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    Posted: 30 Jul 2015 at 11:32pm
Sourced all these from John's step nephew at Murwillumbah, as John (late 80's) is now suffering advanced dementia and is confined to a nursing home.

John, and 2 older mates nicknamed Puddy and Cyrill, met when they originally were sugar cane cutters on the Tweed River at Murwillumbah back in the 1960/70's. As technology advanced and mechanisation took over, John and Cyrill moved to work on various farms in the Tenterfield area and eventually went their ways with John settling on a property in Moree NSW.

Nephew Brad, confirmed that all these were made by John from skills he learnt whilst around the Tenterfield area and some influences can be clearly identified.

Anyone else have these in their unknown as Brad said, John had made hundreds.......




Note the lead ball insert and cardboard templates









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What a great collection of unique old lures!! Some of the best I've seen... Thumbs Up
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Nice pick Wadey l love the three yabies
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Very Nice Wadey, good to see you score some treasures...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote stinger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 Jul 2015 at 12:31am
That's awesome wadey caint stop looking at these. Cheers ROD
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Fantastic lures and some real keepers in that lot.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote steiny Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 Jul 2015 at 7:18am
Very unique old school lures. Heaps of character in that lot. Looks like a version of the freddo there too.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote grey nomad Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 Jul 2015 at 8:17am
Have to agree with all the above comments, awesome old school stuff and outside the 
square thinking Smile.

Darren, maybe more of a Knolls Native look alike ?? nice all the same Smile.
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They are cool. Have you thrown them to see their action. Would love to see them in the pool and how they work with that hollow section.

Any idea why he did not have a belly hook? From what I know the belly hook is what hooks most cod out of the 2 so wonder why he went away from that.?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote grey nomad Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 Jul 2015 at 10:21am
Alistair, maybe he was just carving some big Yabbie claws one day and decided to see what would happen,
as you say, it would be interesting to see them in the water. 
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Ring my Alistair and we can give them a flick in the tweed
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Beautiful old luresClap
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