My Dad's tackle box is about half the size of a bass pro shop's, then there are just bags and bags and bags of unopened stuff sitting around, tons and tons and tons of rod's but somehow no extra reel's. its good because that means i can help myself to it all and he cant keep track of it.

My dad never fished for bass, and he still doesn't like bass fishing.  He is one of them "old guys  sitting on the bank in 100* heat, drinking a beer, and fishing with a cane pole, bobber, and a cricket".

My son will get a bunch of stuff when I kick the bucket, UNLESS I have all of my gear buried with me. :

I first started paying attention to bass fishing in 1963 and remember my first tackle box as well as my dads; I still have many of those lures both his and mine.

Creek Chub: Jointed Pike & Striper Strike

Fred Arbogast: Jitterbug, Hula Popper, & Hawaiian Wiggler

Fliptail Worms & lizards

Heddon: Dowagiac Minnow & Lucky 13

Hildebrandt: Snagless Sally

South Bend (Luhr Jensen): Best-O-Luck Baby Wounded Minnow, Babe-Oreno, & Bass Oreno

Worden's Helin Flatfish

Yum Yum Worms

Glad to find someone besides me that fished with Fliptail worms.  My Dad knew and fished with the guys who made them and we had a generous supply.  My favorite was the purple Big Daddy Fliptail.  We fished them on a wire guard weedless hook with 3 or split shot 14" up the line.  Caught a lot of fish on them including one 11+ lb bass out of Lanier.  My Dad also had Dalton Special topwater plugs and Woble-rite spoons.  I also remember some topwaters with spinners front and back too.  

More buzzbaits and jitterbugs than I can count.

My dad does not fish, I have fished with my grandfather all my life though. He doesn't carry a tackle box now, just uses my stuff. still has his stuff though. There are Daredevil spoons, Johnson Silver minnows, Original Rapala's, Jitterbugs, Hula Poppers, Mepps spinners, Manns Jelly worms, Orginal Creme worms, lots of live bait rigging terminal tackle.

My father never targeted a specific species. He had sinkers,hooks,bobbers, extra line and a six pack of beer no matter where he went  ;D ;D ;D

Several round tin cans of hooks, sinkers, bobbers, spoons (silver and Daredevil red/white), spinnerbaits (Shysters), Jitterbug or two, several Lazy Ikes, couple of wooden Heddon topwaters, extra spool of line, metal and rope stringers, hook remover, rusted scale, tape measure, pliers, scaling/filet knife, Swiss Army knife with several attachments, matches, box of bandaids, stuff like that AND it all smelled BAD:o) It was a green metal box with three cantelever drawers. I can't recollect the name but it was heavy for me to try and carry.

Thanks for this thread! A real stroll down memory lane.

Man, that describes my dad's box practically piece by piece.

I have his "Green Box".

8-)

My dad had one of the BIG Plano boxes with about 4 rows on each side.   Had LOTS of Hellbenders (which we never used).   The usual Arbogast fare (Jits and Hula's) and plenty of spinner-jig combos.   There was a few Bass-O-Reno's and Original Rapalas as well.  

This really brings back some memories....here's a pic of me and my father about 22 years ago or so....

Still my #1 fishing partner - - - we get together and hit the lake every time we can......I wouldn't trade it for anything - he's the finest man I've ever known.  

Who ever said rapalas and other cranks that is what my dads is like.

whoever said my dad has so much stuff, that is what my great grandfathers house was like.

I really wish the old Flaptail stuff would come back, Their floating lizards kill Bass

Some of those old shakespear lures are worth a lot of money.

I'm talking about $1,300 give or take a little bit

My Dad wasn't a species specific fisherman. He had the same tackle box you described to a "T", and when he opened it, it smelled like a mixture of rust, mildew, and lead.

He mostly had sinkers, hooks, and bobbers.

That's the box behind him.

Great picture! That's what was ment by a picture is worth a 1000 words.

When I think of my dad's tackle box a big brown Kennedy box that folds out with three trays on each side and a large storage space at the bottom. He gave me that box a few years back and I use it to store some of my collectable lures.

You discribed my dad's tackle box to a "T".

Falcon

I could never forget the plastic purple worms with hooks, Mepps spinners and a floating rapala.

I remember Hula Poppers and Jitterbugs....black plastic worms....anise extract....and alot of Al's Goldfish.

I'm only seventeen so the time you guys are talkin is probably more like what was in my grandpa's box.

One grandpa had a big plano with two triple cantilever trays. It had a bunch of topwater stuff like jitterbugs, poppers, rubbery frogs and spiders, and big wooden plugs. We mostly only used worms with a cane pole and beetle spins which we went through a lot of in the farm ponds. The bottom of the box was a bottomless pit that you could throw whatever into and it seemingly dissapeared.

The other grandpa was a wallye fanatic on Mille Lacs that had shad raps, bottom bouncers, slip bobbers, spinner rigs, and roundhead jigs. We mostly just used a slip bobber and leech.  He also had to have the gimmic lures from the tv commercials like the flying lure and bionic minnow.