Lately I've been using chatterbaits and then it happened, after several bass I should have re-tied and got ahold of a big one and broke off. Lost the last one, in that size, of my favorite bait. Dang it!!! So I tied on a Snagless Sally and it was on again! Now I'm fishing this lure a lot more!

What older baits do you guys have confidence in???

Dalton special

Jig is my favorite old school lure when they are biting it.

Mine has to be the sensation if I can still find them... my buddies dad used to call them a chicken foot. I have a secret stash of them still..

All the old school spinner baits. The Flick hit off is one of my favorites now.

Chatter bait

Sorry didnt read entire post...I would say a red fin

A tiny torpedo is never too far from my reach.

whopper plopper...basically a torpedo on steroids

nip-I-diddee

A Hot Spot or Rattle Trap!

Small Okie Bug, been outta production forever. Bought 150 of them from the original owners son a few years back.

Heddon lucky 13 or river runt.

Big-O......

Heddon Devil Horse in either the Black back/chrome or in the Green Perch. You can fish it over grass baits only 1" below the water.

Bagley BangOlure

Rattle trap, long A

H&H

I always done well on the old pico perch

I forgot to mention my old Bagley Killer B's. I'm a bank fisherman that will wade into the water to retrieve these baits.

Still love the little clear tiny topedo. Also, the Cordell Near Nuthin is a great schooling bait that I still use..
Tom Mann's Wooly Booger spinner bait.
One of my favorites was the old Arbogaster deep crank bait. It was a killer. I'm about out of Bombers. I have one left and it was my Dad's. I can't use it.

I wish someone would start a company called, Vintage Lures.
i bet they would sell. Especially at todays prices

I enjoy looking at EBay at the older lures and then I recall I had a lot of these lures.

Herb's Dilly

I'll take any old Bomber Pinfish that no one wants.

6" Black Grape Mann's Jelly Worms.

Mepp's all the way.

Heddon Sonic

H&H spinnerbaits.....I used to kill them on those little suckers.....now....I have too much "pride" to throw them.....

Clear Billy Bass top water; I've had it 30 years and still catching fish. Caught a three pound crappie on it fishing a bass tournament on Lake o the pines many moons ago.

Heddon Meadow Mouse!

Pork-O. Still have a decent stash of them, although I have had to rework and resalt them.

Bomber Long A in Honey Hole specialty color Fire Fire Tiger

Geek lizard

Original jawtech fliptail lizard, honey hole bought the mold and I have some of them too. They work great 25-30+yrs old too. All the lids on my stash of porkO's rusted shut yrs ago, they were a wild looking bait in the water, big fish bait no doubt.

Some of my favorite spinnerbaits were produced by companies no longer in existence. They consisted of Horizon, which later became Terminator. I think I have some that were made by Oldham. Okiebug also. There a couple left that has Superdog stamped on the blade.

Fliptail floating lizard but no longer made and running low on them. Some one in Arkansas bought the molds and selling non floaters.

Rebel Super R in chartruse with a black back

Yep. Big old PorkO on a 5/0 weedless hook caught me big fish!

father passed away a few months ago and was going through his old tacklebox --what a time capsule !
found some old jitterbugs - river runts -little george-tiny torpedos --mister twister curly tail

havent even thought about these baits in 30 years but i think will take them out and fish them just to honor the man who taught me to love fishing !

Spook

Thin fin

Would a Power Worm be considered an old lure?

well - old would be a relative term !
if its old to you --and you feel like you should give a go -- theyre are no wrong answers
good luck !

Heddon Baby Lucky 13. Used it targeting bass, speckled trouts and reds. Best schooling topwater I've ever thrown.

Jawtec Salty Dog Lizards and Bogus Wigglers. This will be the last spring and night fishing season using them. I have not used them every trip. Keep waiting on Richard McCarty to replenish me...

Johnsons Silver Minnow...With a small fluke as a trailer, that is a lure I can throw in anything, and it snakes, flashes and falls like a mo fo!

Jitterbugs!!!!! Still great topwaters

Zaragossa in chrome-blue.

