I found the oldest tackle shop in New Orleans! (Puglia's Sporting Goods walk-thru)

[@Stumpjack]

You got me at the black Silver Minnow! I swear, just YESTERDAY I was looking on Amazon for black Silver Minnows to replace the last one I lost. The black color is my favorite Silver Minnow, and boy are they tough to find. Amazon doesn't have them, and none of the stores around here seem to carry them. Great store, with some very cool local bait companies. I'm going to watch the video again with pen and paper, write down those local companies and contact Puglia's to see about shipping some up to me. Looks like Charlie Saucier found the perfect job, the man knows his stuff. Great walk-thru the aisles with him.

[@brianpierson7708]

Yea he knows a lil bit and learning more every day but the old man before he retired was on point you ask him for something he say exactly where it was how much without an with tax if he didn’t have it he said they don’t have it but it’s part # and page as he was pulling the catalog out and going to it and saying I can have it in in this many days at this time of day flat on point and order it right then an there !!

[@moncorp1]

♪ Retro Bassin' kickin' some assin' ♫

[@sammyvh11]

Most people are casual fishermen. These types of stores are invalueable. They are dissapearing quickly in many parts of the USA.

[@RetroBassin]

I agree which is why these are my favorite episodes to film! Thanks for helping us do our part to shine a little light on places like this.

[@dipinmylip1171]

Everything that was good about America is disappearing, thank you to the WEF, and liberals worldwide.

[@antpart7998]

@@dipinmylip1171 well said

[@mattbarrois8675]

Puglias is a different breed they will be around as long as they decide to keep the doors open pretty sure everyone in the new orleans area shops there

[@MarkJLarsonOutdoors]

That was the coolest bait shop I've ever seen! So much history and so knowledgeable! That's what every one should be like! Thank you for sharing my friend!

[@RetroBassin]

I agree, Mark J! Definitely worth a visit!

[@Cornelius798]

That was great, Puglia's rocks such a great store! Anthony and Charlie have it going on. Seeing all the products l fish with many of those baits plus I saw many baits that were new to me. If I remember correctly, Orlando Wilson once said if he had to choose just one hard bait it would be a chrome & blue Rattletrap. Back in the day there was a very small bait shop near me. The owner, Jim, was very nice, knowledgeable and carried a little of everything. Old school, love it.

[@RetroBassin]

I definitely don’t throw the 1/4-ounce Trap as often as the 1/2. Maybe that needs to change…

[@captainhunter_oubre1364]

A few years ago when the Firecraw Jackhammer was THE bait, Anthony posted on Facebook he had 2 in the store. I drove on down and when I got there he said he sold them. I guess he saw my disappointment lol. He pulled out one from behind the counter and said he was saving one for himself but he would sell it to me if caught a giant on it. 😂

[@robertmceuen3630]

Your smile in the intro is the smile of a fisherman in a classic bait and tackle shop.

[@RetroBassin]

Man, it was a classic!

[@BamaBassSlayer]

Id love to fish with Mr Bassin. Brother if you ever wanna come fish Guntersville,Wheeler , Wilson, Pickwick then im your giy. Im literally within an hour and a half of all those World Class Waters! Nothing is more retro than a northern Alabama lake at the Classic

[@RetroBassin]

Thanks, Jon! I will definitely be out that way soon!

[@winstonrocco1981]

Another great bait shop video. I wish they were as plentiful as they used to be. Box stores suck even the online sites are the same as box stores just don’t have to leave the recliner to buy stuff.

[@af4od02]

Another great tackle shop visit. I am going to have to go visit. I have been wanting to fish for redfish and speckled trout in the panhandle of Florida. I learned a lot about good baits to throw. Thanks to you and Puglia’s.

[@RetroBassin]

I think Charlie pretty much named them all!

[@jaimepn]

Wow.. I need someone like you! I was a Tournament fisherman in the late 80’s early 90’s before kids!! I’m getting back out and the old gear still holds up!! I got ‘em all and stuff I opened. Love the channel.

[@RetroBassin]

Thanks for tuning in, good buddy!

[@bayouburner281]

Fresh off of a divorce years ago, I was working in NO and staying in Metairie had to keep my mind off things. Instead of drinking in my sorrows on Bourbon, I walked into Puglias and asked where I could catch some fish off the bank and the staff pointed me to a park on Pontchartrain and set me up with some proper baits to catch Seatrout. Definitely a great place to visit.👍🏻 Their H&H selection is huge.

