See that says recording. Oh, yes. Remember to keep looking up the camera. You have no cheers sir.
Alright, we had talked about the wonders of going through some of gifts given years back. I'm excited. I can't wait to see what's in there. The old treasure troves of tackle boxes passed.
Now what looks here to possibly be just a tool box and I think that might have been it. This was given to me by my neighbor Ken, my surrogate grandfather back in the day. Little kitty corner from us. The bequeathed to me, a 16-gauge shotgun, a 22-long rifle which I at one point used to attempt hunting woodcock.
Right. Went about as well as you might expect. It's fun to imagine it though. Oh, it was interesting.
But that, along with a Windsor McGill fly fishing rod, bamboo fly fishing rod, a couple of reels. I'm not going to lie, but I tried selling them on a couple of the online sources and got a warm round of indifference from people out there in cabin country land. That's alright. But yeah, vintage bamboo rod and a couple of fishing rods and this came by way of my neighbor, Ken.
Good guy, avid fisherman grew up fishing sort of the La Crosse and Alaska region of Wisconsin. He called it Cooley Country. Cooley, what I might have called the wet landing referred to as the Cooley's and he bequeathed to me the fabulous box full of fun. Now, this has been pirate.
I will admit and I'll got some, you call it Cooley Country, Cooley what I might have called the wet landing referred to as the Cooley's and he bequeathed to me the fabulous box full of fun. Now, this has been pirate. I will admit and a lot of it ended up in this which was my dad's toolbox. I was given as a young man a plastic toolbox that floated, had a plastic latch and it was perfect for heating up in the boat and I'm not seeing anything that would have melted in that particular toolbox but I know there's a gem in here.
Now, what you're holding there is a vintage rubber frond. Look at that. Yes, the treble hook, it's got the weed guards on the treble. Look at that hole in the smokes.
Yeah, I can't lie. Don't get to zoom up on this. It's down up the sound of the camera. It's only good.
It's only good. We hear any explosions. Yeah, I did the traditional put up the fishing net and hang some lures in it and realize I might actually want to use it. Oh, yeah.
Pardon my chocolate milk voice there for a second. I ended up ripping the net pulling the rubber frog loose. So I'll have to do something with a scissor and clear that off but it's well traveled. I'm impressed with the other.
The shamedy sciss. The frog, the detail is pretty darn good for rubber frog. What I'm confused about here is I don't know if you can see it but we've got the two eyes and then there's a central, the all knowing eye. Yes.
You know, on the temp tip kind of a. I'm not sure that's a bird frog, I think, but the only spot they put on the thing is the blue. But that's pretty darn cool. Not bad.
And as I recall, I have used it a number of times. It does not, it doesn't fill up the water. No, I was going to say, there's no little escape hatch. No, we're squeezing out the excess.
You're doing just fine on its own. It floats. It's a floor. And yeah, the weed repelling guard over the treble.
I've done that. I don't think I've seen a treble hook within a yard. Unusual. I haven't seen enough.
I'm 52 years old. It updates me by a few decades. That's in very good shape. I'm not, I'm apparently used a very high grade of rubber to make this frog as it's not disintegrating.
Let's open up the beds. We're going to start at $50. $50 right here, rubber frog. This, believe it or not, was a, uh, old school cork bobber you put through.
I've never used it, frankly, I think it's a little frightening. This is not unlike one of those lures I had one scot seed my father's pants with. Standing in the boat, I decided to go for the power casket and hurt him. A nice war bull.
I didn't realize I had a pair of polyester slacks. Yes, indeed. I think this leader seemed better days. That might be getting the trash can.
Yeah, the curl up and it's kind of a pain to the body. They do make it more stiffer. So they do. And here we also have some of the wonderful things I would have gotten as a kid.
595 gets you about 36 of these. These are all different types of spinner base with nothing really on a mobile body. It's come back. It's, it's, it's fighting to stay, stay with us.
But yeah, I get about 30 of these. Just shiny little steel, tiny little piece of plastic and trouble hook that's fit for probably probably probably. Beat up a little rubbery. I don't even know what we call this.