White Beetle Spin still works.

Bagley's Tin Foil Shad is one of my old faithfuls.

Crazy Crawler . still have a few.

Rapala original floater... I make my own version now, but same idea and same results!

Culprit worms

pico perch.

Black Lizards with white and yellow dots. I think its made by Mr. Twister.

Yes .. and Creme Scoundrels in black with white poka dots, they still make them

http://www.landbigfish.com/Creme-Lures/Creme-Lures-Scoundrel-Worm.cfm

My dad still busts out his Billy Bass lure and kicks my arse with it on occasions.

From a similar thread on May 30, 2016:

Arbogast Jitterbug, Musky Jitterbug, Mudbug, and Hula Popper; Pico's Pico Perch, Pico Pop; Bomber Pinfish, Model A, Waterdog, Bomber; Herb's Dilly; Bass Buster Scorpion and Tarantula; Mister Twister spinnerbaits, buzz baits, and plastics; Tom's Minners; Shannon Twin Spinner; Al Foss Shimmy Wiggler; Bass Pro Tornado spinnerbait; Heddon Zara Spook, Chugger, Wounded Spook, and Crazy Crawler; Rebel Super-R, Deep Wee-R; Bagley Balsa B; Original Floating Rapalas; Rex Spoon; Johnson Spoon; Creek Chub Jointed Pikie Minnow; Shakespeare's Mouse; and several others. I know some of these are valuable antiques, but as long as I continue to catch fish on them, I'll continue to sharpen the hooks and throw them.

Another vote for 6 inch Mann's Jelly worm

Chrome devil horse
Black beetle spin
Red shad culprit

One of the 3 will always work

Scorpion and Tarantula were great short-arm spinnerbaits. Used to KILL the bass on them in Falcon's Salinillas Cove. I still have a couple that I use successfully with purple rubber (not silicone) skirts.

I was digging in a tackle box that I haven't touched in years and found 4 jars of dried up Uncle Josh pork frogs. I was disappointed to hear they no longer make these trailers.

If I'm not mistaken, the Devil Horse was made by Smithwick, not Heddon. Whatever, it was and still is a great topwater lure.

You can't have any of mine

How about a Bill Norman Wounded Flash topwater or Manns Deep Piglet crankbait? Still have one of each.

Good old Blue Fleck Power Worm.

For all you know I already do (you really need to sleep with one eye open during your boat naps)

Crazy crawlers. Used them exclusively in Northeast 25years ago. First bass in TX was a crazy crawler bass 5 & 1/2 lbs. Need to change out the hooks and put in the primary top water box.

Fred Arborgast AC Plug. I never used one or had one, but heard about big bass that were caught on Lake Fork. Anybody with info?

Sonic and creme purple/white tail worms

I will never forget the day I got broke off using my dad's old Herbs Dilly. I used to keep it hanging in my garage with some other older lures but every once in a while I would take it out because it just seemed to catch so many fish. Pulled it next to a stump on Fork one day and that was it. Broken 15lb Big Game line which I am sure I hadn't really taken the time to make sure of a good knot and retied. Or it was just another of those good old bass that many times put me in my place and made me feel like a little school girl. Sure hated losing that old bait because it made me think of dad when I would look over at it.

I'll never forget a bass I caught on a Tarantula. Over six pounds. Put it on a chain stringer on the the side of a Lone Star V-bottom. She somehow managed to open that stringer hook and escape.

I've never used a chain stringer since.

Last trip to Fork:

I was catching some good 3-6 lbs. bass. I had one hit my jig when it barely sunk a foot.

This is where EVERYTHING went wrong! First, there was no cushion as I only had about 5' of line. As I rared back to set the hook, this fish decided to take off. The combination of those forces snapped my rod at the handle.

There's a reason big fish get big!

There were some BIG bass caught on them back in the 90's. My fishing buddy and I decided to make some of them. We caught some good fish (6-8 pounds) on our home made lures. I still have maybe 6 of them.

Heddon Lucky 13. Can be fished topwater or cranked fast and get an erratic retrieve.