What was your first artificial lure? 2024

little_stephen reply :

As kind of a sub topic from the thread about who taught you to fish, I was wondering if anybody remembered what they tied on to their line the first time they cast something that wasn't a bit of live bait?!

I think, or atleast I'm guessing my first was a grub..... i used to loot my dads old (&dust covered) takle box for bits I could use to bass fish. (most of his stuff was for big northern pike or musky & was the same size as the bass i was targeting).....

I remember my first hook up..... I was reeling a mr twister G-Grub back to me off theside of a pier (knowing nothing about cover and where bass might be) and the fish starteled me so much I almost dropped the rod. Lost that fish becasue it wrapped itself around a post on the pier.

First bass I ever caught was a tiny little bass that TRASHED my horny toad one random summer day. i was shaking so much I almost dropped the little thing smack in the middle of the canoe....

Grey Wolf reply :

Probably was a inline spinner , really don't remember because it was over 45 years ago.

Wayne P. reply :

A white with red head Bass Orino in the 1950's

little_stephen reply :

is it sad that Ive never caught a bass on a spinner bait!? lol i dont even own any inlines.

angler1 reply :

An inline spinner that I got at sports authority when I bought my son and I our first rods. Before that day I had never fished a day in my life.

Chris reply :

It was an old deep runner Rebel crankbait that I borrowed from my grandfather's tackle box. It was bone color with an orange belly that had a prop on the back that I took off. We where fishing on a lake in Virginia and I tied it on and cast the length of the dock we where fishing off of. I was bouncing it off the pilings when a bass smacked it. The next bass I caught was on an old Big O.

snguyen95 reply :

a watermelon red flake trick worm

turret_plug reply :

BEETLE SPIN!!!!!!!

I never caught a thing on it. That turned into another few lures...... now I have a $250.00 tackle box. It's amazing how many of those things you will buy to try to catch a darned fish.

Raul reply :

My first encounter with the BaitMonkey took place 36 years ago, this is what I purchased:

1 Mepps Aglia #2 gold blade

1 Mepps Aglia #2 silver blade

1 Mepps Comet # 2 dressed gold blade

1 Rapal Original Floating minnow size 5 Blk/silver

Who would have know that the first encounter with the chimp was the raod to bankrupcy ? Since I met him I 'm always dead flat out broke :-/.

noogai13 reply :

an original storm wildeye swim shad, in florescent yellow. lol i used six pound test mono and an underfilled spincast reel and cheap rod. XD

SWMIBASSER reply :

Renowski perch colored inline spinner/swimbait. About 2.5" overall length.

Caught on a closed face Daiwa Spincast reel, and el-cheapo rod.

After that the ones I used the most, and even used allowance money when I was 8-10 years old was Lindy Fuzzy Grubs and Little Fox foxy jigs.

I'm going to buy a small assortment of fuzzy grubs this year. I quite using them because they weren't as 'cool' as some of the other stuff used bass fishing. But I caught a TON of fish using those things.

Actually those were my first artificials but my first artificial just for bass fishing was a purple and white pre-rigged worm.

OH-bass614 reply :

a bomber flat a in firetiger color my grandpa bought me with a coleman retractable spincast combo on my first cast i was reeling it in real slow and didnt even notice the bass on it untill i brought it to shore and i was hooked for life

CHEVYRIDAZ reply :

Bag of old motor oil color Renegade 4" worms in NC. Caught me many bass and blue cats as well!

SJex reply :

Black Berkley Power Worm.

topwater.va reply :

Bandit shad colored 100 series crankbait.

Hammer 4 reply :

Oh Wait..on second thought..it was a Red Devil..got that when I was about 8 yrs old..so over 50 yrs ago.

Geez, it was so long ago..lol I think it was a Mepps can't recall the size, but it was the one with the black blade, with yellow dots on it. It did catch a few fish too.

bmadd reply :

My fishing started with bluegill. For that I used small jigs with plastic grubs. Then we had a pond placed behind my house and our neighbors and I had my first experience with bass on a Heddon Tiny Lucky 13 that I took out of my dad's tacklebox. Used to use that all the time but now I keep it on my dresser. It will never see the water again.

lk ozark reply :

Lazy Ike. Black/white, 50 years ago.

tnbassfisher reply :

It was either a Rooster Tail or a Rebel Crawfish. I remember my Dad getting me both of those when I first started lure fishing.

Goose52 reply :

A Shyster in-line spinner - perhaps this very one which I've had since the early '60s.

I wish Shyster (which is still being made) had better distribution and more colors/sizes as they are a superior bait to the Roostertail ... IMO.

