"The Holy Grail" of fishing lures

jocose · 11-13-2003, 01:14 PM

just my luck i tossed out a dozen of those last saturday.... couldnt catch a thing with them... (changes his goal from finding a rich wife to finding some old lures) (ps. please dont tell my lovely poor wife of my first goal...) :grin: joco

2LEYS · 11-13-2003, 01:28 PM

About a year ago I read where some guy put an old lure on ebay. Figured he would get a few bucks for it. He checked on it the next day and the high bid was a couple hundred. He was shocked. The next day, a couple thousand. It ended up selling for $32,000 or something.

2LEYS · 11-13-2003, 02:49 PM

Here is a $4,000 lure

fishchaser · 11-13-2003, 04:35 PM

I have one just like it. [img]graemlins/idea.gif[/img]

Silver Hilton · 11-13-2003, 05:04 PM

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Originally posted by 2LEYS:
Here is a $4,000 lure

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Boy, no single barbless regulations back then, huh? :shocked:

Birdnest · 11-13-2003, 05:27 PM

What a cool lure.

pdxkevin · 11-13-2003, 11:16 PM

Quick! Where's my old tackle box!

The rare 10-inch copper 'Giant' Haskell Minnow fishing lure and its box made in the mid-1800s, seen in this 2003 handout photo, was sold Saturday, Nov. 8, 2003 for $101,000 at a fishing tackle auction in Boxboro, Mass. Haskell Minnows, said to be the first truly fish shaped lures and includes a revolving tail, were made by gunsmith Riley Haskell of Painesville, Ohio, starting in the 1850s. This 'Giant' Haskell Minnow, sold to South Carolina construction worker Tracey Shirey, was described by Shirey as 'the Holy Grail' of fishing lures. (AP Photo/Lang's Tackle Auction)
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The construction business in SC must be really good. I wonder how he explained this lure purchase to his wife?