At Angling Archaeology, I set out to unearth the good ol' days. I'll feature anything vintage, with a focus on fishing. If you love vintage tackle, trucks, gear, coolers, vinyl, etc... This channel is for you.
Just found you. Really enjoyed the content, so I subscribed. I'm an old professional photographer and I have a couple of hints regarding dealing with the glare on your tabletop shots. 1) Your can put polarizers on both your lights and camera. This will eliminate nearly all the glare but can get expensive (filters large enough to cover your lights can get costly) and wipes out about 9 f stops of light. If you have auto exposure or auto focus on your camera, be sure to get a circular (as opposed to linear) polarizer for your camera lens. 2) Less expensive but not as effective, you can change your light angles. Based on the glare and the shadows of your hands, you have your lights positioned almost directly overhead. The light hits the table square on to the surface and it reflects directly back at the camera, giving lots of glare. Try positioning your lights to your left and right sides at 45 degree angles to the table surface. The left side light will hit the table at that angle and it will reflect at an equal angle to your right. Position the right side light in the same manner for the same result. MOST of your glare will be eliminated, though the curvature of the pages will make it impossible to remove it all.
Great lure,I've caught many bass with them.the crazy crawler is another good one.i still use my old wood jitterbugs.a 5-8ths ounce jitterbug in black is really the only surface lure I carry all the time besides a black spook.i use them in creeks for smallmouth to, even in the middle of the day.people need to stop thinking its just for evening and night fishing.
Thanks for writing in. I was reeling in slow… I had video on fast forward while I was fishing to help speed up the clip. Agreed that lure works best with a slow steady retrieval. Thanks for watching!
Got to tell you, this is interesting stuff. Recently, got back in the fishing after 40 years or so. Sutter dogs in Pointer dogs will take up your time while you're working and all that. Still got the shutters so anyway I've been doing a little fishing, That was supposed to be s e t t e r s, dogs . Song anyway, going through my old stuff, wonderful to hear about the history of some of these old lures. I'm still catching some nice fish on these things. Everyone's got their passion, mine thought I was kind of crazy with it but find bird dogs and find old double guns That was supposed to be f i n e dogs and guns. Good luck to all you younger fellas whatever you're doing out there
I love finding expensive lures. Then ill make one from mine random lures. I put a wacky ring on the back of my jutter bug then put little rubbs band clipings along the back of the ring so now its like like a hommade tail/skirt
Im 70 and grew up with these in Michigan. My father was an artist and avid fisherman, mostly for bass. He used to by blank bodies, in bulk, then hand paint and assembe them. I remember rows of these, hanging along the porch rail, the fresh paint drying in the sun. We caught a mountain of fish on Sonic lures. White, with little black spots and a red gill line, was his favorite.
Do you know the guy from Retro Bassin? Some kinda collaboration would be awesome. You could sit around showing off all your stuff and stretch it out into a few videos
Always a great lure but you hit the nail on the head as these do work much better in the morning & best at sunset. No fisherman should not have one or two in their tacklebox & now with the Whopper Plopper we have an arsenal fish can't let swim by without taking notice that dinner is not far away & they have no clue they will end up with this lure stuck in their mouths & lucky for them the majority of us do practice catch & release. I must admit i got tears in my eyes looking at what these used to cost as compared to now ... I have one from the 40s i got in a little tacklebox along with Creek Chub for 10 bucks & the rest of what was in it was junk. I used it once & caught some Bass then back in the box as that's one Jitterbug i don't wish to lose. 🐟
I use my old wooden lures all the time,it's not catching fish sitting on a shelf.i snagged one in a tough spot and paid someone to swim for it so I know how you feel about not losing it.
I'm a hobbyist lure maker. I've made 4 jitterbug lures, including brass bibs from scrap metal my grandfather gave me. I love the bubbly sound they make as they swim across the top of the water, and so do the bass!
I caught a 8 pound bass on my first jointed jitterbug,I still prefer a plain black regular one.we learned as kids back then in the 80s we could bend the lip different ways to make it run how we wanted it to.
Love the content of your channel just came across it the other day . Just thinking here I have a couple of the original flatfish they were originally made out of wood might be an interesting subject for you to go into the story behind it's pretty amazing . Keep them coming
I'd like to see the Eagle Claw fishing rod section from that '77 catalog sometime. Ive got a couple old ones and some emails back and forth with Wright McGill/EC basically got me a "We couldn't find that within 45 seconds of looking in our digital archives. Whatever, that's a nice rod, get lost." type of reply.
That is not a bluegill just fyi. Looks like either a green sunfish or a warmouth. Great video please accurately id fish so we can help educate everyone!
Still one of my favorite and effective lures! Morning, evening and especially at night. That said, I caught a four pound largemouth in the middle of a rather warm August day in Minnesota on a frog pattern jitterbug. Worked a partly shady edge adjacent to submerged timber and scattered weeds. The take was explosive and I was just hanging on. Great lure for smallies and pike as well. I scored bunch of them for about $2.50 each when Gander Mountain went out of business.
Been fishing them all my life (I'm 80) I prefer the action of the very early wooden ones. There is something about catching bass on a bait that is older than me,