Well, it's a popper. You know, it's like a top. It's a pretty big popper. It's a size popper.
Single, single hook. Crooked again. Oh, glad it was seen better days. UGLY.
Absolutely. The rubber's sphikeness. This is, I was describing earlier on one of our shows. Instead of the lazy, ike, lazy daisy kind of thing.
Right. Looks sort of like a thick colored pencil, but it's, you know, orange, black. It does this kind of funky waddle pattern through the, through the water. Now, courtesy are good friends at Montgomery warts for 39 cents.
Look at that. Still in the plastic. Still in the plastic. Black and white daredevil.
Oh, daredevil. It's not, it's not, it doesn't have a little devil head on it. It's a knock off. It's a knock off, but I bet it would work.
It would work. This would have been one of those where had we had the opportunity. It was last trip up to, to the Gulf River. This may have hit the water.
Now we get to the kind of interesting. Olden, olden times, ladies and gentlemen. Here we go. The Hawaiian wiggler.
I don't know if you can see that or my big mitts are in the way here, but this, this was a Hawaiian wiggler. Look at the again. The rubber skirt is in pretty tough shape, but I remind you that this wiggler with the sort of red and green and gold, one big eyeball on both sides. Oh, so another weed.
And I, I'm going to try to knock it caught up on the weeds. There's a spinner on the front, so we get the bubble path and this guy going straight through it. And a pretty nasty, good sized, single hook there. I never use a Hawaiian wiggler.
I don't think I have either. I use plenty of hula poppers. Little poppers. Well, I think maybe getting there at some point here soon too.
Look at this thing. Looks like a, like some kind of old jack knife that was. Yeah, again with a slightly non-functioning weed protection, again, a very good sized hook. Just sort of a straight up silver spoon.
And it looks like my neighbor, Kevin, have not only, you could put it on your leader here to have it going this way, but then he'd also need to attach a second hook or possibly leaders back here. And of course, this skirt is going to get a lot done. Oh, I don't know. Well, that's juicer.
Possibly sizzle. I have no idea. Spoon jig of fair. Look at that action.
Wow. Wowzers. Huh? Are you kidding?
The mighty lazy daisy. Lazy daisy. Ah, now I understand. He had it tied up.
That's just, this is what we're looking. Wow. So, I mean, I can see a hook replacement is definitely necessary. But an interesting pattern here.
A couple big eyes, lots and lots and lots of glittery business. And it would do a very strange pattern as it went through the water. The eyes on this thing look like a wire. It looks like ancient loony-tuned eyeball.
This is all like, this is vintage material. Vintage. Yet another wiggler. Interesting spinner here on the top.
Again, you can get that huge pattern of bubbly water. And they seem to be keen on just a single hook. There's one big hook down there and an old piece of pork rinds to attach right there. Wow.
I'm half tempted to take a chomp. I don't know. That's a view right there. Johnson's spoon.
If I can find Johnson, I'll give it back to him. This could in fact be said Johnson's spoon. Oh. Now this is a Freibill's weed mon.
Again, that's the kind of fun-loving. It's just on genuine Johnson's. Well, yes, for spinning. This hook was apparently used by Captain A.
So this box was, like I said, it was pirated to fill up the other box, which actually got out and was used on a much more frequent basis. So maybe we can, if we want to take a quick break, I can get rid of the old clunker here. We'll take a quick sponsor break or warm up our coffee. You should warm up your coffee too.
And we'll clean this up and head into box too. Some interesting information here on the gear bug. It's kind of fun. Noisy killer.
Wow. Not bad. All right. Not bad.
We'll be right back. Look at this is my dad's tackle box. I kind of left it alone. It was actually my garage for several years.
And I thought, you know what, alone? It was actually my garage for several years. And I thought, you know what, it's high time. High time we take it out.
This is one of my father's favorites. Now kind of a spoon with the glittering red eyes and a treble. And he'd always run a shiner through one of those treble hooks and then see what he could come up with. And he'd like using these for some reason, he'd love Northern Pike.
I don't know what it was, but Northern Pike, he loved the fight. And a lake we had to bond Daggett Lake on the cross lake chain. There was some pretty good size Northern Pike there. They fought hard.
