbassman23]

Good thinking right here. I think we are all "guilty" of getting caught up in the latest and greatest and tend to shy away from what use to work. I know I am anyways. I recently went through all my tackle to see what I needed to stock up on and found some 7" powerbait worms  that I haven't thrown in the past 2 years. It use to be one of my biggest producers, both numbers and size, and here I haven't even had it tied on in the past 2 years. Makes me shake my head in disbelief. I actually cut down on my "need" list for this year and am going to bring back a couple lures that I haven't used in some time. 

[jhoffman]

I have thin fins in my box, wiggle warts, wiggle o's, hot n tots, thundersticks.... yeah they still get fished. They all just got new hooks!

[SENKOSAM]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking at the photos makes me want to chose which ones to try next outing rather than decide by going through box after box. They also bring back memories of which ones caught fish even though maybe not two years in a row.

[Jig Meister]

Those zoom centipedes are awesome served up wacky 

[gripnrip]

I have thin fins in my box, wiggle warts, wiggle o's, hot n tots, thundersticks.... yeah they still get fished. They all just got new hooks!

The "Original" thunderstick?

[Bluebasser86]

I found an old Natural Ike walking the bank last week, haven't seen one of those in a long time. I have and still fish with some original wiggle warts and thin fins. I have some old metal lipped mud bugs too. Those old baits certainly still catch fish too. 

[KDW96]

I still have some bottles of Uncle Josh tiny craws i picked up back in the 80s. I always carry some still today,as i always manage to get fish with them.Just wish i could find more?

[jhoffman]

The "Original" thunderstick?

They are deep junior thundersticks, I believe they are pre rapala

[*Hootie]

I still use PopRs, ChugBugs, Rattletraps, etc. that I've had since the early 90`s. As long as they don't get lost, I just put new hooks on them and keep slinging them.

 

 

What would you do if suddenly, Shimano started making lures......lol

I eagerly await your response.

 

Your old buddy,

Hootie

[*Hootie]

A lot of my old baits are so old and nostalgic, that I quit using them, for fear of losing them.

Might sound silly, but that's just who I am.

 

 

 

Hootie

[LgMouthGambler]

What would you do if suddenly, Shimano started making lures......lol

I eagerly await your response.

 

Your old buddy,

Hootie

Of course I would have to try them out. If they worked, then I would continue to use them, if not, then I would continue to use them, lol. Who are we kidding, its Shimano, of course it would work and outperform everything else!

Is that what you were looking for you Lewser? Haha

[*Hootie]

Of course I would have to try them out. If they worked, then I would continue to use them, if not, then I would continue to use them, lol. Who are we kidding, its Shimano, of course it would work and outperform everything else! Is that what you were looking for you Lewser? Haha

That's the answer....lol

Hootie

[flippin and pitchin]

Manns Jelly Worm

Rebel WeeR crankbait

Bill Plumber frog

Johnson Silver Minnow Spoon

[gripnrip]

Of course I would have to try them out. If they worked, then I would continue to use them, if not, then I would continue to use them, lol. Who are we kidding, its Shimano, of course it would work and outperform everything else!

Is that what you were looking for you Lewser? Haha

They are making rain gear now!

[gripnrip]

They are deep junior thundersticks, I believe they are pre rapala

I have a couple. They are awesome. I'd go swimming in gator infested waters to get'm back! Lol

[Blue Streak]

I still use a lot of baits I bought new in the 60's and 70's. The old Storm baits, Rapalas, Mudbugs, wood Bombers, The Rebel deep Humpy and Wee R, Hellbender and the very early Bagley baits.  I still hunt for some of them on E Bay and flea markets.