hello to everyone from long time lurker and new member!

I'm sure someone here can help me! I've had this lure in my tackle box maybe up to 10 years or more. Can't remember where I got it from or when. Never used it until last month. Pulled it out on a slow day and caught fish after fish. So now I want to buy another one or two but I have no clue as to what it is or who made it. its about a 4 inch long slow sinking twitch bait. It has a flexible rubber body with some silver foil inside and two red treble hooks connected by wire to the eye on the front of the bait. the eyes are glued on and has no lip, just abpointy on both ends piece of rubber. I need to investigate whether I can post a picture on here but any help in the meantime would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

Captain Walker

First off Welcome to BR Captain Walker ~

 

As for bait ID help -  posting up a decent photo my be your best bet.

 

The good news is that post pics is easy and very few if any of these "what's this bait?" threads ever go unidentified.

 

The membership here is simply too good & too Big !

 

A-Jay

thanks. Trying to figure out how to reduce the size of a picture to put it on here. I sent it from my phone to myself as a text message that usually works whenever I need to do this but it reduced it to 160 and this site requires 150. still trying to figure it out

Try using a image hosting site, like photobucket.  The site will provide links you can paste into a post here and the picture will show up in the thread.

success!

Welcome to the forum ;-)

 

I don't know what lure that is, 

but gave me a flashback of an old 'Mirrolure'.

 

Roger

yep! kind of like a mirrorlure. after I caught those bass, I pulled it out 1 night there and tried it under some dock lights for speckled sea trout and they loved it even in the clear water under those lights!

yep! kind of like a mirrorlure. after I caught those bass, I pulled it out 1 night there and tried it under some dock lights for speckled sea trout and they loved it even in the clear water under those lights!

 

Not to change the topic, but I've always found it odd that the Mirrolure is so popular in saltwater (esp. seatrout & redfish),

yet the freshies rarely give them a tumble. 

 

Roger

Welcome y'all

Paul Brown's Corkey or Corkie , that or one of his other lures.

Academy & Dick's sells them

Welcome y'all

Paul Brown's Corkey or Corkie , that or one of his other lures.

Academy & Dick's sells them

 

By Jove, I think we've got a winner ;-)

Roger,  That's why I'm wanting more!  I have few baits that work as well for both as this one did.  Can't believe I had it in the box for so long without trying it.  I think they can tell the difference between the hard mirrorlure with rattles that must be noisy and who knows what it tells their lateral line, and this soft bait that's kind of quiet and stealthy.

 

Catt, thanks!  that was quick!  After lurking around here for so long, I knew this would be the place to get the puzzle solved!  Have you used them before, or just recognized it?

 

Heading to the Academy and Dicks stores to see if I can pick a couple up!  

No problem, that's a killer lure for specks & reds

LOL, looks home made.

Mirror Lures - available to order here

 

http://www.mirrolure.com/paulbrown/

LOL, looks home made.

They are hand made

Found them all over the web now that I know what to look for!  Mine must be an EARLY one.  It doesn't have a rattle, and is pointed at the back end.  couple of other differences, too, but the new ones should work fine.  There is a video on youtube of Paul Brown catching a 9 lb trout on one!.  My biggest speck is 8.5 lb.  Maybe using these regularly I can break that! Forgot to mention, that when I was catching bass on the Mississippi, I also caught a couple of BIG crappie on it! Had other fish swirl on it that I think were small crappie. I'm hooked now, too!

  Thanks, Ya'll!