And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I remember reading that Pflueger's first plug was the result of observing a bass striking a piece of tree limb floating on the St. Joe River in Benton Harbor Mi. supposedly, he took a small piece of an oak branch, screwed some hooks onto it, and used it to catch the first fish on artificial lure...the newer colored and shaped lures were to catch the fishermen,not the fish....can't find any evidence of the truth of this tale, but I thought you guys might get a kick out of it....
Some old classic plug designs shown there. I recognize a few of them from my original tackle box.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading that Pflueger's first plug was the result of observing a bass striking a piece of tree limb floating on the St. Joe River in Benton Harbor Mi. supposedly, he took a small piece of an oak branch, screwed some hooks onto it, and used it to catch the first fish on artificial lure...the newer colored and shaped lures were to catch the fishermen,not the fish....can't find any evidence of the truth of this tale, but I thought you guys might get a kick out of it....
ReplyDeletereminds me of dad's tacklebox. and me trying to figure out which magic lure to tie on back in the 60's when i was a kid.
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