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@justdoingitjim7095 6 сағат бұрын
Back around 1980 I as fishing with some lures from an old tacklebox that I bought at the flea market. It was full of old lures and had a few Lazy Ikes and "Flatfish" types as well. I decided to do some trolling and after trying several lures with no success, I tried a Lazy Ike. I immediately started catching Stripers and hybrids! I noticed that the lure kind of "throbbed" as it went along and I could see it in the rod tip. It was the only lure that did that, so I figured it had something to do with my success. Since that time I've tried many different lures for trolling and the most successful ones are always the Lazy Ike/Flatfish type lures and you can't argue with success!
@charles17683 Күн бұрын
I've got a black with white strips hedon tiny torpedo
@Huskyd502 2 күн бұрын
Looking for a name for manns works with curly tail with dimples? Any idea what that is. Thanks:
@anglingarchaeology Күн бұрын
Could it be the Mann’s Augertail?
@craigslyst 6 күн бұрын
$1.49 in 1977 would be approx. $7.50 today cost of living ratio, why do they cost twice as much as they should? Since Covis prices have gone crazy!
@craigslyst 6 күн бұрын
The original Jitterbug would have to have the blade pointing down to be a deep diver with body rotated 180 degrees wedge lointing down, rotating the blade only it would still skip on the water and be top water lure as it still is today., Fred Ortel said they turned around the lip or rotating whole lure 180 degrees rotation.
@andrewbieschke7785 7 күн бұрын
Awesome! I own a 1992 Pro 17 Bass Tracker. Based on the catalog price i'm guessing a 60HP upgrade at the time was around $7,000.00.
@stephenballard3759 7 күн бұрын
My father's entire tackle box contained twobDaredevils 3 Flatfish, 3 spinners, and five to eight flies. He had a few sinkers hooks and clear bubbles of course. He didn't add anything to that taco box until Mister Twister came along. And he wasn't the world's greatest fisherman but he got fish.
@mikehauck5832 10 күн бұрын
I really enjoyed this video. Brought and sold alot vechicles from the big 3. That when you could buy sell vehicles without dealer plates. Thanks
@anglingarchaeology 10 күн бұрын
Thank you! Appreciate you watching. I wish I bought a bidders pass. There were some great deals on Friday
@naughtydorf18 13 күн бұрын
When I got me a 2022 Xpress Duck boat, my dad gave me his old 28lb thrust Autopilot trolling motor to put on the bow. Advice he gave me few days ago be careful with it cause it's hard to find replacement parts for it.
@NOOBKIAtv 13 күн бұрын
Such a great idea! Was just looking thru my grandmas old sears 1990s catalogs
@GKMets9n31 14 күн бұрын
Super Black Bass was the best game! Couldn't ever catch one bigger than the world record weight though. Broke a lot of lines. Red spinnerbait was always the go to for the big guys.
@BradtheButcher1234 14 күн бұрын
I prefer the apex hotshots.....bigger body and better action
@jeffyoakum1040 14 күн бұрын
Burt with the extra effort!!
@toddkennedy5714 14 күн бұрын
Good stuff brother!!!
@bassguy1960 15 күн бұрын
Love it...any chance you have a 1987 BPS Christmas catalog?
@anglingarchaeology 14 күн бұрын
Unfortunately not a 87 Christmas catalog, but the full 87 Catalog. You might just see that coming up soon 👍🏼
@bassguy1960 14 күн бұрын
@anglingarchaeology looking specifically for the '87 Christmas catalog. There was a special gift set in that catalog, trying to find an image of it.. Thank you for responding quickly.
@anglingarchaeology 14 күн бұрын
@@bassguy1960I see. If I run across that catalog I’ll definitely let you know. 👍🏼
@ryenburns7054 15 күн бұрын
Wish we could go back ❤️
@leroywindsor5914 15 күн бұрын
Keep up the good work.
@davidstone8045 17 күн бұрын
Used Jitterbugs at night on the creeks in SW Missouri.
