Connecticut fishing gear and plug makers: A History

[DarkSkies]

Albie, as far as collectors go, Tom of Shoreline is an avid collector, maybe bordering on obsessive, even.
The thing that has impressed me the most is his passion for fishing, and memories of how good things used to be. You can't fake a passion like that.


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Rip-Plugger and Monty also put a thread together called the Glory Daze... where they talked about the old times fishing, and posted some nice pics of older goo goo eyes and some other L Cooper plugs.

I think the pics are posts 4, 5, 15 and 16, something like that. Check it out for some good stories.
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...ght=glory+daze

[DarkSkies]

Roddy doesn't seem to be able to post right now, so until we get it straightened out I'll try to post a few things for him. He e-mailed me this.....

[wow,this is great seeing these lures here,brings back some wonderful
memories.

I remember slinging the Big Daddy goo-goo's across the rips and riding
the surface back and having them get smashed by some of the worst
alligator choppers I have seen.

I have taken choppers on the big mackeral goo-goo eyes plug all of 45
inches and over 20 pounds.

my personal best was 22.5 pounds inside of 100 yards of where my
friend[like a brother] Steven J. Franco took the Ct. state record bass.
there were no bass around in those days.

there were not many kinds of wood around then.

we knew about dannys,goo-goo's and atoms,that was pretty much it.

there were some custom guys around but,just 3 or 4.
funny thing too because the very few custom guys used scew eyes and not
through wires,never really made a difference to anyone back then.

maybe thats why I like using them myself,one thing thats very important,I
NEVER saw one or heard of one pulling out,thats a fallacy,if the correct
type is used,just FYI.

man,those were the days for real.if you didn't have some strong gear you
lost!]