Old School to New School/New School to Old School

[HaydenS]

9 hours ago, Spankey said:

I was touching up some hooks on Rebel Deep WeeCraws and some WeeCraws and thought many guys on here probably ever threw one or had the desire to throw one. 

First lure the bait monkey hit me with when I first started fishing.  I bought it off of amazon, and I'm not sure if this is what is supposed to do, but it sank when paused, eventually it got snagged and broken off.  I've got two in my box now, neither have seen water.  

[Bankbeater]

I still fish with Jitterbugs, Big-O, Redfins, and Humpback Rebels.  Sometimes it's good to use a bait that the bass haven't seen in a while. 

[Catt]

Jeez! At 69 I probably have more old lures than new except for plastics.

 

I still throw Rat-L-Traps, Rattlin' Rogue, Balsa B, Little N, Snagless Sally, Johnson Spoon, & dozens more.

[DitchPanda]

1 hour ago, Bankbeater said:

I still fish with Jitterbugs, Big-O, Redfins, and Humpback Rebels.  Sometimes it's good to use a bait that the bass haven't seen in a while. 

Just found a baby bass big o a few weeks back. New rings and hooks and gave it to a buddy just getting into bass fishing. First time throwing it he lost a nice bass. Told him that's part of the learning curve with cranks.

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These things, which may have been inspired by the original beetle spin, continue to catch bass in tough conditions even though they haven't been made in decades.

 

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On 7/30/2021 at 7:50 AM, Spankey said:

I believe there is not one thing that did not catch a fish. 

Fish don't know when lures were manufactured. There are many very good older lures, as well as fantastic new ones, and they will all catch fish under the right conditions.

[WRB]

“Oldschool” was my 1st bass forum name so that should be a hint to my lures of choice.

I met Ron my fishing partner at work in 1965 when Ambassador reels with mono line Eagle Claw Featherlite bass rods were the hot ticket. Ron and I still had our Langley reels with Connolin rods and used them. 

About 40 years ago Ron and I started to fish annually with only our 50’ rod & reels and wooden plugs. Nostalgia outing that last up until bout 5 years.

I still use my 70’s era hair jigs with pork rind every outing to this day. 

Sold nearly all my old lures last year that was saving for my late son. The lures and photos can be found in the Flea Market.

archives. The lures dated from early 1900’s to what was current a few years ago.

I did save 2 Bomber 7A’s custom painted.

Tom

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34 minutes ago, WRB said:

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Sold nearly all my old lures last year that was saving for my late son. The lures and photos can be found in the Flea Market.

archives. The lures dated from early 1900’s to what was current a few years ago.

I did save 2 Bomber 7A’s custom painted.

Tom

 

Sorry for your loss.  A child should never predecease his parent(s).

[Spankey]

23 hours ago, HaydenS said:

First lure the bait monkey hit me with when I first started fishing.  I bought it off of amazon, and I'm not sure if this is what is supposed to do, but it sank when paused, eventually it got snagged and broken off.  I've got two in my box now, neither have seen water.  

My best producer of all time was the black with the chartreuse bottom. Still have it. That color pattern is long long gone. Won’t fish it for fear of loosing it. 
 

These days it’s creek craw and chartreuse with brown back. Just as good. 

22 hours ago, Bankbeater said:

I still fish with Jitterbugs, Big-O, Redfins, and Humpback Rebels.  Sometimes it's good to use a bait that the bass haven't seen in a while. 

The one lake I fish pretty regularly is pretty pressured. Sees a lot of Senkos. No knock on a Senko but I don’t throw it often there. Do well with other stuff. 

[CalvinMax]

Alright, story time. 
 

Somewhere in college I pulled a OLD crank bait out of a tree and dropped it by the room of an art student whom I told to paint it like a bluegill. About a week goes by and I receive a text message to come over, so over I go to find the manifestation of an epiphany.

 

Essentially the only thing the manufacturers have gotten better at is weight transfer systems and paint jobs. 
 

Now, that’s not really true. They’ve put a lot more science into their work than the old guys could, but the old guys had a lot more intuition and natural understanding of the environment they were throwing baits into. 
 

I honestly think it had to do with the way they were made, and a certain slight variance from lure to lure. Basically I guess what I’m working towards here is all of the best baits have been made in the last five years, but there is a legendary status,

almost mythical power to be found among certain pieces that survive into the next era. 
 

I spent about an hour and a half trying to dive deep enough to reach that crank where it was stuck on a log a few summers back but it’s still down there I am sure, lost to all but the bass.
 

Now when we get into plastics? If something is well stored I could reasonably think that anything in the Yamamoto era could compete with anything else given the correct conditions. 

[Spankey]

Seem like when I was growing up in the 60’s was a long ways back but in the full scheme of things related to bass fishing it wasn’t all that far back. 
 

As to what Bomber as a whole was to my fishing they were clearly fantastic. I have some great patterns in my stash. Fishable stash.  But they are down to nothing. I’d like to get spares of some of my older screw tail baits. That’s not gonna happen. Bandit is running a real close second.

 

What TW has these days is nothing. No knock on TW. Just what is available these days. 

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2 hours ago, Spankey said:

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What TW has these days is nothing. No knock on TW. Just what is available these days. 

 

Ebay.  Not usually the best for pricing (they have so many users that their pricing is approximately efficient, to use an economics term), but a great place to find vintage stuff that you can't otherwise get.

[waymont]

Never left my tackle box.

Any Mepp’s, Rebel 3.5” straight and broke back minnow, Humpy, Wee R, pop-r, all the craw cranks, hula poppers, jitterbug, jelly worms