THIS IS THE VERY FIRST PROTOTYPE FOR THE DEVELS HORSE LURE. It is on display at the Bass Pro store in Bossier City, LA
Very old S-100 Devels Horse. It has the "see through eyes" and the heavy hook hanger. It is stamped DEVELS Horse.
Prototype 4 1/2' Gandy Dancer.
Top-N-Bottom lure. This is an unusual size (3 7/8') in an un-known color.
Prototype with heavy hook hanger.
Unknown Smithwick
Horse Popper. Uncharted. Only one I have seen.
Very Special Color
Appears to be a Warhorse in an unknown color.
Very early Warhorse with heavy hook hanger. Never seen one this old.
1950's Horse Popper. Uncharted. Only one I have seen.
Gandy Dancer - Prototype - Modification
This lure is made of wood and comes in a clear cedar finish. It is 3" long and has a split ring on the line tie. It has the older hardware and a spinner on the rear. It has several holes in it where they tried different positions for the hardware to see how it changes the action in the water.
It is a Gandy Dancer body. It has the curved cut on the nose but they have not make the 2 final cuts on the lip to make it a Gandy Dancer.
Looks like they were trying to make a new lure from the old Gandy Dancer Perhaps the forerunner of what would become the Wood Chug.
My Pet - Buck N Bawl Jr. ?
This is an old lure which has the heavier hardware and pointed spinners front and rear. The wood body is 2" long and has the shape of the Buck n Bawl Jr. You can see a name stamped on it. You can see ..My Pet - ... and with a magnifying glass you can just make out...Pet... So, we have a lure either incorrectly stamped or correctly stamped. It is gold scale color.
Diving Scooter
This is an un-cataloged lure from the early 1950's. It is stamped... Scooter... and is a Pearl color. It is the Scooter body with the diving lip like Smithwick used on the Tootsie Bug from the same era. Only one I have ever seen.
Predecessor to the Wheel Horse and Wood Chug ?
This lure is 2 3/4" long. It has a flat face. Perhaps this was the first attempt at what would later become the Wheel Horse and Wood Chug lures. It is simply stamped: Devils Horse. This is the only one known to exist.
Prototype
Prototypes
Prototype stamped Devils Horse.
Prototype stamped Devils Horse.
Prototype
Rubber leg Smithwick. Uncharted.
Uncharted Smithwick F-200 with rubber legs.
Rubber Legs
Smithwick made some jigs. uncharted. Don't know if they were ever available for sale.
Smithwick made some jigs. uncharted. Don't know if they were ever available for sale.
DEVELS Horse Stud - Large.
Have not seen this this lure in a color chart. The wood body in 2 1/2" long. Color: #8 Shad.
C-900 Devels Horse PA Scooter with elastic legs. One of a kind.. Uncatalogued.
This is very unusual. Have seen a picture of a Dancer like this. I have never seen another PA Scooter like this. The Pa Scooter has a 4" wood body which is flat on the bottom. It has one small rounded spinner on the rear. It has two hooks. It has factory installed rubber strands placed through the middle creating legs. Very Rare.
Uncharted. Weedless series of Devels Horse lures. Dancer, F-100 and F-200.
Razorback Rooter.
This lure is stamped... Razorback Rooter... and is in the color... White with Black Ribs.... The Razorback Rooter is only shown in the 1958 color chart. It is listed as S-400 and is shown with the rear hook coming directly out of the rear of the lure by way of a screw eye. This lure as you can see has the hook in a hook hanger coming off the bottom in the rear. All the other Razorback Rooters I have seen have the hook like mine. I believe that these are the earlier version. This same lure body next shows up in the color charts ten years later and has the rear hook on the screw eye coming out of the back of the lure and carried the number/name C-700 Devils Horse Rooter. The C-700 was produced from the early 1960's until the early 1980's.
The S-200 is a sinking Devils Horse using the F-200 blank.This lure does not show up in any of the lure charts we have. It must have been a very limited production lure. This is the only one we have ever seen. It was produced sometime after 1963. Thanks to Steve Barrow for sharing this with us.
