All very interesting as usual and great content. Here in Australia the double tails became very iconic with estuary anglers chasing fish call the Flathead. A popular sportfish as well as great eating. My guess is they turned up in Australia in late 80s. One of the very first accepted soft plastic lures with anglers here in Ozzie.............Regards...........Alex
Always enjoy your videos. Please correct me if I am wrong but I think mister twister invented the keeper concept hook for Texas rigging soft plastics. I still use this type hook for my Texas rigging. It has the free swinging barbed straight pin hanging from the hook eye to secure the head of the worm.
I used to pronounce "Phenom" as "Feenom" like a young hotshot can't miss baseball player new to the big leagues . Great video , I used lots of these back in the day . Caught lots of river smallmouth with the yellow tiny curly tail with or without the spinner . I'm 69 years old and don't fish anymore . You sure are stirring great memories with these videos. Thank you !
What a great video. Mister Twister is the first company that comes to my mind when I picture vintage soft plastics. Thanks for showing their offerings in the 70’s. That early Sintipede was one I didn’t remember the name of until you showed it in this video. I knew it was a MT product but couldn’t place it. Funny enough they made a second version in the late 80’s by the same name that I remember seeing in the catalogs. I recently scored some of them to add to my MT collection. The Poc’it Phenom is my favorite Mister Twister lure to collect and fish. I got some from a friend back in the day and have since collected quite a few in numerous colors in two sizes. They hold onto scent well and are great on a drop shot. The Slimy Slug is another favorite. I bought a pack in the late 80’s or very early 90’s and liked them better than the other similar type lures available then. I scored some in bulk a few years ago and fish them fairly regularly. Caught some bass using one a couple of weeks ago. Those packs of first version Sintipedes and the Slither Worms are some good ones. Both aren’t the easiest to find these days, especially those Sintipedes. Thanks for more great content.
July 1975... Lake Guerrero, Mexico south of Texas. The purple Mister Twister worm with a yellow tail... Just pull up between the tops of submerged mesquite trees, cast the Mister Twister in any direction, and hang on. LOL. The 3 of us camped on the road leading down behind the dam... Eating bass fillets cooked on a grill over a campfire... sharing bass, beer, and tortillas with the locals. Sorry I can't post a picture of all the fish.
I noticed that on your shelves you have a likeness of Virgil Ward , endorser and user of the first lure I ever purchased. The single blade Tarantula, I watched his fishing show Championship Fishing religiously. Thanks Virgil wherever you are !
The "4 inch swimming grub" is "Mister Twister" to me. It is my favorite bait of all time. I call the other stuff, like the worms for example, "a Mister Twister worm." Great job with the history of this awesome fishing brand. Earned a like & subscribe.
I was a kid during the heyday of Mister Twister and I thought it was awesome. I think I still have a Slither(er) somewhere around here. The biggest thing I learned the hard way is that not all tackle boxes were “worm proof”. I thought it meant that live worms couldn’t escape the tackle box. I learned quickly that a non worm proof tackle box was almost immediately melted by soft plastics (worms). So many Mister Twister soft plastics were lost to that learning experience.
We hammer them in the fall in Florida. They come up shallow chasing bait fish. One of best times to fish and the most exciting to get on schooling bass and moving water.
I've caught thousands of fish on the mister twister sassy shad in 2" or 3" black back pearl belly. Think it was black shad or something like that lol. I've also caught a many of bass on the grubs and worms too. Use to always have mister twister in my box with me.
You didn’t mention the other product they’re famous for, and you will see it everywhere that tackle is sold. The mister twister electric filet knife!!! The first one I ever saw and used, I’m on my third one and have literally filleted hundreds and hundreds of bluegill, perch, crappie, walleye etc. with them oh and also catfish👍
99% of the Hybrid Striped Bass I've ever caught were caught on a red jig head (usually H&H 1/4 oz.) and a white Sassy Shad. 40 years ago, most of the Crappie I caught were on 1/16 or 1/32 oz. jigs with white 2" Mister Twister Teenie Tail Grubs. I even caught many bass on the 6" Pocket Phenom worms. This was all in the early to mid 1980's. ...Remembering my success with the white Mister Twister "Grubs", I bought a pack of the white 2" Teenie Tails about 3 years ago. What a huge disappointment. I still have some of my older ones and they are much tougher! The new ones are mush! They last about 1 or 2 fish, usually Crappie, if the Bluegill don't tear them up first. My old ones last 1 - 3 trips! I still catch panfish on what's left of my 35-40 year old white or red and white 2" Teenie's. I even used to use those on 1/8 oz. red Eagle Claw jig heads back in the waterway canals of LA fishing for Speckled Trout and Redfish on ultra lite tackle. You talk about fun.. and successful! Thank you again for bringing back the memories!
All very interesting as usual and great content. Here in Australia the double tails became very iconic with estuary anglers chasing fish call the Flathead. A popular sportfish as well as great eating. My guess is they turned up in Australia in late 80s. One of the very first accepted soft plastic lures with anglers here in Ozzie.............Regards...........Alex
Always enjoy your videos. Please correct me if I am wrong but I think mister twister invented the keeper concept hook for Texas rigging soft plastics. I still use this type hook for my Texas rigging. It has the free swinging barbed straight pin hanging from the hook eye to secure the head of the worm.
