Florida antique tackle collectors, daytona beach, florida. Take a quick tour of 19021940 wood lures and boxes. A place to research early, pre1940 wood fishing lures and boxes. Head to the webpage to read more about fishing tackle the number one resource for fishing gear and information friendpardee kent minnow see more. From a detailed history of the company, to a thorough breakdown of every. See more ideas about vintage fishing lures, fly fishing books, fishing equipment. Reference books about antique fishing lures, extensive information on collecting antique lures from heddon, shakespeare, pflueger, and south bend. It also has a section on fishing tackle paraphernalia.
The lures emulate the food that larger fish eat, including worms, flies and small minnows. Click on the maker you are interested in to see the list of available antique lures. They have been and are currently for enticing fish and catching them on the hook. Vintage fishing lures fishing is a sport that has been traced back tens of thousands of years. However, the few made in 19 tend to be their most valuable.
My website is easy to navigate around in and you will find information that is not available anywhere on the internet or in text books. It is more of a comprehensive history book on early wood lures, scarce metal baits and rare bass flies. Great savings free delivery collection on many items. Long before we had the internet and many of our contemporary reference books, collectors relied. Below are some great books to help you get started collecting fishing lures and tackle or to add to your library. I have a large collection of lures from many different companies and i am daily looking for additional lures to add to my displays. An identification and value guide to the most collectible antique fishing lures. Antique fishing lures website is a website to book mark and revisit in the future. Vintage fishing lures worth a small fortune antique fishing luresantique fishing lures if you have any of these old fishing lures out in your garage, get ready to pay off the mortgage. Since i have many antique fishing lures and vintage fishing lures for sale or trade i have listed them by maker. I also added a page of antique fly rod lures which includes lures by any maker.
Prices i will pay for antique fishing lures i buy old. Aug 28, 2019 a board featuring vintage fishing tackle, brought to you by the fishing for history blog and the whitefish press. The most comprehensive antique fishing lure identification. Wooden vintage fishing lures for sale shop with afterpay ebay. They include lures by creek chub, heddon, pflueger, shakespeare, south bend and others.
Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. This book features a history of each manufactures, with nearly 2,000 listings of the most collectible lures on the market, complete with uptodate pricing and a brilliant color photos. An identification and value guide to the most collectible antique fishing lure. The florida antique tackle collectors fatc is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the.
Some antique lures are collectible, some catch fish just as well as they. Vintage fishing lures for sale shop with afterpay ebay. Randys antique fishing lures i buy old fishing lures and reels. Here you can buy and sell old, vintage, antique fishing lures from many different companies including heddon, creek chub, shakespeare, moonlight, pflueger, paw paw, and south bend just to name a few. Buy vintage fishing lures and get the best deals at the lowest prices on ebay.
Shop from the worlds largest selection and best deals for vintage fishing lures. Its not surprising most antique fishing lures you find come from this company. We are father and son, best freinds and fishing buddies. From time to time i will be listing some nice antique keeling lures from my collection. It is strictly for those who need to identify lures visually in the field. Fishing lures have been around as long as we have been able to catch fish. This page is dedicated to the preservation of vintage fishing lures and vintage fishing related items. It is black and white and has little collateral information. Fishing lure collectibles an identification and value guide.
Antique and vintage fishing tackle has become highly collectible, both for its workmanship and appearance and for the nostalgic memories it evokes of a simpler time. An identification and value guide to the most collectible antique fishing lure murphy, dudley, edmisten, rick on. When you search for old wooden fishing lures, be aware that vintage wooden lures needed lead weights to sink them to the proper fishing level unless the conditions called for surface appeal for fish, such as in heavy rain conditions. Muma, flyrod lures book old flyrod lures a collection of photos and help some with identification of this hardest of all areas to identify. On his 11 th birthday he received a brand new heddon fishing pole, shakepeare reel and two heddon river runt lures. With hundreds of full color photos, johnny garlands bagley collectors guide promises to be the definitive work on the subject. Classic fishing lures and angling collectibles by d. At least one photograph and usually more of each lure or other item is presented along with a description, year of manufacture or year of model introduction and other pertinent information. I will pay book prices in most cases, but keep in mind that book prices are not the gospel of what the value of a piece of old fishing tackle is worth.
If you want to buy cheap fishing lures, choose fishing lures from. An identification and value guide to the most collectible antique fishing lures fishing lure collectibles, 2nd ed by dudley murphy, rick edmisten, rick edmisten and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Unfollow vintage fishing lures to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. Fishing is a sport that has been traced back tens of thousands of years. China was the first civilization to make fishing lines of silk, of course, to which they attached delicate bronze hooks. Antique fishing lures hold the secret to past fishing techniques. Mar 04, 2008 the dowagiac minnow was introduced around 1904 and produced until at least 1930.
Complete book of tackle making and netcraft tackle tricks with wire book. In the years to come i plan to continuously add material to my lure website. Youll find new or used products in vintage fishing lures on ebay. Antique and vintage fishing lures collectors weekly. Learn how to make fishing lures and how to build fishing rods. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. New lures are added frequently, so check back often and we hope you find the perfect item to add to your collection. Antique and vintage fishing tackle collectors weekly.
New collectors today are largely influenced by their treatment among other collectors, and their ability to survive in a hobby that can sometimes be as cutthroat as it is rewarding. I buy, and am always buying old, vintage, antique fishing lures. Whatever fishing lures styles you want, can be easily bought here. No collector will want to be without this glorious tribute to the fishing lures of yesterday. This book is a remake of streaters classic identification book. The timeworn cliche that first impressions make all the difference is especially true in lure collecting. Shop ebay for great deals on vintage fishing lures. In this interview, joe yates talks about collecting antique fishing lures and. My father was born the year of 1938 in princess anne, maryland before moving to salisbury 6 years later. I am an avid collector of early angling history and i am very interested in buying your old antique fishing lures, lure boxes, old reels, reel boxes, or any other items that are also related to vintage american fishing history. The fun and artistry of antique fishing lures collectors weekly. If you have the box with it, you just found some gold in your tackle box. Fishing lures have been around for as long, beginning as bone implements, moving to wooden and metal handcrafted lures in colonial and preindustrial times, and finally becoming todays massproduced metal and plastic lure styles. I have a whole shelf of fishing lure books and i have all six florida.
This lure looks most likely to be an artificial crawfish. Fishing lures have been around about as long as prehistoric humans have contrived ways to catch fish. Best fishing lures vintage fishing lures bass fishing tips fishing bait gone fishing trout fishing fishing reels fishing tackle saltwater fishing fishing lures crosses fishing what others are saying oldschool baits. This is another one that was scanned from a rare antique printers book that dates to circa 1880s. Lures i have listed, by maker, many antique fishing lures for sale or trade. This vintage fishing lures clip art image is another interesting looking one similar to the frog lure. Handcrafted designs create a folk art feel, attracting collectors from a range of backgrounds. With his bagley collectors guide, author and collector johnny garland has given the fishing world the definitive source for all things bagley. Moonlight bait company made a lot of lures back in the day.
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