Lets see your favorite vintage trolling spoons.

[CR Bill]

When I was a kid fishing out of Deep Bay Auto Camp in the 50’s I recall using a Pacific Arrow spoon with a small Gibbs flasher - deadly on the Bluebacks!

 

[kshappee]

Hi There!
Could anyone help me identify what type of spoon this is by chance? I've searched but can't seem to find anything. Thank you!

 

[Capt. Jack]

Here's a couple that the rowboat angler's might get excited about, or maybe they have too many already. Ha, lol

I might have a couple of those gibbs Stewart spoons. Think they'll work in English bay?

 

[PEETZcanada]

Hi There!
Could anyone help me identify what type of spoon this is by chance? I've searched but can't seem to find anything. Thank you!View attachment 118763View attachment 118764

It looks like someone's prototype or DIY lure. There is nothing in my books that share any form of resemblance to the one you are sharing. Looks like brass, wire coil and possibly scent holder. Maybe a charged scent dispersal mechanism.

It would take a mass marketing budget to get it off the ground. Go fish it and let us know...

 

[PEETZcanada]

OG vintage Henry Smith Special trolling spoons. They worked well way back then and they continue to kill today in both freshwater and saltwater senarios.

 

[tubber]

OG vintage Henry Smith Special trolling spoons. They worked well way back then and they continue to kill today in both freshwater and saltwater senarios.

I still have a few. Gramps lost a big one off Tent Island when his green metallic plastic HS special spoon snapped in half in about 1973. I wonder how the plastic on a 50 something year old spoon would fair now?

 

[Fishalot]

Good question. I have a few of those spoons as well.

 

[terrin]

Anyone know what this lure is called and if they were any good? Made of a plastic material.

 

[westercoaster222]

I have been fishing them all my life. That is why I boughjt all the PAL machinery, tools and dies a number of years ago. The blades work all over the coast. Now that I have aquired all the PEETZ assets, tools, dies, equiptment and machinery, quite a lot of these workhosrse lures will be coming back into the market in the near future.

I stamped SYLVESTER Secret spoons last week and HOOKUM blanks yesterday, and today amoung other things I will be forming the HOOKUM blades into shape.

Keep in mind almost every vintage lure worth its salt was made in North America at one time. There are not very many companies left that wholy produce their lures all right here in Canada or the USA for that mater. PEETZ being one of the few and now almost 100 years old and still continuing on with the traditions that Boris Peetz founded his company upon - all while manufacturing right here on Vancouver Island.

Are you going to be making the PAL P2B's? I had my best season every on the 50/50 two years ago. Coho and Springs, but lost one to a sealion and gave one away to a fishing mentour.

 

[Dogbreath]

Anyone know what this lure is called and if they were any good? View attachment 118783View attachment 118784Made of a plastic material.

Permastrip-looked 'ok' but never had a sniff.

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[PEETZcanada]

I still have a few. Gramps lost a big one off Tent Island when his green metallic plastic HS special spoon snapped in half in about 1973. I wonder how the plastic on a 50 something year old spoon would fair now?

I still use them in today's age, we were using them when we started saltwater fishing when I was 7yrs. In the late 1970's or possibly the early 80's they went to a more durable plastic material. I have some from almost every era and the plastic is different numerous times throughout its history. I also own the molds so anything is still possible. I have not shot any new ones since aquiring the molds.

 

[PEETZcanada]

Permastrip-looked 'ok' but never had a sniff.

SUPERTACKLE.INFO sells fishing tackle for both salt and fresh water.

Supertackle sells fishing tackle made by Wigglefin and LureCharge. Fishing for Salmon, Trout, Kokanee, Cod and Halibut.

www.supertackle.info

Permastrip (OKI) I beleive is a copy of another product. I think I still have the older original at home. I'll look for it this weekend.

 

[PEETZcanada]

Are you going to be making the PAL P2B's? I had my best season every on the 50/50 two years ago. Coho and Springs, but lost one to a sealion and gave one away to a fishing mentour.

The long and the short for an answer is of coarse yes. The whole PAL range of lures is now fully under the PEETZ banner and will be reintroduced over time. I have blanks for many profiles, but as far as tooling goes...I have it all, but much of it needs some clean up and some sharpening on the punch cutting dies.

 

[PEETZcanada]

I heard that some of the TYEE POOL anglers are paying big bucks for Gibbs STEWART trolling spoons.

How much ya gime for this one? $$$


It's a 50/50.

 

[PEETZcanada]

Pretty cool today, I was moving some heavy machinery out of my paid storage and had a quick peek through some of punch tools for spoon profiles and found a cool vintage tool that is obviously part of a set. Hopefully I can find the rest to see what it was. I have not had any free time to look it up in my books to see if I can find more historical details about it.

The stamp indicates the brand as H.H. 7 and Patented in 1928. The cut-out shape is very interesting to me. Wish me luck, I'll let you know anything more that I uncover.

Update images added with historical information. Interesting how it ended here in BC, now i own it. I LOVE FISHING HISTORY.