I used to pronounce "Phenom" as "Feenom" like a young hotshot can't miss baseball player new to the big leagues . Great video , I used lots of these back in the day . Caught lots of river smallmouth with the yellow tiny curly tail with or without the spinner . I'm 69 years old and don't fish anymore . You sure are stirring great memories with these videos. Thank you !
What a great video.
Mister Twister is the first company that comes to my mind when I picture vintage soft plastics.
Thanks for showing their offerings in the 70’s. That early Sintipede was one I didn’t remember the name of until you showed it in this video. I knew it was a MT product but couldn’t place it. Funny enough they made a second version in the late 80’s by the same name that I remember seeing in the catalogs. I recently scored some of them to add to my MT collection.
The Poc’it Phenom is my favorite Mister Twister lure to collect and fish. I got some from a friend back in the day and have since collected quite a few in numerous colors in two sizes. They hold onto scent well and are great on a drop shot.
The Slimy Slug is another favorite. I bought a pack in the late 80’s or very early 90’s and liked them better than the other similar type lures available then. I scored some in bulk a few years ago and fish them fairly regularly. Caught some bass using one a couple of weeks ago.
Those packs of first version Sintipedes and the Slither Worms are some good ones. Both aren’t the easiest to find these days, especially those Sintipedes.
Thanks for more great content.
July 1975... Lake Guerrero, Mexico south of Texas. The purple Mister Twister worm with a yellow tail... Just pull up between the tops of submerged mesquite trees, cast the Mister Twister in any direction, and hang on. LOL. The 3 of us camped on the road leading down behind the dam... Eating bass fillets cooked on a grill over a campfire... sharing bass, beer, and tortillas with the locals. Sorry I can't post a picture of all the fish.
This past spring, I called Mister Twister and ordered Phenom worms, purple with white tails. I still have a Top Prop. Nice video, thanks 👍👊
I noticed that on your shelves you have a likeness of Virgil Ward , endorser and user of the first lure I ever purchased.
The single blade Tarantula, I watched his fishing show Championship Fishing religiously. Thanks Virgil wherever you are !
Takes me back to the 80’s as a kid. Lake Tawokoni, Sassy Shad on a ball head jig. Catch bass and crappie all day long.
The "4 inch swimming grub" is "Mister Twister" to me. It is my favorite bait of all time.
I call the other stuff, like the worms for example, "a Mister Twister worm."
Great job with the history of this awesome fishing brand.
Earned a like & subscribe.
Top prop was great to get Musky to follow. Great way to figure out where they were and come back to throw the kitchen sink until you caught one.
Great video. I always enjoyed fishing Mr Twister for bass and panfish in Maryland
I was a kid during the heyday of Mister Twister and I thought it was awesome. I think I still have a Slither(er) somewhere around here. The biggest thing I learned the hard way is that not all tackle boxes were “worm proof”. I thought it meant that live worms couldn’t escape the tackle box. I learned quickly that a non worm proof tackle box was almost immediately melted by soft plastics (worms). So many Mister Twister soft plastics were lost to that learning experience.
We hammer them in the fall in Florida. They come up shallow chasing bait fish. One of best times to fish and the most exciting to get on schooling bass and moving water.
I've still got two packs of original Mister Twister worms. Black fire tail and black chartreuse.
I've caught thousands of fish on the mister twister sassy shad in 2" or 3" black back pearl belly. Think it was black shad or something like that lol. I've also caught a many of bass on the grubs and worms too. Use to always have mister twister in my box with me.
Mister Twister Tubo Fat 5" Red Gills . . Look that thing up . Pretty wild tube bait.
You didn’t mention the other product they’re famous for, and you will see it everywhere that tackle is sold. The mister twister electric filet knife!!! The first one I ever saw and used, I’m on my third one and have literally filleted hundreds and hundreds of bluegill, perch, crappie, walleye etc. with them oh and also catfish👍
99% of the Hybrid Striped Bass I've ever caught were caught on a red jig head (usually H&H 1/4 oz.) and a white Sassy Shad. 40 years ago, most of the Crappie I caught were on 1/16 or 1/32 oz. jigs with white 2" Mister Twister Teenie Tail Grubs. I even caught many bass on the 6" Pocket Phenom worms. This was all in the early to mid 1980's. ...Remembering my success with the white Mister Twister "Grubs", I bought a pack of the white 2" Teenie Tails about 3 years ago. What a huge disappointment. I still have some of my older ones and they are much tougher! The new ones are mush! They last about 1 or 2 fish, usually Crappie, if the Bluegill don't tear them up first. My old ones last 1 - 3 trips! I still catch panfish on what's left of my 35-40 year old white or red and white 2" Teenie's. I even used to use those on 1/8 oz. red Eagle Claw jig heads back in the waterway canals of LA fishing for Speckled Trout and Redfish on ultra lite tackle. You talk about fun.. and successful! Thank you again for bringing back the memories!
“Mr. Twister” is the first “rubber worm” I ever caught a fish on!
In fact it was the first “artificial bait” I ever used that actually worked!
😢 Let's not forget Bomber Crankbaits, Heddon Zara Spooks, Manns Jelly Worms and WEED WADER SPINNERBAITS...! 😊