Antique/Classic Lures

[cavdad45]

Does anyone out there collect vintage fishing gear? I have aqcuired several pieces from time to time, but I don't have a formal collection. Most of my finds are smaller trout and salmon rigs from the fifties that my wife's best friend's dad left me. I still have not sorted through or identified everything yet ( a winter project, maybe.)

I do have a real cool bass plug that I prize. It's a Creek Chub "Ding Bat" in a perch pattern still in its box. That will be the starting piece for my upcoming bass fishing display.

How about you guys, anyone out there have any collectables? Tell us about it. Whether it's just a few pieces or a major collection.

CAV

[mallard83]

I have a lot of really old fishing stuff that I plan on making a special place in my house for. The only problem at the moment is that I have sooooooo much misc. fishing stuff that I need to sort through it all and set aside anything old or rare.

I have a few antique rods, a couple of really neat antique reels and I don't even know how many vintage lures I have. I have collected most of these things from my grandpa and great grandpa who is turning 100 years old this weekend. I have also picked up some stuff at garage sales and swap meets.

I have no idea how much if anything my old gear is worth, but to me it is priceless. These old things are just plain fun to look at.

[gpc]

I have a pretty large collection of vintage lures. Most I got from my dads grandfather (I never actually knew him) and the rest I got from my great grand father on my mothers side of the family. Everytime I go to the sportmans show I grab a card from the collector and talk to him. He always tells me to bring them by and he could appraise them. I dont want to sell any of them. But you can donate vintage gear to the Cabelas museum (or it might be bass pro). They restore the gear and put them on display with your name on a plaque right next to the donated gear on display, and they cant sell any of it

[zen leecher aka Bill W]

I'm a little older than most of you so when I started fishing (with my dad's rod) it was a steel casting rod and a heddon reel spooled with black braided line. Over the past two years I've picked up an assortment of wooden plugs and an old baitcaster reel made around 1950. I'm somewhat looking for that steel rod now. I want to go "retro" with some of my fishing and toss some wooden plugs and some of the old spoons.

I will still stick with electric start motors, fishfinders and bowmount electics though.

I also have some of the wooden reproductions are of new manufacture.

[mallard83]

I have a pretty large collection of vintage lures. Most I got from my dads grandfather (I never actually knew him) and the rest I got from my great grand father on my mothers side of the family. Everytime I go to the sportmans show I grab a card from the collector and talk to him. He always tells me to bring them by and he could appraise them. I dont want to sell any of them. But you can donate vintage gear to the Cabelas museum (or it might be bass pro). They restore the gear and put them on display with your name on a plaque right next to the donated gear on display, and they cant sell any of it

It would be great to donate some of my stuff to the museum, but most of it is to sentimental to me. My collection is just to close to my heart for me to give up. And I feel that I need my own personal collection to appreciate and look at every once and awhile.:thumright

[Marc Martyn]

I don't collect gear, but have my grandfather's South Bend fly rod (circa 1930's). Given to me by my grandmother, it is the rod that I learned on, complete with a Pflueger automatic fly reel. No real monetary value, but a whole lot of sentimental.
He used to fish for trout in the Black Hills of South Dakota. I never knew him, he passed away when I was a couple of months old. I'm a strong believer that interests and talents are passed on through genetics. He and I are the only ones in the family that ever picked up a fly rod.
Would I ever sell the rod.......nah!

[Gringo Pescador]

I was at the bookstore the other day and ran across this - I didn't pick it up at the time, but I am thinking I will go back and get it - small book, color pictures, etc.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/BookSe ... 3610&itm=9

[cavdad45]

gpc,
It's Cabela's and they usually buy collections and pay handsomely for them. The gentleman that left me that box of goods sold his personal museum to them and was paid well into the six figures.

Like most guys, I could not seperate myself from some of the things I collected. However, everyone has there price.

[Jake Dogfish]

Both My mom and Dad have there own collections of vintage lures. My favorite was the mini balsa wood flatfish that my dad gave me. It was originally frog colored, but eventually I caught so many fish on it there was barely a speck of paint on it. It was unstoppable, until the envitable happend and I lost it on a monster trout because I always used 4# test (dumb#$%@).
Caught alot of limits on that guy. I recently bought a bunch of old helin flatfish at the swap meet but they were not the wood ones...

[fishnislife]

I'm a little older than most of you so when I started fishing (with my dad's rod) it was a steel casting rod and a heddon reel spooled with black braided line. Over the past two years I've picked up an assortment of wooden plugs and an old baitcaster reel made around 1950. I'm somewhat looking for that steel rod now. I want to go "retro" with some of my fishing and toss some wooden plugs and some of the old spoons.

I will still stick with electric start motors, fishfinders and bowmount electics though.

I also have some of the wooden reproductions are of new manufacture.

LOL. I got a good laugh at your sticking with the electrics comment.
I think some of those old lures would work. You know the bass have never seen them. Usually the originals work better than the replicated.
I don't collect or have old fishing stuff. I wish, but I have never had fishing gear handed down to me.


fishnislife

[panfisher]

i have alot of sentimental lures that i wouldn't sell for anything. we do sell stuff on ebay that we find at estate sales and some of my favorites are fishing lures the most i got was 320.00 for a lure that i paid 5.00 for just because the color was harder to find, i've made 40.00 on just a plan empty box, some will go into the hundreds(they tend to get throw'n away) i've sold old bamboo poles into the hundreds and some old metal poles. many collectors will buy grampas tackle box for hundreds but will make twice that parting it out or keep what they want for their collection and sell the rest for what they payed originally. i've bought myself some lures just to put on my hat and to use because they are not made anymore. most that i'm keeping but will not fish, go into antique jars that are displayed so they can always be looked at. old lures are good stuff to talk about. one of my first lures that i sold was a dingbat without its box and got over 100.00 for it. <')//<

[cavdad45]

Are you kidding, panfisher? You got a hundred bucks for a ding bat without the box? I thought mine was only worth about $70 because of the box.

Still wouldn't part with it, but it makes one think.:colors: