Only have time something quick and simple of late.

This was far and away my lure of choice throughout my boyhood.

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Dardevle(TM)?  One of my favorite lures, along with the Johnson Silver 
Minnow.  Spoons do not seem as popular now.

Very nice rendering.  You even tied the line near the snap-swivel.

-- 
Jeremy M. Praay
www.beantoad.com

"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote in message 
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> Only have time something quick and simple of late.
>
> This was far and away my lure of choice throughout my boyhood.
>

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Jeremy M. Praay wrote:
> Dardevle(TM)?  One of my favorite lures, along with the Johnson Silver 
> Minnow.  Spoons do not seem as popular now.
> 
> Very nice rendering.  You even tied the line near the snap-swivel.
> 

Thanks!

So that's why I couldn't google it up.  I seem to remember calling them 
red devils.  Either a Canadian thing, or most likely, something my dad 
made up.  Yeah, my dad also had a Johnson Silver, keep it in its own 
box.  It was the one that we were never allowed to use.  There was also 
a straight silver spoon that I would try out of stubbornest from time to 
time but never hooked a thing with it.  Two, two and a half, or three 
inch Dardevles were definitely where I put my faith.

I would almost always have used a wire leader in real life but I was too 
tired to model it.  Would you believe that snap-swivel was the most 
difficult thing to model in the entire picture?

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Jim Charter wrote:
> Jeremy M. Praay wrote:
> 
>> Dardevle(TM)?  One of my favorite lures, along with the Johnson Silver 
>> Minnow.  Spoons do not seem as popular now.
>>
>> Very nice rendering.  You even tied the line near the snap-swivel.
>>
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> So that's why I couldn't google it up.  I seem to remember calling them 
> red devils.  Either a Canadian thing, or most likely, something my dad 
> made up.  Yeah, my dad also had a Johnson Silver, keep it in its own 
> box.  It was the one that we were never allowed to use.  There was also 
> a straight silver spoon that I would try out of stubbornest from time to 
> time but never hooked a thing with it.  Two, two and a half, or three 
> inch Dardevles were definitely where I put my faith.
> 
> I would almost always have used a wire leader in real life but I was too 
> tired to model it.  Would you believe that snap-swivel was the most 
> difficult thing to model in the entire picture?
Ooops, the Johnson was the silver spoon.  The special one of my dad's 
was some sort of original Rapala.

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"Jeremy M. Praay" <jer### [at] questsoftwarecom> wrote in message
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> Dardevle(TM)?  One of my favorite lures, along with the Johnson Silver
> Minnow.  Spoons do not seem as popular now.
>
> Very nice rendering.  You even tied the line near the snap-swivel.
>

Depends what you are fishing for. Northern Pike love spoons. So do
Barracuda. But then again, a barracuda would hit anything shiny.

Nice Jim. The backsides of mine were always more chrome-like, but perhaps
it's an environment issue.

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Ross wrote:
> "Jeremy M. Praay" <jer### [at] questsoftwarecom> wrote in message
> news:43643f37$1@news.povray.org...
> 
>>Dardevle(TM)?  One of my favorite lures, along with the Johnson Silver
>>Minnow.  Spoons do not seem as popular now.
>>
>>Very nice rendering.  You even tied the line near the snap-swivel.
>>
> 
> 
> Depends what you are fishing for. Northern Pike love spoons. So do
> Barracuda. But then again, a barracuda would hit anything shiny.
> 
> Nice Jim. The backsides of mine were always more chrome-like, but perhaps
> it's an environment issue.
> 
> 
No, it's a Jim's aging memory issue.  Thanks, I'll fix it.

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"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote in message 
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>>
>> Nice Jim. The backsides of mine were always more chrome-like, but perhaps
>> it's an environment issue.
>>
>>
> No, it's a Jim's aging memory issue.  Thanks, I'll fix it.

Ever use a Little Cleo?  They had topless dancing girls engraved on the 
back, when I was younger.  Apparently, that wasn't very PC (or something), 
and now it's gone from the new lures.  It was those small pleasures that 
made life interesting...  ;-)  http://www.ustacould.com/lures/cleo16.jpg

A pretty good pike lure, but like many lures with treble hooks, I mainly 
caught weeds.  *sigh*  I'd rather be fishing...

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"Jeremy M. Praay" <jer### [at] questsoftwarecmo> wrote in message
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> "Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote in message
> news:43664ef2$1@news.povray.org...
> >>
> >> Nice Jim. The backsides of mine were always more chrome-like, but
perhaps
> >> it's an environment issue.
> >>
> >>
> > No, it's a Jim's aging memory issue.  Thanks, I'll fix it.
>
> Ever use a Little Cleo?  They had topless dancing girls engraved on the
> back, when I was younger.  Apparently, that wasn't very PC (or something),
> and now it's gone from the new lures.  It was those small pleasures that
> made life interesting...  ;-)  http://www.ustacould.com/lures/cleo16.jpg
>
> A pretty good pike lure, but like many lures with treble hooks, I mainly
> caught weeds.  *sigh*  I'd rather be fishing...
>
>

I definately remember the Little Cleo, I think mine was sort of lime green
and chrome. Ahh, to be 9 years old again :) I think I still have it in my
tackle box at my parents house.

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Jeremy M. Praay wrote:

> 
> Ever use a Little Cleo?  They had topless dancing girls engraved on the 
> back, when I was younger.  Apparently, that wasn't very PC (or something), 
> and now it's gone from the new lures.  It was those small pleasures that 
> made life interesting...  ;-)  http://www.ustacould.com/lures/cleo16.jpg

Gawd I love the States!  That is a thing of poetry.


> 
> A pretty good pike lure, but like many lures with treble hooks, I mainly 
> caught weeds.  

Ah "weeds" so that's what it's called.


*sigh*  I'd rather be fishing...
> 
> 

(Or "hooking up" with Cleo.)

But yeah, me too.  The great thing about fishing is that when you are 
doing it, you *do* appreciate it.  Still, I should have appreciated it more.


At a certain point in time a farmer near to us gave up farming and 
instead dammed up the stream through his property and created a small 
lake, stocked it with fish, and opened a camping ground.  Myself and the 
kid next door used to sneak back through the bush and fish on the 
opposite shore.  One season, Gary went after Pike with an idea he got 
from a American sportman's magazine.  He fashioned his fish line into a 
little harness affair which he put around live frogs and which caused 
several hooks to lay along their belly.  He would then gently toss the 
hapless creatures a few feet out along the shore where they would never 
venture otherwise.  The shore was strewn with dead stumps and 
waterlogged limbs where the water met the woods.  Pike would strike 
almost immediately.  But he never hooked one.  He would always be left 
with a limp piece of frog in a tangle of fish line.  Though the live 
frog idea didn't work out, he did always catch more fish than me.

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Jim Charter wrote:
> Only have time something quick and simple of late.
> 
> This was far and away my lure of choice throughout my boyhood.
> 
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> 

You know, I still have that lure in my tackle box...

-->jeff

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