Who Else Grew Up On Using The "H and H" Spinnerbait?

This was virtually the only bass lure I used when growing up. Oh, I did use the Heddon Tiny Torpedo or the "red head / white body popper" occasionally, but the yellow H and H was THE lure that got this kid on the road to loving bass fishing.

I'm not that old but I must have caught every fish in my grandmas pond 20 times on an old white h&h. Kinda makes me want to dig one out and throw it around some of the dirtier water lakes around here.

I used them a ton on stock tanks in West Texas

Yes.. had many of them.. and those rubber skirts did not last long in the sun in my old 3 drawer tackle box.

First LM I ever caught was on a black and yellow H&H single spinner, Lake Somerville, back in 83-84

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My brother and I would save some of our lunch money every week to buy them, and Rebel cranks... Heck, they were so cheap that made them the perfect bait for a kid. caught a lot of fish on them.

I grew up fishing the Bayous in Louisiana with one and still use it today when I need to
downsize to match the hatch. It was deadly a cple. of years ago when all the small fish were
schooling in Fork. It also will catch the snot out of sand bass.

Make sure you get the hook on the right way... LOL

Grew up in "yankee country" of Louisiana myself, near Shreveport.

I have put it in backwards on a few occasions.

I had issues with that, same as a rocket shad. I use a double split ring setup to fix that problem..
I can't tell you how many times I'd have fish smash the bait and come off, after several lost fish, I noticed the hook was gone. Errrrrrrrr double split ring came to be from that..

The individual packages were stapled to a long card (probably 6-8)!
I also used B&B spinners.
Loved purple and white.

I still throw a white single blade this time of year when shad are spawning and they don't just catch small fish

I still throw them all the time. My buddies PB is 11.4 off of Richland chambers on a white h&h fishing for hybrid!

Green and white was the color.

Black and yellow double Colorado. I still throw them sometimes. Especially I ponds and bayous

my brother and I used to buy them at Gibson's with our allowance; we usually went with white,

Excellent bait. Used them my whole life.

Was just yesterday looking at a card of them hanging at Academy. Always used black and yellow.

Caught a few LMB and alot of Sand Bass with them growing up in the 80's.

Caught my first real good bass on a black & white one at Ray Hubbard off the Miller Road rocks. Four pounds 12 oz! I put that fish on a rope stringer and wrapped it around the handlebars on my bicycle as I rode to the little grocery store on Chiesa Road to weigh her.

I bought them at Gibsons too. I remember them being 29 cents each at one point! I think the double Colorado blade was 35 cents.

my first real nice,to me fish, was about 4# on a blue and white one if I remember right in our old stock pound in southern Arkansas. I was using my dad's Zebco reel, it was the upgrade one from the 33.

my favorite spinner bait when I lived in the Miss. delta back in 60's and 70's...also recall fishing with some of my wifes cousins down in the marshes of south Louisiana and catching a lot of fish on a black H&H....haven't used or seen one in years...

Still throw one once in a while.

45 years ago OTASCO would occasionally put them on sale for 19 cents per bait. I remember my dad would buy the entire card which consisted of 8-10 baits stapled to the card. Yellow and black single blade was our favorite. When dad would buy the entire card I thought we must be the richest family in town. We caught a gazillion bass on those things. Oh the good ol days.

Still have one tied on now. Usually white or white char dbl Colorado. Great search bait in my opinion. Catch nearly anything.

Great bait. I used them as a kid to tare up the bass on Pure Oil Lake down by Van Tx. Still use them to this day. Black and yellow was my color.

Good lord, you said Gibsons, we had one in Euless in the late 60's early 70's right down the street from our house on Harwood... We called it Gipsons back then we didn't know how good we had it. The last one I remember seeing was in Hurst off Pipeline Rd..1979-1980 maybe..

H&H Spinnerbaits and Creme Lil'Fishies

Caught the heck out of them in the neches river and pine island bayou north of Beaumont. Dang grinnel would destroy them usually and end my day haha

Still a fully stocked, (guns and fishing), family owned/operated Gibson's, in Weatherford, Tx.

I have a box to probably 200 Lil' Fishies that I use in salt water. Tandem rig 1/8oz jigheads. Man they catch alot of trout and flounder

Used lots of H&H fishing Tanks back in South Central Oklahoma as a kid. Great Uncle had three real good tanks at his ranch around Bing Oklahoma, caught lots of fish. I bet they would still catch fish today if you threw one.

I am going to stop by there next time I'm thru.

Use them alot, have one tied on now.

If I recall correctly, they sold for 19 cents each.

I used to get my Royal Bonyl mono and Jelly Worms at that store.

I started bass fishing at 11 years old in 1958. No boat, just walking the banks. My buddy and I used H&H spinner baits mostly, and sometimes tiny torpedos and small chuggers. We didn't know about plastic worms for quiet some time.

When I was a kid if Jimmy Houston used it, I did too.

So pretty sure I was throwing strike kings.

A push button zebco and a yellow H&H was all I needed to terrorize the local ponds when I was a boy. My grandfather would get all excited when Bacon & Edwards in Shreveport would put them on sale 10 for $1. Many a Lake Bistineau bass was caught on them. I still use them at times on cypress tree lakes...they definitely still work!

