I remembered seeing an old surface lure on Total Fishing once and thought that it looked a bit mad. I remembered it was a something crawler and I knew there was alliteration in there somewhere too. Anyway I spotted one while window shopping on eBay using the general search term "Vintage Fishing", like I'm sure a lot of us do when we are kept away from the bank for one reason or another. I just had to have it.
It was just over a tenner - perhaps two or three times as expensive as the lures I normally buy - but I think it was a good deal. It's in great condition. I think I'll fish with it once after changing the old hooks for modern, barbless, and more important for fish catching - sharp ones. I'll use my Hardy LRH and with them I'll hopefully christen my Hardy Altex no 3 (when I get the reel fixed). Then put it into retirement with the original hooks.
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I hope this isn't the start of something terrible - like vintage lure collecting.
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