My grandfathers tackle

[ponycarman]

Thanks jim!

[rayjd2]

Spray them with PB Blaster and then if you can disassemble them, small gobs of Vaseline. It sounds crazy, but it works. They'll turn.

[rayjd2]

If you find any wooden Jitterbugs or hula poppers, retire those immediately and put them in a shadow box.

[ponycarman]

There are a couple jitterbugs but they are plastic. Most of the lures in these boxes are just going to be collected. Been thinking of build a kinda display for all of his stuff.

Hooks , sinkers, and other such items will probably be used . As well as any plastic worms or grubs/ jigs.

[husker51]

At least now I know I've been using the right lures!! So much of that stuff is what I've used through the years. Kind of hard to believe how old some of it is! I remember my granddads old steel fishin rods and those old bait casters. Never used in my life time though. They were quite old. Good pics! Thanks for the memories!

[kjohn]

Neat stuff!!

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The left one looks like one of our favorite hooks in these parts, at least when I was a kid. Might be a copy of a Len Thompson spoon, might be an original. Len Thompson spoons were the hook back in the day. Lazy Ikes were in everybodys' tackle boxes as well. If you didn't have a few Len Thompsons in your box, you couldn't hardly be classed as a fisherman. http://www.lenthompson.com/

The center one looks like a "Lazy Ike". It was very popular, and was available in various colors.

The right one looks familiar, but I can't recall the name. We called the center and right ones plugs. One I remember was called the "Canadian Wriggler". It was shiny silver, jointed in the middle and had more hooks than you could shake a stick at. Great to get all snarled up in the weeds.

[SA1911a1]

That us interesting. It looks like the contents of a bait and tackle shop in the 1970s.

My father's tackle box contained far fewer items: #7 long-shank hooks, split shot (in the small metal boxes), Corks (real cork with the pull string) 6# test line, wooden matches (for the top of the corks), needle-nosed pliers (to remove hooks and de-barb catfish), and a stringer for the fish. The only other items I remember, to complete the trip were cane poles and cricket cages and vienna sausages and crackers for lunch. Back then, boats were wooden, hand made, and generally rented. Bait was earthworms, red wigglers, crickets and catalpa worms when in season. The mode of transport was a paddle. I never saw my Father skunked fishing and is was usual to have to count to make sure we were within the legal limit.

[entropy]

NIce tackle! Can't go wrong with Mepps spinners, Rapalas, and Hula Poppers!

That old Pflueger might be worth a few bucks. They are harder to cast, I used to troll with them. The other rod & reels are your basic everyday setups; change the line, and go fishing!