My older brother was my bass fishing teacher in the mid to later 1960s. We stayed at our grandfather's farm for a couple of months during the summer, to help our grandfather with chores around his farm.                                                For entertainment, we fished two farm ponds almost every evening. We didn't have many baits of our own, and used lures borrowed from our grandfather. My grandpa had several red head, white body Lazy Ikes, and a couple of frog finish Helin Flatfish lures, which we fished with. Some were wooden, and some plastic.                              Casting to the edge of moss, these floated, and when reeled in, had an action akin to a spoon. A slow waiving, swimming action. My brother called them the boomerang lures, because of the curved shape of them.          They caught fish, and we later realized that if we rowed to the center of the big pond, made a long cast, and trolled them behind the boat they worked better doing that at times.                  Does anyone remember these old timers? I never hear about them anymore.

I have caught many species of fish on a Flatfish, and landed more King Salmon on a Flatfish copy Called a Kwik Fish than any other lure made.  I have never tried a Lazy Ike, they were more of a midwestern lure, where as the kwikfish, and Flatfish were popular in the Northwest where I was from.  A split shot rigged flatfish is deadly for bass if you can stand to fish a crankbait painfully slow  and don't mind the terrible casting characteristics.  Excellent bait for trolling all species.

 

I have found a few lures in this style in old tackle boxes purchased at garage sales over the years. I have never fished them myself, nor have I ever seen them for sale in any tackle shop I have ever been to. When I find cool vintage lures I often keep them separate, just because they are unique and I do not want to lose them.

@Mobasser  Lazy Ikes!!!!  I was born and raised in Fort Dodge Iowa and my buddys Mom worked at the Lazy Ike plant.  She would bring home "blems" for free.  We would put hooks on them and they worked good on our spincast outfits.  I still have 3 of those "blems" but I don't use them anymore, I just like to look at them and remember.