Topwater Caranx Ignobilis: Giant Trevally (GT) > Tackle & Techniques
Origins of our most popular lures
Nathan Tsao:
Hello, as Gavin already said, there really arent any lures made today that dont have a predecessor from early bass fishing lures. Everything that we use today for GT's can be traced back to the late 1800's-early 1900's. Poppers, stickbaits, pencils, and divers all started as small handcarved lures used to catch largemouth and smallmouth.
Charles Cintron:
I took this pic a while ago and found it again.
Top lure GT fishing: PD Atomic Pile
Bottom Lure Bass Fishing: Devils Horse
Besides the missing prop on the front of the PD and the extra treble looks the same to me lol!
Mark Harris:
Nice one Charles!
Is there anyone who actually uses Matsutani's propeller lure? I have always been too embarrassed :-\ .
On a more serious note, it is bloody difficult to come up with a completely original lure design and huge kudos to those designers who do.
Brandon Khoo:
Its a bit of a rort to have to keep replacing the propeller at something like $20 a replacement ::)
Chris Young:
--- Quote from: Mark Harris on March 31, 2012, 11:05:24 AM ---
On a more serious note, it is bloody difficult to come up with a completely original lure design and huge kudos to those designers who do.
--- End quote ---
Unfortunately good designs don't allways sell, not all designers have got the marketing dollars to back the product. Specially so in our sport where sales are pushed by exposure on the internet. Retailers tend to push the latest and greatest...more so if the $ margin is good. Without mass producing a product it becomes even harder to compete ::)
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