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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