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Jim Hill and his lures.

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    Posted: 24 Sep 2016 at 7:08pm
After being in WW2 fighting against the Japanese for 4 years he came home, Jim was his name and most people knew him as Jimmy.

Most people said he had a good eye for things, enjoyed a coldie at the pub,loved his black FJ holden, also his shooting and fishing up the River Murray in South Australia.

Around 60's he started making fishing lures, only freshwater ones , selling them in clay shooting clubs and to farmers at the pubs in country towns.

Dad did sign them,dated them, also numbered each lure and sometimes he did name special ones.

He stop making lures in the late 90's to early 200's and also he had a book with all his lure sizes, shapes and model numbers.

Below is photo's of the lures what was given to me when he passed away 6 years ago.
I also received a box of blanks, paints and fishing books.

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good to see you are keeping those nice shapes going dave   Thumbs Up
( i see he had an eye for colour as well !!! ) lol 
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Continuing the legacy ...he'd be proud

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Dave

The lure look great. May bee you could replicate a few and call them "Mark II"

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Great story and special lures. Thanks for sharing your personal story

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Thanks for telling us that special story. Lures look great too.
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Some golden oldies there, with great paint work.


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Thumbs UpCheers for that DaveClap. Let's see if any turn up. Where in South Aust was he fishing and shooting?
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Originally posted by horrorhead horrorhead wrote:

Thumbs UpCheers for that DaveClap. Let's see if any turn up. Where in South Aust was he fishing and shooting?


Welcome back MartinClap Dad use too fish at Swan Reach, Cadell, Barmera and Berri. Mostly the shooting was done in the Adelaide hills on private dams for ducks and clay shooting was done at the South Australian clay target clubs.

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We will be selling the family farm (river front) at Forster (across the river from Walker Flat ). It's a nice stretch of river from from there to Swan Reach upstream and to Mannum downstream. My mother was born on that farm but grew up in Berri. Her father used to fish lock No.1 at Loxton. He used to get my grandmother to drop him off, the gates would be locked behind him at night, then she would pick him up in the morning once the gates were opened again. The only lure he used were the rubber Flopys.
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Originally posted by horrorhead horrorhead wrote:

We will be selling the family farm (river front) at Forster (across the river from Walker Flat ). It's a nice stretch of river from from there to Swan Reach upstream and to Mannum downstream. My mother was born on that farm but grew up in Berri. Her father used to fish lock No.1 at Loxton. He used to get my grandmother to drop him off, the gates would be locked behind him at night, then she would pick him up in the morning once the gates were opened again. The only lure he used were the rubber Flopys.


Martin the fish lock no.1 at Loxton rings a bell for fishing there and we did most our camping on private land near Swan Reach . We use flopys too especially the yellow colour one and Pegron lures. Dad used his tiger minnow lure in redfin colour and never failed on yellowbelly.

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Thanks to everybody Thumbs Up

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Interesting reading that. I have a swag of yours , Well made and never knew .
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Originally posted by peter am peter am wrote:

Interesting reading that. I have a swag of yours , Well made and never knew .


Thanks Peter for posting.

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