Mirrolures For Bass??

[Mr_Scrogg]

Friend of mine just unloaded a ton of MirrOlures on me. Went through and trashed 5 or so for being eat up with rust. Some are new, but some I need to replace hooks. Living in Kansas, I dont get to the salt much. Anyone use these puppies for Green or Bronze fish?? One is MASSIVE, Deep Sinking I think. Looks like maybe something for Stripers.

[SirSnookalot]

I use the Mirrorlure catch jr for bass once in a while, work as well as anything else.

[BrettD]

The 5m floating twitch bait is one of my all time topwater bass lures. I remove the front prop to reduce line tangling.

[Crestliner2008]

Back in the 60's, the L&S Mirror Lure was "the" lure to have. I use to have several of the smaller versions with metal bills. The finishes were truly a state-of-the-art for back then. And they worked! Caught many sm & lm on them....as well as one heck of a carp!

[Diggy]

They will work, matter of fact, I know some people that use them almost exclusively for peacock bass and they are picky at times.

[WRB]

The vintage L.S. MirrOLure in the 50's and 60's was a very popular bass lure, in fact 1 model was called a "Bass Master"!

The jointed 5" sinking model was the go to lure for bass anglers.

Take off the hooks and split rings, clean over night by soaking in a mild baking soda/ water solution, the rinse in warm tap water. Depending on the lure size replace the treble hooks with VMC size 2 or 4 and same size split rings.

The 4" to 5" models work well, unless you like to troll, the larger sizes are not worth the effort up date.

Bass haven't seen this lure in a few generations and should work.

Tom

[Mr_Scrogg]

Majority I have is 52 MR Sinking, 7M Floaters, 51MR Sinking, and 7MR Floater.  Big one is 85M Deep Runner, 77M, and a 7M Catch2000.  All but the Catch2000 don't have split rings.  they have the screw and keeper thing. Colors range from Chartruese/Gold Foil, Chrome, White/Red Head, even a couple Purple Demons.  Couple Gold/Red Back

[0119]

The older ones will have the 2 tiny screw in hook keeper thing. While they dont look it they are stronger than the modern single screw eye.  Ive caught plenty of bass on 51,52,7 series lures and they sure would catch a striper too.

[OkeechobeeAngler]

I use the same mirro lures I do for bass as I do snook, 

[SirSnookalot]

I use the same mirro lures I do for bass as I do snook, 

Yep, one of my favorite all round lures for anything that swims is the Catch 2000, at time I use the Lumo series for bass but prefer the Catch 2000.  IMO the hooks are excellent, very strong, I put a treble from a poppa dog (my favorite top water lure) thru my calf and I could not cut the hook or squash the barb down until I got help.

[Mr_Scrogg]

I've took apart 4 of them that had rust on the hooks.  Even just a little dot of it I'm going to replace.  Soaking them now.  Rear Prop on one was a bit rusty, so I trashed it and swapped the front one to the back.  Gonna pick up some replacement hooks soon, and start tossing them.  probably won't keep all.  I'll pick out some and then sell the rest. 

[fishingman88]

My only piece of advice is to make sure you get the right size hook to replace with.  The Mirrorlures's action can change if the hooks you use are heavier/lighter than they are supposed to be.

[prjavelin]

If you dont want the lures that are mostly used for salt. let me know, we may work something out!!! I go to the salt couple times a month. 

[Mr_Scrogg]

Already sold majority of them to a fellow kayak angler. Sorry, bud.