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[unsure][font "Poor Richard"][green][size 4]Every day it seems like a new product has been introduced to help one catch more fish. [/size][/green][/font]
[font "Poor Richard"][green][size 4]Unfortunately some old times favorites may also bite the dust. Do you have any favorite [/size][/green][/font][font "Poor Richard"][green][size 4]Gismo that is no longer available on the market?[/size][/green][/font]
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Yep, a number #5 eagle claw hook. I bought my last ones around 30 years ago, I picked up a hundred in a box for a couple bucks. wished now I would have bought 4-5 boxes.
they were my favorite cause they were the exact size for live crickets. The big black ones that run around my house. a #4 is to big and a #6 is to small.[unsure]
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When I was younger, I use to float fish off of the local peers for king mackeral. This consists of an anchor rod(kinda like a stable outrigger of sorts) and your "fighting line. The biggest, baddest guy on the peer was always the guy who got his anchor line out the farthest. My favorite reel of all time was the reel I used on my 12 foot anchor rod. I'm shure plenty of you old school Penn guys remember the old "red faced" Penn Squidder. I'm not talking about the cheap piece of crap black faced one with a graphite spool or what ever it is. I'm talking about the old high speed model with the stainless steel spool. If you had perfect thumb control with a extremely loose break, you could chunk a 8 ounce lead the distance of a football field. However, for the lesser experiance that tackled one of those squidders, they either heard the backlash and snap of the line or sucked the bacon flavor off thier thumb after they'd burned it up trying to slow down the spool. I wish I still had my old squidders. Those were a hell of a fishing reel, casting or just plain old fishing. Hard to beat those old Penns.
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