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Heddon 1979

In Heddon 1979 we take a look back to the waning years of Heddon being a private, family-owned company and the baits they offered

In Cotton Cordell 1970, we look back to the early days of one of the most prolific tackle companies in history, Cordell Tackle Inc.

In Daiwa and Shimano 1979 we look back to the genesis of the low-profile reel and pay homage to the man who thought out-of-the-box

In Strike King 1979, we take a look back at one of the most influential tackle companies of all time and some of the new baits they developed

In Bagley’s Small Fry 1979 we look into the first years of the lifelike crankbait revolution that hit in the late 1970s and Bagley’s reaction

In Let’s Look Back – Part 7, Stan Fagerstrom talks about another of his favorite lures, the Heddon Basser that went out of production

in James Heddon and PRADCO we look back to the third catalog of Heddon’s after they were purchased by EBSCO/PRADCO in 1983.