Not Your Grandpa's Inline Spinner
When I was a kid, I remember my Great Grandpa telling me stories of fishing for Catfish and Musky on the Fox River in Illinois. Some of the bait would be frowned upon today and would cause an uprising from PETA. But in those times, it was as normal as a night crawler. He used to tell me about some of the old lures they used. Spoons and spinners. Simple, flashy, effective. To this day, though having more advanced engineering, materials, and manufacturing, just as effective. My best fish have been caught on spinners. I've always loved inline spinners. The ones my Great Grandpa told me about, and we have all seen in magazines and on the interweb, are amazing. Horse hair, a treble hook, a wire, and a hammered-out buffed piece of metal as a spoon. Sure, lure manufacturers made some. But in my Great Grandpa's youth, they didn't have the funds or supply chain to get things instantly. Some made them in their machine sheds on the farm. But they caught fish. Without