Remember these?  Do you still have one?

 

The classic Lazy Ike.  I have 2 or 3 of them in various sizes.  They have such a pulsating action upon retrieval! 

 

Two that really stand out in my memory:  the dark purple grape Mann's Jelly worms with the fire tail and the way a fresh bag of them smelled when we cracked it on the water together.

 

The little hollow frog and crawdad lures he had.

 

He had very old school hollow frog and crawfish frogs that we never fished and I always wanted to throw because I thought they looked cool 😂

Dad loved fishing is ultra-light spinning rods d**n Quick reels. NE Game and Parks stocked trout and we would go every spring. 

 

I remember Mepps, Panther Martins and tiny Dare-Devils. He did have some Lazy-Ikes. I loved throwing my Dad's the Jitterbug and Du-Dad. 

 

 

Brother and I would sit for hours looking at his tackle box, imagining all the great fish we were going to catch! 

 

 

Interesting thread.

 

My dad passed away when I was 5, but I do remember once when he took me fishing. I assume he was using worms, and caught a bluegill. Afterwards, he decided to cut some donuts in the field that the pond was in. I was holding on, and I had my seatbelt on. Then my door flew open! My little arms were trying to hold the door closed. He looked over and said in a gruff voice "Hold on Bazoo!" I remember it like it was yesterday, and I'm 41 now.

 

 

Heddon Sonic, wood Jitterbug, Crazy Crawler, Hula Popper, Lazy Ike ,River Runt, Junebug spinners, Daredevils, Red Eye Wiggler, Bass Oreno, Creek Chub Pikie, Globe, Twin Spin, Flatfish, asst. Uncle Josh strips.

Bass ORenos and Creek Chubs are what stand out most in my memory.   I have a bunch of each from dad's and grandpa's tackle boxes.  

Mepps spinners, Creme worms that came pre-rigged with a couple hooks and a spinner up front.  I think they still make both of these. Might be worth trying out for old time sake.

As a kid, my brother and I fished farm.ponds with lures that we borrowed from Dad and grampa. Lazy Ikes, Hula Popper, Bass Oreno were the ones we liked the most.

Creme worms, Red Eye Wigglers, Daredevles, Jitterbugs, Hula

Poppers, old school Rapalas…and he had a ton of these soft plastic craws that had the body of a finesse worm. Like a 6” long finesse worm with claws on one end. Similar to the Zoom Cross Craw but thinner. 
 

He had this old two-toned Plano box. Filled with large bobbers, split shots that barely worked from decades of being chewed on, a spring-loaded scale, nail clippers, metal stringers, and all the lures mentioned above. I can picture it like it was yesterday. I spent more time messing with his tackle box than he did. He would only open it when he was fishing, but I wanted to open it all the time and just look at the lures and imagine what I could catch with them!

Poes Cedar prop bait I bought in Florida when I lived there. Lost on Lochloosa lake at sunrise on a massive topwater strike, line broke and the bait disappeared. Retied a Texas rig and we worked the hydrilla hard, never moved more than twenty feet, 30 minutes later (more sunlight) I saw my bait bobbing, it was actually my line I saw, clear blue, line broke at about 10’ and bait had bite marks all over it. I retired it immediately. 😂 Still have it w original trebles that were sharpened by a 6 v rechargeable hook honer. Needle sharp. &nbsp

Anyway, I bagged 14 pounds on July 3rd 87 and won the tournament. It was 100* that day. Partner bagged a fat zero 🤣🤣🤣

 

Awesome replies.... Thanks, everyone! 

 

Here's my prized small Abu Spinnaren Reflex that caught so many Bass and Perch when I was a kid.  My dad kept a prized large Eppinger Dardevle that caught massive Northern Pike up in the Adirondacks in northern New York going camping.  So many fond childhood memories!

 

 

We fished the lures I mentioned for a while, but at one point we discovered the Creme Scoundrel worm. We bought a three pack at a hardware store that had a small tackle section. At first we just nose hooked them. Later my brother learned about Texas rigging them, and we did that all the time.

Interesting thread. 
 

1) Marling Baits has been doing some antique lure reviews and then recreating them. Check them out on YouTube…

 

2) I have my father-in-laws tackle box sitting in my garage. He has been dead 21 yrs now. I know I’ve cracked it open a few times. There’s a variety package of unopened craws that look absolutely fire, but I refuse to open them…

Have some of these that my dad used back in the day.

