Just got home from sturgeon spearing on Lake Winnebago and HAD to immediately sit down and watch this episode. I absolutely love how clean and well organized their store is, and the shelves are FILLED with old school goodness. Where do these amazing shops come from??? This was one of your best episodes yet, and that's saying a lot. Simply stunning.
Dude, this was such a cool video. I remember going to tackle shops as a kid with my Dad and seeing all these things and wanting them all. He usually said no "you'll just put the damn thing in a tree," but sometimes, sometimes, he said yes I was soooo happy. He's gettin' up there now and I'm taking my little boys fishing, so he gave me our old tackle box. To my astonishment some of those lures were still in there. They needed new hardware, so I got rid of all the rusty stuff, and now my boys are fishin' em. Right in the feels man, right in the feels.
I'm so glad I stumbled on this video! That clear near nuthin minnow (11:42) is a lure I've wondered about for a long time. I got one out of my dad's tackle box years and years ago. I've never seen another one and never knew what it was. Thanks for the info!
I would lose my mind in that shop, and walk out with no money...That was one of the coolest things I've ever seen! Makes me want to drive from WI to Texas tomorrow and see if it's still there. SO cool, I'm definitely watching more of your videos!
13:48 I found one of these at my lake and didn’t care it was all white and crushed and crusty no idea that a classic brand made those baits I wish I still had It.
This store was literally gold, oh man I want to go. I love and miss Texas and that store is calling my name. Might need to do a Texas road trip. These baits take me back.
I checked on google to see exactly where the shop is, and it said the store is temporarily closed, wondering if he was able to sell almost everything after your episode.
Small bait and tackle shops are the best...was so disappointed when I found out a couple weeks ago the shop I went to as a kid is closed now....prolly still has a treasure of lures in there...also love when you involve the shop owners/collectors you visit
Man ,what a great episode and store find.This is one of the best finds I’ve seen you make.Almost everything in there marked $3.79 is a $20 bait nowadays.
That’s a nice selection of pre pradco Normans with several tournament gel coat colors in the dated blue packages which are even older than the red ones.
I drive past this place everytime I go to Medina. What gold!!! I have never stopped before because it looks like private property. Where do you park with a boat and what are the hours?
I fished the Flat Broke all the time for Smallmouth in Chartreuse Blue Back here in East Tennessee . It's a hybrid between a brokeback swimbait and a square bill .
@@RetroBassin The best part of the bait is it's action !!! It suspends !!! You can crank it down 3-4 ft and kill it ... It will set there with the SLOWEST rise - nose down . I then twitch it and it turns 180°and looks behind itself like a Glide bait . Super sick plug !!!
Great video! Love walk thrus like this! Quick and priced. I understand what he said about the pegs and such. That's why I keep them in tackle boxes! 🤣 Keep on finding them scores and enticing them lure junkies, like myself! Oh and message sent!😬(wanting some lures I seen)🎣🤠
@RetroBassin bruh. Now you're really running down memory lane. Eveytime you said the price and laughed I imaged you saying, "I'm about to empty these pegs. " Lol. Love your content man.
great video, amazing place, I still have and use some of lures shown here some are so old and beaten up I've retired them and hung up in my tackle room :D
I still have alot of those lures you just showed. Since it's too cold to even go ice fishing today, I think I'll get out the old tackle and and do some retro bassin of my own.
Unfortunately this video is mostly likely going to attract the non fisherman that's going to buy all these lures out and post them for outrageous prices on ebay.
This episode is a brain melter. Love knowing these mom and pop tackle shops still exist !!! Chris, when you pick up these old hardbaits and you fish them, do you change out the hooks ? Or do you run them straight out of the package ? Keep it Retro !
Great question! If they have the old school hook harness, I tend to leave them in place. But if there’s a split ring, I usually can’t resist swapping out the old cheapo hooks.
$50 on that Rebel Fastrac on Ebay? Don't think so but still an older bait. Some of the difficult super rare Rebels may bring that much but that is not one. Rebel cool though.
Thank goodness it's to far from Ontario, I couldn't control myself in there, it was bad enough when Walmart bought Woolco and sold off the old fishing stuff, I was out of control. Great video as always.
Flooding the market with too many items is terrible for a business but I think it is the opposite with fishing lures ,at least for the customer anyways...