[@RetroBassin]

That is an amazing story! That matches exactly what I saw the day I visited!

[@kk5fe]

I’ve been going there since the 70s…. Great place. Like family.

[@OrganicContentGuy]

When I’m in Nola I go to puglias almost daily that place is awesome!

[@NewOlSchoolFishin]

Shimano" flash boost"!? Crazy cool !!

[@midwestfischerman]

But those prices!!!🤯🤑 It is too rich for my blood.

[@NewOlSchoolFishin]

@@midwestfischerman l know! Crazy prices! Hurt to lose one

[@brianpierson7708]

@@NewOlSchoolFishinthat’s actually about 3 years old now I think Barkley come out with it first in ICast 2019 or 2020 IF IM NOT MISTAKEN THAT BARKLEY WAS OR IT COULD HAVE BEEN LUCKY CRAFT JDM

[@NewOlSchoolFishin]

Thanks for the info!

[@NewOlSchoolFishin]

Kid in a candy shop!!

[@edt1cv2]

Love that place. That's where I get my fishing license every year.

[@RetroBassin]

Yeah buddy!

[@LowBrowFishing]

That is a great store with a great history. The best places always have the modern tools but haven't lost sight of the past. Great stuff!

[@RetroBassin]

Puglia’s is definitely worth a visit, LowBrow!

[@robertstanisch3452]

Awesome episode! Love seeing a bit of the new that came from older roots, and just new stuff. That Shimano Flashboost is a great example, old school popper, crank, ECT with a new cool technology. Was just throwing the jerkbait this week and hammering the largemouth when other baits weren't getting hit, so it's a confidence bait in the making. And the 392 "catch them fast" soft plastics come from someone who's a MOPAR fan, that's their current Hemi displacement in cubic inches. With their tag line and 392, that would be my educated guess anyway, lol. Keep it up sir, hope the move is going well👍

[@RetroBassin]

Great insight on 392!

[@OrganicContentGuy]

You gotta get your hands on the marker 54 shrimps they’re so good for EVERYTHING. MAN I LOVE THIS PLACE

[@tommyirish5446]

Awesome place thanks ! Great video

[@joshwagner8468]

That hellraiser zmann lure is an awesome lure. Bass love em. Let's go retro. Thanks for taking us along with ya

[@RetroBassin]

I will have to try it…when it one day becomes retro haha

[@joshwagner8468]

@@RetroBassin yeah you should try it out. You'll like it 😏

[@NewOlSchoolFishin]

Love these shows! Thanks

[@cpoole419]

I enjoyed this video so much. The baits and the stories were so good.

[@RetroBassin]

I need to get back there!

[@adwhite804]

Great video, fantastic shop and people! Maybe one day I can slide by there…. The wife has Mardi Gras on her bucket list , so… Thanks Retro!

[@RetroBassin]

If you make it, be sure to grad a soft crab sandwich and bowl of gumbo from R&O’s!

[@sarahcasenza5411]

That’s me on the aisle behind y’all, so sorry I was all up in the background of your video! Needed some of those senkos really bad 😂😂

[@RetroBassin]

Haha! Shoulda said hey!!

[@scottehrlich6653]

Great episode thanks

[@samuelschult985]

You have outdone yourself this time and given me a new lead to find a lure that's almost impossible to find anymore 👍

[@RetroBassin]

What lure is that???

[@brianpierson7708]

What lure are you looking for I maybe able to help you out

[@samuelschult985]

Let me see if I can find it first and all let you both know:)

[@samuelschult985]

Mirrolure 3m21

[@NewOlSchoolFishin]

Get to rummage through an old tackle shop without draining my bank account 🤠

[@danielrichardson6054]

When I was 8 there was a little bait and tackle shop in my town. I had some curly tails and I asked what jig heads the dude would recommend. This was back when jig heads were loose in hardware bins on a pegboard. Changed my life forever

[@RetroBassin]

Hardware bins + pegboard = heaven

[@Matt-we2jc]

Another tackle store added to the list!!

[@RetroBassin]

Need to do a Retro tackle shop tour!

[@jonbates5873]

Awesome shop man !!!!!

[@RetroBassin]

It sure was, Jon!

