Either a minnow under a bobber or yellow H&H

manns jelley worm. Purple with a fire tail

Remember purple with white tail a classic

Was an odd catch. I was about 12 and fishing for catfish in Oklahoma with chicken guts. I guess as I reeled in to check my bait it looked tasty to a bass.

Original Rapala floater in a farm pond in deep east Texas. Still one of my Dads go to's in fall and spring.

Mann's baby 1, firetiger

1st Bass on a lure: Cotton Cordell Spot. 8 or 9 years old...



Tied the knot all by myself too...

Pico Perch back in the summer of 1956. Using a Plueger Summit reel and a Heddon glass rod. Got a backlash and while i was getting it out the lure went to the bottom. When I started reeling again and the bass struck. The next cast I did the same thing and caught a 3 lb. channel cat.

White Beetle Spin with red dot on the Nolan River. Zebco 33 classic. Great memory!

Crawworm of some sort. I was 3 yrs old. I don't remember it, just have the picture in my living room.

Cotton Cordell Lucking 13 in our farm pound. Age 10 been hooked on bass fishing ever sense.

Texas rigged red Shad 7" power worm on a 1/4 oz bullet weight at lake winnsboro.

Hawaiian Wiggler ! Thrown under the overhanging willow trees in Clarksville, TX, with my cousin and his Dad. That started it! I was probably 14 YOA. I'll never forget it!
For you guys too young to know what I'm talking about:

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A small one on Fork, on a freezing day, with a soft worm that my uncle left on my pole because I did not even know how to put a worm on the hook straight, so I just left it on. I kept hoping that worm would last forever because it was all I had.

Black and yellow h&h.