Well the trip to Tyler state park was good...so was the fishing.It took a lil bit but figured em bass out! The dam was o.k with a silver rattle trap.The swimming platform also held a few good ones.The best was the early morning in the cove where the boat ramp is with a black jitterbug topwater! It was a blast watchin that bait get hit.

Love those old school baits and to here they are alive and doing well. You will have to try some of mine that I have been fishing for 40 years.

Which ones

nice report

For the spinner bait it is the Hank parker Classic. When I won the Red Man Classic in 1974 on Ky. Lake I bought 200 of them knowing that they would not be around forever. Mann's still makes a verson and it looks the same but the wire is not the same length and it is a tiny bit heavier.

I will be glad to help you tweak one if you will send me a PM.
All my baits are tweaked and the process is quite lengthy.

Another bait that has been around for ever and won me a ton of money is the Spook. There is a big Bass tweaking process that I put it through also.

I throw a bait called the Do-Drop-In made by Bill Phillips of Tennessee.

I still throw all of Bill Dances Little S's and Big S's

My Stormy Weather Spinner bait was originally produced by Charles Spence and Bill Dance back in the early 70's when we would go to Mr. Dances house in Memphis and buy them out of his garage. I have tweaked this bait over all these years to catch big bass during inclement upper level disturbances that blow in.
I have won 5 major tournaments on it over the years with my biggest stringer ever in a tournament of 62 lbs. for 10 Bass.

It just goes on and on and I am willing to share with you or anyone else that would like to know about them. Many of them I can walk you through the process to build some of them. Also some of them I have for sale.

Ya i also carry a few lazy ikes that i fish with and do well.My grandpa got me using old baits.

Way to go Donald Harper !
Sharing is what I like about TFF.