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Lures I Wish They Still Made
bowfin
Member Posts: 23 ✭✭
1. Bass Oreno
2. Fred Arbogast Sputterfuss
3. Mann's Razorbacks
4. Heddon Cousin
5. Heddon Prowler
6. Bagley's Smoo
7. Rabble Rousers
8. Natural Ikes
9. Cisco Kid 300
10. Heddon River Runt
...and you tell me what this last one should be...or the next ten.
Yes, I know there are lots of lures that work just as well or better, but I am on a nostalgia kick as of late. I really have never met anyone who caught a fish on a Heddon Cousin, but the one and only specimen I had was worth the price just to look at in the tackle box:
Yep, that was the color I had. It cost me $1.69 at the Woolworth's store, back when my after school job paid $1.75 per hour. Funny what a guy can remember and what he doesn't...
2. Fred Arbogast Sputterfuss
3. Mann's Razorbacks
4. Heddon Cousin
5. Heddon Prowler
6. Bagley's Smoo
7. Rabble Rousers
8. Natural Ikes
9. Cisco Kid 300
10. Heddon River Runt
...and you tell me what this last one should be...or the next ten.
Yes, I know there are lots of lures that work just as well or better, but I am on a nostalgia kick as of late. I really have never met anyone who caught a fish on a Heddon Cousin, but the one and only specimen I had was worth the price just to look at in the tackle box:
Yep, that was the color I had. It cost me $1.69 at the Woolworth's store, back when my after school job paid $1.75 per hour. Funny what a guy can remember and what he doesn't...
Comments
Herb's Dilly (in line spinner with a heavy front. Bass would throw easy but would catch pretty good.)
Smithwick Clown(spinerbait)
Smithwick No-no (spinerbait)
Always my early AM and evening go-to poppers..
I love top-water bites...EXCITING!
Do they still make the "hula-popper".
Always my early AM and evening go-to poppers..
I love top-water bites...EXCITING!
Arbogast still makes the hula popper. I want to get my hands on their newest top water bait called the "Buzz Plug".
Top water is a blast, lately my go to bait has been a rage tail shad, its a soft plastic that you rig weightless on an EWG #4-5 worm hook. Bass hit it like a ton of bricks
Get out your mask and snorkel and find that big old sunken log by the hole.
Absolute Brookie Killer and hard to find these days.
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Capt. Jack Sparrow.
LeBouf Creeper
They are way too expensive for what they are, but try Whopper Plopper. They are what I now use for top water. I used to use a hula-popper, buzzbait, or a Zora * for top water but now this is what I used almost exclusively for top water.
Caught my first Muskie on one!
Mans. minus 1. Really useful. When too bright for top water but weedy!
the list reminds me of why bonit0 fish all look alike.
They catch bonito in Santa Monica bay ,tho do not eat them due to pollution. DDT was dumped in the 50s.