Lures from yester year

I started fishing with a rod and Zebco 202 at the age of 7. My Dad was a milker/tobacco farmer so we fished after milking morning or night. I would go to Western Auto in Campbellsville and buy Lisk Lures Lil Skunk, Heddon Sonic, Creme worm harness purple with red tail, and Rooster Tails. Lil Skunk was a favorite because bluegill could not resist.
Bass hit the Creme and Sonic. Rooster Tail caught everything. But probably more fish hit the frying pan because of a #6 Mustad hook and wiggling red worm.

What was your favorite?

My favorite as a kid growing up was fishing at night from the bank at farm ponds throwing a black JitterBug ...

Bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop KERSPLASH!!!

Holy Moly that sound (without being able to see in the dark) would make ya heart jump ...

Rickie

(in my pre-teens & early teens ... it was all about Crappie & White Bass)
1/8oz Doll Fly (white) --- (also came in yellow & in black)
No Name Lure
Lil Skunk
Pole Cat
Shyster (in-line spinner) white with black polka dots --- (also came in yellow w/blk dots)

And a French-made rubber minnow that had two hooks pointing down /\ under the tail which was like a double-wide boot tail that wobbled back & forth ... red head / white body & tail. I cannot for the life of me remember the name or brand of that lure, but it sure was an effective bait when trolled or cast.

I remember buying doll flys by the card.

Doll flys, Creme worms & roostertails were all favorites. My family were also tobacco/beef cattle farmers.

Yep, I'm 65 so my experience was somewhat different. At 7 years old, I'd dig some worms in our yard or go to the neighbors 'slop' spot where she dumped kitchen water and other stuff since she didn't have indoor plumbing to get some worms. I also walked up to our country store, about 400 square feet and asked the owner lady for the 'scraps' from slicing bacon for my 'Mud Cat' bait. Caught ONLY 'Warmouth' and 'Mud Cats' from the small creek we lived by, but mom and I would clean them and she would cook them up for dinner. I did progress to artificial bait when I had some money, but the worms and 'bacon' scraps worked well at the time.

Any of the arbogast lures. They were good at catching both fish and the attention of young boys such as myself in the day. Hula poppers and jitterbugs. Though admittedly my dad was a bigger jitterbug fan than I was. He fished it the way rnvinc mentioned, at dusk or night. I was more of a Stan Sloan short arm spinner bait with a big colorado blade guy for night fishing. Throw it right to the edge of the weeds and thump it back pretty quick so it bulged the water as you reeled it. Big black zoom worms thrown right into the edge of the weeds was consistent too on big moon nights.

I fished strippers pits around my hometown of Providence, Ky, out of a 10’ John boat. I could drag it down to the pits. For bass I loved grape fire tail worms, Mister Twister jigs, and Mepps spinners. For the gills we dug worms.
As I got a little older my best friend’s dad would take us to Barkley and we caught white bass trolling the Bayou Boogie! And man we caught’em!

Don’t have any idea of the brand. But a Texas rigged purple worm with a pink tail. It was a slender bodied worm and it probably caught more farm pond bass than all other lures combined for me.
Rooster tail was also good. And I enjoyed night fishing a buzzbait


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This is a neat thread so I must share. I'm 78, so its been a while. About 300 yards below my house was a stream, which we called a branch. now called Porter Branch. When i was 8 or 10 i would bend a safety pin into a hook and catch 3 or 4 inch minnows which my mom would fry . I now think they were Dace minnows. I graduated from that to high school and White Oak creek and red eyes. From there to college and a career. Now retired and on Lake Cumberland fishing only for enjoyment. I sit here under self isolation thinking " How the world has changed". May God bless all of you.

Red worms, dug from the garden at home.
Slip bobbers, adjusted by a knot that my dad taught me to tie..sure wish I could remember how.
Pole was a fiberglass job..who knows what brand.
Hooks were usually gold.

Reel was a Johnson Century, push button, loaded with...fishing line:biggrin...brand names were not important.
Usual was to walk the bank, a boat was a luxury, rented.
Bluegills were the most common catch, destined for lake Crisco.

Memories.

And how could I forget. Digging worms behind the cow barn at my grandmothers (in the manure). Then walking down to the river to catch suckers, perch, catfish, carp, KY bass, bluegill, or anything else that happened along


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