tupong Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 G'day just wondering when the first soft plastics came on the market I've read about the development of plastisol in Germany ,but want too know when the first lures came into production regards mick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Husky Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 G'day just wondering when the first soft plastics came on the market I've read about the development of plastisol in Germany ,but want too know when the first lures came into production regards mick IIRC, Creme was the first soft plastic company, here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tupong Posted September 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Thanks just had a read about them What about other countries ,Ithink I read on here something about even earlier in Europe ? regards mick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark poulson Posted September 18, 2010 Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 I bought some red plastic worms in the '50s from Thrifty Drugs, that I used for trout. I don't remember who made them, but I found some of them melted to my old tackle box a few years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSC Posted September 18, 2010 Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 Nick Creme gets the credit for being the first ... I am all most sure there were others before like the ones Mark mentioned .. but the first to really be in business with them was Creme. The first one I had was in around 1956 .. bought them in Troy, AL from "Shorty" Renfroe .. he had them hidden and since I was home on leave from the Air Force he let me have one ... Dixie Red Worm ... 3 hooker with a small prop spinner ... My 10 pounder came on this rig .. I cut off the mono "lead" part and replaced it with a wire shaft for the blade and beads and added a #4 split shot to the wire shaft as well.... These were made with a "Cooked" in the mold methord ... I think Cremes was a cooked and poured into the mold ... all of these early ones were in "Open" molds ... Delongs and Sportsman ("Catch Em Quick") were full round I am not sure how Delongs were made but Sportsman were cooked in the mold ... the hinged mold was open and raw plastic added then it was run thru a heat tunnel and at a point the the 2 halves were snapped together. within 5 or 6 years a large part of them were full round and were pressure poured. A little trivia. Thanx for getting the "Old Gray Cells" turning this early in the AM JSC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longhorn Posted September 18, 2010 Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 I've read on a couple sites that Nick Creme poured the first plastic worm in his kitchen in 1949. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clemmy Posted September 18, 2010 Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 There were of course rubber lures since just before the turn of the century..Not sure that they would be "soft" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark poulson Posted September 19, 2010 Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 There were of course rubber lures since just before the turn of the century..Not sure that they would be "soft" While we're on the subject, when did the plastisol we pour with first come out, who was the first to use it, and what the heck is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