 

I've never fished them and probably won't.

 

 

 

 

I have lures passed down by my grandfather and my Dad. Some of which I still use.

 

Smithwick Buck-N-Bawl and King Snipe

Creek Chub Jointed Darter

Dalton Special

Clark's Water Scout

Arbogast #2 and #2 1/2 Hawaiian Wiggler

Arbogast Hula Popper and Jitterbug (wooden models)

Bomber lure (wooden)

Al Foss Shimmy Wiggler

Herb's Dilly

Fliptail Worm

 

Jitterbugs

Devils Horse

Purple and Motor-oil colored worms

the Jitterbug is probably what I remember best. I heard stories about catching monsters on those things when it was too dark to see a thing. You'd just hear it go plop plop plop and then a big splash when they hit it..... or so I'm told, never worked for me.

My dad did most of his bass fishing in ponds when I was a kid, so he had a pretty limited selection of bass baits. I remember a black rubber popping frog that he always fished on the lightest spinning rod he had for some reason (probably because it was hollow and hard to cast on a baitcaster I imagine). Then there was the spinnerbaits with rubber skirts and big hammered, Colorado blades. He had a chartreuse one and a white one, both were probably 3/4oz heads. He fished those a lot and caught quite a few fish on them. The Mann's Snatrix and Jellyworm (both in black), were the only worms I remember him fishing back then and they were always just loose in the slots of his tacklebox. The only crankbaits I remember are ones he used to troll for walleye (his preferred target species). There was the crawdad colored #7 Shad Rap, Storm Hot-N-Tots, and Cotton Cordell Wall-e Divers. He had one Zara Spook in a baby bass color I'm pretty sure he still has to this day. 

 

He's got a little more selection now, a lot of baits that I've bought for him or given to him since he fishes lakes. He's even got a Megabass 110, which after he first bought it, he immediately caught a trout on it that in turn, buried the hook under his fingernail and sent him to the ER. 

Pre-rigged worms, Beno, Devil Horse, Lil' Cleo, and gigantic Heddon topwater plugs. 

The daredevil spoons and Creme Prerigged worms come to mind first regarding lures.  But even more than lures the first thing that comes to mind when I think of my dads tacklebox was a leaky bottle of this in the bottom compartment.  Such a nostalgic smell for me. 

My dad's tacklebox was my favorite toy as a kid. I could look through those old lures for hours thinking how cool they look. Mom would yell, he's going to get a hook in his hand. Dad would reply, only once, then he will be more careful. Dad's tacklebox had daredevils, red eye spoon, lazy ike, flatfish, bass oreno, hula popper, jitterbug, rooster tails, mepps spinners, jelly worms, pikie minnows, crappie jigs, and more. That started my passion, though most of my early fishing was worms and bobbers.

 

That picture of the lazy ike by the OP reminded me of dad's. He had a beat up perch colored one that was a northern pike magnet.

6 hours ago, MAN said:

The daredevil spoons and Creme Prerigged worms come to mind first regarding lures.  But even more than lures the first thing that comes to mind when I think of my dads tacklebox was a leaky bottle of this in the bottom compartment.  Such a nostalgic smell for me. 

 

Wow... Flashbacks!!!  I think *everybody* had that bottle around somewhere!

 

My dad was a crappie and catfish angler, The only bass lure I remember him having is a L&S jointed minnow

My dad is 65 and some of y'all would probably love to see what he has in his box and still uses. A lot of his stuff was his dad's tackle. I've got half of Bass Pro at his disposal in the box on my boat and he still uses the old stuff out of his box.... AND still outfishes me to top it all off 😁 

 

The first one that comes to mind is what he calls "them old Creme worms". I don't know what they were actually called, but they're usually a very dark purple, dark red, or motor oil color. 

 

He also likes using "them ol George's".... And of course a jitterbug. I guess I'll also mention H&H spinnerbaits, but you can still buy those pretty much anywhere.

When my dad passed away I put all of his older baits in a double sided tackle box and put it up on the shelf.  Some of the baits include:

 

Cordell Big-O

Heddon Big Head

Heddon Pico Spin

Heddon Sonic

Heddon Pico Perch