I remember H&H before Wal-Mart

Amen on the wake boat.

When I was a kid we threw three things...an H&H, a Reflecto "Barracuda" spoon, and a purple worm. I say purple because that was the only color we had.

it was either , black grape or scuppernong 6" Jelly worms , cotton cordell 's Big -O , or a hula popper .
There was no such thing as C-rigs , d-shots , wacky rigs .....
and the only line I used was that blue colored Stren

wow, the first chatterbait!

Wow, this is a trip down memory lane for sure. I grew up fishing the three ponds behind our house. One of them was large enough to qualify as a "lake" to me as it was 3-4 acres.

My first lure was a Hawaiian Wiggler and then a Bomber crank bait. My grandfather favored Heddon River Runts and Smithwick Devil's Horse but preferred a minnow and pole as did my grandmother.

As I got older and fished with friends, we used the black and yellow H&H although we called it "black and gold"-always did and still do...We could get them at Gibson's and sometimes 3 for a $ 1.00 when they were on sale.

I too remember Virgil Ward and the
Beetle Spins -demoed in his aquarium. Those beetle spins are still "meat lures"-everyone should have a couple.

I can vaguely remember Gadabout Gaddis who predates even Virgil Ward!

I also fished the Tiny Torpedo and the Skipjack-two good topwaters.

I tried the cr�me scoundrel-purple as already noted-but without success. I remember the Mann's Jelly worms sold in a pack of 3 or 4 and they smelled really good. Never tried them because I still had scoundrels that didn't work! lol

Try as I might, I was a teenager before I ever learned to fish the plastic worm so most of my time was spent chunking the Tiny Torpedos- still have several.

thanks again for such a great topic.

I'm 25 years old and I have thrown h&h's since I was about 8 or 9. I still throw them on the regular! I turned a slow morning on fork into a productive one with a yellow h&h just a few weeks ago. Still a great lure

Ahh. The good old days....

I fished a Texoma Bass Club tournament in early seventies and the guy I was with missed 3 or 4 fish in a short time. He had not put the hooks on the bait. Also fished Hellbender and Bayou Boogies.

I miss the good 'ol days fishing with my dad. Every time a new lake would open we would be one of the first ones there and those new lakes didn't get any better. I'll never forget when we first arrived at Rayburn. I saw for the first time bass schooling and the school was so big you couldn't throw a lure across it. We didn't have a trolling motor so when we got to the Black Forest we had to paddle through it because the trees and hydrilla was so thick. Also miss the days when a 50hp outboard was big.

Wow, good memories for me, too. I was fishing H&H spinners, Beetle spins, Heddon chuggers, Lucky 13's, etc. in the late '50's and forward. All on spinning reels - those baitcasters were for cat fishermen! My favorite bait in that era was a tiny topwater bait called a Creek Chub Darter. I still have that old bait in my tackle box today.

How's this since H&H's have stirred so many memories for all of us. My dad got back from Vietnam and all he wanted to do was buy a bass boat. It was a 14' Ouachita with 2 seats and stick steering. Throttle on the right hand side and a stick on the left. Kind of like our new modern aircraft except you moved that stick almost thru 180 degrees to go full right to full left. It had a Johnson 25hp with electric start so we were really big time! I also remember when the newest bass boat, a Power Cat(?), came onto the market and had a motor that was a four stroke which was unheard of in those days. Can't remember the name of the outboard.

I was also a Garcia Mitchell 300 & 308 spinning reel and Garcia Conolon rods. I felt like I could outfish Virgil Ward and take over his show.

When the culprit replaced the standard curly tail worm.

Wow, Aggie, I certainly envy you being raised by a dad who #1,loved to bass fish, (in stead of the perch jerkers in my family) and #2, you lived within range of Sam Rayburn when it was still a young lake. Paddling through the hydrilla in the Black Forrest .... awesome! What a way to get the love of bass fishing branded in your azz.

exactly!!

Memory lane...My granddad taught me how to bass fish in the early 1960s. 1st artificial was a shyster...would catch anything. Graduated to H&H spinners and little big Os early 70s. I watched him fish a South Bend Optic SLOWLY off the bottom and catch bass consistently. Recently got into old fishing stuff from 50s & 60s era in his memory.(see photos)