@eric_schaaf 19 күн бұрын
My dad absolutely schooled me on a black jitterbug in the 80s. I was working a big bass off the tip of a fallen log. Kept missing it. My dad tried and after a couple twitches, got hit on a long pause. It was so epic. It was the biggest bass I’d seen at the time. I was probably 12 or 13 years old.
@jeffreichel4777 29 күн бұрын
The Heddon Crazy Crawler is deadly on creeks and rivers at night for smallmouth bass. I grew up fishing them here in northwest Pennsylvania. Also caught my first Muskie on one after dark in a River here. Great under estimated lure.
@moncorp1 Ай бұрын
Love the vids. More updates on your property!
@randallpinkfloyd7225 Ай бұрын
I’ve had problems with the paint finish getting sticky on two old Thundersticks. Great lures though!
@unicornsteaks6769 Ай бұрын
I caught over 50 bass in a couple of hours on a Tiny Torpedo once in a cool, light rain. I fish from a kayak and I was soaked from landing and handling so many fish.
@outdoorfreedom9778 Ай бұрын
I still have a few of the flat fish out in the box. It was my grandfathers box, I'm 77 so I have lost a lot of the gear but still have some. I was surprised to learn what caught fish!
@codybunch Ай бұрын
I never knew they were for a top water never saw one in a package we always used to use them in front of deep diving crankbaits
@waynespyker5731 Ай бұрын
I made 4 knock off of True Temper lure in freshman high school metal class, couldn't afford to buy them. They were a 7/16 wide x 4 inch long bow tie folded into a U, a treble hook mounted after the bend. The 3/32" inside U gap was to vibrate cranking the bate home. I think T T painted the chrome red on one side, I used brass for 2 and aluminum for the other 2. After polishing and lacquered I finished one side with red paint. Never used them, was always afraid of snagging them. 15:43
@edwardcowan7012 Ай бұрын
I fish it 8-12” in front of the main lure, always use heavier line for the leader (20lb Mono). I drew out with the guy that invented it at a BASS Invitational. I’ve caught more doubles on that rig than a A Rig! Another plus is some walking baits, particularly the Sammy like to hook the front hook and that thing stops that. Someone just reintroduced a similar bait. You better give that thing another try, you’ll never fish a walking bait without one again!
@edwardcowan7012 Ай бұрын
Before the suspending jerk baits came along I would weight a Thunder Stick to make it suspend. Pre spawn around my house Southern NY it was like they were giving away money every weekend at my local lakes. I love that lure! The world found out when Clunn won the 1994 TN Invitational on Kentucky Lake with a weighted Jerk Bait.
@ginochiavacci1757 Ай бұрын
I really appreciate your sense of humor…You are SO funny!! Very entertaining!! Hahaa!! 😆
@bronc7211 Ай бұрын
That was a great combination
@gillgetter3004 Ай бұрын
Not only bass, pike will kill a thunder stick. Years ago I picked up a couple for bass but the pike killed it. Caught a few bass too👍 I fished a Rapala original floating large size for pike since I was 10 in the late sixties, the thunderstick out fished it two to one.
@toddkennedy5714 Ай бұрын
Good stuff. Thanks,Mike!
@gregchilders7643 Ай бұрын
The thunderstick Jr is my favorite
@leroywindsor5914 Ай бұрын
Keep up the good work.
@d.kleiser9514 Ай бұрын
This reminds me of the old "Leech Lake Cocktail", A flatfish or similar banana lure with a nightcrawler on the hook. Was supposed to be killer for the Walleye on that lake...
@robertsandidge441 Ай бұрын
Talk about flash backs I had that exact Rebel tackle box on the top shelf over your left shoulder years ago. Hilarious.
@Hezakiah4 Ай бұрын
Really dig the vids. I have a lot of my dad's stuff from the 40s up to the 60s, and my own stuff 60s thru the 80s along with stuff I've bought or been gifted over the last 60 plus years as old as the 1920s and I still use almost all of it.
