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Title: Anyone ever seen one of these?
Post by: jumpin on July 13, 2013, 12:59:02 PM: I could not find anything on the web
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Post by: Ripper on July 13, 2013, 01:09:53 PM: I never heard of Lucky Louie, but it looks like a standard trolling/mooching sinker. You can find them at any sporting goods store.
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Post by: mkcj on July 13, 2013, 01:47:55 PM: Could be homemade?
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Post by: Button Nubbs on July 13, 2013, 05:01:44 PM: More importantly lets see some of your work. I see some crystal flash and marabou there...
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Post by: CedarPants on July 13, 2013, 05:04:56 PM: Grandpa had dozens of those in his boat in northern Idaho when I was growing up. We used to catch Kokanee with them (can't recall if it was that exact brand)
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Post by: CedarPants on July 13, 2013, 05:09:10 PM: Quote from: Button Nubbs on July 13, 2013, 05:01:44 PM
More importantly lets see some of your work. I see some crystal flash and marabou there...

:yeah:
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Post by: Hilltop123 on July 13, 2013, 05:26:06 PM: If my memory serves me, and it's been wrong before.......Lucky Louie, is an old name..seem they also made a lure......but old, 40-50 years old...... anyone got one of the ole Pearl Wobbler's??? It was a spoon made out of Abalone shell. Those were cool!
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Post by: wadu1 on July 13, 2013, 05:41:21 PM: Yep, have some. They were made by the same company that made Lucky Louie plugs. They were made by Minser Tackle Company in Seattle. I know they had knock offs made in Canada (lead) in the 80s.
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Post by: wildweeds on July 13, 2013, 05:53:23 PM: My dad has some pearl wobblers,he's got some of those sinkers too.
Quote from: Hilltop123 on July 13, 2013, 05:26:06 PM
If my memory serves me, and it's been wrong before.......Lucky Louie, is an old name..seem they also made a lure......but old, 40-50 years old...... anyone got one of the ole Pearl Wobbler's??? It was a spoon made out of Abalone shell. Those were cool!
Title: Re: Anyone ever seen one of these?
Post by: Hilltop123 on July 13, 2013, 06:40:38 PM: *L* some of us are showing are age.....
Quote from: wildweeds on July 13, 2013, 05:53:23 PM
My dad has some pearl wobblers,he's got some of those sinkers too.
Quote from: Hilltop123 on July 13, 2013, 05:26:06 PM
If my memory serves me, and it's been wrong before.......Lucky Louie, is an old name..seem they also made a lure......but old, 40-50 years old...... anyone got one of the ole Pearl Wobbler's??? It was a spoon made out of Abalone shell. Those were cool!
If you could, chuck up a pic, for the youngins!
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Post by: Kc_Kracker on July 13, 2013, 06:43:00 PM: Lucky Louie was a tackle co. started by Bill Minser in Chinook WA, dont think they are still around but all his tackle is considered vintage. His plugs ebay for around $30 check out JoeYates.com, Minser stuff is on there, a plug box alone is $10 for antiques
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Post by: Hilltop123 on July 13, 2013, 06:48:09 PM: Now for the breaker, my dad who is 84?, remembers the guys fishing off the dock in Port Gamble, with catgut fishing line. Had to keep it in a bushel tub and wet to work it.......now that's old school.....
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Post by: wadu1 on July 13, 2013, 08:25:46 PM: Foe a while I was getting Lucky Louie's plugs for my cousin in Campbell River BC. I was getting $50 - $100 each but if you found a shovel nose you could get $500+. For my trouble I got a custom 10" Coho rod and a Hardy Longstone reel; back then it was close to 1K for 10 or so plugs.
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Post by: wildweeds on July 13, 2013, 10:15:53 PM: Techno challenged right now,the desktops blown up and I need some sort of gizmo for the laptop to get pictures on it.What I remember about the pearl wobbler is this,he had a few,and one that really caught fish including a couple of derby winners.My uncle stepped on it and broke it one day and you should have heard the cussing that followed it.He's also got some antique polar bear hair bucktail flys that caught alot of fish too,the green and white one looks pretty rough,it caught the most.Same holds true today though certain gear while looking exactly the same right out of the package seems to fish better than others.I'm talking about flashers and spoons. My Dad has a Charley White that has seen miles and miles of underwater travel and never hooked a thing,I've got some silver horde plugs that have been drug around a ton and never so much as a strike.

