A 3# bass on a River Runt, the original model that was still made from balsa. My Granddad gave it to me along with an old tackle box full of lures. If I knew then what I know now, I would have held on to it. Instead, I kept using and eventually lost it .

Just guessing but it was either a Creme purple worm with a white tail or a LIL George. I remember buying lil Georges by the card. About 20 stapled to a piece of cardboard. Creme worms were packaged 4 or 6 on cardboard wrapped in plastic.

white H&H

I had caught a few bass by accident on small jigs, roadrunners and Rapala minnows fishing for bream and crappie. The first time I intentionally caught a bass was on a gravel bank in a cove next to a boat ramp waiting for my uncle and father to get the rig into the water. We were going out fishing for crappie with minnows. They said I wouldn't catch a bass there cause the bank was to clean and there was no cover for the bass or prey. That bass came on a T-rigged purple Berkley worm. 'Bout a 15"er. We went on a few more bass trips after that.

A friend and I would slowly reel strips of bacon in a pond in east Dallas and catch bass I told my dad and he gave us some 3" grubs...that was 30 years ago.

25 cent silver spoon(Not a Johnson Weedless) that I bought from Sears when they still sold fishing tackle.

It was a 3 or 4 lbs LMB caught with a Johnson Silver Sprite spoon w/ a treble hook using a Zebco 202 combo on a private tank. That was 45 or 50 years ago! My, where do the time go?

Black and orange rattle trap on lavon

Mepps spinner minnow

Cotton Cordell Spot Chrome/Blue

Original Creme worm pre-rigged Night Crawler in natural color.

Original Creme worm as well.Dark green and six inches long,no flutter on the tail,just the pain old fashioned worm.

Electric blue worm

They didn't have artificial lures back then