Firetiger Skirt

3dkicker · 03-08-08, 11:20 PM

Thought I'd ask some of the guys who've been around a while if they can remember the first Firetiger skirt they saw for spinnerbaits?

Why? Just curious. I know the crankbait color has been around for a while but what about as a skirt. Anybody got a year or a maker?

thanks

Cranebird · 03-09-08, 01:00 AM

The first fire tiger skirt I seen was on a Cavitron buzzbait.It wasn't the todays firetiger color and it wasn't a rubber skirted material it was strands of black/red/yellow/green colored nylon string hand tied to the buzzbait head.I think the Limberneck spinnerbait was the first rubber skirted firetiger I had seen but I only fished Limbernecks and Flecks back then.Fleck used to have a purple /chartruese rubber skirt that looked gawd awful but caught fish.

C-Bird Chirp

zooker · 03-09-08, 10:13 AM

a "war-ax" spinner bait was the first one i seen with a fire tiger type color. as pnj said the color was differant then todays. i belive it was an orange,red,green skirt seemed to remember it was made of rubber.i think it was made in 84 or 85 i know the head was the size of a 1/2 dallor and twice as thick.

zooker

3dkicker · 03-09-08, 06:56 PM

Thanks for the help. C-Bird - yours is very similar to one I saw recently. Zook - '84 or '85 sounds about right. If anyone can recall one being made before '84 please let me know.

03-08-08, 11:20 PM	#1
3dkicker BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Spotsylvania, VA Posts: 4,483	Firetiger Skirt Thought I'd ask some of the guys who've been around a while if they can remember the first Firetiger skirt they saw for spinnerbaits? Why? Just curious. I know the crankbait color has been around for a while but what about as a skirt. Anybody got a year or a maker? thanks __________________ Smitty www.smittystubes.com

03-09-08, 01:00 AM	#2
Cranebird BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Bath, NY Posts: 308	The first fire tiger skirt I seen was on a Cavitron buzzbait.It wasn't the todays firetiger color and it wasn't a rubber skirted material it was strands of black/red/yellow/green colored nylon string hand tied to the buzzbait head.I think the Limberneck spinnerbait was the first rubber skirted firetiger I had seen but I only fished Limbernecks and Flecks back then.Fleck used to have a purple /chartruese rubber skirt that looked gawd awful but caught fish.C-Bird Chirp __________________ ******************************************

03-09-08, 10:13 AM	#3
zooker BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: denton nc Posts: 13,441	a "war-ax" spinner bait was the first one i seen with a fire tiger type color. as pnj said the color was differant then todays. i belive it was an orange,red,green skirt seemed to remember it was made of rubber.i think it was made in 84 or 85 i know the head was the size of a 1/2 dallor and twice as thick. zooker __________________ the godfather.. aml in remission since 7-20-09

03-09-08, 06:56 PM	#4
3dkicker BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Spotsylvania, VA Posts: 4,483	Thanks for the help. C-Bird - yours is very similar to one I saw recently. Zook - '84 or '85 sounds about right. If anyone can recall one being made before '84 please let me know. __________________ Smitty www.smittystubes.com

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