@@RetroBassin I don't know what it was about Rebel lures. I've been using them and Rapalas for years, and Rapalas work great, but Rebels always seemed to work just a little bit better.
yall are lucky I dont live in Texas cause id buy almost everything lmao this is a legendary shop and the prices are amazing I really respect him for keeping the prices the same from when they came out most tackle shops would up the price. That whole berkley frenzy section would be gone hahah.
The only thing I liked from the Berkeley Frenzy line up was their slightly shorter 4-1/2" maybe 5" Zara, good mid-ish size, I liked it was just as fat and backed up well. They got goofy on that whole Mystic/Zone minnow or shad line up, nice looking finish, but it was a thick plated finish that chipped clean off down to the hard bone colored body. They were good for repainting then. I got a bunch. That leap in finish technology jumped the shark at conception, it was short lived. A fanciful thick facade of a form which failed the function test. Rebel tried that finish too, I just shucked a Fastràc all the way down to bone after the initial big flake chipping started. They all go bad to the bone.
@@RetroBassin You could paint them back up or just slap some eyes on them and clear coat, one common mfger offered pattern is usually a straight white/bone color. I just holographic scale reconstituted a Rebel FasTrac, I wish I could show it here. That Heddon Tiny Torpedo you were drooling over in one episode had that 'Chipper' G-Finish too. That whole line up of late 90's Rebel Mystic Zone minnow series had the temporary finish. I don't know if those old school skirts with one-direction skirting and a built-in stretchy collar are strictly 'Living Rubber skirts' (Lunker Lure Buzz baits, Arbogast lures too) it was more like a thin cut flat vynal of some sort which degrades over time, sometimes reacting with other plastics, especially surgical tubing like collars of other skirts.
I have 4 hand made Darting R crank baits made by Ron Rippinger back in the 80's They are the best cranks I have ever had and still catch fish on them .
You have a knack for finding those old school gold mines. I’d sure like to find a tackle shop full of OSG like this, although I wouldn’t like my checking account balance afterwards. BTW, I sent you an IM on FB Messenger last week.
Okay….how much did you spend? 😄 I already have some of that Bomber and Excalibur stuff but would love to have more, even though most of it would never get wet. I was going to get the car warmed up in case you walked by a rack of OG Storm Wiggle Warts.
The store I worked at tried for years to stock all the SKUs that Storm cataloged. Every color of Wiggle Warts and Hot-N-Tots. Unfortunately the less popular baits got marked down and cleared out instead of gathering dust. His comment about empty pegs sounded just like the owner of our store.
i live 10 minutes froms rend lake in southern il ..... wish i could find some arborgast mud bugs .....ive got 5 in my collection....but back in the day ...dragging them through the stumps fields on channel swings would get some hawgs ....and i swear you could not get them mud bugs caught up in the timber
Just got home from sturgeon spearing on Lake Winnebago and HAD to immediately sit down and watch this episode. I absolutely love how clean and well organized their store is, and the shelves are FILLED with old school goodness. Where do these amazing shops come from??? This was one of your best episodes yet, and that's saying a lot. Simply stunning.
We need to get back to Jim’s and see what kind of damage the Bassin’ Buds did!
That small fry in bluegill color looks perfect for a pond
Dude, this was such a cool video. I remember going to tackle shops as a kid with my Dad and seeing all these things and wanting them all. He usually said no "you'll just put the damn thing in a tree," but sometimes, sometimes, he said yes I was soooo happy. He's gettin' up there now and I'm taking my little boys fishing, so he gave me our old tackle box. To my astonishment some of those lures were still in there. They needed new hardware, so I got rid of all the rusty stuff, and now my boys are fishin' em. Right in the feels man, right in the feels.
Love it! Fish it old school, Rick!
I'm so glad I stumbled on this video! That clear near nuthin minnow (11:42) is a lure I've wondered about for a long time. I got one out of my dad's tackle box years and years ago. I've never seen another one and never knew what it was. Thanks for the info!
I would lose my mind in that shop, and walk out with no money...That was one of the coolest things I've ever seen! Makes me want to drive from WI to Texas tomorrow and see if it's still there. SO cool, I'm definitely watching more of your videos!
Check out the Tackle Shop playlist... ruclips.net/p/PLd0ID5qrb_qkX1ctVPa6tNDlmq-dJy_br
13:48 I found one of these at my lake and didn’t care it was all white and crushed and crusty no idea that a classic brand made those baits I wish I still had
It.
Excelente video retro bassin que hermosa tienda llena de excelentes señuelos un paraíso
Gracias!
I need a couple of those Norman Flat Brokes...
Just watched this...stunning.
I'm having friggin Flashbacks to when and where I lost half of these lures, LOL.
