Dr. Todds Friday Fun House Video of the Week.. 12 Things i would buy if I could afford them. 1. Super color JITTERBUG , Fred Arbogast Lure 2. Always loved this Musky Trolling Minnow 3. A good addition for every Shakes collector Vintage WM. SHAKESPEARE JR 4. One of my all time favorite Heddon […]
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Dr. Todds Friday Fun House Video of the Week Ive always enjoyed collecting dual purpose items use it and collect it… 12 Things i would buy if I could afford them. This weeks Black Friday Special is from Langs Timed Auctions, if you havnt been by there, stop by and check out the new […]
Samuel Allcock & Company The following history of the venerable British firm of Samuel Allcock was published in the 1888 edition of Wyman’s commercial encyclopædia of leading manufacturers of Great Britain. Allcock was one of the largest — if not the largest — makers of fish hooks in the world and branched out to produce materials […]
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Langs New Scheduled Timed Auctions
Langs New Scheduled Timed Auctions Langs New Scheduled Timed Auctions is now up and running full swing. If you haven’t been buy yet (Pun Intended) no better time than now! Don’t wait, as the name implies its a timed format. John, Debbie, Christina & Jim have unveiled a very cool way to buy, sell and […]
Dr. Todds Friday Fun House We will be doing another Friday Funhouse this evening, with some of the highlights from the Langs time auctions!!! So stay tuned. Video of the Week fill up your coffee and enjoy the ride…. 12 Things i would buy if I could afford them. 1. First is your hot […]
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52 Trade Houses in 52 Weeks Part 4 Hudson’s Bay Company
52 Trade Houses in 52 Weeks Part 4 Hudson’s Bay Company of Canada Trade House Tackle, Part 4: Hudson’s Bay Company of Canada The Oldest Tackle Trade House in the World Perhaps the most legendary of all corporations in America is also the oldest commercial store in North America, and one of the oldest in […]
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Red Wing Mermaid Brand Casting Fishing Line Card
Red Wing Mermaid Brand Casting Fishing Line Card This is for a Classic, Vintage, Original, Red Wing Mermaid Brand Casting Fishing Line Card. This 90+ year old unused RED WING brand extra strong braided cotton casting line coiled on a card was manufactured in the 1920s by the Newton Line Company (est 1909) of Homer […]
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Kilrush Brand Cuttyhunk Linen Tarpon Jumping Fishing Line Card
Kilrush Brand Cuttyhunk Linen Tarpon Jumping Fishing Line Card This Kilrush Brand Cuttyhunk Linen Tarpon Jumping Fishing Line Card is a beauty. Dating to the 1930’s era KILRUSH brand waterproof Cuttyhunk linen line coiled on a card was made by the Cortland Line Company. Established in 1915 of Cortland, New York to honor Kilrush (Irish: […]
Dr. Todds Friday Fun House Video of the week, well 2: When doing what you love, aligns with helping those who who are brave enough to risk it all so you can. Next week may be the national holiday the country thanks you, but know there are many of us who served alongside you that […]
52 Trade Houses in 52 Weeks Part 3 Kerr Sport Shop of Beverly Hills Trade House Tackle, Part III: The Kerr Sport Shop of Beverly Hills: Fishing Tackle to the Stars Hollywood reached its Golden Age from 1930-1960, when such luminescent stars as Cary Grant, Gary Cooper and Bing Crosby became icons. Many of these […]
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Ebony Bass SA Jones Fine Braided Fishing Line Card
Ebony Bass SA Jones Fine Braided Fishing Line Card This is a Classic, Vintage, Original, Ebony Bass SA Jones Fine Braided Fishing Line Card. This fine quality wonderful piece is new old stock. The Samuel A Jones Line Company (1930 – 1939) of Norwich New York made this EBONY BASS brand black linen enameled line. […]
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Golden Spinner US Line Company Braided Fishing Line Card
Golden Spinner US Line Company Braided Fishing Line Card This is a Classic, Vintage, Original, Golden Spinner US Line Company Braided Fishing Line Card. This fine quality wonderful piece is new old stock. This unused GOLDEN SPINNER brand braided Japan silk enameled fly line coiled on a card was manufactured by the U. S. Line […]
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Black Scottie Cohantic Fine Braided Fishing Line Card
Black Scottie Cohantic Fine Braided Fishing Line Card This is a Vintage, Original, Black Scottie Fine Braided Fishing Line Card. This fine quality wonderful piece is new old stock, and dates back about 80 years. This BLACK SCOTTIE brand braided cotton fishing line was sold by the Edward K Tryon Company of Philadelphia under their […]
