CCBCo collectors often prefer to add the correct paperwork to their boxed lures. It can be a tricky job because Creek Chub changed the ephemera in their lure boxes over the years. This is a quick breakdown of the possibilities over the years.
- Instructive hang tags for certain series were included in boxes from c.1926-1949. A couple different format order forms were also available in all boxes for the same period of time.
- The pocket catalogs (aka insert catalogs) were part of the package beginning in 1920. A brown foldout style pocket catalog (PC) was used through 1925. It was then replaced with a stapled version on better paper in 1926. This style remained through 1932. Several more variations were printed in a fold-out style through 1976. They differ in style considerable. In order to make sense of it, I recommend that you contact Rev. Alan Celoria through the NFLCC and order his book entitled “Creek Chub on Paper, Volume One.”
- Sometimes, a few other bits of promotional paper were part of the post-1960 packaging.
As stated, there are several Original Series not described in these
mini-catalogs. The following series in wood, metal and fly rod types are examples not seen, although you can find them in the full-size CCBCo catalogs. If you have any of these designs, the best you can hope for is to add a PC from the same perceived era as your bait. In fact, you are essentially adding the same type of pocket catalog as the company would have incorporated decades ago.
Note: Creek Chub began producing replacement numbered series in 1954. They were either different designs or different sizes of lures already in production. Original Series numbers from series that had been discontinued were also reissued. They are outside the realm of this study. This includes any of the all-plastic series introduced in 1956.
#100-9600 Original Wood, Metal & Fly Rod Series Unlisted In CCBCo Pocket Catalogs:
SERIES |
LURE |
LURE YEARS |
#1800 |
Underwater Spinner Minnow |
1923-1933 |
#1900 |
Creek & River Fishing Lure |
1923-1933 |
#3500 |
Husky Injured Minnow |
1929-1961 |
#4000 |
Tarpon Pikie |
1932-1961 |
#4500 |
Wiggle Wizard |
1934-1938 |
#4900 |
Jointed Darter |
1938-1964 & 1970-1978* |
#5000 |
Close Pin |
1936-1946 |
#5800 |
Husky Plunker |
1939-1946 & 1948-1954 |
#5900 |
Midget Plunker |
1939-1964 & 1972-1978* |
#6000 |
Midget Beetle |
1939-1954 |
#6100 |
Midget Dinger |
1940-1949 |
#6500 |
Baby Bomber |
1942-1945 |
#6600 |
Dive Bomber (Kreeker) |
1942-1953 |
#6700 |
Big Bomber |
1942-1945 |
#7500 |
Surf Popper |
1955-1958 |
#7600 |
Surf Darter |
1955-1958 |
#7700 |
Salt Spin Darter |
1955-1958 |
#8000 |
Midget Darter |
1938-1978* |
S-10 |
Wigl-Y-Rind |
1929-1940 |
S-40 |
Musky Champ |
1937-1950 |
S-50 |
Saltwater Champ |
1937-1950 |
F-10 |
Feather Casting Minnow |
1924-c.1926 |
F-20 |
Bass Fly |
1924-c.1926** |
F-40 |
Hopper Fly |
1924-c.1926** |
F-500 |
Bug-A-Moth |
1934-1937** |
F-600 |
Bug-A-Bass |
1934-1937** |
*There are three series listed in PCs, but deserve a mention here. Although all three designs were first available in the late 1930s, they weren’t shown in a PC until decades later. If you have an early variation of any of these lures, a late PC won’t be appropriate:
#4900 Jointed Darter: Available in 1938 but not in a PC until 1971.
#5900 Midget Plunker: First cataloged in 1939 but not in a PC until 1971.
#8000 Midget Darter: First sold in 1938 but not in a PC until 1965.
**Technically, the F-20 through F-600 fly rod hair baits may have never been housed in an elongated
Creek Chub box that would have included a PC.
***A #500 Bug-A-Moth IS pictured in the 1933 PC but not described.
Instead the reader is asked to send for a fly rod circular from the company. |