If you’ve got one, you’ve got none!
Having memories like that though, makes the price worth it
This store was literally gold, oh man I want to go. I love and miss Texas and that store is calling my name. Might need to do a Texas road trip. These baits take me back.
There’s a few old gold mines left in the Lone Star State!
Super cool place, wish I had one near me! Amazing time capsule there! Great clip bro
Me too! Thanks for tuning in!
Oh man seeing that you posted a video totally just made my day.
Goldmine my friend! I’m exploring SW Louisiana, on the lookout for “Ol Retro.” Love your enthusiasm.
Hope you hit Bacons…
Wow at the nostalgia there. I had a clown color super spot when I was 10. I'm mid thirties now what a great store. Awesome find!
As a tackle hoarder, these videos always give me a sense of envy. Love these videos!
You have no idea how hard it was to leave without clearing the pegs!
I can’t believe there is still that much old school inventory. Awesome find 👊🏼
*was, Mike. Haha
Thanks Chris went today and got a nice couple of lures.Keep making your awesome vids
What old gold did you find?
I checked on google to see exactly where the shop is, and it said the store is temporarily closed, wondering if he was able to sell almost everything after your episode.
He had plenty of stock when last I checked,
But hopefully he opens back up soon!
Does he ship?
No shipping and cash only…truly old school!
Small bait and tackle shops are the best...was so disappointed when I found out a couple weeks ago the shop I went to as a kid is closed now....prolly still has a treasure of lures in there...also love when you involve the shop owners/collectors you visit
I love it when they share their amazing stories!
Man ,what a great episode and store find.This is one of the best finds I’ve seen you make.Almost everything in there marked $3.79 is a $20 bait nowadays.
And would sell at $20…insane!
The flat brokes might be one of the last pre-pradco baits Norman made-Came out around 2010-13 not old
I was wondering! Never seen them.
Not only was it a great store, but I want to hear more from Jim! I'll bet he's got stories for days.
We’ll be back. What should we ask him???
That’s a nice selection of pre pradco Normans with several tournament gel coat colors in the dated blue packages which are even older than the red ones.
Totally was digging the gel coats!
Those deep wee r cranks are also awesome trolling baits for crappie. Great video!
Good to know! I’ll grab some if they are still there…
I drive past this place everytime I go to Medina. What gold!!! I have never stopped before because it looks like private property. Where do you park with a boat and what are the hours?
Hours in description. I just would pull up in front of house.
I would have had to get all the Flat A's. Love the name too...Rebait Shop😄
Those I got. Splitting them with Epic Eric…
I fished the Flat Broke all the time for Smallmouth in Chartreuse Blue Back here in East Tennessee . It's a hybrid between a brokeback swimbait and a square bill .
Looks wild!
@@RetroBassin The best part of the bait is it's action !!! It suspends !!! You can crank it down 3-4 ft and kill it ... It will set there with the SLOWEST rise - nose down . I then twitch it and it turns 180°and looks behind itself like a Glide bait . Super sick plug !!!
Great video! Love walk thrus like this! Quick and priced. I understand what he said about the pegs and such. That's why I keep them in tackle boxes! 🤣
Keep on finding them scores and enticing them lure junkies, like myself!
Oh and message sent!😬(wanting some lures I seen)🎣🤠
Well, Jim’s got some empty pegs now…
Holy smokes. What a find! My go-to Crankbait in highschool was the Bomber Fat A in crawdad. Those rebels too 😧
A whole wall of screwtail Bombers....excellent!😎
I think most were Pradco, but still cool!
Omg! My childhood in a store! Must take my boys here!!! Long A still my favorite jerkbait.
I felt like a 10-year-old who won a Toys R Us “supermarket sweep” style contests where you get to run down the isles cramming your cart!
@RetroBassin bruh. Now you're really running down memory lane. Eveytime you said the price and laughed I imaged you saying, "I'm about to empty these pegs. " Lol. Love your content man.
Now there is a guy that has been there and done that. He has it all
OMG! Man you find the best stuff all the time...
Great vid.. loved the old Rebel lures
Had a few calls from my Rebel Buds!
Awesome find!
Original P-70 would not be hanging on that rack my friend.
You're right. Noticed that when I looked at the film!
great video, amazing place, I still have and use some of lures shown here some are so old and beaten up I've retired them and hung up in my tackle room :D
Mud bugs?
