[davesett2000]

IMHO...Cottom Cordell was like the next generation Fred Arbogast.

According to this web article...Cordell was THE largest USA mfg of fishing lures from 1968 - 1980...

http://fishinghistory.blogspot.com/2008/08/history-of-cotton-cordell-by-todd-long.html

And he supposedly manufactured lures for other companies too...

Cotton Cordell produced lures for many other well known manufacturers over the years, including:

Heddon: Spin Fin, Sonic, Twin Spin and Sonar
Pflueger: Gay Blade
ABU Garcia: Large plastic topwater baits
Crème and Burke: Sold them his jigs and they added worms to the hooks
Creek Chub: Plastic Injured Minnows

Attached are several pics of older Cordell lures :baitmonkey:

 

[davesett2000]

Here's a hacked up pic of a couple of lures that I had that were made by Cordell...but didn't know it at the tiem as they were pictured in the 1973 Garcia catalog.

They are called "Mr. Whiskers" :fishing02:

 

[guppycatcher]

Dave great lookinhg baits.I like to see the color combos on the older ones .

 

[Bodeen]

Excellent baits. I used to love fishing with those sonics. My favorite Cordell lures are the wally diver, wally minnow, and the wiggle O.

 

[mlsims]

Those Cordell baits were always in my tackle box, Thanks Dave :thumbup01: :thumbup01:

Wife was at Bass Pro yesterday in Spanish Fort, she was one of the first 100 into the store and they gave her a three pack of Cordell Rattle baits free, these baits are still going after all these years. Of course she gave them to me when she got home. :dance01:

 

[davesett2000]

Here's a link to a scanned 1972 Cordell catalog

http://www.antiquefishinglures.com/cordell.htm

 

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