Innovative Rod Handles Part 1
The “Bass Handler” was packaged more as a component item, most likely intended for use by custom rod builders. Word is they were designed to hold Lew’s Speed Stick ferrules.
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Month: November 2021
Past Technology a Lost Art
But to me, there’s a downside to the electronic mapping. That downside is it’s difficult to look at your graph when you’re in the house preparing for your trip and unless you have a 40-inch computer screen
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B.A.S.S.’s First Woman Angler
Her first day partner, Homer Humphreys, told the Orlando Sentinel that ”[s]he was a fantastic partner. She was the most aggressive lady I’ve ever fished with – more aggressive than most men are – when it came to keeping her lure in the water
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to all. Thank you for coming by but we’re taking the day off to celebrate with...
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Lowrance Red Box
Many think the Green Box Lo-K-Tor was the first fish finder made by Lowrance Corp. of Oklahoma. However, the Red Box predated the famous Green Box but information is hard to find about the Red Box Lo-K-Tors
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Frank Hauck Living Rubber
Not happy with the standard skirt materials of the day – primarily marabou, vinyl and hair – Hauck set out to find a material that had more action. What he came up with was what he called “living rubber.” At that time, Hauck went into business mass producing the material under the name Frank Hauck’s Living Rubber Lure Components.
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Lowrance Electronics Manufacturing Company
In this ad from 1962 there are a couple of things to notice. First off look at the name of the company Lowrance Electronics Manufacturing Company (LEMCO). It’s not the familiar name Lowrance Electronics Incorporated (LEI) that we know today
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Advanced Bait Casting by Charles Fox
What I found within the thick, rough-cut pages was information on how to catch bass I thought was only as new as Jason Lucas’ writings from the late 40s on or even from the 60s or 70s.
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From Marilyn Monroe to Ott Defoe
Lauri Rapala, inventor of the Original Floater, began making his lures in the 1930s, and as they evolved the Finnish lures became popular throughout Europe, particularly after the Summer Olympics were held in Helsinki in 1952.
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The Alexandria Drafting Company
Yesterday we featured the book Lunkers Love Nightcrawlers – the first major treatise on structure fishing. This week we delve into a smaller publication on the subject, published by the Alexandria Drafting Company, called Bass Structure Fishing.
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