Methiolate is great color in spring
Use trick worms in that color
I still have alot of those lures you just showed. Since it's too cold to even go ice fishing today, I think I'll get out the old tackle and and do some retro bassin of my own.
That’s what it’s all about, good buddy!
100% drooling over here. Who needs 401k when you have this much GOLD!!!!
As a fan of old school Bombers, I'm so jealous..great bait shop
Love those old Norman Cranks
Could have spent all day looking at discontinued Norman colors!
Real talk, how much did you buy?
Aaron don’t get yourself banned from the channel LOL. In my defense, I also took some orders on behalf of some Bassin’ Buds…
Unfortunately this video is mostly likely going to attract the non fisherman that's going to buy all these lures out and post them for outrageous prices on ebay.
Indeed.
WOW. I wish this was a lot closer to me. But if it was I would be sooooooo broke!!!!!!! Awesome video sir
And I wish I lived farther…for the exact same reason!
This episode is a brain melter. Love knowing these mom and pop tackle shops still exist !!!
Chris, when you pick up these old hardbaits and you fish them, do you change out the hooks ? Or do you run them straight out of the package ?
Keep it Retro !
Great question! If they have the old school hook harness, I tend to leave them in place. But if there’s a split ring, I usually can’t resist swapping out the old cheapo hooks.
Love the look of that retro t-shirt wish you made a longsleve one!
I may need to get on that!
Wow what an amazing tackle shop!
Hope we did it justice!
You look like a kid in a candy store lol! Awesome looking stuff!
I would have bought every single one of those Norman Top Dollars.
I swung and missed on those…and now they are gone!
The ideal tackle shop !
Yes! I need to come to Japan to do some takle shop walk throughs!
I recognized some of these from when dad and I used to fish in the late 80s, 90s and early 2000s.
Nice! Which one?
Been looking for those Norman top dollars For ever haven’t be able to find them and he has em on the shelf man if I didn’t live so far away
Think those bad boys are long gone…
見ていてたのしい👌
I have two G-Finish Rat'l Spot Minnows. What awesome lures!!!
I’d buy anything if it had G-Finish!
@@RetroBassin It is such an AWESOME lure finish, and yet the industry moved on from what works. Crazy.
$50 on that Rebel Fastrac on Ebay? Don't think so but still an older bait. Some of the difficult super rare Rebels may bring that much but that is not one. Rebel cool though.
The Rebel collectors are a rabid bunch!
Love the content man how do you ever get out of a place like that ?
With a lighter wallet..
Thank goodness it's to far from Ontario, I couldn't control myself in there, it was bad enough when Walmart bought Woolco and sold off the old fishing stuff, I was out of control. Great video as always.
no kidding ....that makes me want to make a 12 hour plus drive .....what a super bargain for such good classic lures .!!!
Thanks for tuning in, Dave! I think I have an idea for the long distance Bassin’ Buds…
I’m gonna make a trip down there and spend a pay check. Such an amazing store
Call for hours! Cash only!!
Wish we had these gems in and around Omaha, NE.
Just awesome!
I want to find some old lures but I can only find them at swap meets
Holy moly what I wouldn’t do to find some old Rebel Fast Track Crankbaits!!!
I have a few. Tell me more about them!
Those frenzy’s were a big thing in our area years ago. Impossible to find anymore
I noticed that right away
Why did it close?
Jim passed away. We miss him everyday. This video made him so happy. Thanks Retro!
The tackle store tour episodes are awesome! I would have wiped out the bayou boogie and spook sections.
I still may if there are any left!
Video seems blurry? Or is it me ? Having trouble seeing the lures ! But always great stuff ! And flashback material!! Great channel!
These days, everything looks a little blurry to me!
Im 10 minutes in and screaming get to the Bagleys already, LMAO
I did. Oh, I did.
Flooding the market with too many items is terrible for a business but I think it is the opposite with fishing lures ,at least for the customer anyways...
Man, if I could, I'd wipe out that section of old Rebel lures down to the pegboard. Haven't seen a selection like that in 25+ years.
And sadly I probably never will again!
@@RetroBassin I don't know what it was about Rebel lures. I've been using them and Rapalas for years, and Rapalas work great, but Rebels always seemed to work just a little bit better.
Dude. Thank You.
Gotta get down to South Texas.
RB they call that color you kept referring to as "mat tiger" now. Dunno what it was called back then.
Chartreuse crawfish?
