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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