We appreciate the use of their images and their help in the hobby in general. The only way to truly find out which lures are the most valuable is to spend time in the hobby learning everything you can.Ī special thanks to our friends at Lang's Auction. We have lots of resources for new collectors. Want to learn more about collecting old fishing lures? Come check out our page on Collecting Fishing Lures. There are still treasures out there to be found. Time to go digging through those old tackle boxes and see what you can find. There you have the complete list of twenty-five amazing lures (and some of the most expensive fishing lures ever sold) and the amazing prices they brought recently at auction. This lure sold at auction in 2003 with a final price of $101,200 becoming the highest price antique fishing lure ever sold. Check your tackle boxes for this one and you would truly hit the jackpot if you found one. Produced by Riley Haskell with an 1859 patent date. A beautiful example of early American fishing history. Haskell minnows in general are extremely rare and historic. Reportedly there is only one of these known to exist in this size. It's the most expensive fishing lure in the world to ever be sold. It's been a few years now but this one sold for over $100,000 at auction. When you hear about the high prices of vintage fishing lures this is the one everybody is talking about. Read on and see what these 25 lures have sold for in the past and then maybe it's time to go looking for Grandpa's tackle box. I can tell you from experience what makes this hobby so great is the history involved in all of these old vintage fishing lures and the excitement of never knowing what might pop up next. After all there's probably a better chance of that than the lottery ticket we buy from time to time and it can be a heck of a lot more enjoyable as well. Well, maybe if you are real lucky you might just have one of these gems below sitting in that dusty old tackle box. Are They in Your Tackle Box? If so, get ready to be blown away by what some of the prices these vintage fishing lures have sold for in the past.ĭo you fish, or better yet did your Dad, Uncle or Grandpa used to fish? If so do you remember where that old tackle box is? Probably sitting around in a garage or attic gathering dust.