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View fullsize Celebrating the Packers win by the fire with my gal and a handmade cigar I got from a streetside cigar maker in Florida last year. Wait...what do you mean the Packers didn't win? What the... I must have put it out of my mind already.
View fullsize Well, I took the Paul Bunyan Ruby Spoon out Friday evening and it was very cool throwing an 85-year-old lure and catching fish on it. It has a back-and-forth wobble as it comes through the water, seeming to rarely or never turn all the way over or sp
View fullsize Vintage Paul Bunyan Ruby Spoon, I'm thinking from the early 1940s. The catalog entries are from around that time, with the color excerpt dated at 1940. This is currently my only Ruby Spoon but I want to tie it on and cast it a few times just to see h
View fullsize Couple of modest pickling pike. Went out for a couple hours with an old Mepps spinner and a new lightweight hoodie from @freeflyapparel that I'm testing. The hoodie was much warmer than I anticipated, very comfortable. Would like some old school grap
View fullsize WWII era Jitterbug. I hope to snag one or two more of these and put together a little shadow box for the wall. #wwiijitterbug #wwii #arbogastjitterbug #1940sfishinglure
View fullsize My Magnificent Monday @bassfishingarchives story is about an amazing piece written by the great Robert Page Lincoln back in 1952 for @furfishgame magazine. It is amazing because Lincoln covered the subject of fishing with pork bait more thoroughly an
View fullsize The Fred Arbogast Special Edition Collector's Jitterbug, in honor of Arbogast's long overdue induction into the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame in a few days. Would love to be at the Bass Pro Shops/Wonders of Wildlife Museum in Springfield for this event.
View fullsize Some of my old Little Cleo spoons. We relied on these back in the '70s when fishing Lake Michigan for trout and salmon. Killer spoons. Unfortunately, they no longer bear the hoochie coochie girl. Here's the story: Charlie Clark created this spoon i
View fullsize The other day I saw these two beauties on my friend Mike McCabe's @anglingarchaeology eBay store, and I had to have them. Two original Canadian Wigglers in their boxes. The only all-brass, hollow, welded fishing lure. The first story I wrote for Bass
View fullsize Paw Paw made bait for Sears JC Higgins line, Lippy Joe Runt-Style lure, Silver Creek Line, 6101 Perch Scale. I'm only vaguely familiar with the JC Higgins line of lures, so I could be off here. It's my understanding that John Higgins began working fo
View fullsize What started as a slow day ended up pretty good. Threw a spinnerbait for two hours and all I could catch on it were small pike, and I lost three bass, including one real nice one. Changed baits to a Berkley Kingtail plastic worm and that did the tric
View fullsize Today's Magnificent Monday story takes a look at a wonderfully content-rich little booklet on the subject of Night Fishing, written by famed outdoor writer and world record musky holder Cal Johnson. Published in 1940, you're going to love seeing some
View fullsize Went fishing with Jesse tonight for a couple hours. She caught everything! She cast like a professional tonight, hitting her spots perfectly. #fatherdaughterfishing #wisconsinfishing
View fullsize Last day in Door County. Went fishing in the morning, stopped at The Farm in Sturgeon Bay on the way home. Always a wonderful time at The Farm; been going there since the girls were babies. Kids of all ages and loads of baby animals to pet and feed.
View fullsize At a lodge in Door County, WI. Fishing off the pier for a while, caught these two beauties: northern pike and pink salmon. Two other salmon were following this one as I reeled it in, and one of them was a freaking monster! Twice as big as this one.
View fullsize Daughter Jesse and I hit the lake for 2 hours this morning. Caught about a dozen keeper bass. Lost one tank. #wisconsinfishing #fatherdaughterfishing
View fullsize Today's BFA story, Part 2 continuation of last week's story on 1970s Big Bass Stringers. This time we cover exactly how those anglers caught all of those giant bass. It's a good one! Here's the link: https://bass-archives.com/big-bass-boards-part-2/
View fullsize Grandson Roman David Valleskey. Happy little fella.
View fullsize Sorting through a box of old gear and pulled out these vintage spools of line. Kinda neat to think that some of these are 50 to 80+ years old. #oldfishingline #antiquefishinggear #berkleytrilene #shakespearefishingline #strenfishingline #herters #so
View fullsize The Master Weedless Wiggler spoon from the old Milwaukee company, Augies Bait Co. Started sometime prior to the 1940s by Augie S. Byerosky, Augies Bait produced at least four spoons: the Master Weedless Wiggler, Musky Weedless, Mackerel Spoon, and in