Old Wood
Released in 1939, this bait sat in Fred Arbogast's dresser drawer for years as a failed deep diving lure until Brooke Oertel pulled it out and the two fiddled with it. After that, it became one of the best topwater baits of all time.
What is the Jitterbug?
This maker got famous when Cotton Cordell bought the rights to his lure and started producing it out of plastic.
Who is Fred Young?
This 19-year-old kid from California hit the ground running in 1979 winning his second BASSMaster event on Lake Powell and missing Angler of the Year by less than two pounds in his rookie year.
Who is Gary Klein?
This company was first to introduce the graphite rod at the 1973 American Fishing Tackle Manufacturers Association (AFTMA) show in Chicago.
Who is Fenwick?
Jim Bagley didn't invent the squarebill but he produced one that rivaled the Big-O.
What was the Big-B?
This company initially sued Shakespeare over patent infringement regarding the way scales were painted on lures.
Who is South Bend?
This pair of east Tennessee makers are credited with the start of handmade wood plugs in Tennessee.
Who are Lovingood and Anderson?
Between 1967 and 1970, this angler had seven wins, three seconds, one third, one fourth, three other Top-10s, and two Top-20 finishes in a total of 17 BASSMaster Events.
Who is Bill Dance?
This comany was given first right of refusal to be the United States rep for the new Swedish Reel, the ABU 5000 and 6000 and they refused.
Who is Garcia Corporation?
This man made plastic refrigerator parts before deciding to make plastic fishing lures because he couldn't get the new Finnish wood lure in the early 1960s.
Who was George Perrin?
This company made the lure that was credited with George Perry's 22-pound, 4-ounce world record. At first they reported the bass being caught on their Wigglefish, but after years, it was finally reported caught on another lure of theirs.
Who is Creek Chub Bait Company and their Fintail Minnow.
Steve Blazer, famous for the Tennessee Tuffy, aka The Tapp, started making baits because of this bait he couldn't afford to buy.
What is the Carolina Killer?
At the request of Ray Scott, this angler showed up at the 1969 BASSMaster Eufaula Invitational weigh-in to check it out. Before the end of the weigh-in, he tried to leave because he felt there was no way he could compete. Ray talked him into staying and fishing the 1970 season.
Who is Roland Martin?
This man started his business in the early 1950s by importing Japanese cane poles to the U.S. and by 1974 had one of the best bait casting rods and reels on the market.
Who is Lew Childre?
This man is credited with developing the first contemporary deep diver shaped like a Big-O while he was in college.
Who is Lee Sisson?
In the early 2010s, Japan's DUO Realis introduced a new for a new type of fishing, the Spybait. But we all know they took the idea from this 100-year-old Heddon bait.
What was the Dowagiac Minnow (or Dowagiac Underwater)?
Fred Young got so far behind making wood plugs, he taught three other Oak Ridgers to make plugs.
Who were Mike Estep, Dave Carroll, and John Morrow?
This man created a tailspin that caused some controversy within the civil rights movement of the 1960s and '70s. What was his name and the bait's name.
Who was Tom Mann and the Little George?
These companies were first to bring hollow fiberglass fishing rods to the market.
Who are Shakespeare and Conolon?
Charlie Campbell single handedly saved this lure from being disconinued.
What is the Zara Spook?
Arguably one of the best wood lures of all time, this bait was purchased patent rights and manufacturing rights) from J. S. Olds in 1915 only to become the number-one selling bait for this company. Name the company and bait.
What was the South Bend Bait Company's Bass Oreno?
This east Tennessee maker is rumored to have made 100 wooden jerkbaits in his career, but none of them landed in the U.S.
Who is Sonny McFarland?
This California angler set the weight record for a one-day, 15 fish limit on Lake Eufaula (Alabama) in 1969.
Who is Douglas "Rip" Nunnery?
This man is credited with inventing the levelwind mechanism that is currently used on all baitcasting reels today.
Who was Marhoff?
AD MFG was the company that initially introduced this vibration bait before being bought out by Dave Hawk and then Whopper Stopper.
What is the Bayou Boogie?