He didn't mind cleaning him. Of course, it was the five pounder my mom caught in which case he accidentally blew it and threw it up. Right here. Right here.
I can't believe it. Here we go. Now, if we had the buckskin tail, it was on this. This right here is a maps number four.
Fs number four is the interface. This was what, and I'm not going to lie to you, but I don't understand why we've got the red plastic over the, maybe it's just another tractive. I don't know. Fish might see it and say, hey, look at that.
Something red. I should bite on them. This was what first netted me about a three pounds. Oh, that's the one.
And, yeah, from that point on, I was in. Okay, we can do this. This is good. And this is vintage.
This is good old-fashioned. Fish soap. It'll take the smell of you off your hands. So you put this in the water, wash your hands with it, and then you can bait up your books.
Yeah, yeah, take it. Don't let it be like a bite. If you like it, perhaps you'd like to use the knife and carve a, and flavor my coffee with it a bit here. We had one of these in the boat.
We never caught anything but we're gonna have to wait, actually. And we figured it didn't really work all that well. Anyway, the fish always seemed to jump right off. That's a pretty small delir.
Yeah. I'm gonna take a closer look at how these are Brooks Bates, the expert bait company, bait field spoon from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Here you go. You gotta get a shine on that.
A little lord in that hook. You gotta get some fairly good. It's funny. I hook on the mouth here and well, there's a...
What's going on here? The leader is up here. Yeah. Let's go up.
It's going backwards. Why don't your most fish don't stop to analyze? Wait, wait. You're something interesting.
You've got another daredevil, but it's only got a price to take it right here. You know, you know, like a... Well, nothing attracts some of the bigger rough fish like a price to you. Yeah, you want that place just right here.
You need to do it. So you... Northern will see that. You'll see the price on there and go, that is...
Oh, no! I'm just standing. I'm going up to that. Okay.
A frog, jitterbug. All right. That's a nice spoon up front to kind of create the wobble. And it even says press right into the metal here.
Jitterbug, manufactured by Fred Arborguest from Akron, Ohio. Fred Arbor City. Right there. Yeah.
He's a history here. My dad always swore by daredevil's. And this is a weedless daredevil. And this is the real deal.
It's got the little devil head up on the top, which I was kind of freaking out as a kid. It's bad. I don't... It's a devil.
Like the little skirts out. I've fed them skirts. And then the weed preventer here from getting the hook. Now I know your grandpa and your dad will talk about taking them every board out and sharpening.
Yeah. Sharpening hooks. I never was. So I might do that.
And that might explain why he didn't always catch his limit. But this is interesting. I don't know what's happened here, but the finish is... It's hung onto pieces of other lures.
And part of it's scraped off here. So it's almost like the finish got kind of melted down or something goofy happened. But a weedless daredevil. You'll see a lot of those.
Oh. Feathered weedless daredevil. Have you tried the Appinger feather weedless daredevil? My dad did.
And you know, on the inside it says... For bass. For muskolun, pigroll, trout. Oh, for bass.
Everything. For pike. All your large fish. Wow.
Just single... Anything. Make it happen. A couple more of these sort of off-brand daredevil.
This one came from Montgomery Ward's and cost my dad 39 cents. This would be your black and white. Here we have the forest green. My dad was gonna save me which is donate this year to your dad.
It's forest green, ready to go. Big treble. Never been out of the package. Neither of these have ever left their packaging.
These were purchased in the 70s. Wow. So that's old school right there. Old school, my friend.
There you are. More melted rubber down here, fudge. And those hot lads. We can't believe all the...
Wow. Look at... I mean... Gung ho on the narrow.
Never opened. Although there is a breach here, so there's a little... A person can never have too much. You have a look at this thing.
Look at that. Oh my goodness, I'm about to... Wait, oh my god. Wow.
Okay. We're gonna do a little zoom up here. So we get a look on the hooks. All right.
So I've never seen anything like this. How do you... Yes. Hook back there like that.
Wow. You're not gonna really miss the fish. That's... Acme weedless minnow.