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Universal Brand Vacuoil Impregnated Japan Silk Enameled Line Card
Universal Brand Vacuoil Impregnated Japan Silk Enameled Line Card A Classic, Vintage, Original, Universal brand Vacuoil Enameled Silk Line Card. This unused and like new UNIVERSAL brand “VACUOIL” Impregnated first quality Japan silk enameled fly line coiled on a card that is marked Patent Pending was registered with the U S Patent Office on March […]
Dr. Todds Friday Fun House The Video of the Week (Have 2 for you this week) Both River and Tributary conservation themed. 12 Things I would buy if I could afford them. 1.This Montague Trout 100 yard fly reel has got a good look to it. 2. A true classic Weedless Rubber Frog […]
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52 Trade Houses in 52 Weeks Part 1 Wyeth Hardware Company
52 Trade Houses in 52 Weeks Trade House Tackle, Part 1: Trade House Tackle Thursday, Over the course of the next year, we’ll be detailing the history of 52 companies that sold branded fishing tackle. 52 trade houses in 52 weeks — some obscure, some famous, and all available exclusively here on the Fin & […]
A Discourse on Trade Tackle Dr Todd and I decided to combine powers last year on a few fronts, besides the Fishing For History & Angling Echoes magazines, we tapped into our wonder twins powers to activate our internet powers, more specifically, our blog sites. For anyone who has attempted a site, a blog, a […]
Dr. Todds Friday Fun House The Video of the Week 12 Things I would Buy if I could Afford Them 1.How could I resist this SHAKESPEARE WOOD MINNOW FISHING LURE IN BOX 2.This Turbulent Excitor Fishing Lure R/W W/ Box would look great on my bookshelf. 3. This is just down right beautiful B.F. Meek & Sons No. […]
Angling Echoes October 2018 Angling Echoes October 2018; About This Issue This is a strange issue, which is probably right in line with October being a strange month. For some reason I collected a lot of oddball articles this month, as these kinds of things always interest me, and I hope will interest you as […]
Tight Lines Tuesday Hercules Tight Lines Tuesday Hercules; This 100+ year old Shakespeare Indian Silk Casting Line branded the HERCULES was introduced in 1909 and produced with this colorful lithographic label for just one year, thus making it one of the most difficult to find and one of the very rarest of Shakespeare’s antique fishing […]
Heddon Tiny Teaz Fly Lure The Heddon Tiny Teaz Fly Lure was first introduced in 1930. This pint sized Heddon lure, made in Dowagiac Michigan was very short lived. While introduced in 1930 this lure would disappear into obscurity by 1934 and not even make the lure line up catalog that year. This tiny little […]
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Tight Lines Tuesday Chicago I Will Maiden
Tight Lines Tuesday Chicago I Will Maiden by John Etchieson CHICAGO “I WILL” MAIDEN; 104 years ago this month in 1914 the William Shakespeare Jr. Company offered this CHICAGO brand fishing line in its new 1915 fishing season tackle catalog. The line was one of the famous “Indian silk” lines that Shakespeare produced between 1909 […]
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Whitefish Price Guide to Vintage Fishing Lures
The 2018 Whitefish Price Guide to Vintage Fishing Lures In the Whitefish Price Guide to Vintage Fishing Lures; Everyone has an opinion on what a vintage fishing lure is worth, but there is only one way to know for sure: find out what similar or identical lures have sold for in the recent past. But […]
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Fishing For History Volume 2 Number 4
Fishing For History Volume 2 Number 4 Fishing For History Vol 2 No 4 September – October 2018 About This Issue Click to Visit Fishing for History Deconstructing old Ads with Bill Sonnett: The Long Island Flasher…1 Heddon After Heddon, Part IV by Dr. Todd E.A. Larson…4 The Golden Anniversary of the Carbon Fibre Rod […]
The Video of the Week This makes me want to sell everything and go on the road……. 12 Thing I Would Buy If Only I Could Afford Them This Heddon Slope Nose in Box floats to the top of the list, 2. ThisHardy Fortuna Big Game Reel > is sure to Reel you in. 3. If […]
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Jamison Vs Decker Worlds Bass Fishing Contest of 1910
