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Antique & Vintage Fishing Lures - Fisheriana

Though the earliest fish hooks date to the Stone and Bronze Ages, with some carved from wood or bone, the modern, recorded history of fishing lures can be said to begin with the mid 17th century publication of The Compleat Angler, describing trout fishing with hand made flies in English brooks and streams. In the two centuries that followed, lures were carved and tied by hand by individual fishermen and craftsmen.

By the beginning of the 20th century, enterprising individuals began to manufacture fishing lures. The apocryphal tale is that James Heddon was whittling by a pond and chucked a piece of wood in the water, where it was struck by a bass, giving him the idea to carve a frog as a lure. That may have happened, but the fact that bass have a "strike first, ask questions later" policy when they are hungry should not have been news to any fisherman. In any case, the James Heddon & Sons company began producing lures like the Heddon Minnows and Frogs, beginning a long run of successful and sought after lures that are rare treasures to collectors today.

Around that time, the Creek Chub Bait Company began producing their Wiggler lure. Their success continued with innovative use of screening to create the appearance of scales on their lures, and the use of realistic looking glass eyes. It was a Creek Chub bait that took the world record 22 lb 4 oz largemouth bass in Lake Mongomery, Georgia, a record that was only recently tied in 2009. Their lures and baits from South Bend like the Bass Oreno were the foundation of the commercial manufacturing of American fishing lures in the early 20th century.

In the 1930's and 1940's, Rapala came along with lures designed to swim like wounded fish, and the Bomber Bait Co brought out their first Bomber lure. These joined lures from Pflueger, Minnows from Rebel, Bagley balsa wood lures and many other fishing lures produced in the early to mid 1900s. The rare fishing lure models like hand carved Lazy Ike lures from 1938-1940 have become very collectible today, and you can search for old lures here or at Vintage Fishing Lures.
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SHAKESPEARE REVOLUTION BAIT LURE BUCKTAIL SPINNER - RARE 1901 Original

5 terminator double rattle jigs 3/8 oz old fishing lures 8

A GOOD COLLECTION OF MOSTLY VINTAGE HARDY LURES AND AN EARLY BOX

Antique wood fishing lure with glass eyes plug bass 3" long

1950's Creek Chub, 7.25" No.5500, Jointed Snook Pike w/ Glass Eyes

Vintage Fishing Lure Hand Made.Shows Natural Aging Of Paint.Wooden.Beautiful!!

Vintage Burmek 8" jointed Musky fishing lures With New Hooks!

Vintage Shannon's Plastic Fly Fishing Box Holder Good Condition

Iron Decoy Steely 5 SFIRETIGER Steely Spoon Size 5, 4 1/4", 1 oz

Jitterbug Fred Arbogast Antique Lure

Vintage, Wood, Pflueger Globe Fishing Lure, 6 Inch, Bull Dog Logo On Blade!

Vintage South Bend Bass Oreno Fishing Lure, Tack Eyes

Vintage Heddon River Runt Spook Sinker w/Partial Box and Insert

vintage fishing lures

CREEK CHUB BAIT CO. "PIXIE" JOINTED PLUG WITH GLASS EYES

Vintage genuine Hofschneider red eye fishing lure in original box

TWO VINTAGE METAL CONE SPINNER LURES

Fishing Lot W/ Just about everything you need to get started!

Vintage Carpenter Triple Depth Lure Blanks Early Wooden Models One is Marked PEN

Iron Decoy Steely 5 GCH Steely Spoon Size 5, 4 1/4", 1 oz, Gold

Vintage Porter Sea Hawk Wood Weighted Nose Fishing Lure, red head/white body

Vintage Mister Twister Hawg Frawg 4" Fishing Lures New Old Stock Brown

Vintage Badger Bait Company "Action Hair Jigs" Fishing Lure -- Qty 2, Rare

2 old fishing items, Pal scaler, anglers holster. New old stock

Vintage 2-3/4 Inch Metal No.1310 Johnson’s Silver Minnow Fishing Lure Spoon

LOT OF 20 Vintage Helin MOSTLY NEW IN BOX FISHERMANS ESTATE

antique fly fishing lures

Vintage Japan Rogue - BLUE SILVERFLASH - 5 1/4 inch

Vintage 1950s Fishing Lure Large Hook With Eyes And Horse Hair tail

Vintage Mercury Minnow, 3" Body, Fishing Lure Vg White Scale W/Bf

vintage fly fishing lures

Vintage THE TUBE by Knight LIZARD Fishing Lures Rubber Bait 5003

Vintage Atlantic-Lures, Inc. The Original Silvertone "Weedless Spoon"

Vintage Minnow - GREEN & WHITE - 3 3/4 inch

Bagley Chatter Shad III 3” Black Back Chartruese Shad, Orange Belly

4 vintage crankbait fishing lures

3-lot Castaic Swimbait SBS 4" Slim White/Red 22g/11cm boot-tail soft-baits/NOS

Heddon Sonar 433 And 431 Vintage Fishing Lure

6 Vintage Wooden Fishing Lures Lot Heddon Lazy Ike Hawaiian Wiggler Split Shot

Vintage Mepps Spoon lure lot (3). See pix for condition. .75, 1", & 1.25" spoon

Bomber SpinStick Bass Anglers Sportsman Society B.A.S.S. Special Edition

VINTAGE LARGE TROLLING LURE LUHR JENSEN ? BLUE WHITE GLITTER 5 1/2"

Vintage Heddon (?) wood River Runt fishing lure

Vintage Bill Plummer 1st Generation Frog Green Fishing Lure

VINTAGE UNIQUE OLD CRANK BAIT

Vintage Fishing Lure Pachner and Koehler P&K Whirl-A-Way Fishing Lure

Vintage Storm Rattlin Chug Bug Fishing Lure Lot 2

VINTAGE FISHING LURE WOOD TOP WATER PENCIL POPPER ANTIQUE LURE

VINTAGE FISHING LURE WOOD TOP WATER PROP ANTIQUE LURE SMITHWICK DEVIL HORSE

Bomber Vintage Wood Diving Crankbait Fishing Lure Yellow


Collectors of vintage artificial baits should not miss Old Fishing Lure, where you can find lots of pictures and information about collectible antique lures, boxes, and lure company catalogs.

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