Old Berkley Catalogues

[Lurarte]

Hello everyone,

I find the history, design and development of soft plastic baits really interesting and I would love to be able to catalog all the soft plastics made in a website for history’s sake. I would love to have have photos and documentation of all the various designs. I have started with Berkley as they are my favourite mainstream bait maker. I have contracted them but haven’t heard anything back yet. I have 2015-current but nothing before.

I was wondering if anyone could assist me in my search for locating old Berkley Catalogues, particularly pre 2000. I am also missing pre 2010 but I can find most products on old archives of the Berkley website.

I would also be interested in any other brands of significance such as Ceme, Mann’s etc. Any old soft plastics brands. If you prefer to contact me directly you can do so via private message and I can provide a cloud drive if you need it to upload any files you have. I have found bass-archives.com which has a great collection of old catalogues but hopefully we can locate some more!

Thank You!

James

[alsworms]

Hey James welcome to TU!  I used to be a collector of old wooden lures and I have found Ebay to be your best bet.  I just did a search and found a few old Berkley catalogs.  Hopefully you can find what you're looking for.  Peace :-)

[Lurarte]

9 hours ago, alsworms said:

Hey James welcome to TU!  I used to be a collector of old wooden lures and I have found Ebay to be your best bet.  I just did a search and found a few old Berkley catalogs.  Hopefully you can find what you're looking for.  Peace :-)

Thanks so much! Great idea, appreciate the lead! I will check it out.