@@RetroBassin makes sense to me. The fire tiger color is based on a phase of molt with crawdads, they turn green and orange here
yall are lucky I dont live in Texas cause id buy almost everything lmao this is a legendary shop and the prices are amazing I really respect him for keeping the prices the same from when they came out most tackle shops would up the price. That whole berkley frenzy section would be gone hahah.
I am curious to see what’s left when I go back!
Very cool place!
The only thing I liked from the Berkeley Frenzy line up was their slightly shorter 4-1/2" maybe 5" Zara, good mid-ish size, I liked it was just as fat and backed up well. They got goofy on that whole Mystic/Zone minnow or shad line up, nice looking finish, but it was a thick plated finish that chipped clean off down to the hard bone colored body. They were good for repainting then. I got a bunch. That leap in finish technology jumped the shark at conception, it was short lived. A fanciful thick facade of a form which failed the function test. Rebel tried that finish too, I just shucked a Fastràc all the way down to bone after the initial big flake chipping started.
They all go bad to the bone.
Great tip on old school paint jobs, Rich!
@@RetroBassin You could paint them back up or just slap some eyes on them and clear coat, one common mfger offered pattern is usually a straight white/bone color. I just holographic scale reconstituted a Rebel FasTrac, I wish I could show it here. That Heddon Tiny Torpedo you were drooling over in one episode had that 'Chipper' G-Finish too. That whole line up of late 90's Rebel Mystic Zone minnow series had the temporary finish. I don't know if those old school skirts with one-direction skirting and a built-in stretchy collar are strictly 'Living Rubber skirts' (Lunker Lure Buzz baits, Arbogast lures too) it was more like a thin cut flat vynal of some sort which degrades over time, sometimes reacting with other plastics, especially surgical tubing like collars of other skirts.
Don't know your name,but where is Jim's rebait store located?
Lakehills, Texas
I must have those power craws and lizards!!!!!
Hey I've been meaning to get out toward Lake Medina
Heard it’s looooooooow
@@RetroBassin I can only imagine Canyon is so low like half of the boat ramps are closed
I have 4 hand made Darting R crank baits made by Ron Rippinger back in the 80's They are the best cranks I have ever had and still catch fish on them .
...ain't nothing better... than 40 year old lures...
Or a Tackle shop full of them!
How did you not walk out without buying half of the store?! 😂
Who says I didn’t! Haha
Man I wish I live closer to that store. I’ve seen a lot that I want.
Did you pick me up those Frenzies? Damn that is an amazing store ..... Wish I was closer?
No but I can…
@@RetroBassin I'm gonna have to send you some $$$$$. That place is amazing!
Bro you’re going to make me drive from Emory to San Antonio with this episode
Someone drove from Arkansas. Just saying…
You have a knack for finding those old school gold mines. I’d sure like to find a tackle shop full of OSG like this, although I wouldn’t like my checking account balance afterwards. BTW, I sent you an IM on FB Messenger last week.
Hey Chip! Thanks for tuning in, I’ll check out the FB!
I have flat broke. I am not sure where it is. I have a few lures.
The Berkeley power worms is GOLD THAT IS THE BEST FIND THEM OLD HUNDRED PACKS I WOULD BUY IN BLACK N BLUE 10"
I'd be dead broke
Before I left
AWESOME 😊😊😊😊
Okay….how much did you spend? 😄
I already have some of that Bomber and Excalibur stuff but would love to have more, even though most of it would never get wet. I was going to get the car warmed up in case you walked by a rack of OG Storm Wiggle Warts.
I have that exact big O from cotton Cordell the one that you said looks like a Japanese one it’s my grandfathers
Actually used it yesterday and caught a nice 21 inch pickerel
What about bomber rip Shad?
Those were awesome topwater baits similar to a torpedo
The store I worked at tried for years to stock all the SKUs that Storm cataloged. Every color of Wiggle Warts and Hot-N-Tots. Unfortunately the less popular baits got marked down and cleared out instead of gathering dust. His comment about empty pegs sounded just like the owner of our store.
I am sure some real gems got lost to the bargain bin over the years!
Just for the nostalgia, I would love to go there and buy up some classic gear.
He’s open for business!
Great now by the time I get out there everything will be gone thanks, and they will be twice as expensive
I know the feeling!
That model a perch color is a favorite
I wish this video had smell….there is something about old baits that smell good. Lol if you know you know.
i live 10 minutes froms rend lake in southern il ..... wish i could find some arborgast mud bugs .....ive got 5 in my collection....but back in the day ...dragging them through the stumps fields on channel swings would get some hawgs ....and i swear you could not get them mud bugs caught up in the timber