So... Oh, I get it. I get it. I've just figured it out.
You have solved this. It's a weedless now. And then when the fish bites into it... Wow.
Isn't that brilliant? Like straight out of a horror film. It was an as gracious. That's awesome.
Ishka Bibble. Well, it's a rappola and they've written part of this in finish. Oh my gosh. I'll coise around in it.
Rappola, roostal. The original finish middle. Oh. There it is.
Very proud of their heritage. That makes some fine lures. That's a floating rappola. Right there.
With the paperwork. Which is in finish. Wow. The wacky stuff.
And even says, I don't see this or not. On the bottom on what would be the bottom of the minnow. Finland. Wow.
There you go. Check it out. Oof, the fees. This was bought for me.
This was one my dad bought for me. It's kind of like you'll get into fishing your out by trying. This is a rebel. The amazing minnow.
The rebel. The blue. The silver. The big gold eye.
Pair of nasty treble doves there. I threw this thing out about 6,000 times. Yes. How many fish I caught.
On the rebel. I'm afraid to ask. Not a one. There you go.
Hit the nail right on the head fudge. Wow. Hit the nail right on the head. Leftovers?
Well. The old traditional bobbers. Can't really go after the panfish or anything. I would always take a hit.
All right. You're so much. Pardon us folks. I got a dog.
His cabin country after all. He's right. The brooded flew with the great northwest. I'm sure this will surprise you.
Another daradam. This is the imitation frog made in the USA. If I were a fish, I'd only got to be confused. That's not a frog.
That's a big piece of metal. But you wonder it's like a. No one better. No one better.
Right? That's not necessarily for life-like appearance. Just flashy things. Flashi colors.
Here's another kind of leader spinner bait. The original strip-on spinner for all game fish that's reduced down to 33 cents. From a place called Warner's, please pay the cashier up front. Don't just stick this down your slacks and then try to run out of the building.
The hooks are still in the back. You're going to make some interesting noise I think if you try. This is for all game fish. Again, there's a spinner and a couple of beautiful little beads on there.
Nothing of interest in the back. Reduced. And I'm going to take the cap to my father. Anything reduced is always good.
Oh look at that. Here we go. All right. So your dad inflate worms.
He's a junkie. Yeah. Whoa. Sorry to add.
I'm kidding. You know I'm kidding. Yeah. This was this was something he loved to fiddle around with.
I thought it seemed incredibly cruel. I was going to fight. Are you doing that? I'm a living thing.
But yeah, he'd put, you know, if this if this were a nightcrawler, he'd he'd stick it on in there and he'd late that nightcroll and throw it out and throw it out and throw the fish with see a floating worm. A floating worm. A couple of these tiny bobbers. These bring me back.
This is that was that was the intro to fishing for Bjorn Lloyd's dad was bobbers. Little hooks and a worm or corn. It's only the corn nibblets. I just stand there with my little zap horn nibblets.
I got another sunfish. I do recall at one point hooking into an eastern box turtle. And one of the first times I think I heard my dad swear. Oof defeat.
He did not want to take that turtle off. Box turtles don't bite. I mean they're pretty, pretty mild. Wasn't a snapper.
Not used to be in the necklace quarters though trying to get a well yeah it's trying to pull its head back and I think I think he ended up cutting my leader and just throwing the thing back in the lake. That poor turtle. Poor turtle can have a rough time with it. There you have it bud.
Impressive collection. Made the USA. La Raulay, New York. How about that?
Lovely nice. Not a little damped in here. I don't think I'm upset. I like the blue color here.
Oh yeah. Yeah that's old school. Which I think is the original color. This light blue of the the C-made in 1960 C-made.
Which you can kind of see on the uh there's a picture right there of the C-made. It's uh there it is. I was calling it the C-queen but uh you know we realized I got a closer look at the little registration or licenses thing that has got C-made. 1960.
Yes indeed. There you go. Thanks for joining us on this. TV version if you will.
Color of television version of Gavin Country. The fire is going. The coffee is still hot. We might even get to sleep tonight.
You never know. But uh fun to see the old tackle now. Thanks for joining us. We'll see you later.
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