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CaptainCranky
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Posted: 08 Oct 2010 at 12:50pm |
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tooch
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Hi Barry, I like these lures a lot ......Very collectable......Pete.
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Screamingreel
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Barry and Tooch
Very popular back in the sixties and seventies when the white bait were running in really thick schools
along the North West coast. You could see the trout crashing into the whitebait balls 50 to 100 yards apart all the way down the river covering both sides as the tide came in. Seagulls harassing the fleeing bait on top of the water.
A by gone era
regards John
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Darby
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Barry, you have better reveal the Johnson Kobras that match the devons.....c'mon I know there must be a board hidden in there somewhere
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"If you are going to have fun with your rod.. get some wood
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CaptainCranky
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There may be
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ropes.basstard
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Back in 1986 I went on a fishing tour of Tassie with a mate. The locals were using these lures around the Great Lake and particularly at Todds Corner and catching great fish. They'd use the right hand spinning "devon" pattern for say 5 minutes then swap over to a left hand to control line twist. Sadly I've lost all bar two of mine since then. But I've also used them to great effect on NSW dams such as Ben Chifley. Trout love them and so do I, they cast like a missile. C'mon show us some more.
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MXB
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Great lures Barry . . .
The whitebait schools in Tasmania are sadly far less than they used to be however the west coast fisheries are still strong and recently saw photos of whitebait littering the shore of a well known fishery where they had beached themselves fleeing the sea runners. In many cases it was the Galaxid minnows they were chasing too. A piece of Tasmanian history and still work today MXB |
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Tony
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Very nice Barry
Could you please let me know the full brand details and I'll create a section for them Here's what my tired eyes have picked up: Manufacturer: MF & J Johnson Model: The Super Spinner Location: ??ord Tas. |
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JD LURES
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Aaahhh
Now those pics bring back some childhood memories.
Use to use the good old Johnson Spinner along the upper Derwent in the fastwater.
Great fish catchers back then and still would be today.
The Ashley is probrably the most popular Tassy Devon Style spinner today but the Johnson had it in there day.
JD
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Screamingreel
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It would be interesting to know all the different body materials used. Some had feathers some the current colourful cadbury chocolate wrapper as a base others had painted sinkers. Then the various forms of plastic became available and were used in making various lures.
In the 50's small brass tubes obtain from the now defunct Emu Bay Railway line were used and when they were tarnished you would scrape it with a knife to brighten up the finish .They had the traditional wings and centre insert. They were very successful when the white bait were running.
I will check the the trout gear out and post some photos.
Regards John
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Screamingreel
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Lures made around end of the Seventies into the early Eighties supplied to sport stores along the North West Coast by a lure maker and fly tyer called Spencer Dishington.
Local Fish cakes lures three sizes
Spinners mainly made from brass occasional from copper
Used in the rivers dams and lakes of Tasmania.
regards John.
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Perky
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They look really good. It amazes me how many new lures you see that still don't look as good as some of the stuff made decades ago.
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ropes.basstard
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I don't understand why so many guys fly down to the local tackle store and fork our huge sums of cash for a couple of hand fulls of imported jobbies. Don't get me wrong I do use the imports (and they work), but the vast majority of my lures are home grown. It must be something about me that develops a real sense of pride & achievement from successfully deploying our local gear.
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CaptainCranky
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Good on you ropes,there should be more of it.
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muckawa
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in NSW we lost the smelt schools out of wyangala dam and burrenjuck , chiefly etc the first alantic salmon came from lock Lavern ,Scotland and were no good for fish farming another strain of alantic salom ova were brought in from France in 1981 to snobs creek there was a 80% mortality in brown trout at snobs creek of the 1982 stockings the salmon were distributed to all fish farms for assessment and the noticed high mortality monist their Brown trout the smelt were the most common bait fish in all dams soon died off pike fry virus had been a problem in Russia, and cause high mortality amonist redfin and brown trout in England in the late 1970 our blue-fin tuna fishery collapsed at this time , was white bait the main food for young blue fin tuna???
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Screamingreel
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Are whitebait in better numbers in the rivers around Tassie. Rick , Dave, Flash,
Regards John
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FLASH
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The whitbait are in good supply after the seasons were closed for a few years . Good numbers now but sometimes the runs are outside the open season and many anglers miss the runs . Big schools and little schools it all depends on the timing and the luck of the angler .
FLASH
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Screamingreel
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Thanks Mate.
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