Flatfish......1951

the first lure i caught a bass with a was 7.5 culprit power worm in okee gold, the first lure i remember fishing with was a squid in El chaure bay in Venezuela caught me a rock snapper (they look like bass but wit an orange belly ) i caught in the bay that we used to live with my dad and we brought it home and dad fried it for me about 10 mins after i caught it it was awesome

zara spook. one i used in the saltwater and tried in the lake. results changed my life.

Same bait as Goose52 only mine was white. 1963.  39 cents at Bi-Mart.  My first real bass bait was an Arbogast Hula Popper in frog color. If I take my pill I might remember when that was. :-/

I remember this as though it was yesterday. It was the summer of 1968 and I was 10 years old. My dad took me to a local lake with a Zebco 202 and a pre-rigged Creme worm. I landed my first bass that day, a 2 1/2 lb monster!

H & H Spinner bait with a black-n-white skirt

Hildebrandt Snagless Sally Spinner bait yellow skirt

Arbogast Hula Popper in frog yellow belly

Arbogast Hawaiian Wiggler in White

Creme Creme Scoundrel 6" worm in Catalpa (black with 2 yellow strips)

Heddon Tiny River Runt Yellow Shore Minnow

Heddon Vamp Spook Yellow Shore Minnow

Bug eye Rabble Rouser Crawfish

not sure but i think it was a bass stopper purple worm,

i still have a couple in my box.

I remember this as though it was yesterday. It was the summer of 1968 and I was 10 years old. My dad took me to a local lake with a Zebco 202 and a pre-rigged Creme worm. I landed my first bass that day, a 2 1/2 lb monster!

Wow - great catch! My first fish was only a brim - probably 8oz or less...

I don't have a Creme worm laying around, but here's a relative of your 202

For me, it was a Hula Popper. I was about 10 years old or so, and I hooked up with what was probably around a 5 pounder, and about lost my mind. To this day, I'm still addicted to topwater fishing. No more nightcrawlers after that!

A Lazy Ike, yellow with red spots that my grandfather gave me. First day out with it, I caught a 3 lb. bass.

A lot of worms owe their lives to that lure.  ;D

Tom

Berkley 7" power worm.

Blue Mann's jelly worm.

Berkley Powerbait for me

yellow trick worm on a heavy red jig head...ugly

i had no idea what i was doing and i havent done it since.

rebel pop-r, still got it today.

Mine was a Heddon Torpedo and after my first fish with it, I met the Bait Monkey.

;D

A 3" finnese worm. I remeber how amazed i was when i learned that lures could spin and swim and werent meant just sit under a bobber  ;D

Man. it was so long ago.

I think it was a Hula-Popper.

Or a Mepps.

Berkley powerbait worm in red shad. 

It was the nastiest smelling thing I've ever smelled. Now..I can't get enough of it! Love that smell! Brings back alot of memories.

zoom or culprit fire/ice 7'' worm...use to be my color! 

First bass I ever caught was with green pumpkin, zoom trick worm.

Hmmmm........first lure for any fish was a 1/16th oz. beetle spin for catching sunfish.

First bass lure was a 1/4 oz. black, silicone skirted jig with a red, Berkley pork strip.

For me, it was a Mr. Twister single tail grub in the 3" size I think on a black jig head. I still remember that day about 15 years ago when I was about 12, I caught 3 pike and 2 bass. I took it from my friends tackle box and they stopped making that colour.

I grew up trout fishing so my first artificial was either a Renegade dry fly or a #0 Mepps spinner with a copper blade. I'm not sure wich came first.

One day, back in the 60's I was over Les Helin's house doing homework. His father and uncle were discussing new colors for the Flatfish. Les happened to mention that I liked to fish. When our homework was done, Mr. Helin gave me a box. When I got home I opened the box, and found about thirty F4 & F6 Flatfish. I caught ALOT of bass and pike with those baits.

Falcon