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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.

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.

Love the vids. More updates on your property!

I’ve had problems with the paint finish getting sticky on two old Thundersticks. Great lures though!

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.

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!

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

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

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!

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.

I really appreciate your sense of humor…You are SO funny!! Very entertaining!! Hahaa!! 😆

That was a great combination

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.

Good stuff. Thanks,Mike!

The thunderstick Jr is my favorite

Keep up the good work.

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...

Talk about flash backs I had that exact Rebel tackle box on the top shelf over your left shoulder years ago. Hilarious.

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.

Loving the content buddy. Keep it up!

Good evening from So. Illinois! Love your stuff man. And that intro…. Totally Rad!

flatfish way before lazy ike.

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.

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.

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!😊

Honestly , never thought of collecting Bass Pro Shops catalogs and I’ve been receiving them since 1983 .

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.

Cool video. Got my sub. Id love to get a wooden one.

I still have my old Johnson century from my childhood. The price for it is priceless. Enough said. Cool video!😊

Those old magazines are the most exciting.

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!

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.

I like to fish Sluggo's weightless Texas rigged. Then fish them just like a fluke. The sluggos dart around and have some great action. Not uncommon for bass to follow them right back to the boat.

They are relatively easy build for a lure maker as well. Awesome classic lure! Don't have the nerve to use an actual antique lure. 😊

I have several old collector item lures and i enjoy carving duplicates from wood and then catching fish with them. I use a company called janns netcraft to order my component parts from. Fun to catch fish today on duplicates of old lures such as river runts and zara spooks.😊

I have a Heddon Swim'n Image that is mislabeled. It was assembled in El Salvador, marked Pop'n Image on the lure but the package says Heddon Swim'n Image. I've had this lure for a while still in the package. Save it or use it?

Yes enjoyed the magazine of the pass

Have 3 of the plastic bills hanging on my wall. Didn't know they were that old.

I have an ORIGINAL HEDDON PUMKINSEED , must be 50 yrs old , what are they worth these days ?

All very interesting as usual and great content. Here in Australia the double tails became very iconic with estuary anglers chasing fish call the Flathead. A popular sportfish as well as great eating. My guess is they turned up in Australia in late 80s. One of the very first accepted soft plastic lures with anglers here in Ozzie.............Regards...........Alex

Top prop was great to get Musky to follow. Great way to figure out where they were and come back to throw the kitchen sink until you caught one.

Loved the Jitterbug back in the day, the black one with the red dot on the bottom. I used them mostly at night. Now I use a revved up version of the jitterbug, which is the Jackall Pompadour.

😢 Let's not forget Bomber Crankbaits, Heddon Zara Spooks, Manns Jelly Worms and WEED WADER SPINNERBAITS...! 😊

I have heard your theme song before on an old school television show? Whats the name of the song? Thanks

Every one of those “Torpedoes“ I found, I’d only get results after I would twist the blades a lil’bit…to make it spin. Once I figured out how to do that…. I’d catch a few bass and a few huge brim and crappie.

“Mr. Twister” is the first “rubber worm” I ever caught a fish on! In fact it was the first “artificial bait” I ever used that actually worked!

I remember as a kid, probably 7-13 years old, I would find those top water lures everywhere I went fishing. Hung in trees Hung in lily pads Hung on stumps Hung on docks Any where it could get hung up…I found them. I never ever had to buy one. I’d untangle them tie them on my Pic&Save or Kmart, Combo Special, which was usually a Shakespeare rod and reel or a Zebco rod and reel…. I would wear that rod and reel out, throwing that top water “popper”… I can remember….I never caught a thing on those lures. I ain’t sure if it was my youthful exuberance, trying to imitate one of the great Bass Masters of that time, or the bass weren’t interested in it and it was just a lure made to attract a fisherman’s money. But, the store sure got my money for a very inexpensive combo rod and reel….

July 1975... Lake Guerrero, Mexico south of Texas. The purple Mister Twister worm with a yellow tail... Just pull up between the tops of submerged mesquite trees, cast the Mister Twister in any direction, and hang on. LOL. The 3 of us camped on the road leading down behind the dam... Eating bass fillets cooked on a grill over a campfire... sharing bass, beer, and tortillas with the locals. Sorry I can't post a picture of all the fish.

99% of the Hybrid Striped Bass I've ever caught were caught on a red jig head (usually H&H 1/4 oz.) and a white Sassy Shad. 40 years ago, most of the Crappie I caught were on 1/16 or 1/32 oz. jigs with white 2" Mister Twister Teenie Tail Grubs. I even caught many bass on the 6" Pocket Phenom worms. This was all in the early to mid 1980's. ...Remembering my success with the white Mister Twister "Grubs", I bought a pack of the white 2" Teenie Tails about 3 years ago. What a huge disappointment. I still have some of my older ones and they are much tougher! The new ones are mush! They last about 1 or 2 fish, usually Crappie, if the Bluegill don't tear them up first. My old ones last 1 - 3 trips! I still catch panfish on what's left of my 35-40 year old white or red and white 2" Teenie's. I even used to use those on 1/8 oz. red Eagle Claw jig heads back in the waterway canals of LA fishing for Speckled Trout and Redfish on ultra lite tackle. You talk about fun.. and successful! Thank you again for bringing back the memories!

Mister Twister Tubo Fat 5" Red Gills . . Look that thing up . Pretty wild tube bait.