Is this the coolest crankbait from the '80s? (feat. Bagley's Fat Cat)
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- We've been on a tear throwing old school crankbaits for bass, and this week we take a look at a popular offering from Bagley's in the late 1980s, the Fat Cat. This mean, little crankbait has a unique profile and an even more unique action. Crafted from balsa wood, this Jim Bagley creation has long been popular with fishermen and lure collectors alike. In this episode we take a look at some lure spreads from the 1988 and 1989 Bass Po Shops Master Catalogs on the Bagley's Fat Cat and Mamma Cat, as well as take this vintage wooden crankbait to the local lake to see if it can still tempt bass today.
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I've always been a big fan of Bagley's. Their lures just have the coolest profiles, heft and brilliant colors patterns. They definitely have a high-end, high quality vibe. Those Fat Cat's are, imo, just about the sweetest crankbaits ever produced, with that pregnant belly and skinny tail. And the finishes! Oh boy, you are spot on with how unique the scale pattern finish on these lures is - it's practically holographic. And the tasty underwater footage of the Fat Cat in action. Dang, that's some camera work, buddy! So cool looking at those 1980s Bass Pro catalog spreads. Late last year a tackle shop in my town went out of business. It had been there a good many years, at least since I was a kid. They had a liquidation sale and were selling old school lures at sharp discounts. I spent just about all the expendable cash I had buying old school baits, including a handfull of old Bagley's (unfortunately, they didn't have any Fat Cats). They are definitely favorites in my modest collection. Awesome episode!
I love the Bagley Bombers👍
My Father was a great bass fisherman. He also owned a bar in Indianapolis Indiana. He loved these Fat Cat fishing lures. So he called his bar "Fat Cat's" I still have some brand new Fat Cat lures. But, Have never fished one. Because they always reminds me of him. Thanks, Dad for starting me in fishing at five years old. I am 62 today! I miss my fishing buddy. R.I.P. Dad. Shawn.
My favorite old school crank bait is the Thom Manns deep pig.
Bill Lewis Rattle Traps and Bombers were my favorite growing up. Especially when I went to Mark Stephenson's garage sale, when he lived in Plano
Those old Bagleys were a lot of fun, for sure! On days when I have a hard time catching them, I just chalk it up to the fish not hitting my baits out of respect. They don't want to mess up such a pretty lure!🤣
I definitely get a little queasy chunking and winding those OG Bagley’s!
Blue Black Chrome Mama Cat was a good fish catcher for me in the early 2000s
Balsa B2 and Poe's my favorites!
The first line Rat-L-Trap is one of my favs
I went to an auction today looking for some old school gold I came across 5 bagley lures one being the tom cat in pistachio color 2 bangalures in fire tiger and 2 killer B 2s so I had to rewatch this vid. Thanks.
Wow!!!
@RetroBassin yeah last weekend I hit up exactly 44 yard sales and not a single find. I go to our local auction and bought 36 lures for only 100 bucks lol. By far my best find yet.
$4.29 in 1989 is equal to $10.00 in 2023 .
New Bagley lure still about the same price factoring the inflation
1989 is the year I arrived in Gadsden Alabama USA.
My first introduction to bass fishing was with Bagley lure
And Rat-L-Trap .
Bought from K-Mart
It was wonderful
Heck, at $10 I’d still buy a hundred!
I have tremendous success with poes cranks 300 and the 400
My go to crainkbait in the northeast has always been the Norman Middle N. ❤
Love your videos. Always a good time.
Thanks for tuning in, Chris!
Actually just went on a tear buying up Bagley’s. Bought quite a few Fat Cat's, Vintage B2 Diver, Smoo (as a joke), 2 of my favorite as well the Small Fry, and an underrated lure IMO The Shad-a-Lac. That Yellow Fat Cat is worth a PRETTY PENNY!
Gotta love the old Rapala Rat-l-trap
For me, my favorite to collect and fish is the heddon Dying Flutter for topwater. Cordell Big O for crankin! Great info, as always!
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I have a few…
I loved the Diving Bee DB2, but didn't fish them as much as I would like because they were very expensive and would get beat up pretty quick after you catch a few fish on them. Hot belly crawdad was my favorite color, won a big open tournament with one back in the day. But the crankbait I caught the most fish on was the Bomber Model A deep diver, that pearly white was the best choice on my local lake, always ran great.
Manns "razor back" and "deep hog" are pretty cool.
Always loved that old Bagley craw pattern.
It would be super awesome to see you throw a heddon river runt (no snag) wonder if they are able to catch bass. I collect them but I e never lived in an area that has bass. Thanks for the awesome videos. Keep them coming 😊
I just bought a new BangOLure and had no idea they were old school!! I’m excited to try these out.
Keep them crankin, with a Bomber!!
Will do!
The reason why you got all those comments last week, was because they were talking about your Trilene jacket, they were saying it's too BAGGIE, not Bagley. They liquidated those shallow cats in 1998-9 for $2. (Tenn shad, and chrome shad) I got like 6 out of the bargain bin. You got paint checks in that Pistachio pattern.
