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1000 Words Last week we featured a neat photographic ad from Bristol Horton. Lest we think they were the only company to utilize photographic ads, let's gaze at this wonderful collage of photos by the South Bend Bait Company, ironically published in the same edition of the magazine as the ...
Hunting & Fishing
Deconstructing Old Ads with Bill Sonnett The Dickens Convertible Liar A few weeks ago we took a look at an advertisement for the Hanson's Irresistible Bait and showed the following photo plate from Dixie Carrol's 1919 book Fishing Tackle & Kits . On this same plate in the upper right hand ...
Hunting & Fishing
The Friday Funhouse Video of the Week A nice vintage newsreel video of roaming through Michigan. Things I Would Buy If Only I Could Afford Them There are some incredible baits this week, not the least of which is this F.A. Pardee underwater minnow . This is a nifty Heddon 101 in a ...
Hunting & Fishing
Thursday Review: March 2010 NFLCC Gazette The mailman brought a very welcome gift today in the form of the latest edition of The NFLCC Gazette (Vol. 32, No. 122 -- March 2010). This was an interesting issue as it featured some of my favorite writers. The cover story is a great tale by Dr. ...
Hunting & Fishing
Colorado's ReeLever for Automatic Fly Reels Searching old fishing magazines is like panning for gold; many times what appears like a rich vein produces next to nothing of use, while other times an unlikely source reveals real nuggets. For this reason I like to chase obscure magazines and ...
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I follow eBay closer than I probably should, and about a year ago I began to notice one gentleman making small glass minnow tubes and selling them for a reasonable price. Now, I'd made a few of these back in the day and utilized the time-honored method of putting a few Lightning Bugs inside ...
Hunting & Fishing
Ice fishing Ontario's Quetico...big fish from a kayak... Field & Stream weighs in on the Task Force brouhaha...a Vermont state record walleye...low oxygen zones in the ocean are a real threat...the movie River Why has a premier date...20 Questions with walleye pro Brett King...the top 10 ...
Hunting & Fishing
1000 Words It was really in the first two decades of the twentieth century that the fishing photograph became a central part of fishing advertising. One of the most prominent advertisers was Bristol Horton, who's full page ads filled magazines for forty years. Here's a great example of a Bristol ...
Hunting & Fishing
Deconstructing Old Ads with Bill Sonnett: New 1924 products from Creek Chub -- Including the Ice Decoy This January 1924 Sporting Goods Journal ad tell us of the new flyrod lure line that Creek Chub has decided to enter as well as the introduction of the Fintailed Shiner. In small print below ...
Hunting & Fishing
THE FRIDAY FUNHOUSE! Video of the Week All hail the Goliath Grouper! Goliath Grouper Things I Would Buy If Only I Could Afford Them This is a really cool chumming lure . Heddon Mark IV baitcasters are not common. This Shakespeare 1969B gold President is a super cool reel! This ...
Hunting & Fishing
Thursday Review: March 2010 Reel News The latest Reel News arrived (March 2010, Vol. XX, No. 2) and it did not disappoint. In this issue, the centerpiece is a fascinatingly shrill missive from Graham Turner. " The Case for Ustonson's Winch " isn't so much a case as it is a surprisingly ...
Hunting & Fishing
EDITORIAL: Four Questions to Ask About the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force As many of you know, I have been following the developments concerning the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force very carefully. For those who haven't taken the time to read about it, you can catch up on it here and ...
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A Bright Idea: The Brief History of the Electric Fishing Reel I ran across the following blurb from Popular Mechanics for July 1952 about an electric fishing reel and it got me thinking. When was the first electric fishing reel patented? What was the first successful electric reel? What was ...
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David Maloney Blows the Lid on "Reproduction" Reels David Maloney posted this recently on Reel Talk and I thought it deserved the widest possible audience because it's a very important subject. Knowing what to look for when it comes to forgeries is the key. Fake Reels by David Maloney Here's ...
Hunting & Fishing
I understand the appeal of the Atlantic Salmon--it is a beautiful fish--but I've always thought the Chinook was a more interesting fish. Here's a neat little article from a 1917 Forest & Stream that gets at the heart of what I find so fascinating about this great fish. It was written by noted ...
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Chinook
VMC celebrates a century of fish hooks...a fishing marathon...kayak fishing is getting hot...British winter is punishing tackle merchants...the lowdown on sexing fish...Ted Takasaki, walleye pro...the Madman of the Sea...musky on the fly?...a huge barbel...a Trinidadian Wahoo ...
Hunting & Fishing
I am constantly blown away about how many great people are involved in this hobby of ours, especially the community we've created here on Joe's (thanks as always to Pappa Joe Yates for putting up with us). I put out a query for help on the Sinker article and I have been BLOWN AWAY by how many ...
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Yates
1000 Words This photo dated 1909 has everything I like in a vintage fishing picture: outdoor scenery, fishing tackle, a fish, and something memorable. In this case, looks like a father and son. And wow! What a great canoe! -- Dr. Todd
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Deconstructing Old Ads with Bill Sonnett: The Knickerbocker From the January 1924 Sporting Goods Journal come this full page ad for what many consider to be the aristocrat of tackle boxes, the "Knickerbocker Tackle Case." If you have seen one of these at the shows, you know that it is a ...
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Video of the Week With winter rapidly waning, I thought I'd point out that the new Jerry Seinfeld show The Marriage Ref recently visited my hometown of Duluth to do a promo. About ice fishing. Don't know if the show is funny or not, but I do know that Duluth is great. Things I Would Buy ...