Bassin_Fin@tic reply :

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A Shyster in-line spinner - perhaps this very one which I've had since the early '60s.
I wish Shyster (which is still being made) had better distribution and more colors/sizes as they are a superior bait to the Roostertail ... IMO.

Yep shyster was the first artificial I ever fished with as well.Never caught anything but was too young to know any better or what I was actually trying to do. At that time I thought fish only ate worms. ;D

A few years later I was probably 10 at the time and am a self taught fisherman.First bass I ever caught was on stanley spinnerbaits while still living in good ol Barberton Ohio. I had no clue what these baits were at the time but I happened to see an episode of Bill dance using one in a small river while I was flipping stations one day and I said "wow that looks easy".I went to K-mart and grabbed the first spinnerbait I seen, a stanley vibrashaft, and walked to a local creek with some decent current in it and caught many dink sized bass with my zebco reel and shakespeare rod. Been catching bass on them ever since and is probably why Stanley is still one of my top brands.

Crestliner2008 reply :

My how times have changed. Back in the early 60's, my Dad bought me this red head/shiner patterned plug called a Lucky 13. Made by Heddon and of course, out of cedar wood. I still have that old plug, which now has many tiny holes, nicks and scratches in it, from bass and pike. The year before, he got me my first baitcaster; a "knucklebuster" called a "Silk Cast" by Pfleuger. Still have that too, along with a tubular steel baitcasting rod called the "Heddon Pal". Yep....times sure have changed.

The Rooster reply :

May 1996, a friend of mine asked me to go fishing with him and swore to me that it would not be like I was imagining it would where we just sit waiting on a bite to happen for hours while being bored the whole time.

By the end of that day I was hooked for life and I knew it then and there. We had only used nightcrawlers that we had found in his father-in-law's back yard the night before, but we had caught so many bass that it was just mindblowing to me.

A month later in June, Walmart where we both worked at was going through inventory and clearancing out all the stuff they didn't want around for it. They had grab bags full of lures for $1.00 each and I got one. It had a number of (to me) insignificant items in it like hooks, cheap floats, marabou jigs, but also contained 3 nicer lures and one of them was a Strike King Spindance spinnerbait (endorsed by Bill Dance at the time) in chartreuse color, 1/4 oz. This was my first artificial bait I ever tied on and quickly became my favorite bait for a very long time after this because I tied it on for the first time while fishing a pond near my house and caught 5 good sized bass in about 2 hours. I was just convinced it was the best bait ever made.

the crab reply :

A white 3" mister twister grub. The next artificial to catch me a fish was a mepps aglia long in-line spinner.

Blue Streak reply :

A Mepps in line spinner. Caught a whole lot of smallmouth and spots wading creeks with those.

SirSnookalot reply :

Flatfish......1951

Ojurb reply :

the first lure i caught a bass with a was 7.5 culprit power worm in okee gold, the first lure i remember fishing with was a squid in El chaure bay in Venezuela caught me a rock snapper (they look like bass but wit an orange belly ) i caught in the bay that we used to live with my dad and we brought it home and dad fried it for me about 10 mins after i caught it it was awesome

LCpointerKILLA reply :

zara spook. one i used in the saltwater and tried in the lake. results changed my life.

flippin and pitchin reply :

Same bait as Goose52 only mine was white. 1963. 39 cents at Bi-Mart. My first real bass bait was an Arbogast Hula Popper in frog color. If I take my pill I might remember when that was. :-/

flipin4bass reply :

I remember this as though it was yesterday. It was the summer of 1968 and I was 10 years old. My dad took me to a local lake with a Zebco 202 and a pre-rigged Creme worm. I landed my first bass that day, a 2 1/2 lb monster!

Catt reply :

H & H Spinner bait with a black-n-white skirt

Hildebrandt Snagless Sally Spinner bait yellow skirt

Arbogast Hula Popper in frog yellow belly

Arbogast Hawaiian Wiggler in White

Creme Creme Scoundrel 6" worm in Catalpa (black with 2 yellow strips)

Heddon Tiny River Runt Yellow Shore Minnow

Heddon Vamp Spook Yellow Shore Minnow

Bug eye Rabble Rouser Crawfish

zero limit reply :

not sure but i think it was a bass stopper purple worm,

i still have a couple in my box.

Goose52 reply :

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I remember this as though it was yesterday. It was the summer of 1968 and I was 10 years old. My dad took me to a local lake with a Zebco 202 and a pre-rigged Creme worm. I landed my first bass that day, a 2 1/2 lb monster!

Wow - great catch! My first fish was only a brim - probably 8oz or less...

