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Duyz72
21-10-2005, 01:42 PM
I would love to know how old is your oldest lure? And are you still using it?
Or do most of you dispense with older lures because:
a) bust offs, or
b) you buy so many new ones? (we all know this is the real reason :P)

Is there anyone who has a lure more than 20 years old and still catching fish on it? I would love to hear about those!

bdowdy
21-10-2005, 05:28 PM
:)i collect old lures and have some old floppys,aeroplane spinners, peter newell kaidicthas and so on , i dont dare to use these as they have a increase in value if you can pick up some in good condition. about the only lure i do use when im at the coast is aold wonder wobbler. cheers bdowdy....... :)

revs57
21-10-2005, 05:59 PM
yep, an old wonder wobbler for me too..had it too long to remember...It's scarey, my dad got it for me when I was a kid...that's over 40 years ago...still catching fish...bouncing it off the sand banks at Straddie for flatties, to off the jetty at Bamaga for Queenies and its still catching fish. If I keep reminiscing I'll get misty so I'm off..

Cheers

Rhys

philip_thomson
21-10-2005, 06:33 PM
my oldest lire is a slug that i bought when i went to the whitsundays christmas 1997. caught a small barracuda on it ;D

masterdusky
21-10-2005, 06:52 PM
got a coupleo f manns stretch 5's which ive had for roughly 10yrs Id say...a couple of them got no paint round the middles...just plain white..LOL

banshee
21-10-2005, 07:19 PM
I have some prety old ones,1 mid sized Flopy I got for my sixteenth birthday,it will be thirty years old on Sunday but has detiorated so can't be used,two large Flopy's that are pre 80's including one suposedly rare saltwater version that has never been used and one that has lost it's nose plug,a Burke Little Big Dig and a Burke Bassassin both soft rubber that I got in about '78 and are quite useable and a Heddon Tiny Crazy Crawler that I got at the same time.

warrior
22-10-2005, 09:30 PM
have some old trout spinners that my late pop made in the fifties to fish the small streams in tassie,toooooo scared to use them as i might lose my last memories of my times with pop fishing the highlands in tassie.

blaze
22-10-2005, 10:44 PM
I have a small tackle box of small (mostly 1" and less) of small fish shaped metal trout lures, some have no paint left on them and there are a few that have never seen water. Most of them would be inexcess of 30 years old
cheers
blaze
ps
also have some homemade mouse shaped and frog propellor lures of the same vintage