Out Of Favor Lures

[Todd2]

I stopped in a local bait store today and the man asks how he can help. I ask where are the tubes. He asks for crappie... I say Bass. He says "I dont have many..... those are out of favor right now." I'm hoping he meant with anglers and not the bass, lol. I bought a bag of neon Black and headed out, but it made me wonder though. Why do successful lures fall out of favor with anglers? What are some ones you've seen come and go?

[michael68w]

I feel it's all the marketing hype. It's about catching the fisherman now if it catches fish then it's a bonus. I know the slug go was huge at one point and died off only to be brought back around the time senko style bait got big.

[WRB]

Soft plastics tend to fall out of favor more often or faster than hard lures. If you are a tackle shop owner and the bass tubes are collecting dust, would you order more? You can find some great lures in the discount bargin bins in tackle stores because those lures have lost there appeal to fisherman or every local angler already has them.

You couldn't give away a black neon tube in our local stores! The only time anything black sells is during the summer night tournament season. Black-blue popular in the mid west to east is a poor color choice out west.

Every bass lure that I fished with has become obsolete within 10 years, that is over 5 generations of bass lures. Do you remember Tora tubes? Does the name Gitzit mean anything?

Tom

[RoLo]

 

Does the name Gitzit mean anything?

 

Like yesterday, I remember when the Gitzit tube was introduced by the late Bobby Garland.

I believe they're still available from Canyon Plastics, but don't know if it's the original mold.

 

Roger

[inrll]

Like yesterday, I remember when the Gitzit tube was introduced by the late Bobby Garland.

I believe they're still available from Canyon Plastics, but don't know if it's the original mold.

 

Roger

Gitzit tubes are sold the new Field and Stream store in Crescent Springs, KY. Not sure if they sell them elsewhere or not.

[WRB]

Gitzits were the first bass tubes, made Bobby Garland, then Garry Garland, now Canyon-Plastics, both the Garlands are gone now.

Give the Gitzit tube worm a try.

Tom

PS, TW has Gitzits.

[keith71]

I still call tubes "Gitzits".

[Maxximus Redneckus]

I prefer out of date and not popular...means big discounts. Normally!!!! i bought 20 packs of manns jelly wagglers for 50cents a pop the other day .i wet myself

[A-Jay]

The one that started it all - the Original Rebel Minnow

 

In 2012 the Rebel Lure company celebrated it 50th anniversary. 

 

My First "Artificial Lure Caught Bass" came on this bait and it's still catching fish today.

 

A-Jay

[michael68w]

The gitzit is my go to tube bait! I have to order them from canyon plastics online. Still an awesome tube bait.

[Topwaterspook]

I'll still pull out an old Heddon "Crazy Crawler". Fish don't seem to understand that they're out of date.

[SirSnookalot]

Better than even chance that a fish caught 50 years isn't around any more, if a lure worked back then it's going to work now.

[Todd2]

Better than even chance that a fish caught 50 years isn't around any more, if a lure worked back then it's going to work now.

Unless they started reading fishing articles, lol.

[roadwarrior]

Legend has it that the Gitzit was born in Arkansas and designed to be a "do nothing" lure.

Cast it out, put down your rod, turn up the music, light up a cigarette and pop a top. Southern

fishing at it's finest!

 

 

 

 

[Jigfishn10]

Back in the mid-90's I had really good success with single tail hula grubs on a black jig head. I'm not sure single tail hula grubs are being produced any more, I haven't been able to find them in years.

[roadwarrior]

Here ya go:  https://store.baits.com/product.php?productid=84&cat=34&page=1

[WRB]

Legend has it that the Gitzit was born in Arkansas and designed to be a "do nothing" lure.

Cast it out, put down your rod, turn up the music, light up a cigarette and pop a top. Southern

fishing at it's finest!

Booby and Garry Garland were from Arkansas and was making crappie jigs when Bobby moved to Arizona and started fishing bass tournaments on the Colorado river lakes.Bobby made a bass size crappie jig and called it a Gitzit, the first Gitzits were translucent smoke color, no glitter in the 70's. Bobby made a jig skirt called a spider, basically a long crappie jig tube with legs on both ends used with a single curl tail grub, the forerunner of Yamamoto's Hula grub.

Tom

PS, trivia; Larry McCain another Arkie, worked at JPL in Pasadena CA, made the first football jig and mojo weight molds back in the 60's. Larry moved back to Arkansas and retired there.

[Bankbeater]

Cordell Big-o's.  I think that I am the only one that still fishes with them sometimes.

[KyakR]

I remember getting the word on Gitzits, trying them out and getting bit left and right! Was in love I use the smallest ones with an exposed hook for smallmouth in rip-rap. Although I lose a lot of them they're deadly! Caught my PB on one.

I always wondered why the Helen's flatfish went out of favor......I used them all the time in the 60's and still do.

[ww2farmer]

For me:

 

Tubes...........at least for largemouth, I still drag them around on jig heads once in a while for smallmouth, but I have not used one LM fishing in at least 5 years

 

Jitterbug......First topwater lure I ever used, and ever caught a fish on. I used for 15+ years, then I stopped, for no good reason.

 

Buzzbaits.....Same as the jitterbug, always used them, alwasy caught fish with them, I just don't use them much anymore.

 

Spinnerbaits....I put this at the bottom, because I still carry and use them, just not as much as I used to. They did see quite a bit of action this fall for me, and put some decent fish in the boat, so they will always have a place, it's I rarely think of them as a "go-to" anymore.

[Bluebasser86]

I hadn't used tubes much for awhile but they made a big resurgance for me this fall for largemouth and smallmouth both. I would say that the regular swimming tail worms and a single tail grub have both kind of fallen out of favor for the hip new beaver and creature baits and straight tail worms. Honestly, I hadn't fished a swimming tail worm hardly at all for years but they were my bait of choice for a lot of this year during the warmer months. The grub is still one of my go to baits when the water is clear but seems like a lot of others forget about them. 

[Snakehead Whisperer]

I hadn't used tubes much for awhile but they made a big resurgance for me this fall for largemouth and smallmouth both. I would say that the regular swimming tail worms and a single tail grub have both kind of fallen out of favor for the hip new beaver and creature baits and straight tail worms. Honestly, I hadn't fished a swimming tail worm hardly at all for years but they were my bait of choice for a lot of this year during the warmer months. The grub is still one of my go to baits when the water is clear but seems like a lot of others forget about them.

It seems like grubs come and go with the tides, but they're usually not popular from what I've seen. Even the river smallie guys have found replacements for them (but not for tubes.) I use them for almost all species of fish I target, but I usually can't even give them away to my friends when I'm catching and they're not 

 

Something that's fallen out of favor for me as of late is Rat-L-Traps... can't barely remember the last time I've thrown one; but that's a lie because I caught some decent stripers last time I fished one. Lost the award winning lure on that trip in the middle of a frenzy, so maybe I'm just sore about it or something. Haven't thrown one since, nor have I looked back.

I always wondered why the Helen's flatfish went out of favor......I used them all the time in the 60's and still do.

One of the finest river trolling lures of all time. I've never understood why more people don't use these either. They cast pretty well too.

[Todd2]

What about a spoonplug? Anybody still use them?

[Topwaterspook]

Bankbeater,I will still reach for a Big O as my first choice. Some of mine are so used that they have no paint left on the front ends. I love 'em.

[Bluebasser86]

What about a spoonplug? Anybody still use them?

I doubt many people even know what you're talking about without searching for them first. I'm not sure they were really ever "in favor" in the bass world except for small pockets in certain areas.