We used them in the 60's starting with Lake Mead and then when Dad retired we had them in Texas.
I can still remember a couple trips we made to Mead. Very clear water and we fished off a deep rocky point. The only bites we would get all day were from shad and an occasional catfish on live bait. Just as the sun was setting the bass would move in and we would catch a cooler full of bass on the white H&H spinner.

When I took up fishing again in the mid 70's I bought a couple cards of them but then changed to the Bomber Mini Whacker. Slightly heavier and you had to replace the bearing but I tore them up on that bait for many years.

I grew up throwing a Dixon spinnerbait. Just a basic white spinnerbait with a white head and a single smaller colorado blade

I've still got two old H&H spinner baits in my box. Just refurbished them in fact.

An H&H will absolutely catch fish! They're just not durable enough. Bad hook too. I learned to bass fish with them back in the mid 70's as kid. They were deadly around the grass on Lake O'the Pines. And when they started putting willow leaf blades on em, oh man look out. Awesome bait!

That , Zebco , good bike , sandwich we were gone all day .

My wife is from Many LA. Every time we go over there we go to Nichols which is like if Hobby Lobby and a Mom and Pop outdoor store had a baby. I always pick up an H & H or two to fish the family pond with. They still work!!

I still have some in my box. When the bite gets tough i bring them out.

Isn't it crazy how with all of the spinnerbait lures out there, the H and H still produces?

i used them a lot with my Dad on our twice a year trips to Caddo. Worked great in all the weeds and lily pads; and really caught fish.

my Dad forgot to put the hook on one of his; couldn't understand why he kept missing those bass!!!

H & H spinnebait,Johnson Silver Spoons and my dads Herbs Dilly were the lures I started out using growing up.

Hands down, the best pond lure ever invented.

I've been using them since the '50s, and still do. Now, though, I "customize" them with a ball bearing swivel, willow leaf blades, and then solder the spinner wire so I don't lose lure parts. I still catch a ton of bass on these little critters - usually yellow/black or chartreuse/blue when it's sunny and purple when it's overcast. I fish 'em in the shallows with a fast retrieve, leaving a wake but not letting the blade break through the surface. It's a killer technique during the post-spawn.

When I lived in Louisiana years ago I took a friend fishing. He didn't fish very much. I was catching them good on a H&H. I gave him one to use. He kept getting bites but would lose them. I looked at his H&H and he hadn't put the hook on it. We had a big laugh over that.

good old gibsons, used to ride my bike from over by harwood junior high when harwwod rd was a cow trail to get those and bb's. but then again we we got our milk from Fitch's dairy. those days are long gone, but the H and H aren't

I fished them a little bit in our farm pond and caught a few bass, too, but the favorite was the Beetle Spin. They could not let that lure alone. Thanks for the memories. Tight lines, keep safe and good luck.

Thad Rains

We grew up throwing them in stock tanks just like everyone else. I believe the biggest crappie I've caught came on a red and white H&H

I used them on Cross Lake in Shreveport in the early 60s, I had some a few years back in Waco.

Fished Cross Lake a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful lake with great places that looked like they held bass but didn't get a single hit. Only thing we came back with were sore arms and a black/yellow frog someone had lost in the brush.

The models y'all are showing are what I'd call the "second generation" of H&H spinnerbaits.
H&H was the first spinnerbait I ever used, in about 1975.
We bought them at Walker's Sporting Goods on Jefferson in Grand Prairie back then for $1.19 each.

They had a SINGLE, fixed hook. Not the clip on, double hook pictured in some of these photos.
When they went to that hook I stopped buying them but I still have a couple from the old days.........



I caught several nice fish yesterday on a Strike King 1/8 oz. spinnerbait. Very similar to the old H&H model...

Very first bass I caught on a lure was a white H&H in 1976.

When my parents moved us to Winnsboro in 1966 we went fishing at lake Winnsboro which at that time was a hot lake ! Black and yellow was most popular and we caught tons of fish all from the bank , never had a boat . Still a favorite in my tackle box .

Throwback for sure, I grew up on H&Hs and Beetle Spins as well

The model with the double hook was the 1st generation. I was fishing them in the mid 1960s when there were leaves on the trees in the Black Forrest on Sam Rayburn.

My uncle was a guide on Toledo in the early 70's. Took the hook off his wife's H&H so he didn't have to keep getting her un-hung. Marriage didn't last through the year. True story.

Same here. Back in the late 60s, Gibson's in Beaumont would run them on sale for 19 cents ea.and I'd buy a card of yellow/black and a card of white.

H &H and the pre rigged Cream worms. Got me hooked!!

Also the Heddon Sonic, I think it was the first Rattle Trap type bait out there.

Dixon spinnerbaits was another one I really liked. Not sure how long they were around but they've been gone for at least 10 years

Caught tons of bass up to 5lbs on an h&h from the neches river growing up. Lost most of them to a grinnel eventually haha

I’ve still got two in my tackle box.

I still keep them in my boat. Black/yellow seemed to work best. Like one of the earlier post says used to buy them at Gibsons for less than a dollar.

I started bass fishing in 1958 at age 11 in NE Texas. I fished small lakes that I could walk around and didn't get run off. For quite a while I don't think I knew there were any bass lures except the H&H, pre-rigged worm, and a Heddon popper.

My favorite bait back then. That and The Mepps spinners.

Still the best for my pond!