Jamison Vs Decker Worlds Bass Fishing Contest of 1910 Jamison Vs Decker Worlds Bass Fishing Contest of 1910; In 1910, two titans of the tackle industry — William “Smilin’ Bill” Jamison and Anson B. Decker — pitted themselves and the finest fishing lures that they manufactured in what was widely billed as the first “World’s […]
Tight Lines Tuesday Extra Strong by John Etchieson Tight Lines Tuesday Extra Strong; 91 years ago in 1927 the G H Mansfield Company (EST. 1821) of Canton Massachusetts produced this EXTRA STRONG brand of Japan silk casting line that was designed to take the strongest of the fighting Musky fish. To convey the great strength […]
Bender & Flynn Darter Antique Lure This Bender & Flynn Darter Antique Lure was created in and around 1945. This creation made by Albert Bender & E.C. Flynn of Pinellas Park, Florida. Albert Bender a Wood Worker, E.C. Flynn and artist combined talents the year that ended the great war and together created and produced […]
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Seeing through the Ice Louis Rhead Ice Fishing
Seeing Through the Ice Louis Rhead Ice Fishing (I wrote this post a year and half ago, and since September is ITP aware month, I thought I’d repost.) Seeing Through the Ice Louis Rhead Ice Fishing is my meager attempt to assimilate the last two weeks of my life to fishing theme. Some who follow […]
Tight Lines Tuesday Biltwell by John Etchieson Tight Lines Tuesday Biltwell; 91 years ago in 1927 the G. H. Mansfield Company (est. 1821) offered the BILTWELL brand silk bait casting line with an attractive label featuring one of America’s dreadnought battleships that were easily recognizable due to their two lattice masts, sometimes called “cage masts”, […]
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Tight Lines Tuesday Italian Brand
Tight Lines Tuesday Italian Brand by John Etchieson Tight Lines Tuesday Italian Brand; 96 years ago in the Spring of 1922, the author, artist, angler and hunter, William Harnden Foster, painted a wonderful scene of a fly fisherman who had crawled to the edge of the bank above the water to avoid spooking this trout […]
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Syracuse Split Bamboo Fish Rod Company
Syracuse Split Bamboo Fish Rod Company This Syracuse Split Bamboo Fish Rod Company, Henry Loftie catalog is a great early pre 1900’s Catalog. Circa 1889, this cover has made it over a century protected for it to be enjoyed by collectors and American Fishing Historians a century later. I’ve always been fond of Antique Paper […]
Trigger Fish Antique Lure The Trigger Fish Antique Lure was a creation of the Davis Tackle Manufacturing Company, Detroit Michigan. The lure dates to the late 1940’s in patent application and in production. This fishing lure falls into the spring loaded fishing category, where by when pressure is place on the top of the lure […]
Version 2 Pflueger Vintage Bait Casting Reel This reel is a Rare Very First Model Pflueger Vintage Bait Casting Reel. This Pflueger 80 yard Kentucky style is a classic bait caster. Circa 1906 this version 2 has 3 offset screws and an un-jeweled side plate. The side plates do have the raised scrolling typical of […]
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Tight Lines Tuesday Shakespeare Dollar Dandy
Tight Lines Tuesday Shakespeare Dollar Dandy by John Etchieson Tight Lines Tuesday Shakespeare Dollar Dandy – 85 years ago, in 1933, the Shakespeare Tackle Company introduced its Dollar Dandy fishing line to fishermen facing the adverse economic effects of America’s Great Depression. “We’re in the Money” is a song from the 1933 Warner Bros. film […]
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Tight Lines Tuesday G H Mansfield & Co
Tight Lines Tuesday G H Mansfield & Co by John Etchieson The firm of G H Mansfield & Co. of Canton Massachusetts had already been producing some of the best hard braided silk fishing lines for 10 years when America celebrated the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876. This historic event, (the first official World’s Fair […]
Antique Fishing License the Paper Years Not all fishing collectibles are specifically lure or reel related. In this gallery you see some great examples of Antique Fishing License. Just as each state has there own regulations on tariffs, trade, property and income. On a micro or personal level the regulation of certain industries was left up […]
Kurz Buck Skin Lure The Kurz Buck Skin Lure is over 100 years old. Given that it is a piece of folded rawhide it looks pretty darn good for being over the century mark. The Kurz Bros. Co. were based in Chicago, Illinois @1369-89 North Branch Street.and during a time in the mid teens where […]
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The Home Rodmaker Book