[@madtownangler]

I was just at one of the few multi-generational owned black baitshops in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The father used to have a bait truck that he would minoows out of along the riverside so people could keep on fishing. I was walking down the street away from the shop and the owner stopped and gave me a ride back downtown Milwaukee. He had some minnows he was delivering to a customer so doing the same thing his dad did back in the day. It is an old one room shop that is so packed with stuff i had to take my backpack off to get down the aisles. He had some different carp fishing stuff than anyone had in my town so that is why i visited. Its probably been ten years since i was last there and one of his sons works there now too so probably gonna be three generations.

[@RetroBassin]

Wow! I need to see that place in person!! What was it called?

[@madtownangler]

@@RetroBassin A & C Live Baitshop in Milwaukee.

[@henrydempsey8786]

Very Kool 👍👍👍👍👍

[@RetroBassin]

Thanks, good buddy!

[@Zeke1966]

Keith Warren used the Mirro Lures for bass fishing on one of his shows in the 90's. He got me using them for bass fishing and they do pretty good

[@victorremick9721]

That was fun

[@RetroBassin]

Especially for me!

[@chadwilliams8583]

I have 6 or 7 of the Shimano jerkbaits with Flash and THEY ARE AWESOME!!!

[@tedlincolnsfishinglife]

I knew I couldn’t be the only one that knew about the black chrome sliver minnow 🤫 PS.. copper is awesome for redfish around oysters beds around here.

[@RetroBassin]

Bet those will be sold out soon enough!

[@tedlincolnsfishinglife]

@@RetroBassin hope you still got that stash 🤫

[@hookreelfishing]

Another great video ++

[@RetroBassin]

Thanks, good buddy!

[@noahledbetter3969]

I own the Shimano lures and they are awesome

[@OfftheHookOutdoors99]

Great video!

[@RetroBassin]

Thanks, ol’ pal!

[@poppafish428]

That was my thinking back when I worked at Dick's Sporting Goods in '04. I had lots of repeat customers who would ask for me by name.

[@RetroBassin]

That’s the only way to do it!

[@MrSeanWesty]

I’ve caught bass in ponds on MirroDines! They work!!

[@andyfisher1217]

Love the video retro the in store experience is special w/ online purchase at the click . If your ever in the North AL. Shoals area try out Gray's tackle its a home / fam owned shop that is a bit retro , and modern at the same time think you would really enjoy the merchandise local to Tennessee River

[@RetroBassin]

Yeah buddy! Thanks for the lead. I will be in northern Alabama soon and have added that to my list!!

[@Zeke1966]

Where in northern Alabama? As I drive through Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Indiana, I look for out of the way tackle/ bait stores.

[@trentfindley7212]

barataria bait and tackle, in belle chase is pretty legit!!! I've been working disasters since 05. seeen east coast and west coast, Canadian border and Mexican border. worked from -30 to 130. and have saved every badass tackle shop address you name a state in lower 48 and I'll send you to a awesome shop,or gas station that has hidden gems!!! lol

[@au_rockn6797]

Coming off a zebco 33eeeee🎣

[@RetroBassin]

Don’t think I’d throw those JDM baits on a 33 haha.

[@blind_eye_fishing]

That's a cool place. I'd have one issue walking into a place like that, I wouldn't leave for a week 😂 I'd be looking at every single thing and wanting to buy half of it 😂

[@RetroBassin]

I was there for a minute haha

[@blind_eye_fishing]

@@RetroBassin haha I bet you was man. I'm also surprised more people don't fish mirr o lure as I seen yall mention that. I use them for striper here in Alabama in the current. They work well and have some strong hooks lol.

[@michaelbyrne8860]

The mirrOlure was invent in Kankakee Illinois in "37" for fishing the Illinois Rivers & Great Lakes! Moved to Florida in "51" and became a Gulf Coast Favorite because of its wear & tear in a saltwater environment! One color choice in any model! Halloween 808!

[@RetroBassin]

Don’t worry, “History of the L&S Mirrolure” is currently in the works!

[@michaelbyrne8860]

@@RetroBassin Cool! A lot of bass lures were invented in the Great Lakes Area! Like the Johnson Silver Minnow by a welder from Chicago, he made them by using two different metals with heavier metal placed in the middle of the spoon, the older ones don't turn over no matter what speed they're retrieved at! Not so much with the newer ones! From James Heddon in Dawogic Michigan to L&S Lures in Huntley Illinois, it just took a bunch of Southerners to perfect the patterns, since they had fishing 12 months a year! Only the Rapala invented in Finland is one of the Great Lures not built in the USA! Try finding an original 7" two hook version of the F-18! Not the skinny 3 hook version! Good Luck!

[@squez861]

The owner of Chags Fishing and archery collects antique fishing lures, rods, and reels about 3 miles down the road from Puglias.

[@RetroBassin]

No way!

[@squez861]

@RetroBassin Next time your down this way you should stop in. It's next door to Hooters so you cant miss it.

[@miken7275]

I used to live 2 miles away and spent a lot of money there.

[@RetroBassin]

I did, too! Haha

[@mikebacon6873]

the two silver eye lures are Paw Paw

[@RetroBassin]

Thank you! I knew someone would come through!!

[@chrisnietzel692]

burn the speed trap! nice vid

[@RetroBassin]

Thanks, Chris!

[@johnlantz7278]

Ok the mirror lure m5 in gold an green is a original spy bait ,it still catches bass especially smallmouth we have the only baits left with those blades that make it sink 1 ft, per second ,Mirror lure double prop spy bait

[@NewOlSchoolFishin]

Copper on rainy days

[@brianpierson7708]

Brother if I knew you where going to be that close to me I would have had you jump in the boat with us and run some crab pots and straight up hammer the speckled trout and marsh bass I live on the north south in Ponchatoula but was born and raised on north and south pass between the log lake and lil lake!!

[@RetroBassin]

I’ll be back, good buddy! Next local shop to feature will be Gus’s.

[@brianpierson7708]

@@RetroBassin heck yea also you like old school we have a small river we we run up or even float down the fish with pistol grip short rods and 33’s we throw small spinners and small buzz baits and wack the bass on we go from a hour or two up to a week long trips depending on how we roll but it actually starts about 20 miles south of Jackson Mississippi but has probably around 100 spots you can get down to the river and start floating or yakking down fishing from all the way to the big lake. Lake PT along with like I said running crab pots and fishing speckled trout marsh bass and redfish if you’d like them I also fish trout lines for catfish I was born and raised on a shrimp boat and in the commercial fishing industry here. An a baby the picking box was my play pin. My mom went into labor with my middle brother in the old rice fields with my dad at night frogging. My first step was down the river at the camp and my first world get this was Oyster then I want of all things for a baby’s first word to be so you have open invitation brother southeast Louisiana 24/7 365 style 🙏🏼

[@teijiosawa2230]

Flush boost is killer.

[@RetroBassin]

Have you thrown it, Teiji?

[@teijiosawa2230]

@@RetroBassin Not yet but my firiend got a big one.

[@JimmySutton-uy9pg]

Let me know if you ever find culprit 7” in the color chocolate I used to tear the bass up in northwest Florida it’s a old school color love your vid’s keep it up I am definitely old school fisherman 👍🎣🎣

[@RetroBassin]

Is chocolate different from crawdad?

[@JimmySutton-uy9pg]

Yes chocolate was the name of the color and it really looked like chocolate

[@gregchilders7643]

​@@JimmySutton-uy9pgyea even try to find the color brown is like trying to find the holy grail

[@poppafish428]

Don't forget a black Snakey Spoon.

[@RetroBassin]

Need to look that one up!

[@DropTheBunny]

I could spend an entire day there. And lots of money haha

[@RetroBassin]

I know the feeling!

[@NewOlSchoolFishin]

Man ! I don't know how you don't end up with a wheelbarrow full every time you stop at these places!?

[@RetroBassin]

Who’s to say I didn’t? Haha

[@NewOlSchoolFishin]

@@RetroBassin gotta love it!

[@Fishingboysfromlouisiana]

Come back and we would fish with old school baits

[@madmattfishing]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@joshuagibson2520]

Wonder if he has any Husky Jerks. Hj-6 and Hj-10. Black snd chrome \ blue and chrome. I vant find them in any store.

[@RetroBassin]

Hit ‘em up!

[@brianpierson7708]

He has them i get them from there if they out I know 100% positive bass pro in Denham Springs has them that’s the only jerk bait my wife and sun will throw. In the chrome & blue but it’s the shad one with the dark chrome I call it where it has the dark tent to it and not just bright shiny chrome. 🙏🏼🤙🏼

[@billlumberg5746]

Bright sunny day use that copper...sometimes it will slay

[@meganmisaki4429]

My worm I would throw if I could only have one, would be Morning Dawn

[@neilv6754]

What kind of tackle box is that in your intro?

[@RetroBassin]

UMCO!

[@saltysailor141]

Life Long Rapala fan? Yet he can’t pronounce it correctly? Priceless 😊