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PINETREE

02/16/2012 09:15AM

not these off colored ones, the basserino or plugs like the hula popper. These were plugs as a kid you were proud to own,and also Dad. Especially remember owning a official dare devil with a picture on. Oh and the red and white basserino everybody had one. Remember the old Redeye brass colored plug with two glass eyes? Use to catch a lot of fish on these plugs. To be honest I have not used these plugs in years. Think I will dig them out of the bottom of my tackle box and let them get some exercise.

Sig: All of us our Dreamers. Dreams are what started everything. We our asking ourselves a great question? all of us interested in wilderness preservation are asking...What kind of world do we want.?

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BearBrown

02/16/2012 10:08AM

The red and white dare devil still gets plenty of exercise in my tackle box. Great lure.

Richard "Bear" Brown----- "I would rather give someone one photograph they can't live without than one hundred they can live with." anonymous

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Bdubguy

02/16/2012 10:18AM

Interesting PINETREE, sounds like you have looked through my dad's old tackle box. It was metal and rusty. Also had a red and white jitterbug, a couple of big red and white bobbers, chain style stringer and a rigged plastic worm with the propeller spinner.... fun memories. I've drifted away from spoons for the most part, don't use too often anymore....

Keep your line wet....

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Old Hoosier

02/16/2012 11:28AM

Great memories, PINETREE.

Don't forget the slow wobble lure called "Lazy Ike." Dad gave me a yellow as well as green version as a kid - still have them. Am 62 yrs old now.

I actually caught a 20 lb pike on one in 2002. The hooks were so flimsy I was sure I'd lose it at the boat, but was fortunate enough to land it. Had to be very patient and use soft drag.

Old Hoosier

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ckb

02/16/2012 12:07PM

quote Old Hoosier: "Great memories, PINETREE."

Ah, great memories indeed. It was 1985 when I told my favorite uncle that I was headed to BWCA for the first time. He went to his tackle box, pulled out a red and white daredevle, and told me that I couldn't go wrong with it.

My crappy Zebco 202 didn't do me any favors that year, but hey I was only 14. I did manage a few SMB and pike or two on that dardevle.

In getting ready to go back this year for the first time since '87, the first lure I bought was a red and white daredevle.

What size spoons are you guys using nowadays? I picked up some 1/4, 2/5, and 3/4 oz ones in Rd/Wh, Bk/Wh, and Yellow 5 diamonds.

Men almost always walk in paths beaten by others and act by imitation ~ Niccolo Machiavelli ..............So choose wisely when picking someone to emulate.

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PINETREE

02/16/2012 01:04PM

Jitterbug and lazy ike were two of the other old timers. The number one northern catcher was by far the daredevil. Always hated it when my daredevil snagged a tree. The official daredevil did cost more than the replicas. Yes, the old tackle boxes were medal and the lures usually rusted a little. When you were young or young at heart, that tackle box meant everything.

Oh and you probably had 40 pound black line on a reel.

Sig: All of us our Dreamers. Dreams are what started everything. We our asking ourselves a great question? all of us interested in wilderness preservation are asking...What kind of world do we want.?

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Jeriatric

02/16/2012 02:48PM

I caught a pike, on a red-and-white Dardevle , in the Yukon last summer. I even caught some kokanee on the same spoon.
I became acquainted with the brand when I first discovered the BW and this site 6 years ago. Now, at least one red-and-white goes with me on every fishing trip to almost anywhere. It's very versatile.

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PlumberDave

02/16/2012 03:27PM

My second trip in, back in the 70s, I brought in a lazy ike. let my buddy use it and caught a 9 lb walleye on Alice lake. Never let him use it again. Still have it.

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Savage Voyageur

02/16/2012 05:21PM

I have caught many pike on a red and white daredevil. Lazy Ike as another for pike. No idea who decided these did no longer catch fish. I know it must have been Rapala.

"So many lakes, so little time."

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bassnut

02/16/2012 06:13PM

Can't tell how many Sand Bass I have caught on red and white Dardevils, probably over a thousand. Good ol' Fly Ike is a stream favorite around here. Those pre-rigged worms with the red beads and spinner, slowly reeled, are still made(albeit a softer worm formula), and still work great. Anybody wanting to learn how to work a plastic worm should start with these.

"Blessed are the cracked because they let in light."

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maxxbhp

02/16/2012 06:23PM

Down here if you didn't have a Nip-I-Didee you weren't taken seriously. I was born in 55, so I grew up with spin-cast reels. My dad was 40 years older, old bait cast reels that NOTHING disengaged, not even the handle. Those old baits were huge, otherwise you couldn't cast them. EDIT--PS my dad could cast a bait cast reel forehand, overhand, and backhand with BOTH arms.

"Old Nashville still has a song and dance, and the Florida girls still wear no underpants. And we all get drunk at the football game, yeh the new south, thank God is still the same" Hank Williams, jr

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Old Hoosier

02/17/2012 11:28AM

Bassnut - you mentioned "sand bass" so I immediately knew you were in the South towards Texas area.

I lived in Sherman, TX for several years and fished Lake Texoma heavily. When I moved there the "sand bass" were so prolific there was no limit. We literally could fill a 48 qt freezer and had to quit because we didn't want to clean anymore fish.

Winter sand bass fishing was the wildest. We would find them stacked up in feeder streams and jig using 2 or 3 spoons and not reel in until we were sure every hook was full.

By the time I left - the stripers were the same. They lifted the limits on anything under 5 lb.

Great memories of one fantastic fishing impoundment.

Old Hoosier

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Jeriatric

02/17/2012 01:19PM

quote Old Hoosier: "Bassnut - you mentioned "sand bass" so I immediately knew you were in the South towards Texas area.

