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Old tackle box
Posted on 5/8/24 at 10:08 pm
Posted on 5/8/24 at 10:08 pm
Was at my mother’s house today and found one of my old tackle boxes.
Brought back a lot of memories of fishing old lakes and beaver swamps when I was a teenager.
Lot of old lure I had forgotten about. Cotton Cordell g finish rattle spots, Bagley fat cats, Sugar shads, Tom Mann pogo shads, Poe’s crankbaits, Loyd talent rats for fishing milfoil mats on lake Guntersville and the Doug Hannon snake bait.
Not sure what the rattle trap looking bait was with the rubber tail.
Brought back a lot of memories of fishing old lakes and beaver swamps when I was a teenager.
Lot of old lure I had forgotten about. Cotton Cordell g finish rattle spots, Bagley fat cats, Sugar shads, Tom Mann pogo shads, Poe’s crankbaits, Loyd talent rats for fishing milfoil mats on lake Guntersville and the Doug Hannon snake bait.
Not sure what the rattle trap looking bait was with the rubber tail.
This post was edited on 5/9/24 at 8:11 am
Posted on 5/8/24 at 10:20 pm to highcotton2
I truly regret discovering my father’s old tackle box that sort of went extinct once he married, sold out to the man and had kids. LOL..
We didn’t have much and I drowned a lot of those old baits 30+ years ago.
Old Rapala, Rattle Traps, Creek Chub and other classics. In many cases still in their original packaging.
What I’d give to have them back in my hands now.
We didn’t have much and I drowned a lot of those old baits 30+ years ago.
Old Rapala, Rattle Traps, Creek Chub and other classics. In many cases still in their original packaging.
What I’d give to have them back in my hands now.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 10:56 pm to highcotton2
How did you decide which lure you were going to use?
That’s always my question.
That’s always my question.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 11:46 pm to highcotton2
Check out this guy's YT channel. Some of the things he highlights definitely brings back some boyhood memories.
And it's got an infectious little opening ditty...
Posted on 5/9/24 at 5:16 am to highcotton2
Have one in garage like that was dads, his wife hocked the rest, bitch.
Posted on 5/9/24 at 5:49 am to highcotton2
I had the same tackle box at one time.
Posted on 5/9/24 at 5:59 am to highcotton2
At one point I had possession of: my father’s; my maternal grandfather’s; my maternal great grandfather’s; my own.
Last I saw of them they were in a storage building that got robbed. Idiots left behind great grandfather’s hand carved canoe paddles.
Those were some great old lures and memories. A lot of great gear too.
Last I saw of them they were in a storage building that got robbed. Idiots left behind great grandfather’s hand carved canoe paddles.
Those were some great old lures and memories. A lot of great gear too.
Posted on 5/9/24 at 7:33 am to highcotton2
Bagleys with the brass hangers are very collectable.
Look them up and you may be suppressed.
Find a piece of drift wood and display them.
Look them up and you may be suppressed.
Find a piece of drift wood and display them.
Posted on 5/9/24 at 8:02 am to highcotton2
Nice find. My mom made a few shadow box displays with her dad's old lures and gave them out as gifts to guys in our family. Pretty cool way to remember him.
Posted on 5/9/24 at 10:30 am to highcotton2
I have my grandfathers old Plano he bought it in the late 70's. It has a top tray and some pull outs underneath it. Damn thing is bullet proof through all these years. I use it for panfish tackle. I think it has numbers on it somewhere. Want to say it's a 737 or something like that. I'll go see and report back.
Posted on 5/9/24 at 10:30 am to highcotton2
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Not sure what the rattle trap looking bait was with the rubber tail
It was just that. Rattle trap with a plastic tail. They made them for a short time in maybe the mid to late 90s.
I have some of them, never really used them though.
Posted on 5/9/24 at 10:36 am to btrcj
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Find a piece of drift wood and display them.
Good idea!
Posted on 5/9/24 at 11:09 am to highcotton2
I’d happily take those Poe’s off your hands if you would be so kind…..
Seriously
Seriously
Posted on 5/9/24 at 11:09 am to bbvdd
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It was just that. Rattle trap with a plastic tail. They made them for a short time in maybe the mid to late 90s.
You remember the Cotton Cordell rattle spots that the line feed through the body and attached directly to the treble hook? The lure could slide up the line.
This post was edited on 5/9/24 at 11:10 am
Posted on 5/9/24 at 11:57 am to dstone12
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How did you decide which lure you were going to use?
That’s always my question.
I have a fool proof method....I dump my tacklebox in the lake and any of them that get ate I use them.....
Posted on 5/9/24 at 12:00 pm to bocro
quote:
Nice find. My mom made a few shadow box displays with her dad's old lures and gave them out as gifts to guys in our family. Pretty cool way to remember him.
My wife did something similar for my FIL and presented it for Christmas. He thought it was about as grand an idea as he could have gotten. It hung on the wall from December until we visited in May. It was gone. My wife asked him where it was....he had opened it up and put the lures back in his tackle box LOL. And had used them. Man was she ever pissed.....
Posted on 5/9/24 at 12:13 pm to highcotton2
If anyone ever comes across some old school wiggle warts in their old boxes some go for $100 each FYI. They're super valuable for being so common back in the day
Posted on 5/9/24 at 1:16 pm to highcotton2
Center left - is that a top water Jitterbug?
I loved fishing with that bait. Didn’t catch much, but induced some great strikes.
I loved fishing with that bait. Didn’t catch much, but induced some great strikes.
Posted on 5/9/24 at 1:39 pm to KemoSabe65
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Have one in garage like that was dads, his wife hocked the rest, bitch.
My dad died when I was only 8, and that was 63 years ago now. I only have 3 things that he owned from back then.
I still have his fiberglass fishing rod with the old style turned wooden handle with brass fittings to secure the reel that I had new guides put on many years ago so I could use a spinning reel.
Then 2 pieces of jewelry, one a gold tie tack shaped like a hand holding a small diamond between the thumb and forefinger. The other is a gold ring with a square black onyx set in it and the initial of our first name in it.
I cherish these few things and to this day still use that fishing pole, especially when on the Mississippi River going after catfish.
Posted on 5/9/24 at 1:58 pm to highcotton2
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Loyd talent
Used to run into him all the time. Always enjoyed talking to him.
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