the old school bagleys had a flexible thin lip that would take a serious beating, it was more like a lexan type material don't know what year they went ot the other lips as i haven't bought one in decades..

The original Bomber factory is up in Gainesville, Cooke County. They were developed to fish Texoma back in the day before the Stripers to troll for black bass. The brand was sold many years ago but had a interesting start.

That is a good looking old school bagley.I have that same umco box in the pic.Lexan is the correct material,I just kept thinking acrylic.Yes those bills are the same ones that the tip end will break in the rocks.The deep divingkiller b with the angled lexan bill broke for me more than the diving b did.I still collect and use bagleys just not around rocks and I have put away all the ones like whats in your pic from the 70,s.I would still fish those too if I could replace them for the same price as the newer model.

I love them, but i can't replace them so unless i find myself in the BASSMasters classic and that's all that they will hit i'm not taking them out of my antique collection.

I throw bombers,normans and h2o's normally now, but for me they can't touch my original bagleys for catching fish.

I've never had a tip end break in rocks, the shallow divers that have the eye on the nose and the lip glued into the body i've had some knock out of the glue in one solid piece but not break.

What really chaps my hide is when you hang a solid fish on the baits today without the lip wire and the lip braks off, fish gets away and you're left with the lip and the eyelet and a money winning fish swimming around trying to throw your broken in half bait out of it's mouth