I don't have a Creme worm laying around, but here's a relative of your 202

Shane J reply :

For me, it was a Hula Popper. I was about 10 years old or so, and I hooked up with what was probably around a 5 pounder, and about lost my mind. To this day, I'm still addicted to topwater fishing. No more nightcrawlers after that!

tholmes reply :

A Lazy Ike, yellow with red spots that my grandfather gave me. First day out with it, I caught a 3 lb. bass.

A lot of worms owe their lives to that lure. ;D

Tom

SPAZ reply :

Berkley 7" power worm.

yamisoez reply :

Blue Mann's jelly worm.

Eternal Angler reply :

Berkley Powerbait for me

bweave09 reply :

yellow trick worm on a heavy red jig head...ugly

i had no idea what i was doing and i havent done it since.

Hornytoad 10 reply :

rebel pop-r, still got it today.

simplejoe reply :

Mine was a Heddon Torpedo and after my first fish with it, I met the Bait Monkey.

NorCalFishinguru reply :

A 3" finnese worm. I remeber how amazed i was when i learned that lures could spin and swim and werent meant just sit under a bobber ;D

CWB reply :

Man. it was so long ago.

I think it was a Hula-Popper.

Or a Mepps.

von reply :

Berkley powerbait worm in red shad.

It was the nastiest smelling thing I've ever smelled. Now..I can't get enough of it! Love that smell! Brings back alot of memories.

Aluma-Bass reply :

zoom or culprit fire/ice 7'' worm...use to be my color!

Scorcher214 reply :

First bass I ever caught was with green pumpkin, zoom trick worm.

flipinstick88 reply :

Hmmmm........first lure for any fish was a 1/16th oz. beetle spin for catching sunfish.

First bass lure was a 1/4 oz. black, silicone skirted jig with a red, Berkley pork strip.

TrippyJai reply :

For me, it was a Mr. Twister single tail grub in the 3" size I think on a black jig head. I still remember that day about 15 years ago when I was about 12, I caught 3 pike and 2 bass. I took it from my friends tackle box and they stopped making that colour.

Gatorbassman reply :

I grew up trout fishing so my first artificial was either a Renegade dry fly or a #0 Mepps spinner with a copper blade. I'm not sure wich came first.

MALTESE FALCON reply :

One day, back in the 60's I was over Les Helin's house doing homework. His father and uncle were discussing new colors for the Flatfish. Les happened to mention that I liked to fish. When our homework was done, Mr. Helin gave me a box. When I got home I opened the box, and found about thirty F4 & F6 Flatfish. I caught ALOT of bass and pike with those baits.

Falcon

brushhoggin reply :

the first artificial lure i ever threw was a crankbait when i was around 9 years old. fishing upriver with the pops, didn't know jack how to throw it or where, i was just chunking it right in the middle of the river. i actually got one on, it was big too. it jumped once and was off. i was about as ticked as a kid that age could get. threw my rod down and didn't fish for a while. and when i reeled my crankbait in it was in half. other half was floatin where he threw the hook. since then i've been hooked, and had my mind set on getting revenge since then and have.

Skunked in DR reply :

I'm not sure exactly which one was first, but the first three lures I remember having were: a red and white dardevle, a silver red eye wiggler and the mepps spinner with a rubber minnow (comet?).

The only one I remember catching a fish on was the mepps, was a 1.5lb rock bass.

Casca reply :

hula popper

midnighthrasher reply :

Since i cannot remember 25 years ago when i caught my first fish i will use the lure that got me back into bass fishing. A Mepps Anglia 3 in pink. Caught a 2lb'er and it was on!!!! Since then i havent stopped. I was going to retire it last year but it got bitoff when my girlfriend caught a huge pike...

roadwarrior reply :

Dalton Special, c. 1955

I still have the lure.

http://www.daltonspecial.com/Dalton_Special/Home.html

K_Mac reply :

It was either a pre-rigged plastic worm (3 exposed hooks and a prop) or a red and white Lazy Ike. It had to be one of those. That's all we had. @1964

bugman reply :

Repala original floating stickbait. My dad would troll the boat up and down a river and we would catch "hammerhandle" Northernpike one after another in the late 60's

xxmurrxx reply :

Rapala jointed minnow, I think i got it from my grandpa's box when he passed.

Probably not my very 1st artificial bait but it's the only one I remember from when I started fishing.

bassin is addicting reply :

Rapala original floater silver/black

first bass caught when i was told "last cast" and i was reeling in as fast as i could....

been addicted ever since

farmpond1 reply :

It's been a long time now. Perhaps it was a rubber minnow my great uncle gave me. Or it was some oversized white beetlespin that I never used. The list remained small and stagnant until high school. Then it grew with the addition of smaller beetlespins and mepps spinners. Most of the hooks eventually rusted on the Mepps-or I lost them.

basser89 reply :

The first bait I remember using was a 2" Mister Twister grub in chartruese. The first bait I bought was a black and silver Humpback Rebel. Man, did I tear the smallies and rock bass up on that bait! Within a year, the little tacklebox I had, had 4 different colored Humpbacks and a couple colors of grubs. Now? Well, we won't go there! LOL

Stringjam reply :

The first lure I really remember spending my own money on was a Heddon Torpedo......think I was about 12 or something.