S-700 Dancer Sinker (Skinny)
This is one of the Skinny Dancers. It has less wood on the blank smaller hooks and uses the bowtie spinners. The other Dancer model uses a fatter body, larger hooks and the large floppy spinners. This lure is stamped... Dancer Sinker.. It is color #10 Black and White Stripper. I believe it is shown in the 1960 catalogue.
The second version Tootsie Bug was a limited production lure.. It uses the name of a Smithwick lure that was produced between 1951 and 1953 and was discontinued. This newer version looked very similar to the Ridge Runner Hustler. The picture shows the Hustler box and the Hustler lure just below it. The Smithwick Tootsie Bug is at the bottom of that picture. The Tootsie bug came with spinners front and back and also without spinners but with a ball weight on the rear.
It is the second lure to carry the name "Tootsie Bug". Came with spinners on both ends or with no spinners but a ball weight on the rear.
Tootsie Bug
Devels Horse Stud - Small size. Have not seen this lure in a color chart. This one is the smaller size. The wood body in 2" long. Color: #7 Yellow & White (Butterfly Yellow).
This is the only one I have ever seen. It is a cross between a Jingle Bob (flasher on the tail) and a Jumper (weight on the tail).
Mountain Lion
These lures were purchased from a resident of Sibley, Louisiana. They were purchased at the Smithwick Estate Sale from the old Smithwick Factory. To my knowledge this series was never was marketed nor placed in a catalogue. They measures 2" long. Color: #31 Chrome with a black back and #17 Smoke. In "A Collector Guide To Louisiana's Lure Companies, this lure is pictured. The book says "This was the last bait Mr. Jack designed. He turned two versions: both were prototypes or very limited quantities and never put into production. In Mr. Karl Lucky's book it is identified as a Mountain Lion, but in an interview with Mr. Jack Smithwick he states that they did not have a lure named Mountain Lion". One lure has a longer nose than the other one in the above picture.
This is a one of a kind. 5" Musky Carrot Top.
This is a one of a kind. 5" Musky Carrot Top.
Uncharted. This is the only Sea Horse lure I have seen. It is stamped, Devils Sea Horse.
Prototype - 007
This bait came from the closed down Smithwick factory at the Estate Sale. There is a drawing on a color chart that was in the same batch of stuff. The drawing is titled 007. The bait is 2" long and made of plastic. It has silver sides with a black back and orange belly. It is truely a one-of-a-kind.
Drawing for the 007.
Box for the C-2200 Wheel Horse. Limited production. It was a catalogued lure.
Weedless Buck-N-Bawl Jr. Uncharted. This is the only one I have seen.
This version of the Horse Fly blank came out in 1985. It came in 2 sizes: 2" and 2 3/8". I am just working with the picture so I don't know which size blank this lure uses.
But it is a "Weedless" version. I have never seen one of these in weedless before and it is an un-charted lure. It is in the color #28 Coach Dog, Black & White.
B-1300 Water Gater - No Tail
This is an unusual Water Gater, it has no tail. I have only seen this one and a picture of one other... they are rare.
B-1000 Gandy Dancer
When this lure first came out in 1985 it had a hook hanger for the rear hook. Shortly after introduction they changed it and removed the rear hook hanger and used a screw eye under the rear end and added a ball weight. The ones with just the rear hook hanger are very hard to find. This lure is in a Gold color with Green Stripes.
This lure is the same size as the B-2000 Lobo. It is made of wood and has the split ring on the line tie. It may be wider than the Lobo. It also has the metal lip. At first I thought it may be a Smithwick prototype. But, it has been in the water enough to have rusty hooks and yet the paint job was applied while the rear hook was still attached, so it may just be a lure carved by a fisherman to resemble a Smithwick Lobo.
ucl 8 Prototype B2000 Lobo
ucl 7 Prototype Rogue
Prototype
Prototype
B-3000 size Bo Jack with Long Bill
One more shot of this lure that came from the closed down Smithwick factory Estate Sale. It has never had hooks on it. It has a super long 1 1/2" bill. It is in color # 55 Black and Chartreuse Coach Dog with Orange Belly.
ucl5 Prototype Bo Jack
ucl6 Prototype Balsa Jack
Prototype Popper
ucl 9
Devils Warhorse ?
This bait is a 2" Race Horse wooden blank that is stamped Devils Warhorse. It only has one treble hook on the back and comes in color # 5 Yellow & Black Striper