First one I remember was on a Black Hula Popper.
Topwater explosion and I was hooked for life!

Is a piece of corn considered artificial?

buzzbait

It was 10 years ago, I was only 8, and I caught a 3 pounder on a Buzz bait!

Hula Popper.

Black and yellow H&H in Mississippi river levy pond

Lake Lavon on a Black Spinnerbait on my first cast....a couple of minutes later I caught 2 more with my bare hands that beached themselves chasing shad up into the grass. There was a slight rain that morning and the lake was above normal pool.

Sliver and yellow foxtail inline spin fishing off our dock on cedar creek in summer. Got it out of my grandads tackle crappie box and have never looked back

My first bass I remember catching was on something like this.



In a color/pattern similar to this.



If Creme was making this rig 36-38 years ago, it was probably this exact set-up I caught it on.

as a kid all i fished with was a rooster tail. maybe i should go back.cought a lot of fish with it.

Caught my first on a Smithwick Devil's Horse on Toledo Bend. I was using a Zebco 33. My uncle made me throw it because i would get hung up with anything that didn't float on the water. I think I was around 7 years old.

H&h spinner

Black/chrome Bill Lewis Rat-L-Trap.

7 years old, 1974, the cut area behind Flat Creek Marina Lake Palestine.

Zebco 202, black and yellow Beetle Spin.

Standing on the back of the pontoon boat that was beached, and of course was wearing one of those bright orange life preservers, it was the only way grandparents would let me fish.

You'd have thought I caught Orca.

And so began the addiction.

Black Mann's Jelly Worm.