What "old time" lure do you still routinely throw and why?

[Smallieguy87]

This guy right here used to fish the hell out of a beetle spin. Still carry a few of those around as well.

[ozark trout fisher]

Actually I'd rate the Beetle Spin as being just as good a multi-species lure...and it's a lot more snagless and trouble-free; you don't have to worry about line twist. And as far as the dreaded Ned rig, I suspect that a plain marabou crappie jig, if fished as much as some seem to be fishing the Ned, would catch about as many fish if you're looking for pure numbers and not much size.

I'm sure you're right that the Beetle Spin can do most of the same things. I don't know though. I've just never fallen in love with it the way I have some of the other lures I rely on day to day. I'm sure there is not much reason for that beyond the total faith I have in what I'm usually throwing, which I'm firmly convinced is more important than anything else. If I don't believe in it I don't fish it well.

On a side note, is the ned rig really what it looks like to me? Just a piece of a rubber worm on a jighead? Is there a fisherman alive that hasn't tried that at one point or another out of sheer "well, I'm out of bullet sinkers and I still think these bass want rubber worms, so what the heck?"

Sure, that can work, but once again, it probably doesn't hurt to stop and remember that if we put any plastic thing on a hook and make it kinda look and move like a crawdad/minnow/random aquatic creature, there are going to be quite a few bass that are going to want to eat it.