Modern Fishing Lure Collectibles - Identification & Value Guide (Hardcover)

This book covers modern fishing reels and rods and details some of the major changes brought about by the introduction of fiberglass rods. It catalogs miscellaneous fishing collectibles and emphasizes the importance of catalogs, magazines, wholesale house catalogs, decoys, bobbers/floats, bait buckets, split shot tins, leader packs, advertising items, and other significant relics from 1940 until the early 1980s. It covers more than 140 lure companies not in volume 1, and includes illustrations of the important Shakespeare rods, catalog reprints of other rods, collectible pack rods from the sixties and seventies, Heddon rods of the modern era, and even a field find tackle box from the modern era which will be of serious interest to collectors.