You Don’t Want This

Seriously, you don’t want this(subliminal message, subliminal message). This is not something that you nor anyone else should be bidding on over at eBay(subliminal message, subliminal message, look into my eyes). Why? Simple cause if it stays low, it’s mine. This baby will swim again. I’m an active saltwater fisherman and I absolutely adore fishing this particular brand of antique fishing lure (subliminal message, this is not an antique fishing lure, don’t buy it). If this one stays low, my money is on it (subliminal message: don’t spend your hard earned cash on this junk).

Sorry for all the hypnotic tricks on this particular lure(please don’t buy it), but I picked them up from a friend of mine who’s into all this hypnosis stuff.

All kidding aside, if you are an avid saltwater fisherman and have never fished an original Bingo or Doug English lure either in the bays or the surf, you don’t know what your missing. I have had more seriously blow-ups, fish-out-of-water attacks on these lures than any of the newer lures around. Now all-in-all, fishing itself doesn’t have a lot to do with antique fishing lure collecting. But for any serious saltwater angler, if you’ve never heard of these lures, then I’d have to question just how serious you really are. Well maybe not how serious you are but you get my drift.

This one will be rated overall a “Fisher” without much loving needed other than knocking the corrosion of the lead weight in the underbelly and changing out the hooks. I’d probably put a hook a bit smaller than the tale hook in the front and one smaller than that in the back. Other than that, she’s a beaut!

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The Two That Got Away

Well, I swung and missed the other day. Had two beautiful little homers in my site’s, looking for a fastball to swing to the fence on, but got thrown a curve. Strike three, and I’m out. Name of the game I guess, you win some and you lose some. Here’s the two beauties that slipped through my fingers the other day. These two babies had Choke Canyon Reservoir written all over them, and there wasn’t much work to be done to them at all.

Vintage South Bend No. 973P Bass Oreno Lure
An original wooden South Bend Bass Oreno in a basic cream color with shades of brown and gold. The paint was in really good shape with very minimal checking or chipping. Just an excellent little lure that was ready to swim again. Hooks contained some rust, but that was about all that I would’ve changed with this particular beast. Made them smaller I would have (my Yoda speak). Good little lure made sometime in the late 30’s early 40’s. I could just imagine the bass this would’ve tagged for me again. This one got away with a crisp $7.00 bid from retto1.

Vintage South Bend No. 973YP Bass Oreno Lure
Again, crying in my milk here. Good color, glass eyes (in good condition), good pattern to have on the water “Yellow Perch”. The paint did have some damage but only on the top of the lure, nothing that I’d fix though since it is on top and the rest of the pattern and color is great. Once again though, the hooks gotta go. I can’t believe this baby got a way from me for a measly $5.35. I’m going to have to start paying closer attention.

Both these lures rated definite “Fisher” material.

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The Perfect Example

Yesterday on eBay sold the perfect example of what this blog is all about. An antique creek chub darter fishing lure was sold for $15.50. This fits everything that I look for when purchasing an antique fishing lure specifically for the purpose of getting it back in the water. It was a beautiful old lure with very minimal, well next to none, scratches, dents, chips or dings. Had a great yellow body with an excellent pattern already partitioned down it of red and black fuzzy spots. The mouth was open with not chips and had a gaping red paint job from the tip to where the gills would normally be. What’s wrong with it you might ask, well nothing really, it’s just an old lure that has been fished. So from a collector perspective there was still a lot to be desired. The hooks and other hardware had some corrosion, definitely a plummet drop in value if you were to collect it. Main point, lure is still in excellent shape to be fished again, it’s a very older model fishing lure and it fell in under the $20 cap I put on these. Yes it still was a bit high since most of these type of lures in good condition bring in about $20 – $30 dollars, but hey, it sold for half of that.

Now for the luvin’. First thing I’d do is take this baby home and remove and replace the hooks. I’d probably put a bit smaller hooks on this sweet thing to entice a little bit more adventure out of her. If the eye ring is still in good shape, leave it. Don’t start messing around with the that, if it still holds good tension, don’t do anything that would mess that up. In my opinion, if you start messing with the pull, you’ve messed with the lure too much and when that ol’ grand-daddy comes along to take a bite, you want to pull the whole thing back and not just the line connected to the eye ring. I don’t even think I would repaint or touch-up this beauty. She seems to be in tact very well. But if you wanted to you could easily repaint to a pattern more suitable or try to match the original once again. What a beauty! This ones rated “Fisher” with a little loving. Drop me a line anytime.

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Antique Fishing Lures: Heddon Crab Wiggler

eBay is a wonderful place to find these antique fishing lures. Over the weekend a beautiful specimen was sold that brought in a nice little sum of money for eBay seller troutmasterpa.

The lure pictured below sold on eBay for $202.50, not bad.The lure is a white lure with red blush around the eyes. Eyes are made of glass and didn’t seem to have any flaws that were noticeable. Very vintage, crisp, clean lure that I’d say is in good condition. Notice the paint cracks on the old wooden body, fairly typical and thus the personal rating.  This ones rated collector and not fisher!