Ok fishing gurus, I am stumped! I bought a tacklebox at a flea market that was jam packed with lures, spoons, old reels, etc. etc... I found two of the lures in the pictures still in an unopened package. I really have never seen anything like them. Appear to be wooden and hand painted. Any ideas???

Photo showing hook and underside of lure.

Outdoorsfan69: "Photo showing hook and underside of lure. "

Maybe some kind of spoon? Not really sure, an interesting find though!

1st pic looks like a Baby Ruth with frosting on it.

Send an email to the fishing lure guru, Gene Davis (genedavis160@charter.net). He will know what it is or will spend the rest of the week figuring it out.

yogi59weedr: "1st pic looks like a Baby Ruth with frosting on it."

First picture looks like a different bait than the 2nd picture.... ?

That's cool, be fun to catch a nice fish on it. Any other interesting finds in the batch.

The tackle box was filled with mostly junk! But it did have a bunch of old walleye rigs, still in the original package, a bunch of spoons and lots of assorted tackle. One of the things I thought was cool, it had three yo yo reels, or I think that is what they are called. All three appear to be in working order. Haven't seen those since I was a kid! It also had a really old Shakespeare reel. The other lure that is made like the one in the picture is painted differently. I'll take a pic of it tonight and post.

Looks to me like some sort a weedless spoon, but it's a little hard to clearly see due to the packaging. The weedless spoon used to be much more popular (50+ years ago) than it is today.

Picture of the second lure w/different paint.

yogi59weedr: "1st pic looks like a Baby Ruth with frosting on it."

Bwahahahahaha

Outdoorsfan69: "Ok fishing gurus, I am stumped! I bought a tacklebox at a flea market that was jam packed with lures, spoons, old reels, etc. etc... I found two of the lures in the pictures still in an unopened package. I really have never seen anything like them. Appear to be wooden and hand painted. Any ideas???
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Looks like a baby Suick

Ok ODF69... what are you going to do with these lures. Use 'em? Display them? Bury in your tacklebox?

Remember: Don't tie on any lure you can't afford to lose.

I actually think I might add to my vintage lure display I have. Since they are hand painted, by the looks of them, I thought they were really interesting. I honestly have not seen anything like them before.