you are correct....the one in top picture,middle row,second from bottom is an Aquasonic...

Thanks, very interesting. Is that AquaSonic the one with the hole for water to pass through?
(Never had one of those)

I remember my Dad taking me to Tawakoni in the mid 60"s. The lake and me was young then.
We would fish off a point close to Rabbit Cove.May-June was prime time. The shad spawn was going on then.
We would seine shad early every morning to fish with. I remember 4 lb Bass jumping over the seine to escape. Lol Looked like salmon.
Some mornings bass would jump out on the bank chasing shad.
My uncle came down one weekend with a bag of purple worms and after that day I knew I was going to be a bass fisherman.
All you could buy then was creme scoundrels or fliptail worms .

Funny, I put new line on one today and placed in the rod box.....it is on a Shimano Bantam rod.

Started in the early seventies using my grandfathers Zebco spincast reels in Iowa fishing his pond for smallmouth . We used all those old lures , Hellbenders , daredevlis , creme worms . There is just something about those first couple of times a bass hits a lure , the adrenaline starts pumping and pure excitement . I graduated to that famous 5000D Garcia , my was green and the handles went backwards when the drag goes out ---- we called em " knucklebusters " . I became so addicted to Mann's Blackgrape Jelly worms , I used to buy em 100per pack and threw Texas rigs all year and everywhere.
I still have several of the old crankbaits I originally bought in the late 70's ---- would never throw them for fear of losing them.

I bought two Lamaglass rods that were heavy, and wore you out after a day of casting. I remember thinking my first graphite rod would snap in half on the first hookset. I did snap a few though.

Got hooked on bass fishing in the late 50's using a 5' steel rod with a hand me down on an Shakespear level wind reel using braided line. Yes we had braid back then. Bait of choice was an 8" purple worm that had two weedless hooks pre-threaded in it. Went from bank fishing to fishing out of a "tube" that I made using an 18 wheeler tire and an old tractor seat. Learned to scull and do it quietly as soon as Dad got our first wooden boat that we carried in the back of the pickup. My first Ambassador reel was a 2500 that I used for the light lines needed for the clear lakes. Got my first bass boat in 1976 and fished three nightly jackpots and at least two weekend tournaments a month. My claim to fame is that I once beat George Cochran for angler of the year in our local bass club. Still fish but with a newer "old" boat but not as hard and not as much.

Good read!

I believe true temper were sold by Western Auto, or Whites Auto. Weren't they??

The third one down and 4th down top pic, left side looks like a Lazy Ike . 4th, Tail Gator. Middle bottom looks like a bladeless Skip Jack. The 3rd & 4th down on right is a Carrot Top, and 4th looks like a Lucky 13. I caught a lot of fish on a Tail Gator and a Carrot top ( both Smithwick)

Too much daylight to dark fun in the sun on the water... the first 50 without sunblock.

In the early 70s guides on Toledo were always 1 upping each other. Running 15'-17' round nose Ray Craft or similar boats with stick steering ,and 85-125 hp. motors { boats probably rated for 40-65 hp. motors. Buying ,selling and trading worm holes { that was common} back then. Smithwick's NoNo spinnerbaits, or H&Hs were the most frequent. As far as worms, Fliptail, Fluttertail, Yum Yum, and Crème were about all that was around here. Devils horse, Carrot Top, Devils Toothpick, Boy Howdy's, Pico Pops, Tail Gators, and Mud Bugs, pretty much covered the hard baits { Prior to the alphabet crankbaits}. Jigs weren't that big a hit in those days, but Bass Busters bucktail with Uncle Josh Pork, and Mann's little George covered the cold weather fishing. Most guides and serious fishermen carried 3 set ups. A pool cue 5-51/2 worm rod. A 5-51/2' buggywhip topwater rod, and a light spinning rod for throwing a maribou jig and the small Red Fin. Those Garcia 5000, & 5000c reels were 3.7.1 retrieve, You could buy Buzz gears and make it 4.7.1{ I think} Also we would buy bigger reel handles [ Power Handles] Then you were as ready as ever. Do any of you remember the rave over Chartruse, Flouresent Orange, and the curl tail worm ( Mister Twister) There were a long list of trolling motors then, Motor Guide, Minn Kota, Ram, Byrd, Silvertroll were most popular, but many more were available. I miss a lot of that , but the 1 thing I do not miss is the blued worm hooks, cant remember how many broke or opened up on big fish. My first boat was a flat bottom v nose Arkansas Traveler, with a Shakespear trolling motor. Those were some of the best times of my youth. Prior to 1988 you'd get more attention for a 6lber. than a 9 lber. today. A lot of this will sound foreign to anyone younger than 50s.

Oh the bass I have caught on a chrome Red Fin. Owned 3 Ram Glide trolling motors too. My first graphite rod was a Skyline, followed closely by a Lew's speed stick G56X. Red Ambassador 5000 and how amazing the Shimano Bantams were when they first came out. I still have 2 of the old Bantams plus Lew's BB-1s that were manufactured by Shimano. Back in the day we all fished 25# Trilene on our pool cues. Several years saw us chunking a safety pin type spinner bait called a Fuzzy Wuzzy on Rayburn and Toledo. Around 1971 Cotton Cordell came out with a tail spinner called a Super Shad, guys bought them by the case at Gibson's in Beaumont. I still have a few and haven't caught a fish on one since 1973. I ran across some of those old blued Mustad worm hooks in the attic the other day. Oh the memories.

I remember listening to the fishing reports early in the morning on the farm and ranch channel of the radio, and most all the catches reported back then were caught on a black Tarantula, an H&H safety pin spinnerbait, and a local bait called a phantom lure that was trolled and popular on Canyon lake back in the day.

You can still buy the original.....https://www.hhlure.com/products/the-original-h-h-spinner

back in late 60's/early 70's,fished with Freddie grant(fishing guide) once on sam rayburn..caught a lot of bass jigging a worm straight up and down...there was another well known guide named ralph giessow and the outdoor editor of the Houston chronicle,bob brister also liked to bass fish...…
my parents bought a lot and put a trailer in the El Camino Bay subdivision on Toledo Bend back in late 60's....fishing was unbelievable back then especially schooling bass out in the flooded timber....