http://www.antiquefishinglures.com/whopper.htm

 

I thought this was pretty cool.

 

The Whirlybird looks like a real nice compact weedless spinnerbait. The Dirtybird looks like an early form of a chatterbait and check out the weedless worm rig?

 

Weird how these companies come and go,

I have one of those Bayou Boogie lipless baits, wonder if it worth anything?

 

Allen

I have one of those Bayou Boogie lipless baits, wonder if it worth anything?

 

Allen

 

I have a couple of those that I still use. They still catch bass too!

 

Tom

I´ve got a truckload of Whopper Stopper lures, lots of Bayou Boogies silent and with rattles, Hellbenders and more, pretty good and durable lures, have caught a lot of fish with them. Hellbenders were specially good at Cajón de Peñas. Hellraisers are like Topedo but mag size.

I have a Hellbender. Thanks for reminding me to try it.

I have about 4 Bayou Boogies, unfortunately they are the newer ones from Heddon.

 

A few years ago I tried making one but a little bigger:

It was just shy of 1/2 oz and 3" long. It caught fish, but it swam more like a lipped crank.

 

Oh well, another experiment gone awry...

It swims like a lipped crank cuz the eye is in the front and not on the top.

 

 

Weird how these companies come and go,

 

Whopper Stopper was a quite old company and lasted for many years until PRADCO purchased the company and killed it like other companies it purchased ( like Riverside ).

It swims like a lipped crank cuz the eye is in the front and not on the top.

Ya know, after you mentioned this I went back to look at some pics and have the line tie on top of the lure when it was primed. I must have switched it after a field test. I can't remember though...

Ahh the hellbender - you could crank that sucker through timber before we ever heard of square bills.

I had some old Whopper Stopper lipless cranks that came with 6 inserts so you could change the color without having to retie a new bait on. They were kind of cheesy but for some reason pickerel loved them, I have since given them away and that was in the early 90s, I think I got those lures in the mid 80s.

I have a small collection of Hellbenders in my office.  They are cool old lures.  I throw one occasionally when I am up in Minnesota on a deep lake.  Those suckers get down there.

I'm still using the Hellbender in some of the Mississippi River oxbow lakes I frequent. And the Hellraiser is one of my favorite topwater baits.