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Location: Germantown, WI | I know cobbs are very highly thought of lures , especially 20-30 years ago. I’m from WI, so to me this was more of an east coast lure. It seems like H&H (Hilton & Hughey) now have the rights to make these. It also seems like they also have some older inventory of original cobbs that they are selling and some of which they only painted.
I’m interested in maybe buying one of each, most likely in the 8 or 10 inch variety and probably the round nose version.
Who out there can tell me more about these, differences from cobbs to H&H version, etc
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Location: Northern Illinois | The Cobbs should be thought of as West Virginia Mountains proud craftsmanship not East Coast. Subtle point, but really important to the bait makers in that region. The originals are super high quality hand crafted lures that all work really well (glide, twitch, etc.). Never seem to get a dud and they hold up really well. Not sure about the H-H lures.
Lloyd Jones baits and Smuttly Dog baits are out of that same area and produce really high quality hand crafted lures - there are others as well. |
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Location: E. Tenn | mm3 - 3/6/2022 9:22 PM
The Cobbs should be thought of as West Viginia Mountains proud craftsmanship not East Coast. Subtle point, but really important to the bait makers in that region. The originals are super high quality hand crafted lures that all work really well (glide, twitch, etc.). Never seem to get a dud and they hold up really well. Not sure about the H-H lures.
Lloyd Jones baits and Smuttly Dog baits are out of that same area and produce really high quality hand crafted lures - there are others as well.
I prefer "Appalachian Region".. There's a good number of amazing "basement" producers all throughout the region, as far south as North Carolina. |
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Location: Germantown, WI | From where I live and fish…WI, MN and LOTW in Canada …. WV is definitely a far eastern Muskie zone to me… ha!!
Not quite coast, I more meant Eastern Zone of Muskie fishing.
Thanks for comments… more insight on how the latest version of these lures are from H& H would be helpful too |
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Location: E. Tenn | You'd be pleasantly surprised how much further muskies roam.. there's VA, TN, and even NC... |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | FYI, Jack Cobb passed away several years ago. I knew him through my Muskies Inc chapter. He gave my grand daughter her first muskie bait.
Rest with Muskies, Jack! m
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Location: Northern Illinois | miket55 - 3/6/2022 9:11 PM
mm3 - 3/6/2022 9:22 PM
The Cobbs should be thought of as West Virginia Mountains proud craftsmanship not East Coast. Subtle point, but really important to the bait makers in that region. The originals are super high quality hand crafted lures that all work really well (glide, twitch, etc.). Never seem to get a dud and they hold up really well. Not sure about the H-H lures.
Lloyd Jones baits and Smuttly Dog baits are out of that same area and produce really high quality hand crafted lures - there are others as well.
I prefer "Appalachian Region".. There's a good number of amazing "basement" producers all throughout the region, as far south as North Carolina.
Good point, Pennsylvania as well.
Sorry, back to the Cobbs/H-H comparison... |
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| Off the top of my head I have least eight of these. Nice looking lures and they catch fish. Crazy Shad, Round Nose Jerk, six inch twitch both shallow and deep. However Two are in need of repair. Bad paint jobs water got under the paint and one was brand new. I will take the time to repair them or find someone to repair them. |
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