On one of my fishing mornings or evenings, I'm going to only use the lures of my childhood. I'll tie the following lures onto five rods, after swapping the old hooks for modern hooks:

 

A South Bend Spin-I-Diddee (surface lure with front and rear propellers)

 

A Heddon Lucky 13 (surface chugging lure)

 

A Creek Chub Plunker (a popper lure)

 

A Heddon River Runt (subsurface wiggler)

 

A Heddon Pumpkinseed (subsurface wiggler)

 

I expect I'll do well. It'll be fun to see which one catches the most fish. I suspect it'll be the Plunker. 

 

Has anyone else ever done this? I know it'll be expensive to lose one of the above, but they're not doing me any good in my old tackleboxes and they were made to catch fish, not collect dust and rust. 

 

I'll let you guys know how it goes. I'll photograph the lures too. 

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

Heddon River Runt

What a great bait. You will catch them for sure.

I have some old lures. Like 35-45 years old. Hula Poppers. Jitterbugs. Heddon Tiny Torpedo. I would definitely have to swap the hooks out for sure. 
 

Every time I think about it I tie on a Whopper Plopper or Megabass PopMax lol. 

 River  Runts, Spinididees, Lucky 13's... you are going old school .  Good luck. It will be interesting.

I have a beautiful piece of driftwood that I use to display old famous lures.

They are pretty cool on display, but I would never fish them.

31 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

I have a beautiful piece of driftwood that I use to display old famous lures.

They are pretty cool on display, but I would never fish them.

 

I hope I don't regret it, but I have multiple Plunkers, River Runts, Lucky 13s, and Spin-I-Diddees, so if lose one, I won't lose sleep, but I might swap another lure for the Pumpkinseed simply because I love the look of that lure. 

Old school for me is a spit'n image by, then, excalibur lures. I have one that is devoid of a lot of paint and belly hook scars, It casts like a bullet and has a perfect dog walk. Can't even tell you how many fish have been caught. 

 

I know Heddon was producing them, not sure if they still are though.

I sometimes do an old school trip too.

Ive got some old worms from the 80s. Specifically, I have a lot of green culprit worms. Ive got some manns worms too ,  but Im saving what I have left of them. Also have some gold flake paddle tail worms. I don’t know who made them. I keep them in my old Rebel box from the 80s. One of the sides top broke off, but I still have the other side…?

The only old bait I use anymore is a Storm Subwart, and that's because I have a second bait in the same color.  The rest are in an antique tackle box.

I enjoy pulling out the old baits every once in a while. This fall/winter I caught a lot of bass on an old Buck’s Baits SJ “Action Jig.” This bait is at least 55 years old, last manufactured in the mid 1960s as best I can tell.

 

 

"I sometimes do an old school trip too."

 

I would go old school, but I can't find a six pack of Schlitz that was made before they changed the brew formula in the 1970s and went out of business in '81 and sold out the Stroh's in '82.

1 hour ago, Johnbt said:

"I sometimes do an old school trip too."

 

I would go old school, but I can't find a six pack of Schlitz that was made before they changed the brew formula in the 1970s and went out of business in '81 and sold out the Stroh's in '82.

I did that a few years ago. Every other week I took a trip down Memory Lane. A six of Budweiser, Miller High Life, Coors Banquet, Pabst Blue Ribbon, National Bohemian and Rolling Rock. Other than “From the Glass-Lined Tanks of Old Latrobe”, I remembered why craft beer became so popular! ?

For me it would probably be an Arbogast Mud Bug, a gold and black Garcia Finlandia minnow, a red and white Lucky 13, a Johnson Silver Minnow and one of the Mepps spinners I inherited from my grandfather.  I still fish mudbugs pretty regularly.  Inline spinners too, although I am now partial to Panther Martins, which are usually one of my top three producers when creek fishing.

About as “old school” as I’ll go is a Hula Popper, Jitterbug or Culprit ribbbon tail  

I am ”Oldschool” my original site name.

A work college of mine would get together on our annual original bass tackle outing. 

Still have my Langley Lure Cast 330 reel from 1955 and a pistol grip Eagle Claw 5 1/2 foot finder glass rod from the 60’s with Ashaway Dacron line. We used Heddon Wooden Corbra, wooden Jointed Pikie, Bomber 300 in Christmas trees and orange black Craw, Heddon Darters, Wooden Jitter Bugs, Sonics and Eppinger Imp spoons w/white bass pork strips, Shannon Twin spins etc.

We always caught bass and had a memorable day in the way.

If you can get a partner to share fishing old school tackle and lures do it!

Tom

PS, can’t believe left off Smithwick 3” Buck N Brawl, favorite top water lure and still have one.

I have some old school baits. Old Heddon, Lazy Ike, Bombers etc. A few I wouldn't fish for fear of losing. Good luck with this. The old-school baits are still deadly. Have fun Old Crickety.

21 minutes ago, WRB said:

I am ”Oldschool” my original site site name.

A work college of mine would get together on our annual original bass tackle outing. 

Still have my Langley Lure Cast 330 reel from 1955 and a pistol grip Eagle Claw 5 1/2 foot finder glass rod from the 60’s with Ashaway Dacron line. We used Heddon Wooden Corbra, wooden Jointed Pikie, Bomber 300 in Christmas trees and orange black Craw, Heddon Darters, Wooden Jitter Bugs, Sonics and Eppinger Imp spoons w/white bass pork strips, Shannon Twin spins etc.

We always caught bass and had a memorable day in the way.

If you can get a partner to share fishing old school tackle and lures do it!

Tom

 

Tom, that is so cool. You guys are all-the-way old school!

 

Mobasser, I have some Lazy Ikes and Bombers too. I don't think I ever caught a single fish on either of them. 

9 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Tom, that is so cool. You guys are all-the-way old school!

 

Mobasser, I have some Lazy Ikes and Bombers too. I don't think I ever caught a single fish on either of them. 

Ive caught a couple on Lazy Ike's. Mine are red/ white. Some plastic and a couple wooden ones. They were made in Ft. Dodge Iowa.

I break this out to remind myself how good today's tackle is.

 

Don't forget to throw a Carolina rigged lizard and a jig n' eel to cover the bottom old school style!  B-)

River Runt's are a great lure.  I have caught many nice bass on them.  One problem with them, is you get many more bass to follow the lure than you get to hit it.  Make sure you have an old school plastic to catch the followers.

Will do, @king fisher!

just about every time I fish some old school lure comes out. Manns Razorback pig,Johnson Silver Minnow,Jelly worm just to name a few. Oh yeah Gator Tail worms also....

Since the late 60’s and 150 million lures produced, I am still fishing Bill Lewis rattle traps today.

I throw alot of lures that were introduced before I was born. Mann's minus 1, jelly worms, phenom worms and rebel pop Rs. Also I'm the only guy in my bass group that throws a buzzbait.