[daveh]

A Little Fishing History

[Lincoya]

Very interesting reading. Thanks for the link.

Gene

[kelly]

1960: Mabry Harper catches the world record walleye on August 2nd. This fish weighed in at 25 pounds and was caught on Old Hickory Lake, TN.
Now thats a big walleye! Cant find a pic on line any one now were to look, or if I can find one at all.

[LooksLikeSinbad]

"James Heddon receives his Fish-Bait patent for a floating wooden lure carved from a barrel bung, or plug."
So the origin of referring to a hardbait as a "plug" comes from the original source material, a barrel plug. That's pretty cool.

[Spike-A-Pike]

Just to add to the story...

The walleye at the top of this trophy case was caught in 1982 by Al Nelson of Higden during a tournament sponsored by Pepsi Cola and Fairfield Bay on Greer's Ferry Lake. The weight was 22 pounds 11 ounces. A new state record, it replaced a 21 pound 12 ounce runt caught in 1979 on the same lake. And by the way, that runt is the fish in the lower part of the display. It looks to me like the 14 ounce difference in the weights of these two fish could be attributed entirely to roe.

More than ten years later, Al Nelson's fish became a world record. Here's how that happened.
Since 1960 a 25 pounder from Old Hickory Lake, Tennessee, held the world record, and the International Game Fish Association still regards it as such. However in the mid 1990's Ted Dzialo of the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame and publisher of the Official World and USA State Freshwater Angling Records was informed of a photometric analysis that cast some doubt on the validity of the claim of the Tennessee fish.

[KcDano]

Nice read! Thanks for posting!