Cleaning up in my shop today, and I ran across this old Tackle Board I've had hanging up for long time, so thought I'd share it with some of the tackle afficianados here. I originally picked it up from a friend's estate who was shot & killed at a Gorge Ampitheater concert in 2002.
R.I.P Leonard Smaldino.


This is a Martin 'Engineered' Spoon "Ace bait & OttoGator" tackle board displaying all 36 original spoons from their line that year. I'm guessing it was made sometime in the mid-1970's, but I'm not sure..... any of you old-timers know?



Some pretty fishy looking stuff....

I've got a bunch of other old stuff laying around too, maybe I'll post up some of it later on.

Anyone else collect or have old some cool tackle memorabilia from 20th century Salmon and Steelhead fishing?

Wait....
Upper left and right, that's where those damned rvrfshr boys got the idea, go figure, copy cats.

Wow though, there is some really fishy looking stuff up there, very cool piece of history.

I have a bunch of old salt plugs, fresh water spoons, real Okie drifters, and other random gear I inherited from my Grandfather.

One of the stranger things in the box is a bunch of these plastic trolling spoons that were popular in New Zealand (one of his favorite places to fish after retirement).

I’ll try and get some pictures up.

Those 2 on the bottom left look like Krocodiles. Wonder if they came up with them first?

A buddy of mine has old display boards just like that but one is all Okies and one is Birdie Drifters! I will somehow obtain them from him eventually.

I remember catching a coho on an orange & brass spoon just like the one pictured when I was ~12. Promptly went out and spent all the money I had on nothing but orange & brass spoons

I wish they still had the same price as when we were 12

Stee-lee

OK, now you are going to make me go digging through all that old tackle!!
Somewhere in my pile I have some Dick Nites with a 49c price tag on them from Payless.

I have a friend, Dick Streeter, who is one of the top NW experts on old tackle. If you want I can send you his email addy. I'm sure he would love to tell you what he knows about the Martin display board.

When I was a kid, I got .50 a week allowance. I had a choose between two comic books @ .10 each and one triple teaser @ .29 each or two comic books and one humongous ice cream cone @ .25 each. Standard cones were .10. I usually chose the Triple Teaser. I could get a Flatfish for .49 but that was a real splurge.

Neat Ryley!

My favorite spoon back in the 70's was a Red striped Acme Brass Wonder Lure.

I think they cost about a buck back then.

I knew the manufacturer's rep at the time and remember getting a wholesale deal.

I bought 18 dozen (216) for $45 and still have a lot of them in my tackle boxes.

In the early 80's a neighbor gave me a 1 lb. coffee can of Les Davis Hot Rods, that were rejects from when he worked there as a kid.

I left most of them on the Sauk and Skagit over a several year period and only have a few left.

A guy I know near Lincoln City has his entire house packed with vintage fishing gear. I mean, this place rivals any museum, ANYWHERE. Literally hundreds of rods, hundreds of reels, OLD OLD...complete with original boxes, paperwork... he has wires running the width of the walls, with all kinds of old lures and flies hanging off them. It is seriously the most rediculously awesome display of goods I've ever seen.

The only 'good' thing I've ever had, was a spinner of sorts I found at a yard sale, still attached to its display card, with a 1927 date stamped on it. I was in college at the time, and since I was paying all that on my own...an old spinner, though cool, looked like $$$ to me, so I Ebay'ed it (and bought a term's worth of books!)

RF,

I'll take that 53SW 5/8 oz. Ottogator on the bottom of the card... I mean literally when I come to your house ! Glad to see you got some good use out of those .22 cent "X-mas gifts" I gave you last year. (Even though OP gave them to me the year before, hook bonnets and all.)

I've got an original Okie card with all colors intact/attatched and my buddy has the original "dancing Little Cleo" card with all spoons intact/attatched.

Also have some Grizzly and Buell brand Lil' Guy drifter plugs still in original packaging.

Thanks for sharing Sky G.

I have been adding to my spoon collection couple cards of assorted cleos (with dancer) I believe the dancer was discontiouned in 91- so there should be a ton of them out there.

I lost a Size 1 Gypsy King about a month ago- would have like to have rowed back for it. However since it was in a bad spot, it gone. I have a friend that will swim for them the size 0 in nickle that is.

I have never seen those martin spoons before, that is a really cool find.

I'll try to get some pics up this weekend.

Nice topic ! Those are just too cool.


I'm into the Pflueger Colorado spinners myself, have dozens in all sizes/finishes on the stock cards.


Personal favorite is the No. 2123 size 1 w/ silver front / brass backed blade & 2 offset long shank single hooks. That's $$ right there.

My dad started me off on them in the Cedar river back in the 60's. My 1st "go to" lure......

Used South Bend glass spin rods & Zebco cardinal 3 reels, oh & Royal Bonnell (sp?) mono


c/22

Now that's darn funny. Good on ya for making the right choice Dave.

Is that the Cardinal C3 spinning reel? My dad and I went through a whole bunch of those. Awesome drags but their anti-reverse mechanism broke all the time and John Martinas must have loved us for that. I'd still own one however.

cool stuff. got the old spin n glo cards and lil' corky too. Also some super old spoons that are made of sheet metal in copper and silver that I should post. some of them have pattent pending from early 1900's.

Thought of sending them to RVRFSHR Joe to ID for me.

Jay- you ever wana part with those two tads in that picture let me make the first offer

Bring back the original birdy drifters! They are the BEST drift bobber ever!

WORD!