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As I Remember...

By Tom Fagan The use of the lure to catch fish
goes back hundreds of years.

The North American natives

used fishing lures as decoys. In
winter, they would drop the lure
through a hole in the ice, and

when a large fish came by, they

speared it. A fishing lure decoy
is a very rare find today.

There were thousands of lure
companies in North America,
and in time most of them
were bought up by the larger
companies.

Some of the better known
he subject of antique lures is companies were the Paw

Tcertainly something worth Paw Company, The Creek
talking about. There have been Chub Company, The Heddon
many fishing stories printed Company, The South Bend

throughout the years, but today, Company, The Remington Arms
I have decided to write a short Company, The Phlayes and

history of the fishing tackle Shakespeare Company.
companies and some of their Some lures I have in my
lures.
collection today include a Bars
Although collectors of antique Oreno, the pickies minnow, the
fishing equipment collect wooden minnow, the spook, the

anything antique, lures are the Johnson silver minnow and the
most sought after. twitter bug, paw paw and murical

minnow. I have lures from about
The reason is that rods and

reels have stood the test of time fifteen different companies in

much better than the fishing lures made of wood with glass eyes with intricate painting patterns on my collection, all bring back
of old. Lures get lost, caught on the bodies. Each company had its own way of connecting the a fond memory of time spent

the river bottom, come off lines hooks to the wooden body of the lure, these were called hook on the beautiful St. Lawrence
etc. They are much rarer. hangers or harnesses. They were patented and guarded from those River. I hope you enjoyed my
short history of lures.
The classic fishing lure was who tried to copy them.

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