I was fishing a pond out of a little aluminum boat, throwing that little bugger, when an 8+ swallowed it. Pulled my little boat around the pond for awhile and then surfaced and shook the bait in a frothing violent maelstrom. My life was never the same after that. ;D

That was the first big bass I'd ever seen (this is Missouri.....8 lbs is huge.....and I was only 12, making it huger, still). The whole experience was so epic for me that I went mental.

Triton21 reply :

A River Runt in 1951. On a old Bronson casting reel an a True Temper rod.

Kelley

SkilletSizeBass. reply :

A motor oil Tournament worm, ribbed worm with a paddle tail on a small pond. I think a black jitterbug was close behind.

SoFlaBassAddict reply :

I think my first was one of those old wooden hula poppers that my grandfather had when I was a kid. That and the old jelly worms. Man, fishing was so much easier back then. Catching anything was such a blast.

Goose52 reply :

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Man, fishing was so much easier back then. Catching anything was such a blast.

Ain't it the truth - when I was a kid, I had ONE spinning rod and a little single-tray tackle box with a couple of lures, some in-line spinners, hooks, bobbers, etc. Had great fun and caught quite a few fish.

We seem to have made the whole experience very complicated and very scientific now with $$$ investments in rigs for all possible presentations. I guess it results in more fish caught ... but I'm not sure I'm having any more fun. I guess it helps if you're a tackle junkie and get enjoyment out of just having all that gear ....

War Party reply :

Beetle Spin

Kingbass43 reply :

I think mine was either a heddon tiny torpedo or an original top water rapala on a small pondhttp://www.bassresource.com/fishing-forum/Smilies/fishing2.gif

NasTMcfingas reply :

LOL rooster tail white & grey with silver blade, Tiny Torpedo in the frog pattern, and a white and green spinner bait.

Bankbeater reply :

Probably a Big-O back in the early 70's.

MSPbass reply :

Arbogast Jitterbug. I think it was bright yellow.

But the first real "keeper" bass was on a pre-rigged, nightcrawler colored, worm I'm sure was Creme; but I took it from my grandpa's tackle box and never saw a package. I remember letting it hit bottom and how my mom always said, "don't let it hit bottom, that's where the weeds are!"

salmicropterus reply :

A Heddon Lucky 13 which I realize I was clueless on how to fish it (as I still am LOL)

bass or bass ? reply :

Leopard frog pattern Jitterbug. I still catch bass on it 43 years later.

RoLo reply :

The Very First?

Hmmmm..........Let me see......ahhhh

Probably the first lure ever made ;D ;D

Roger

OK Bass Hunter reply :

Mann's Jelly Worm in Grape.

The one that got away reply :

Lazy Ike sometime in the late 70s, don't remember the color. Never caught a thing on it.

knap reply :

beetle spin. i got a starters kit when i was little and my dad was showing me how to use the beetle spin and he told me artifical baits dont work just stay with a bobber i have beeen fishing for 25 years and have never had luck with an artifical bait, as soon as he said that he catches a bass, which that just made want to start using artifical. but he lost that bait later that day lol

RAMBLER reply :

Red and white daredevil

Jack Handey reply :

Grandpa's Creek Chub Jointed Baby Pikie

santacruz reply :

mann's strawbery jelly worms

spinerbait man reply :

Don,t realy remember the first one I threw, but I do remember the first one that worked the heddon river runt spook. Its still in my tackle box, nice 3 pound smallie way back in the 1960,s

Sherlock 60 reply :

An in-line spinner on a bamboo pole with no reel. Walked along the seawall at my parents old lake place and caught tons of bluegill, sunfish and what we called striped bass (I found out much later that they were actually white bass).

Goose52 reply :

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Don,t realy remember the first one I threw, but I do remember the first one that worked the heddon river runt spook. Its still in my tackle box, nice 3 pound smallie way back in the 1960,s

I fished my '60s vintage River Runt a few days ago. I got back from fishing that day and did a web search and was surprised to learn that they were discontinued nearly 20 years ago !

Goose52 reply :

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An in-line spinner on a bamboo pole with no reel. Walked along the seawall at my parents old lake place and caught tons of bluegill, sunfish and what we called striped bass (I found out much later that they were actually white bass).

I call that "bank trolling" - done it myself (and still do on occasion!).

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