daveh Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 A Little Fishing History Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lincoya Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Very interesting reading. Thanks for the link. Gene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 1960: Mabry Harper catches the world record walleye on August 2nd. This fish weighed in at 25 pounds and was caught on Old Hickory Lake, TN. Now thats a big walleye! Cant find a pic on line any one now were to look, or if I can find one at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LooksLikeSinbad Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 "James Heddon receives his Fish-Bait patent for a floating wooden lure carved from a barrel bung, or plug." So the origin of referring to a hardbait as a "plug" comes from the original source material, a barrel plug. That's pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike-A-Pike Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Just to add to the story... The walleye at the top of this trophy case was caught in 1982 by Al Nelson of Higden during a tournament sponsored by Pepsi Cola and Fairfield Bay on Greer's Ferry Lake. The weight was 22 pounds 11 ounces. A new state record, it replaced a 21 pound 12 ounce runt caught in 1979 on the same lake. And by the way, that runt is the fish in the lower part of the display. It looks to me like the 14 ounce difference in the weights of these two fish could be attributed entirely to roe. More than ten years later, Al Nelson's fish became a world record. Here's how that happened. Since 1960 a 25 pounder from Old Hickory Lake, Tennessee, held the world record, and the International Game Fish Association still regards it as such. However in the mid 1990's Ted Dzialo of the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame and publisher of the Official World and USA State Freshwater Angling Records was informed of a photometric analysis that cast some doubt on the validity of the claim of the Tennessee fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KcDano Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Nice read! Thanks for posting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