@toddkennedy5714 Ай бұрын
Loving the content buddy. Keep it up!
@toddkennedy5714 Ай бұрын
Good evening from So. Illinois! Love your stuff man. And that intro…. Totally Rad!
@zafotbeeb Ай бұрын
flatfish way before lazy ike.
@rodmakermagazine7117 Ай бұрын
The famous Helin Flatfish was introduced in 1933/34. It remains the best selling lure of all time. It has a much slower, wider swimming action than the Lazy Ike.
@thomasdailey9280 2 күн бұрын
I had one of the larger red/white lutes . Looked really sharp but only fish I ever caught was a 15 inch crappie . Your frozen water reminded me of the first time I went fishing . Mived ti Virginia I 1965 and everybody fished in two small neighborhood lakes . That Christmas, received a Shakespeare spin casting combo and an Arbogast Jitterbug. The 'bug was a yellow 3/4 ounce joined model with pkastucweedguards in the treble hooks. On December 26 , not knowing a top water wasn't good in winter , ride my bike to the lakes , both of which were frozen over. Spent probably half an hour astugand retrieving that Jitterbug across the ice . Fantasized abouta big bass breaking through ice to take that lure . Pribablychad ittwenty years and it never caught a fish.
@rodmakermagazine7117 Ай бұрын
The Helin Flatfish, introduced in 1933/34, had sold over 40 million units by 1974. It remains the best selling lure of all time. Lazy Ike was a copy and didn't move/swim like the FlatFish. It is still available today.
@JefferyHagen 29 күн бұрын
The Dardevil has been around almost forever too.
@robertanderson1272 20 күн бұрын
have some of my grandfathers old wooden flatfish along with some newer ones some are still in the boxes they came in.
@rodmakermagazine7117 20 күн бұрын
@@robertanderson1272 The older wooden ones, with the cardboard boxes are worth a tad bit of money.
@lanceh.5671 Ай бұрын
When I was a kid in the 1960s there was a popular lure called a bucks sputnik. I think it must have been a different person named buck. It was a knock off version of the old Heddon sonic. They were 90 cents each and they worked really well. I still have one. Must have been a local man named buck in Alabama where I was at the time. Love your videos!😊
@RWildekrav66 Ай бұрын
Honestly , never thought of collecting Bass Pro Shops catalogs and I’ve been receiving them since 1983 .
@lanceh.5671 Ай бұрын
Always enjoy your videos. Please correct me if I am wrong but I think mister twister invented the keeper concept hook for Texas rigging soft plastics. I still use this type hook for my Texas rigging. It has the free swinging barbed straight pin hanging from the hook eye to secure the head of the worm.
@ericpettyfishing Ай бұрын
Cool video. Got my sub. Id love to get a wooden one.
@lanceh.5671 Ай бұрын
I still have my old Johnson century from my childhood. The price for it is priceless. Enough said. Cool video!😊
@sherlockbonez Ай бұрын
Those old magazines are the most exciting.
@lanceh.5671 Ай бұрын
Enjoy your videos! I think heddon refered to a lot of their color patterns as shore minnow back in the day. I never used a heddon torpedo. I got stuck on a lure called a dalton special and the smithwick devils horse. I also enjoy using the zara spook. Walking the dog is just fun. If you ever want to make your own wooden lures top water is a good place to start. I could carve a torpedo and buy the prop from Janns Netcraft for about $1. My favorite topwater today aside from a buzzbait which i also make for myself is my rendition of a dalton special. Fun times!
@martinschulz9381 Ай бұрын
Brings back childhood memories. I loved to use both the Jitterbug and Hula popper; both were just fun to use. The guys from the south actually got us northerners using them.
@WithTheGrain Ай бұрын
Not that it really matters, but I think it may be the guys from the north making lures for those guys in the south since arbogast was in Ohio,...