Donaly Redfin Weedless Lure

This Donaly Redfin Weedless Lure dates to the mid to early teens. Jim Donaly would bestow his creations on the American fishing tackle company through the 1920’s. While he would cease to produce lures in the 1930’s his antique lures would live on through James Heddon for decades to come.The weedless Redfin was a simple lure, wooden, hand painted with a seemingly void of decoration minus a few red gill marks. Having a single trailing dual hook on the belly & single rear hook which folks down into the tail to avoid snags along retrieve. The lure is adorn with the typical Donaly flashers to help attract its catch.

We have a rare Weedless Redfin in on consignment this week, click below to view.

Donaly Weedless

Ad Comes to us from the magazine, Recreation, and was published in 1915. The short blurb describing the antique fishing lure properties and set up and how it relates to fish attacking it.

Donaly Redfin Lure Weedless Casting Bait

A weedless casting bait which seems destined to be popular where introduced is the Redfin Model illustrated herewith. Eastern anglers speak very highly of it. It is a floating bait, finished in white enamel with red striping, body is 3 1/4″ inches long, fins are nickle, hooks nickle plated, one weedless tail hook and a pair of detachable belly hooks not shown. The tail hook is “pivotally” connected to the body, riding in a slot in the tail, and is illustrated in the extreme hooking position. The body is weighted to float right side up, and the weight of the hook keeps it in the weedless position, the point being protected by the wooden tail of the body. A strike on the tail from a “short striking” or rear attacking fish forces the hook to instantly rise to the hooking position. The belly hooks are for side strikes. Price $.75 cents.