James Heddon’s Sons 1940
The Crazy Crawler is actually still manufactured by PRADCO and there are even some Japanese and small U.S. companies that manufacture Crazy Crawler-like baits.
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Tag: retro ads
Fenwick – The Gold Standard of Rods
Fenwick – The Gold Standard of Rods looks back at Fenwick’s reign on the rod industry from the 1960s through the 197os and early 80s.
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Zorro Bait Company 1977
Stan Sloan will forever hold the distinction of being the first angler to win a Ray Scott event – winning the first All-American held on Beaver Lake in 1967.
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The Shannon Twin Spin
I’d be willing to guess that there aren’t many anglers today under the age of 40 who can tell me...
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Know Your Prostaff
I was browsing through some old fishing magazines this weekend, something we seem to do pretty frequently around here, when this ad caught my eye.
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Fred Arbogast Ads 1940
Hand tying was labor intensive and Arbogast was looking for a quicker way to turn out baits. To decrease the labor, he turned to making skirts out of rubber. In doing that, Arbogast invented the living rubber skirt in 1936 and introduced the Hawaiian Wiggler shortly thereafter.
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Jack A. Smithwick Sr. The Warhorse Man
From online research I’ve been doing, it seems like the bait went by the name “Devels Warhorse” beginning around 1960. Sometime around the later 60s through the early 70s, it’s called “Devils Warhorse” (spelled with an “i” instead of an “e”).
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