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Hey Retro! Glad you got the box of goodies! To answer you questions about some of the stuff i sent. The first jig head is a head designed by Gary Klein with Rich Forhan and it was called the Weapon Jig. The deal with this jig was the hook. It was the first short shank wide gap hook with a flat eye ever used in a flipping head. In fact it was Klein who designed the hook. This jig is from the 82/83 timeframe.

Second. The jig heads with the wire weedguards. They are the first football heads designed by Larry McCain in 1965. These actual heads are from Bassmaster Record holder Rip Nunnery and his company Bandit Bass Lures and were made in roughly the mid-70s.

The books. Grits gresham was an avid bass angler who produced fishing shows on ABC and other networks. He worked a lot with Homer Circle. He was one if the authorities on bass in the late 50s and 60s.

Jason Lucas. Lucas this year is finally getting inducted inti the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame. I say finally because if you ask any of the oldtime bass pros like Roland Martin, Larry Nixon, Rick Green, etc they all point to Jason Lucas as the guy who first came out with the scientific approach to bass fishing. The book was first published in 1947 and was reprinted 2 more time lastly in 1962.

Dave Hawk. Is a Texan who is the person who arguable invented the Texas rig. He was know as one if the best bass anglers of the day fishing tournaments all over TX, OK, MO. That is the second book he wrote, the first being titled 80 Years on Bass.

I know where I learned about old lures, it's all I have and purchase.

Ever since I watch your channel I look at retro bass fishing a whole another level…. Now I look at old fishing equipment as value now instead of just passing by… You do save a lot of money buying old school fishing equipment… Ima start collecting them and put them in a old school tackle box and I want to see if I'll be able to trade them like Pokemon cards.😎🇺🇸🎣💯💯💯

Picked up a bunch of old school gold at the flea markets today! Brand new diawa gold Apollo for 10$ with a shimano bantam! Then got a buccaneer rod with a quantum reel and an abu ambassaduer xlt plus all for about 50$!

You guys do the lords work

Just picked you up buddy! Saw you on Smallwater Charters and Jon was right I love your intro!! I also love retro lures so can't wait to watch more!! Good luck with everything my new friend!🎣👍

You have enough old school lures and tackle to start a museum lol

Brother, that Roland Martin double buzz bait from bluefox is a sentimental lure for me. I saw Roland fishing it on his Saturday show and decided to get that buzz bait. I threw it at a lake in Missouri and ended up catching my PB that still stands to this day. Anyway, thanks for the videos bassin bud!

Yep the algorithm caught me, I'm in though. Also for whatever reason after watching your videos my subconscious thought…"No fishing isn't expensive enough yet, you need hand made lures too. So thanks!!

That website is awesome. I would like to see some more of the Japanese stuff and an article on the coolest bass boat of all time – Gambler.

Have you ever seen Rubber Worms with Velcro strips on the side of them?? We bought a big box of random fishing stuff at a garage sale in the early 90s and it was full of the fishing gimmick stuff from the 70's and 80's. There was a thing called a fish caller that you put in the water and it had a little light bulb on it that turned on and made some kind of clicking noise "crap" i tried it lol. Big long Creme style flat paddle tail worms with strips of velcro on the sides "also crap" i tried it. Then there was this big white lure that had the shape of a Jitterbug but about 1/3rd bigger without the metal lip, it threaded apart in the middle and had little holes in it. The idea was you would put small piece of an Alka-Seltzer tablet inside it and then cast it out and the foaming action would make Bass hit it. "Crap, but i tried like hell with this one" i think the name may have been something like The Fizzy Popper or something like that. There was also a Popele Pocket Fisherman and we actually used the shit out of that thing as kids because it was easy to carry on a bike lol. But we were kids and had small pockets so that made it tough lol. My brother caught a 12lb channel cat on a Mepps Black Fury using the Pocket Fisherman one hot July day. We were at a rock quarry and we went to swim but we always took the pocket fisherman just for fun. You don't have much power with the pocket fisherman so he wore out quick being only 10 years old so we had to take turns fighting the fish. We packed that channel cat 5 miles all the way home riding 2 on a bike and my Dad about shit when we came running in the house with that fish all dried up and a trail of flies following us all the way home. Boy those were the days my friend those were the days.

New sub here!!! Found u about a week ago

Grits Gresham was one of the major outdoor writers of his time, which was a long time and a long time ago. A big name back in the day.

I just bought that first bass fishing book a few days before this video.

Let's link up and go fishing. Maybe hit the Pedernales for some angry creek bass

Ok honestly wasn't hunting anything about "retro" fishing tackle. But somehow, someway I went down a rabbit hole and found this channel. What got me hooked was the vid on the okiebug spinnerbait, and I thought for sure I'd went back in time to 1989-90 borrowing my ol mans tackle and boat in high school when I saw that maglight fighting rod paired with a shimano bantam reel, only difference his had the fighting drag switch on the side, which I have still along with his bb1ng lews reels. But without boring everyone and you by rambling on about my addiction of collecting old retro stuff from colman stoves to Mason jars. But I recently sold that boat and cleaned it out and found a hoard of lures from the old dance's ells, tornado spinnerbait, and about 10 bagley's db2's and 3's that I had to bring back to life! This channel has inspired me to really get back into fishing like I was 30 years ago before kids and jobs took over my fun. But I do have something I don't think I've seen you talk about. My dad was a great friend of a man named Van Kennedy, father of a guy that you might know named Steve Kennedy but Van fished a worm that was to me a useless lure but it was the do nuthin worm rigged Carolina style with 1an 1/2 oz bullet weight. Not till I got older did I understand how to fish it and how good of a lure it is. But I did find some in that bottom belly of that ol procraft hooks rusted but those memories were brought back stronger than ever. I just wanted to say after all that I love this channel and love the content and keep it up, it reminds me of way greater times.

Solid channel. New sub here 💪🏽

Thought I left a reply. Great video and congrats on the growth of your channel Good job Chris

Retro Bassin where can I find some Norman Weed Walkers,are they discontinued