Lures that lost popularity?

[roadwarrior]

17 hours ago, Darth-Baiter said:

Around here. The answer will surprise you. 
 

a soft plastic lizard.  Nobody fished a lizard anymore.  I kill them on a green pumpkin 6” lizard. 

It's a secret.

[Mobasser]

As a kid in the 1960s, the Beetlespin was very popular in Missouri. They've gone out of style now, but I still use them.

[Alpster]

20 hours ago, WRB said:

Easy, the original jig & pig...#11 pork frog.

Tom

Caught my PB on an Arkie jig and Uncle Josh black widow eel. Used to buy #11 pork by the case.

Another oldie but goodie was the "Snagless Sally" in-line spinner bait. I caught quite few fish with them back in the day.

[river-rat]

 

A Creek Chub Jointed Darter in Ice Cream Color and a Rogers Lures Hawg Hunter accounted for some hellacious stringers in a live Mississippi River oxbow lake called Old River near Deer Park, LA at one time.

 

We would fish the flooded willows when the water started falling after the annual spring flood.

 

Unfortunately all the willows have died out for whatever reason and although the fishing is still decent it's no where near what it was in the 1960's and 70's.

 

[WRB]

The Whopper Plopper lure design goes back to CC Roberts Mud Puppy In 1917 prior art.

Tom

[detroit1]

19 hours ago, Columbia Craw said:

Dancin Eel and the helicopter lure. Storm Thin Fin

Caught some on the dancin' eel, but more on dancin craw. Stom's thin fin took the majority of the walleye i caught on a fly-in trip in Ontario back in "85.  No helicopter for me. Shakespeare made some nice woodies in the 70's / 80's.

[papajoe222]

21 hours ago, QED said:

Agreed that the Rapalas work well.  The balsa ones were still available when I started serious fishing in the late eighties.  Why were people hoarding them in the 60s?

Back when they were first introduced here in the U.S. they were catching fish like nothing anglers here had ever seen. The problem was they weren't readily available. The few LSGs that were able to get a few realized that they could get the same profit out of them by renting them out for a day AND do it again and again. Anglers were willing to part with the money just to have a chance to fish one and many returned to rent them again and again  Those lucky enough to actually purchase one kept it a secret and would only use them when fishing by themselves.

[QED]

3 minutes ago, papajoe222 said:

Back when they were first introduced here in the U.S. they were catching fish like nothing anglers here had ever seen. The problem was they weren't readily available. The few LSGs that were able to get a few realized that they could get the same profit out of them by renting them out for a day AND do it again and again. Anglers were willing to part with the money just to have a chance to fish one and many returned to rent them again and again  Those lucky enough to actually purchase one kept it a secret and would only use them when fishing by themselves.

 

Thanks for the fascinating history lesson.  One of the great aspects of this forum!

[A-Jay]

How about The Lazy Ike ~

(no not that one)

A-Jay

[GetFishorDieTryin]

1 hour ago, papajoe222 said:

Back when they were first introduced here in the U.S. they were catching fish like nothing anglers here had ever seen. The problem was they weren't readily available. The few LSGs that were able to get a few realized that they could get the same profit out of them by renting them out for a day AND do it again and again. Anglers were willing to part with the money just to have a chance to fish one and many returned to rent them again and again  Those lucky enough to actually purchase one kept it a secret and would only use them when fishing by themselves.

I remember reading an article about renting out Shad Raps for what would be worth about 100$ at the time the article was written. 

[Big Hands]

6 hours ago, detroit1 said:

No helicopter for me.

For all I know, the Helicopter lure is the greatest lure ever. I refused to buy one just because of the "as seen on tv" way they were marketed ?

[thunderblack]

The Megabass vision 110. Just a bait that gets no credit. ?

[scaleface]

On 9/29/2021 at 10:28 PM, Bluebasser86 said:

I know people still fish them, but spinnerbaits are not nearly as prevalent as they use to be IMO. Seems to be really rare that one plays a major part in any of the major tournaments. 

The past few years I have thrown them more than ever . A spinnerbait along with a worm has been my major one two punch this year . Caught thirty on that combo  yesterday . Was well on the way to a 40 to 50 fish day then a storm blew in .

[J Francho]

Spinnerbaits are always in my bag of tricks.  They are the all terrain bait.

[WRB]

15 hours ago, Big Hands said:

For all I know, the Helicopter lure is the greatest lure ever. I refused to buy one just because of the "as seen on tv" way they were marketed ?

Right next to the Banjo Minnow.

Tom

[the reel ess]

17 hours ago, Big Hands said:

For all I know, the Helicopter lure is the greatest lure ever. I refused to buy one just because of the "as seen on tv" way they were marketed ?

 

[WRB]

What I tie on nearly outing;

Hair jig w/ pork trailer

Finesse Slip Shot (split shot) rig 

Darter head jig w/4 1/2” curl tail worm

3/4 oz Shad structure spoon.

Bomber 7A

All the above are rarely fished by everyone else.

Tom

[PressuredFishing]

4 hours ago, WRB said:

What I tie on nearly outing;

Hair jig w/ pork trailer

Finesse Slip Shot (split shot) rig 

Darter head jig w/4 1/2” curl tail worm

3/4 oz Shad structure spoon.

Bomber 7A

All the above are rarely fished by everyone else.

Tom

Hair jigs are amazing, I picked up those spro phat Flys you recommended and my goodness, they are amazing under certain conditions, plus I beefed up my jig box today and picked up alot more for this fall+winter.

[fishwizzard]

On 9/30/2021 at 10:15 PM, papajoe222 said:

. The few LSGs that were able to get a few realized that they could get the same profit out of them by renting them out for a day AND do it again and again. Anglers were willing to part with the money just to have a chance to fish one and many returned to rent them again and again 

 That is wild!  Renting a lure seems insanely high-risk, esp one with a pair of trebles on it. 

[PaulVE64]

4" Canadian Wiggler in chrome

 

[Team9nine]

The Spoonplug by Buck's Baits. It was phenomenally successful in the upper Midwest in the 1960s and 70s, and still catches fish to this day.

 

[DitchPanda]

Ill chime in on the spinner bait losing its favor around here as well. Everybody here I've seen the past few years are what I'd call YouTube fisherman...young guys only throwing googan stuff,whopper ploppers and chatterbaits. Nary a swim jig, flipping jig, plastic worm or spinnerbait in sight. I like it that way!

[Glenn]

Well, the fun thing about being an experienced angler that happens to also have a YouTube channel, is that I get to show all those up-n-comers a few old school lures every now and then!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[PressuredFishing]

2 minutes ago, Glenn said:

Well, the fun thing about being an experienced angler that happens to also have a YouTube channel, is that I get to show all those up-n-comers a few old school lures every now and then!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for showing me these new videos! I have been really loving fishing the reaper rig! Sorry about getting a warning also, will make sure to stay away from controversial topics, thanks for all you do Mr.Glen!

[ironbjorn]

The spinnerbait has been so unsuccessful for me over the last decade that I would have almost rather cut my hands off than fish it.

 

But that has changed as of this week. I hadn't even bothered to fish one at all since maybe 2018 or 2019. Conditions have been very tough this week, so in desperation I started throwing War Eagles and have caught about a dozen bass on them this week, including a pretty good one yesterday. I am adding a Zako trailer which I hadn't done before so maybe that's the difference, but I sure am loving it.