Quote from: Hilltop123 on July 13, 2013, 06:40:38 PM
*L* some of us are showing are age.....
Quote from: wildweeds on July 13, 2013, 05:53:23 PM
My dad has some pearl wobblers,he's got some of those sinkers too.
Quote from: Hilltop123 on July 13, 2013, 05:26:06 PM
If my memory serves me, and it's been wrong before.......Lucky Louie, is an old name..seem they also made a lure......but old, 40-50 years old...... anyone got one of the ole Pearl Wobbler's??? It was a spoon made out of Abalone shell. Those were cool!
If you could, chuck up a pic, for the youngins!
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Post by: RifleRidge on July 13, 2013, 10:24:16 PM: :yeah: I have been a top rated Seller on Ebay for years.. Amazing what people sell at yard sales... .25 to a 1.00.. A true find.... I like turning a buck or 2 .. Fun Finds ..Indeed.. :tup:
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Post by: wildweeds on July 13, 2013, 10:52:14 PM: Here's an oldie,I got a whole box of them brand new freshwater river lure............ June bug,I got no idea when they quit making them but the box is OLD and each spinner is wrapped in it's own paper.
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Post by: fishseeker on July 14, 2013, 10:21:05 AM: Little hint when buying Sliver Horde plugs, Look at the mold lines front to back. Need a slight offset to the right in the tail section. Those plugs will catch fish. Also take a file and Lightly file the bottom third of the lip. I have a white #126 that has many teeth mark from many salmon that you could not buy for any price. Fished plugs for forty+ years for kings. Got and old glow Orca plug that has done me well at Sekiu. :tup:
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Post by: Fishaholic on July 14, 2013, 03:59:38 PM: Any pics of the old plugs and lures?
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Post by: Hilltop123 on July 14, 2013, 05:44:19 PM: Quote from: wildweeds on July 13, 2013, 10:15:53 PM
Techno challenged right now,the desktops blown up and I need some sort of gizmo for the laptop to get pictures on it.What I remember about the pearl wobbler is this,he had a few,and one that really caught fish including a couple of derby winners.My uncle stepped on it and broke it one day and you should have heard the cussing that followed it.He's also got some antique polar bear hair bucktail flys that caught alot of fish too,the green and white one looks pretty rough,it caught the most.Same holds true today though certain gear while looking exactly the same right out of the package seems to fish better than others.I'm talking about flashers and spoons. My Dad has a Charley White that has seen miles and miles of underwater travel and never hooked a thing,I've got some silver horde plugs that have been drug around a ton and never so much as a strike.

Quote from: Hilltop123 on July 13, 2013, 06:40:38 PM
*L* some of us are showing are age.....
Quote from: wildweeds on July 13, 2013, 05:53:23 PM
My dad has some pearl wobblers,he's got some of those sinkers too.
Quote from: Hilltop123 on July 13, 2013, 05:26:06 PM
If my memory serves me, and it's been wrong before.......Lucky Louie, is an old name..seem they also made a lure......but old, 40-50 years old...... anyone got one of the ole Pearl Wobbler's??? It was a spoon made out of Abalone shell. Those were cool!
If you could, chuck up a pic, for the youngins!
My dad said the same thing about the wobbler's. Apparently they were not all created equal, but when making a spoon out of natural materials, consistency is hard to come by. But when you found one that caught fish, you guarded it with your life.
Title: Re: Anyone ever seen one of these?
Post by: jumpin on July 14, 2013, 07:24:41 PM: Quote from: Button Nubbs on July 13, 2013, 05:01:44 PM
More importantly lets see some of your work. I see some crystal flash and marabou there...

ok
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Post by: Button Nubbs on July 14, 2013, 07:38:20 PM: Someone's been busy! Nice! :tup:
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Post by: trophyelk6x6 on July 21, 2013, 05:11:40 PM: I got lots of Lucky Louie plugs and some in the orig box as well as pearl wablers. Often wonder why they wouldn't work now. I got them from my grandpa's fishing boxes and he was a serious salmon fisherman in the 50, 60, and 70's.
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Post by: RadSav on July 21, 2013, 05:28:41 PM: Largest King I've ever caught was on a Lucky Louis J Plug Pearl w/Pink stripe and one eye missing. My grandfather had given me a half dozen or so back in the early 80's. One day I figured I'd see if they really worked in open water. That fish absolutely slammed the thing. I've tried a good number of the newer plastic J-plugs hoping they would be the same as grandpa's old wooden plugs. Just never seemed to work like those vintage plugs did.

I remember our salmon scale would not go high enough to get a weight on the big slab. Had to use our butt scale.
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Post by: PolarBear on July 21, 2013, 05:39:19 PM: I have a ton of Minser's Lucky Louie stuff. My Grandpa was buddies with him many years ago and use to fish with him out of Ilwaco and and the Columbia. I have all the plugs still in their boxes stashed away somewhere in the barn.
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Post by: jumpin on July 23, 2013, 07:54:55 PM: Ya but what about the weight? has anyone seen one?
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Post by: wildweeds on July 23, 2013, 08:08:02 PM: Yup
Quote from: jumpin on July 23, 2013, 07:54:55 PM
Ya but what about the weight? has anyone seen one?
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Post by: Fishaholic on July 23, 2013, 10:25:40 PM: I think i have seen them out at a place called junkys out in westport. He has all sorts of old fishung stuff. If you ever go out there stop in and look around and ask him if you can go up stairs and look around.
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Post by: PolarBear on July 23, 2013, 11:17:06 PM: I'll have to look in my weight bin but I'm pretty sure that I have a few that are painted flo red or orange.