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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