The worst lure ever?

[CountryboyinDC]

Some of these can't be designed to catch fish - the Homer plug or beer can crankbait you used to see.  My grandmother gave me a helicopter lure, I never did get a bite.  Those wriggling worms might be a close second, although I did catch a red ear with one.  That one the OP shows is worth $5 for the laughs.

[Spy]

I don't know the OP's location but that same lure in an assortment of colors is listed on eBay from a seller out of Michigan! 

 

As for my own crazy lure, I bought a 'Power Pak' 30 years ago, the one with the pull string wind up mechanism that self wound at he end of the cast and flapped the tail. Still have it to though now I believe it's a collectable. 

[Jleebesaw]

On 7/22/2019 at 10:43 AM, J Francho said:

I fished from shore with a friend from work.  He was all in on the Flying Lure.  We both caught that day.

I used to have the flying lure. I still say that was a good bait. That sucker would go right under docks and tree branches. It was a crappie killer. I would buy it again if I saw it.

[Boomstick]

On 7/19/2019 at 1:17 PM, GReb said:

Based off my production of late I’d say every lure in my tackle box

If it helps, it can't be any worse than mine this year. I think I've caught 7 bass this year, which was a good day last year. I don't get it.

[FishingGeekTX]

I was in like middle school when I bought a Dancing Eel.  I dreamed about fishing it...I was so sure it was the "the thing" that would catch big bass.  I don't think I ever caught a fish on it.  Looked kind of cool in the water, I bet someone caught fish on it.

 

Worst lore I recently purchased was in  a frenzy to get a bunch of weedless options for some very weed choked lakes I was fishing.  One of the lures I ended up with was this WeedRunner(tm).

 

Thing is, if it so much as brushes up against a weed...the weed runner stops running.  That spinner just stops on any weeds and needs to be cleaned.  Complete fail IMO, unusable for the purposes intended.  Surprisingly it was the bladed jig...that's not even weedless, that somehow almost magically cut through weeds that day on a straight retrieve.

 

[cyclops2]

The flying lure is excellent for docks & boats stopped. About $ 3 less than a top " Look under docks sonar.  

[Fishes in trees]

Chuck Woolery promoted the power pack lures for a while.  I owned one and I caught a few fish on it.  I should have bought more because I also think that they are kinda collectable by now.

 

The first generation of Berkley cranks - the "Frenzy" series, with the exception of the lipless crank, were all stinkers.  I got duped when a store I frequent a lot put them all on sale for $1.50 each and I bought $40 worth of them.  Oh well, most of them are still pristine in their original packaging.   I found out a long time ago that the crank bait lure packs sold at Walmart were pretty much stinkers. - didn't run straight, poor paint jobs and low quality hooks.

 

There was a lure company called POE'S, which I think is still around and associated with Yakima baits in some way and they sold a flat sided/coffin billed crank, endorsed by Rick Clunn, that he allegedly won a Bassmaster Classic on.

The issue with these baits was the quality control - even given that they were balsa baits, maybe 1 out of 10 ran right and they were nearly impossible to tune.   Bandit also made a flat sided/coffin billed bait in a deep and shallow model and I find that these are a challenge to tune.  

[BassNJake]

When I lived in Ohio we had a lot of lakes with weeds and i liked to crank at that time.

 

So I bought these lures from the Meat and Potatoes lure company that came with a single hook on a crankbait that dived to about 14 feet.

 

Only caught weeds with that thing

 

[jr231]

^ not the case with Walmart anymore.

They sell rage tail, z man chAtterbaits , and rapala cranks. They're not seconds. They're just popular because they catch fish.