The Home Rodmaker Book Building Saltwater, Bait Casting, and Fly Rods from Wood & Bamboo In The Home Rodmaker, Stillman Taylor probably taught more people how to make fishing rods than any other writer of the 1900-1930 era. Yet today, he is virtually unknown even to the most advanced rod makers and fishing historians. How […]
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Bamboo Lore Notes on Making, Wrapping, and Repairing Bamboo Fly Rods
Bamboo Lore Notes on Making, Wrapping, and Repairing Bamboo Fly Rods In Bamboo Lore, Edwin Thomas Whiffen (1874 – 1957) was a prominent outdoor writer in the 1910s and 1920s who led a varied and fascinating life. A native New Yorker, he spent an active career as a teacher in New York City. A graduate […]
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Father of the Five Strip Bamboo Fly Rod
Father of the Five Strip Bamboo Fly Rod In the Father of the Five Strip Bamboo Fly Rod Robert W. Crompton was many things — artist, writer, advertising man, outdoorsman, fly fisherman — but we remember him best today as the father of the five strip bamboo fly rod. Noted bamboo rod maker and author […]
Antique Lures, Collectible Fishing Empherma (Books, Catalogs, Photos, Etc), Miscellaneous Lure Makers
Al Foss The Life & Fishing Lures of the Pork Rind King
Al Foss The Life & Fishing Lures of the Pork Rind King Book Details: 6″ x 9″ Softcover • 312 Total Pages • Black and White Images To Purchase this Book Please visit our Sister site Whitefishpress: Al Foss The Life & Fishing Lures of the Pork Rind King DESCRIPTION Al Foss was an iconic name […]
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Millsite Fishing Tackle Book
Millsite Fishing Tackle Book Details Softcover, 160 pages, 8.5″ x 11″, Full Color throughout ABOUT THE BOOK To Purchase this Books Visit our Sister Site Whitefishpress: Millsite Fishing Tackle Book This book is a comprehensive and well written history of the Millsite Steel & Wire Works and the Millsite Tackle Company, both fishing tackle makers […]
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Fishing For History Magazine February 2018
Fishing For History Magazine February 2018 Click the Above to View a Free LQ Flip Book. You can order a HQ Flipbook or PDF right below this section. After you place the order you will receive an email containing the link to click to download the product. This may take a few minutes. If you […]
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Fishing for History Friday Funhouse 2-9-2018
Fishing for History Friday Funhouse 2-9-2018 Fishing for History Friday Funhouse 2-9-2018; The Video of the Week If you’ve never been introduced to Lee Sisson, you need to check out this short video to learn how he impacted Bagley Baits. 12 Thing I Would Buy If Only I Could Afford Them This is a BEAST […]
Friday Funhouse February 2 2018 Friday Funhouse February 2 2018 ; The Video of the Week Some of you may have seen the ABU Garcia documentary, but if you haven’t, sit back and enjoy. It really its great! 12 Thing I Would Buy If Only I Could Afford Them Once or twice a […]
Angling Echoes, Antique Lures, Collectible Fishing Empherma (Books, Catalogs, Photos, Etc), Fishing For History, Fly Fishing
Angling Echoes Trout Fishing in the Rangeley Lakes
Angling Echoes Trout Fishing in the Rangeley Lakes An excerpt from Angling Echoes Trout Fishing in the Rangeley Lakes; As regards methods of fishing, it need only be said that the high-toned angler will not tempt his intended victim with anything but a fly at any season. The best fly-fishing is to be had in the […]
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Angling Echoes Premier Issue January 2018
Echoes Premier Issue January 2018 Click the link below to read the first issue, and think about subscribing! 12 issues a year, $.99 an issue! Angling Echoes Also Take a look and like & follow our Facebook Page: Angling Echoes Facebook Page On Instagram @AnglingEchoes Angling Echoes is a unique departure in fishing magazines based on […]
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Tight Lines Tuesday Silver King
Tight Lines Tuesday Silver King by John Etchieson – Tight Lines Tuesday Silver King; The “Silver King” and the Schmelzer Arms Company – The first tarpon ever caught with a rod and reel was taken in 1885 by W. H. Wood using bait and a thumb stall reel with linen line on Sanibel Island in […]
NFLCC Greater Milwaukee Lure Show NFLCC Greater Milwaukee Lure Show; Ever Wondered what it was like to look through the eyes of a antique lure collector? Mac Hoover did an amazing job in this short piece about the Greater Milwaukee Classic. If your interested in the history of fishing (Bass, Ice, Fly, Carp, Crappie, Salt […]