The first time tackle collector Bill Blauser saw a glass minnow tube, he thought it was one of the stupidest things ever invented. Created in the late 1800s, the clear lures were designed to hold a ...

Eben Horton slides open the door of his workshop's furnace. He is greeted with a low roar and a blast of dry heat to his face as he pushes a fifty-four-inch stainless-steel blowpipe into the waiting ...

Dear Readers: Fishing tackle, rods, reels, lures and all the advertising is a large specific category of collector interest. Less than a year ago, what is referred to as a Giant Haskell Minnow lure, ...