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While the list of frog lures I suppose that fishing tackle
appears endless, one worth “Automatic Fish Hook,” and lures hold a soft spot in my
looking for is the Brady “Fish manufacturer unknown, heart because, like many an
Dinner” frog lure. Advertised very rare, $5,000. American boy, I grew up fishing
by the W. H. Brady Company of with my dad. We lived along the
acting “more like a frog than a Missouri River, and often fished
frog,” this lure, with box, costs backwater lakes and ponds for
around $175. bullheads or sunfish. One of my
Another type of oddball lure most prized possessions is an old
worth mentioning is the fish Shakespeare rod and reel that I
decoy. bought for a birthday present for
Spear fishermen often use fish my father in the early 1960s. I
decoys to attract fish. The earliest saved money earned from a paper
examples of fish decoys that are Spring loaded fish lures act incorporated two mirrors into its route to buy them. Dad never
known are Eskimo in origin, and more like a bear trap than a design. According to William used them much since we mainly
some of these are believed to be lure, but they are ingenious in Zeigler, “A fish seeing his image fished with a pole, a bobber,
more than 1000 years old. While their cruelty. The Kridler Fish upon looking [into the mirror] and a worm. But he always
most decoys are fish, one oddball Lure, manufactured by Phillip therein will appear to see another kept them nearby to show other
is the turtle decoy. The one shown W. Kridler of Detroit, Michigan, fish approach” the bait. The fish, anglers what I had bought him.
here (manufacturer unknown) is during World War II, is a fine not wanting to lose the bait will Sometimes a gift is more than just
about 5 inches in length with tack example of a spring-loaded lure. strike before the approaching fish a gift.
eyes, leather tail, and four metal When the fish pulls on the lure, can. Watch for Automatic Fish Like many of you, I look at
legs. It uses a slip type weight. four spring-loaded hooks come Hooks wherever you go since they old fishing tackle and lures in
Most fish decoys were handmade, flying out of the lures’ body, are valued at over $5,000.00 on every antique shop or auction I go
so makers are unknown. It is easy impaling the fish. The lure is today’s secondary market. While to. Special memories always float
to see how these decoys became only 3 inches in length and costs the manufacturer of these lures back when one sees a lure from
the inspiration for lures. In some about $500 per inch or $1,500. is not known, the box is clearly the past, and this is especially
cases, such as the minnow shown An oddball among oddballs is marked “Automatic Fish Hook” true if one sees an oddball lure
here, simply adding a hook was the Automatic Fish Hook (actually if you are lucky enough to find a that makes one wonder how many
all that was needed to create a more of a trap than a hook), the box. The lure itself is stamped fish have laughed at fishermen’s
lure. only fish hook that I know of that “PAT. PEND.” efforts over the years.
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