From Heddon and Pflueger classics to the legendary Haskell Minnow, learn how to identify, value, and collect old fishing lures. Similar to oil painting, the age of the work, the artist’s name and ...

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Sometimes, the tried and true methods of catching fish are the best ones. The fishing lure industry brought in $5.8 billion a year in 2013, according to the American Sportfishing Association, but it’s ...

Those might be the most common four words in the fishing lexicon, and with good reason. On rare days, it feels like the fish hit just about anything you put in the water. But the rest of the time, ...

I think it’s fair to say that the average angler gravitates toward the latest and greatest developments in tackle. Don’t get me wrong, I do too. I’m always eager to try a new lure on my home waters, ...

CHETEK - Two minutes after walking into the Chetek Area Museum in late August I learned I would drown if I used my grandfather’s 1950s era “Tronick Tackler Nonsinkable Fishing Tackle Box” as a life ...

When it comes to antique fishing lures and other tackle, I’m more of an accumulator than a collector. If I see something cool for short money at a tag sale, then I’ll latch on to it. I don’t collect ...

The interest in collecting antique fishing tackle has increased in recent years, explained in part by the simple law of supply and demand. But just because a lure looks old doesn’t mean it is ...