Please help me identify a plastic stick-type bait from the Old Testament

Thanks for reading guys. I don't know if they still make them and I can't find the last one I have or I'd post up a picture of it. We used them years ago on schooling bass. It was a plastic bait, about 4-5 inches long. About the length of a Devils Horse, but more slightly more tear-drop shaped than the DH. It has a small egg weight in front of the rear treble hook, between the treble and the back of the bait so it would sit straight up, nose out of the water when still in the water rather than laying in the water flat. No concave or lip on the front, just smooth tear-drop shape, and I don't remember if it had props on it or not...I don't think it did though. You could cast it a mile, and under most conditions would out-fish any other schooling bait we threw. You would jerk it and it would plop over horizontal and immediately stand back up straight. Deadly. Does anyone remember this bait? What is the name of it? Most important, do they still make them and where can I buy some? Thanks!

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Sometimes baits that work great for us just don't sell. Cotton Cordell used to make a topwater bait called "Top Spot". It was a oval shaped bait with a more rounded side than a Spot or Rattletrap with a very small lip, one treble hook and had a scale pattern molded in. You could throw it a mile on baitcasting equipment and had to reel fast to get it back on top but the schooling bass on KY Lake in the fall would go crazy over it. I still have one but haven't seen one on the shelf for years. Since I no longer bass fish, the one I have is all I need.

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I wish I knew for you because now it's going to stick in my head until I figure it out or somebody tells.:banghead

Sounds like either a Rogers Hawg Hunter or a Dalton Fish Stick. I think the Rogers HH was weighted in the back. Basic category is "stick bait" if you want to do some seraching.


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I'm thinking it is a Bang o lure. They were major popular in FL when I moved there in the early 70's. Sat nose high just like you describe.

I found a pic of some devil horse baits. One has the weight you talk of. Could be you were using a weighted devil horse. Top on in the picture.
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A bait called a Boy-Houdy,Made by cotton cordell. Cotton cordell.Only make the prop type now.Will try to find a pic.Great schooling bait for bass and hybrid-stripers.

Here's the boy howdy jackie talks about.
Chug-Chug! Rush, At Ease!: Boy Howdy

Thanks everyone. I searched the web for pics of your suggestions and it most closely resembles the Boy Howdy. I think it was a Cotton Cordell lure too.The one I have...somewhere... is light blue head and opaque mid and rear. And it tapers drastically from the front to a very small diameter in the rear. That allowed it to be cast a mile as it was very aerodynamic from rear to front. Unlike the Bang o lure and the broke-back rebel it did not have a minnow profile when viewed from the side. The body was completely round, no flattening of the sides, and now that I have thought hard about it there was no prop on the front. I think it may have had one on the back. In my minds eye I can remember the name of it printed in red letters on the side of it just like Cordell does to their lures. This is giving me fits. I held it in my hands not 3 months ago, and now I want to buy a few for a buddy and I can't find it. This thing stood straight up and down in the water like an almost full coke bottle will with just its neck sticking out. And it was not a chug bait action either. Its action was tilt horizontal, stand back up, tilt horizontal, stand back up. When the school bass wouldn't take a chug bait they would bite this one. It is mocking my existence...

Sounds like a Smithwick Devils Toothpick.

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Thanks everyone. I searched the web for pics of your suggestions and it most closely resembles the Boy Howdy. I think it was a Cotton Cordell lure too.The one I have...somewhere... is light blue head and opaque mid and rear. And it tapers drastically from the front to a very small diameter in the rear. That allowed it to be cast a mile as it was very aerodynamic from rear to front. Unlike the Bang o lure and the broke-back rebel it did not have a minnow profile when viewed from the side. The body was completely round, no flattening of the sides, and now that I have thought hard about it there was no prop on the front. I think it may have had one on the back. In my minds eye I can remember the name of it printed in red letters on the side of it just like Cordell does to their lures. This is giving me fits. I held it in my hands not 3 months ago, and now I want to buy a few for a buddy and I can't find it. This thing stood straight up and down in the water like an almost full coke bottle will with just its neck sticking out. And it was not a chug bait action either. Its action was tilt horizontal, stand back up, tilt horizontal, stand back up. When the school bass wouldn't take a chug bait they would bite this one. It is mocking my existence...

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Trader bills in hot springs arkansas kept them stocked especially for a well known guide and pro bass fishermen Mark davis!! may still have some stuck back or Mr davis might have a few.They did'nt last long around stripers:biggrin when you broke one off it sank to the bottom because of the weight!! Still have a few in our tour box but throw them on 50 lb braid:yikes.can make them by adding a pench on sinker to the back treble hook of the newer boy houdys (same bait just has props)and take the prop off or leave the prop on for choppy condition's (secret wake bait) on bull shoals and table rock!!!! A number 11 rapala minnow will work also add pinch on weight to back treble hook leave the bill on will dive take it off a wake bait!!!

crazy shad by cotton Cordell .

I thought you might be describing this lure. I went digging in my stuff and found it, but now I can't remember the name of it. I want to think it had diamond in the name, like Diamondback Rattler, but that does not sound quite right. It sits up like you describe, has a diamond shape relief around the eye which resembles a diamond.
It was death on LM and Stipers in the right conditions.

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could it be the Cordell pencil popper !!!

http://www.cottoncordelllures.com/wp...pper/C6720.png

I have a Pencil Popper also. This plug is really old, maybe 25 years ago, it does not have any marking that I can see.

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I have a Pencil Popper also. This plug is really old, maybe 25 years ago, it does not have any marking that I can see.

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OOps! You were probably talking about the original question weren't you? Sorry about that. It could be the Pencil Popper, it sits up like he described but I don't think it had a lead weight on the end. :dono

KUNTA KINTE! I HAVE FOUND YOU! Pictured here: Lot of 5 New Cotton Cordell Boy Howdy 4 1 2" Surface Fishing Lures Frog | eBay (Notice the small egg sinker just ahead of the rear treble.) It is a Boy Howdy, production ceased before '95. No prop either end. I'll by some Boy Howdies and make some. THANKS EVERYONE for your kind assistance.

I think the lure your talking about is called a Carrot Top by Smithwick Lures.

Hey Tony, did you look at the link I sent you earlier. Check it out and it is loaded with boy howdy's. "D"

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I don't remember the Boy Howdys. This thread did lead to me finding the name of he one I posted. It was a Diamond Rattler. Attachment 212847

I was into Bass fishing and a fan of Roland Martin in the 70s and that is probably why I bought this lure.