Surface Lure / “Chunk Bait” · existing attribution
Surface Lure
A broad, angular body offers a useful comparison with the spoon-shaped examples.
- Existing attribution
- The filename uses “chunk bait”; the existing project associates this form with the Surface Lure. These terms are retained as provisional identification.
- Visible evidence
- A broad body, muted green and reddish paint, visible wear and hooks can be examined in this photograph.
Sources & record notes
Photographic or documentary record LLA-REC-0005 · Reviewed September 2026. Record identifiers describe the material shown here; they are not accession numbers for authenticated physical objects.
Back to the collectionProvenance
The photograph is retained from the earlier Lauby Lures website. The original photographer and capture date have not been established.
Use the identification guide to record measurements, markings and missing views. Measurements and originality remain unverified for the examples on this page.
Cite this record
Lauby Lures. “Surface Lure.” Record LLA-REC-0005. Updated September 13, 2026. https://www.laubylures.com/collection/surface-lure. Accessed [your access date].
Publisher: Lauby Lures. Submit a correction or additional evidence.
Physical-object documentation
This is a photographic record; no physical inspection or measurements have been completed for this archive. Use the recording standard to add verified dimensions, markings, individual photographs and provenance.
The topwater part of the range
The 1939 catalog lists Surface Lures separately from the Wonder Spoons and Special Minnows, with three entries for bass, northern pike, and muskie. All are advertised with feathers. The printed lengths are 1¾, 2 5/16, and 2 11/16 inches. Catalog reproduction, Slusar p. 370.
Slusar records the names “Chunk Bait” and “Cut Bait” in later collector and interview usage. Those names help connect references across sources; the surviving object still needs measurement and further views. Slusar, p. 367.
From the printed record
Catalog illustration and published examples
Explaining the action
The complete 1939 catalog plate explaining Wonder Spoon action and presenting Weedless Wonder Spoons and Surface Lures, with their advertised sizes and prices. Reproduced in Christopher Slusar’s history, p. 370.
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The range in the historical record
Surface Baits, Special Minnows and a weedless metal spoon photographed in Charles and Annette Sanders, “Lauby Bait Company,” NFLCC Magazine, December 1999, p. 27. The metal spoon’s identification with a particular patent remains unestablished.
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