Dedly Dudley Buzzbaits

[LrgmouthShad]

Hey ya’ll,

 

who knows these? ? 

[Team9nine]

Burke made the original bait back in 1972. Bill Dance was sponsored by them at the time, I believe, as he was featured in their ads along with having their worms appear in one of his books.

 

[LrgmouthShad]

6 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Burke made the original bait back in 1972. Bill Dance was sponsored by them at the time, I believe, as he was featured in their ads along with having their worms appear in one of his books.

 

Them’s the one. ?. I’m bringing these up because I just saw one that a gentleman had. Literally 50 years old and looked every bit of it. Crazy looking things. He said they were great lures

[Team9nine]

25 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Them’s the one. ?. I’m bringing these up because I just saw one that a gentleman had. Literally 50 years old and looked every bit of it. Crazy looking things. He said they were great lures

 

Lunker Lure is often considered the original buzzbait, but it wasn't introduced until 1976. The Dudley came out in 1972, and as you can tell by the ad, was really kind of a hybrid. They refer to it as a "spinner bait," and even suggest fishing it deep (sub surface), yet in the same ad, mention using it up top as a "buzzin bait." This is often how some other popular techniques got named and "created." 

 

Would be cool to have an old one for the collection just because of it's significance in history.

[king fisher]

Dedly Dudly was my first buzz bait, and I still have the first one I bought back in 1977.  At the time I caught most of my bass slow rolling a Colorado spinnerbait from shore.  I thought if I had a Dedly Dudly I could fish it  even slower than a Colorado blade and would surely catch bass every cast.   I saw one in a store and was amazed at how the blade turned simply from blowing on it.  It was almost a year before I was able to buy one.  First few fish I caught with it were crawling it along a rocky bottom as planned.  Then one day I tried retrieving it on the surface, and never fished it slow again.  

[jtharris3]

The only problem with trying to fish one is you have to throw with a pistol grip rod! ?

[Smells like fish]

So was the word buzzin the first term used for running a spinnerbait on surface or just under before we had buzzbaits? I recall @Fishes in trees used a term for working big blade spinnerbaits near the surface but I can’t recall the term. If he posts the name of that can somebody give me an idea of when that was first used with spinnerbaits? Thanks 

[TOXIC]

8 minutes ago, Smells like fish said:

So was the word buzzin the first term used for running a spinnerbait on surface or just under before we had buzzbaits? I recall @Fishes in trees used a term for working big blade spinnerbaits near the surface but I can’t recall the term. If he posts the name of that can somebody give me an idea of when that was first used with spinnerbaits? Thanks 

Working a spinnerbait on or near the surface, we always called it “burning” or “waking” it.  The goal was to create a wake behind the bait.  

[Smells like fish]

Yea waking and burning is terms you commonly hear currently but it’s an older term I’m trying to think of. 
 

Rick Clunn spoke of Floyd’s in-line buzz bait and a snagless Sally, but I suppose the Sally has little in common with a modern buzzbait. I know he said the Floyd’s predated Lunker and maybe the Dudley 

[river-rat]

 

I used the Deadly Dudley and an Arbogast #2 1/2 Hawaiian Wiggler (also know as Sputterfuss) in the early 70's as a buzzbait in a shallow lake I fished during my college years. The lake was filled with buttonwood willows and cypress trees and was no more than 4' deep. We caught plenty of fish using both of these lures.

[TnRiver46]

I’d love to get my hands on some of those blades 

[detroit1]

I think the sputterfuss and hawaiian wiggler are 2 different lures. Both Arbogast though.    

[river-rat]

20 hours ago, detroit1 said:

I think the sputterfuss and hawaiian wiggler are 2 different lures. Both Arbogast though.    

 

The Hawaiian Wiggler #2 1/2 was also called the Sputterfuss and was used as a buzzbait. I still have a dozen of them in my collection.

 

There was also a Hawaiian Wiggler #1 for deeper fishing and a #2 for shallow water.

 

The Hawaiian Wiggler #3 was a weedless spoon similar to a Johnson Silver Minnow.

 

 

[Richard A Erwin]

On 6/7/2021 at 6:42 PM, Team9nine said:

 

Lunker Lure is often considered the original buzzbait, but it wasn't introduced until 1976. The Dudley came out in 1972, and as you can tell by the ad, was really kind of a hybrid. They refer to it as a "spinner bait," and even suggest fishing it deep (sub surface), yet in the same ad, mention using it up top as a "buzzin bait." This is often how some other popular techniques got named and "created." 

 

Would be cool to have an old one for the collection just because of it's significance in history.

I've got 3 Deadly Dudley "skimmers"; the flat-headed true buzz bait version.  2 of them have never been tied on.

On 6/8/2021 at 1:55 PM, Smells like fish said:

So was the word buzzin the first term used for running a spinnerbait on surface or just under before we had buzzbaits? I recall @Fishes in trees used a term for working big blade spinnerbaits near the surface but I can’t recall the term. If he posts the name of that can somebody give me an idea of when that was first used with spinnerbaits? Thanks 

Buzzing was the first term i heard when the lure splattered water across the surface.  Charlie Campbell gave me my first "waking" term when I first read about his 1/4 oz. C.C. Spinner with a #6 cupped blade that would create a wake while remaining below the surface.

[Richard A Erwin]

On 6/7/2021 at 11:22 PM, jtharris3 said:

The only problem with trying to fish one is you have to throw with a pistol grip rod! ?

Why the pistol grip? I've switched to trigger grips on my spinnerbaits years ago?  I still plastic worm fish with 5 1/2 ft pistol grips.