Interesting/unique gear

[MR fisher]

Going through some old hand-me-down gear I came across these two jigs. I'm wondering if anybody can help identify them and has any experience fishing them. I'm tempted to give them a go When I am in rockfish for Ling cod territory.

 

[John Ingram]

These lures were call "Rip-Tide Strikers" They had a similar function to the Buzz Bombs.... Casting and Jigging.

 

[Hardy Guy]

Yes JI has it. They still work and some guys seek them out. They were made in BC.

 

[MR fisher]

Right on. I love that classic stuff. I see that they were made by Ken Ried in Cowichan. Simpler times...

I've caught lots of fish on my long gone grandpa's old gear that I'll never see on the current fishing TV shows. I guess the fish still bite things even if they don't say "guide series" on the package.

 

[RiverBoy]

Guy on this forum still makes them and they work well

 

[PEETZcanada]

Rip Tide Striker Made on Vancouver Island. The original owner sold in late 90's or early 2000's to a fellow in Campbell River. He has since passed away and I believe his son still has the molds. They did have two other copycat type competition duplicate knock-off makers. All have since fallen off the production market. They are extremely deadly on chinook and coho, the lures also catch halibut, lingcod, blackcod and other species including trout. If you know you know, but they have also fallen into the hoarder/collector vintage realm.

 

[ClintR]

Rip Tide Striker Made on Vancouver Island. The original owner sold in late 90's or early 2000's to a fellow in Campbell River. He has since passed away and I believe his son still has the molds. They did have two other copycat type competition duplicate knock-off makers. All have since fallen off the production market. They are extremely deadly on chinook and coho, the lures also catch halibut, lingcod, blackcod and other species including trout. If you know you know, but they have also fallen into the hoarder/collector vintage realm.

Shelley and Courtney used riptide strikers if I remember correctly?

 

[PEETZcanada]

Shelley and Courtney used riptide strikers if I remember correctly?

I don't watch tv so I wouldn't know. The only episope I ever watched was when a buddy was guiding them and he almost lost a rod becuse one of the girls kept playing with the angle of the rod holder. The rod flipped out on a fish and he snagged the very end of the rod but just like a first baseman, as it left the boat. They battled the fish and kept going. He handled himself profesionally.

 

[ClintR]

I don't watch tv so I wouldn't know. The only episope I ever watched was when a buddy was guiding them and he almost lost a rod becuse one of the girls kept playing with the angle of the rod holder. The rod flipped out on a fish and he snagged the very end of the rod but just like a first baseman, as it left the boat. They battled the fish and kept going. He handled himself profesionally.

Yeah I’m not sure either? I think I dimmly remember them plugging riptide but not 100% on that.

 

[Buddha]

Rip Tide Striker Made on Vancouver Island. The original owner sold in late 90's or early 2000's to a fellow in Campbell River. He has since passed away and I believe his son still has the molds. They did have two other copycat type competition duplicate knock-off makers. All have since fallen off the production market. They are extremely deadly on chinook and coho, the lures also catch halibut, lingcod, blackcod and other species including trout. If you know you know, but they have also fallen into the hoarder/collector vintage realm.

sounds like someone has to track down those moulds and punch some more out. I was very happy to find my father's old brown and tan tackle box in storage but super disappointed to find the light pink striped white strikers gone and only the rusted out bronze trebles and bumpers left....

 

[Bill 310]

Guy on this forum still makes them and they work well

Can you please reach out to that member and see if you can share thier name/contact info with the rest of us ?

 

[Bill 310]

Found this post and thread using the WayBack Machine

Thread 'Riptide lure anyone?'

Mar 26, 2015

Anyone jig for springs using a Riptide lures anymore? I dug one out of my dads old tackle box the other day. I remember back in the 80s, these used to be the hottest thing going. Get in close to a wall or close to kelp, drop a riptide down 30 to 50 pulls and jig away. Very popular when at Separation Point, and Sansum Narrows. Wall to wall boats in a fog of idling two stroke blue smoke.

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[Rockfish]

Years ago I would fish from shore off Rocky Point in Nanaimo. Lots of big Chinook were taken on Strikers.

 

[RiverBoy]

Can you please reach out to that member and see if you can share thier name/contact info with the rest of us ?

i should clarify: he has a vast store of them. believe it was his grandfathers or fathers company.

His profile seems to be gone on here…

 

[PEETZcanada]

After Ken bought the company, he developed new models of the Striker product range and also dabled in trolling spoons. He redeveloped his packaging to make it more store and consumer friendly. The newer models that he created were developed prominately for the Campbell River area deep, strong tide fishery. He continued making and selling for some time, but found himself caught in a market slump, jigging was taking a long seeming pause. Many anglers transitioned into primarily trolling and many other old school techneques were also loosing ground as downriggers and trolling lures caught the anglers eye. Ken worked away from home in Alberta for a number of years, I had talked to him about buying the Striker molds back in around the mid 2000's. He wasn't ready at that time. I lost touch with him and later discovered that he had past away. He was a nice person and pasionate about fishing in a huge way.