In 1994 a buddy gave me a very nice Fat Cat in fire tiger. I knew then to just put in my collection.
I love the fat cat its a sweet crank near rocks love the old fire tiger color in that bait. One of the only fire tigers I actually like but a lot of guys say they're an ugly bait. I think there just unique and different and give the bait just a different wobble thats actually pretty subtle with a bait thats pretty chunky for its size.
I did well as a kid fishing for European perch and pike using a Storm Hot n tot, and a small Bomber alphabet (small a?), which I'd saved up birthday money and sent off for. It wasn't easy to get USA lures over here, and myself and most people I know who fished lures then had fish on a Shakespeare big S. One of the many Big O copies down the line. A fish catcher though, and although it's still available, like so many things, they don't make em like they used to!
It's only recently, after 30 years of admiring them, that I've actually got hold of a few Bagley's, beautiful lures! Bit afraid to cast them, but that is what they're for right?!
When I was a kid it was the monster shad that everyone here talked about, as an alternative to the rapala super shad rap, which was a big dog in the European Pike fishing scene (and still is). Got my first monster shad this year, fingers crossed for a big pike on it!
No Fat cat's so far, but always on the lookout :)
Keep it carpet side up bud! And keep the ace content coming!
I have a few Fat Cats and a few more Mama Cats. I've done okay with both. Everyone knows the Poe's RC-1 and RC-3, but one of my favorites is the Poe's 1100.
Not only do I have a Pistachio colored Bagley's Fat Cat like the one you held during the intro in this video, I have also made several that catch Bass. One of my favorites as well!
A feathered treble would be killer with the action of that fat cat
Love the Fat Cat, I have several I bought new around 1991 including the hard to find Pistachio. I have a couple more Old School baits for you to look into. First is the Heddon Timber Rattler crankbait produced around 1985. It's made of white cedar and was one of the last wooden lures produced by Heddon before the Lurenet takeover. The other is a quirky stickbait by Cotton Cordell called the Walkin Stick. I believe it was produced in the mid 1980's for a short time, it is kind of a jerkbait/topwater that is alot of fun to play around with. Great episode! Keep it Old School!
Still waiting on my hellbender video LOL
Great job on Bagley's. My first crankbaits I bought with my own money was a Rapala Fat Rap and an Arbogast Arbogaster. The Fat Rap met a snag and I still have the Arbogaster but the Hula Skirt is gone.
Some double stamped baby1 by Manns. Hard to beat.
Love that silver chrome. Fish catchers. Good catches today!
I have a collection of Bagley Fat Cats. Did you know some were "glow in the dark"? I fish a few Bagley baits!
Really enjoy your videos.. Great Channel!
My 2 favorites of my childhood were the Excaliber Fat Free Fry and I believe the color was called "Secret Weapon". The second was the Luhr Jensen Wobble Pop. Would love to see a video on these.
Still trying to snag on off of Ebay with no luck. There so darn popular that they don’t stay cheap for long. 😢
How the fuck are u still not a big RUclipsr. I don’t understand your content is gold man.
I don't know if balsa makes the best crankbaits, but they are the most durable. I've cracked more than a few of the new plastic Rapala's smacking rocks or posts, don't think I've ever broke any wood lure, including the plastic lips. And one of my very favorite new Raps is all plastic, and I have a collection of them sitting on my desk with lips broken off.
You might be right, Jason!
Try Riverside Big Wag worms and Big Foot lizards. (They had other styles too, maybe even a Big Fry but don't hold me to that, I had their small Riverside catalog/brochure once, Pradco printed up a bunch of their newly acquired product lines at the time) The lizard had a tail that curls up, not oriented off to one side. Mid 90's Shortlived Pradco offering, clearanced through Big Lots stores. (BIG theme begining to end) I got a bunch but none left in the original packaging, I did like to cut out and save the BIGWAG lable, to hold up when someone was spewing nonsense, as in BIG CHIN WAG.
Spencer's Scout, I bet you have one or a couple of them.
Bagly's Bango!
Keep on Crankin
And you guy keep dodging hurricanes! Hope they didn’t ruin the fishing…
@@RetroBassin don’t think so this time
Gonna have to disagree with the zebco 33 lol
Hey, it rhymed!
The original mama cats had boobs painted on them. Jim's wife Vera made him quit that. I lived in Austin most of my life. I won a ton of money on Bagley's KiilrB2's, Bang-O-Lures, Square Billed Balsa B's, and other baits they made. I contributed to a book about Bagley baits. I own and fish with them to this day
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Fat Cats are much more fun on Small Mouth Bass. Bagley also made a Special Turned Fat Cats. Momma Cat had Boobies painted on, but were stopped by women complaining.
Hope you don’t hang up any of those or you’ll have to time travel
Lazy Ike.
I'm just surprised those liberals around Austin don't rage out when you hook a bass by the lips. Lol.
LOL
If so, tell them that they can go back from where they came from.
Those are some killer looking baits !!