I lived in Sherman, TX for several years and fished Lake Texoma heavily. When I moved there the "sand bass" were so prolific there was no limit. We literally could fill a 48 qt freezer and had to quit because we didn't want to clean anymore fish.

Winter sand bass fishing was the wildest. We would find them stacked up in feeder streams and jig using 2 or 3 spoons and not reel in until we were sure every hook was full.

By the time I left - the stripers were the same. They lifted the limits on anything under 5 lb.

Great memories of one fantastic fishing impoundment.

Old Hoosier "
I had no idea what a sand bass was so I googled it and realized it is what we call a white bass. It is considered non-native and invasive here. Check out the video.
Experts with their white bass catch

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fitgers1

02/17/2012 01:52PM

I've also got a lot of old neat tackle from the 70's and more that I was given by my dad and grandpa's.
I've caught a lot of pike on a daredevle. Got a couple others. The Five of Diamonds was a good one to. Both have a nice place of honor in my tackle box. Top tray.
Such a wonderful simple spoon. Just think of the millions of fish it has caught around the world.

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson...and...“Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading".

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Frenchy19

02/17/2012 06:40PM

Still use the 5 of Diamonds and the red and white Daredevils. I remember the first northern I caught as a kid at a resort in Walker. I was casting a red and white Daredevil and, "wham!" I landed the fish on shore and it scared the crap out of me with its daunting teeth...also recall a buddy of mine catching himself in the back of the head with a Bassreno on senior skip day back in 1980 at Bush Lake in Bloomington...fun memories!

Check out the following link for a fun article from Field and Stream on the 50 best lures of all times (not all classics, mind you):

50 Best Lures

"He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious." Yogi Berra

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bassnut

02/17/2012 07:02PM

I'm in N.E. Okla., just like Tenn., patron state of Blowin' stuff up!! Sand bass limit is how many you want to filet!!

"Blessed are the cracked because they let in light."

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AdamXChicago

02/17/2012 08:26PM

quote BearBrown: "The red and white dare devil still gets plenty of exercise in my tackle box. Great lure. "

+1 - always on the short list

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overthehill

02/17/2012 08:49PM

I wonder what happened to the 'Lazy Ike" ? Now you see 'flatfish' name.(I think it was a lazy ike....a banana flattened on both ends???? ) I also dug out an old devils horse awhile back.....cool lure that had been forgotten by me. Cool thread.

Not to Hurry-Not to Worry

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Basspro69

02/17/2012 10:22PM

Lazy Ike. Creek chub, jitterbug, daredevil, beetle spin, and more. These are all lures that i still use from time to time because they still work. The jitterbug is my favorite, but the Lazy ike is equally as deadly, it truly is a great trolling lure.

" I want to know Gods thoughts , The rest are details " Albert Einstein.

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Jett

02/18/2012 07:02AM

Red & White Daredevil! Great plug!! Last year on Bald Eagle Lake my son caught a 4 lb small mouth bass and lost an even bigger one. Both on the SAME red & white Daredevil I caught a 40" Northern Pike on in 1982 in the same lake!! I plan to take it again this year and look forward to ALL it will attract!!

Jett On - Fishing, a great gift from God the Father!

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PINETREE

02/18/2012 07:20AM

The flatfish looks like a lazy ike but usually had multi triple hooks that would get tangled.

Sig: All of us our Dreamers. Dreams are what started everything. We our asking ourselves a great question? all of us interested in wilderness preservation are asking...What kind of world do we want.?

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Jeriatric

02/19/2012 06:06PM

Fishermen may be interested in browsing through a 2006 Field and Stream list "The 50 Greatest Lures of All Time."
Greatest Lures

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schweady

02/19/2012 07:22PM

A good friend has a group of us up to his lake home on Sand Point Lake each fall. His tackle box has about 20-30 lures in it. Every one of them is a red and white Dardevle knock-off. Can't tell you the margin by which he out fishes all of us for big northerns every trip. Only changes when the paint on the spoon is entirely gone. "Makes my lure choice pretty easy and saves a lot of time," he gloats.

"You can observe a lot by watching." -- Yogi Berra

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myceliaman

02/21/2012 09:49PM

The shakespear red and white mouse. Later made by creek chub in multiple colors. It ran a little deeper than the original. When I was a kid my grandmother would tie one on at the beginning of a trip and took if off when we left. 5 6 rod ,ambassador reel,minimum of 15 lb Cordell line the braided type,6 inch leader at all times that was her rig I saw her catch 2 20lb northerns on one trip.

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QueticoMike

02/22/2012 09:28AM

I have caught all of my 40 plus inch pike on a surface lure called the Lucky 13 in the bullfrog pattern. The biggest one just came to the surface like a lochness monster, all you see is the giant head with its mouth open, came straight up on it, not from the side. I never moved the lure before the hit, just made a cast and let it sit there for a couple on minutes. Just sucked it up and didn't even make a noise. Then the head just submerged back under like a periscope. Couldn't believe what I saw, reeled up the slack and set the hook. It swam in like a log until it got to shore and realized what was going on. Then the battle started.

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benr0

02/22/2012 11:00AM

Perch colored Lazy Ike 3 sizes, cought one of my biggest northerns on a red and white one and Red and White Daredevil.
Always in my box.

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PINETREE

02/22/2012 01:02PM

I think the lazy ike was a still is a great lure,but people don't use it because it is old fashion. I wonder if the fish know that.

Sig: All of us our Dreamers. Dreams are what started everything. We our asking ourselves a great question? all of us interested in wilderness preservation are asking...What kind of world do we want.?

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frogger

02/23/2012 07:16PM

I still use lazy Ike's, tadpollys and those pre-rigged plastic worms on my home rivers here in the MO Ozarks and I also take them to BWCA, the fish don't know their old fashion.

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