Saturday, August 18, 2012

Deconstructing Old Ads: Those Plastic Spool Pflueger Reels (1947-1948)

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Those Plastic Spooled Pflueger Reels The first time I can remember seeing a Pflueger baitcasting reel with a white plastic spool was a Su...
Friday, August 17, 2012

The Friday Funhouse

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Video of the Week Shark found floating in a lake in Alabama. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the econo...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

The Shakespeare Carbo-Meter Part II

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The Shakespeare Carbo-Meter Part II I thought I'd give a bit more history on the Carbo-Meter. At the 1913 Detroit Auto Show, the Shake...
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Shakespeare's Carbo-Meter Carburetor (1913)

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Shakespeare's Carbo-Meter Carburetor I've been brushing up on my Shakespeare history of late, and recently ran across some informa...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Help Us Right A (Fishing) Wrong

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Help Us Right A (Fishing) Wrong As mentioned yesterday, an angler who legally caught a world record fish is being denied his bonus due to ...

New Book: John McDaniel's Fly Fishing the Harriman Ranch

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Wow! After a LOT of hard work by the Whitefish Press team and the author, John McDaniel, we are happy to report that the new book on fly fis...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Technicality Costs Angler $1 Million?

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Here's a fascinating story courtesy of our friends over at The Rocky River. It's the story of how the Arkansas Department of Game of...
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Monday, August 13, 2012

News of the Week: 13 August 2012

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Don't have time to read 50+ fishing and tackle collecting blogs and web sites? Well, let us do it for you! Follow all of the latest ne...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

Deconstructing Old Ads: Those Six Screw Pfluegers? (1941)

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Those 6 screw Pfluegers ? Most reel collectors these days have heard of the “4-screw Ambassadeurs” and the later “3-screw” models. Fred R...
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Friday, August 10, 2012

The Friday Funhouse

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The Video of the Week My friend Dick Braun sends in this incredible documentary done by his local PBS station on the history of Tarpon fis...
Thursday, August 9, 2012

Hibbo Scores, We Riot

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As a dedicated Everton fan since the early 1990s, this post will only mean something to my friends in the U.K. -- but damn if Hibbo didn...

Videos of the 1931 Keeley Fishing Tackle Trailer Rig

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Video of the 1931 Keeley Fishing Tackle Trailer Rig Yesterday, we gave you some photos -- historical and current -- of this incredible rig...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012

1931 J.M. Keeley Car and Tackle Trailer

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1931 J.M. Keeley Car and Tackle Trailer As promised in a previous post, I said I would give everyone a better look at the incredible J.M. ...
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