Throwback Thursday January 10th
by John Etchieson
I write a lot of articles, blog entries, etc., etc. and my focus much of the time steers to the history of the item, or the item itself. I feel sometimes I dont highlight the important stuff or I get to busy doing 15 other things (Thanks to my Adult ADHD). Not to Jump off the deep end, as its too early, and I hadn’t had enough coffee yet, but this post is the glue that holds all those other pieces together.
The most important factor in collecting any type of tackle, rod, reels, lures, lines, historical articles is summed up in my friends John’s post below, it’s the people and our relationships we make along the way. For what is history, stories and lore if you dont have someone to enjoy sharing it with. Take a few extra seconds, pick up the phone, go for a visit, connect without the use of flat linear means of connecting, text, email, instagram, twitter, etc.
Take it from a guy (Me) who was diagnosed with a 1 in 4 million odds tumor in his head at the ripe old age of 46, you never know what will bring. We aren’t guaranteed tomorrow, or even the rest of today, so make the best of it. Take the extra second to spend making a memory, it lasts longer than remembering today’s value of a wooden lure. Im first in line with being guilty with this and need to heed my own advice.
Both gentleman pictured John and Nello are 2 gentleman Im blessed to call friends.
Throwback Thursday January 10th
by John Etchieson
Throwback Thursday – Newspaper Article – I recently came across this old photo from the sports section of an Austin American Statesman newspaper article from 30 years ago about collecting antique fishing tackle. The article’s photo featured my longtime friend and fellow antique fishing tackle collector Nello Armstrong and I showing some of our favorite items that we had collected. The article included our phone numbers which resulted in many phone calls from people wanting to sell their old fishing reels and fishing lures to us. It was the best free advertising that Nello and I ever did to add to our collections. Those were also the good old days when I was still young and skinny.
