Either one of these two. I caught so many bass on them when I was little. I'm now in my mid-40's and I'd say it's been a good 30 years since I've even owned either one. 

 

I don’t know the brand, but it was a chartreuse ribbon tail worm I was given to use during a fishing outing when I was in cub scouts. 

A Frenzy Popper

Yellow River Runt or a Tin Liz, don't remember which one;  it was in the 1940's.

It was only 4 years ago, and I still can’t remember! I think it was either on a worm or on a weightless senko.

4in Yum Dinger in Elder’s Magic, wacky rigged and suspended under a bobber

Dang a lot of youngsters round here!

 

H & H spinnerbait ?

 

 

My first bass was caught on a 7inch june bug berkley powerbait power worm on the third saturday of June 2020 for bass season opener. 

 

Red & white Hawaiian Wiggler #3 weedless spoon, the lure I learned to cast with in 1954....

Tom

 

4 hours ago, 12poundbass said:

Nightcrawler 

Yup 

44 minutes ago, Catt said:

Dang a lot of youngsters round here!

 

H & H spinnerbait ?

 

 

 

 

 

A black & yellow H&H spinnerbait. A lot of us "old-timers" here in south Louisiana can make the same claim.

 

 

a lead crappie jig, GYBC Tiny Ika, swimming it only because I saw my dad doing that technique (little did I know he was using spinnerbaits).  Used a telescoping spincast rod, thought I felt weight and pulled in a heap of weeds, looked like five pounds of green.  Went to pick up the weeds and a freaking bass thrashed all the weeds off, hooked clean in the mouth.

I really don’t know. If I had to guess it would be a live worm at Clear Lake sometime in the Ike administration.

Probably a Teeny Torpedo if we're not counting nightcrawlers.

First bass ever at about 12 or 13 with a live nightcrawler under a bobber.

 

First bass on a lure took a purple 3" Mister Twister Meeny grub on a jighead.

Beetle spin

3" curly tail grub on a jig head about 8 years ago. It started a passion for fishing that I love. 

Spinnerbait, after days upon days upon days of trying. And a decade later nothing has changed: it rarely catches a fish, and so it rarely gets used.

I started out as a trout angler. I was fishing with a size 5 floating rapala minnow targeting trout. 
 

However, the first fish I caught was a bass. The rest is history, lol. The bass was probably 10 times the size of that floating rapala but it was enough the hook me into bass fishing for life. 
 

It was the same size and northern basser’s minnow image above but mine was all green.

First smallmouth Mepps/Panther Martin

 

First Largemouth Rapala Floater

Either a Creek Chub Darter or Pikie, both in pike color. Got into smallmouth, largemouth, pike and pickerel on 'em in the mid-seventies one spring day from a rented rowboat in Lake Champlain. Only top water lures I had as a teen and put 'em to good use that very memorable day.

 

Both of 'em still have a place of honor, displayed on a shelf above my computer.

I'm not 100% sure but I think my first bass caught on a crankbait was probably caught on old original Rebel crankbait in silver and black. The first one on a soft plastic would be a purple worm made by either Creme or Culprit.

5 hours ago, ironbjorn said:

Spinnerbait, after days upon days upon days of trying. And a decade later nothing has changed: it rarely catches a fish, and so it rarely gets used.

I admit, it has been exceedingly difficult to convince a bass to eat one in the postspawn thus far for me. Yes I love em though. Biggest fish and most fish ever on em.
 

My own first bass was caught on a fly rigged up some way that I could troll for bass by paddling backwards in a kayak. That is how someone taught me to fish. It was crazy effective. I wanted to learn bass fishing with spinning gear though so I pursued it.

13 hours ago, DanielG said:

Red and white, red devil spoon. As far as I knew about 58 yrs ago the only lures that existed were the red devil, mooselook warbler and a black jitterbug. Oh, and worms. We had a big worm rich garden.

You also had to use 6-8 lb mono or a nylon braided line because anything larger was the size of clothesline rope and stiff. So, playing the fish was always a given. No rapid reeling them in and hoisting them into the boat without a net.

That’s me but 57 years ago at the Maxwell borrow pit.

Edie Pope Hot Shot ( now made by Luhr Jensen.)  Second bass was caught two years later on a Heddon Sonic.  May 1974 and June 1976.  Most of my fish at that time were trout caught on worms.