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Gordon Fallon's Kingfishers Poppers 1986

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    Posted: 10 Feb 2012 at 7:53am
Checked the search area, I do not think this one has appeared before, located Fishing World March 1986.
 
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Found this small piece of additional info ( page 2)on the technical side for these lures from Gordon himself
Maybe of interest to some collector.
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Thanks John, have one in my collection, purchased 25yrs. ago here in Darwin.
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I have a couple, lost a bunch of his Bass Pop over the years Cry still trying to find one to add in.

the top Bloopa and the GT are timber, the others all moulded poly (by Lively Lures)
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Brad any idea of an approximate time line. Different eyes I presume the painted eyes would be the early ones.
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John, sort of. Gordon painted eyes on his timber ones. When he got Lively to mould them it was at the same time that they were also moulding the Downunder bodies, so they came with the dolls eyes, and also had yellow eyes for a period. Some models done by Lively have no moulded in writing and were still hand signed by Gordon. Not sure on exact time as yet, but one can reasonably guess around the
When new moulds were done toward the end of the time Gordon owned the business, they changed to the White/Black painted eye, which they still have to this day after Lively bought the designs.

The moulded lures were available in the early 90's, and I think Gordon sold the designs late 90's to early 00's

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