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Hey Aston, My father made some of the first wahoo bomb lures. They were popular because of the wieght. You could cast them a long ways. They were not popular as trollers.
The reason, because they were being used to fish off the long range boats out of San Diego. The boats cruised at about 12 and trolled at maybe 8.
The "wahoo Bombs" wich were the nickname long before a product name and I am talking about late 70's.
As far as high speed trolling the pioneer in my mind was a guy named leonard who owned stragler lures. He owed everybody and set in mexico, La Paz I think??
But if you would buy him dinner and a few drinks he would teach a newbie like me evrything I wanted toknow. No one else took him seriously. So He was the first but I was one of the first. The diference between OE lures and my lures was the fish we were after. The lures were made on the same machines. We took turns. I owned the machine, but my dad knew how to run it.
He made bombs and I made some of the first high speed trolling lures and the first heavy trollers.
My dad also made some of the best Mako lures and the first quick switch lures. I have seen other lures say they did but he was making them in the seventies. It's interesting that almost all of them had exact copies of his tail piece.
BigMike
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