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  1. Dave, send me your address and I’ll send you a copy. Pat

  2. Attached is a pic of a copy of a flyer that was in the box of a wood Atom 40. I have the original copy somewhere. I have no idea where I put the original. I bought the plug, original white box and flyer for 25 cents at a tag sale many years ago. Don’t know how old it is except for reference to the 1946 Derby.
  3. Thin ice, think a BG30 would be fine on this rod. It’s gonna be a little bottom heavy with the rubber grips and metal reel seat. You might have a varnish finish on the guide wraps. If so, give it a couple of coats of spar varnish.
  4. Wetmores Marine was a Tackle shop in Westbrook CT. The made a lot of custom rods. They were located where Black Hall Outfitters is now. I’d guess that your rod is 70’s vintage based on the reel seat and grips. The blank is probably a Lamiglas.
  5. Dave, good to see something written about a great plug. Atom Jr was the first swimmer that my mentor, Jerry Bernard, showed me how to work. He would tune the nose wire down to have it swim slowly on the surface and about every 10 feet of retrieve he would pull the the plug across the surface and splash it. Not unusual to have a bass react to the pop. He never altered the lip. I visited Bob Pond at the factory once and the Juniors came into conversation. I was curious why they went from 1 3/4 oz to 2 1/4 oz. He said the brass molds were getting worn and they retooled them making them produce a slightly larger plug. The Junior was the first plug i skinned and it was a go to until I discovered the Super Strike Popper to carry the skin, but that’s another story. I favored the Atom 40 and 54B swimmers over the wood versions. They seem easier to tune, I think because of the lighter weight lip. Only downside to the 54 was that it would chop or crack if you hit it on a rock.
  6. If tackle shops were selling lures to fish instead of fishermen there would be a lot of fancy paint jobs and collectible lures left on the peg hooks and the bucktails would be restocked daily.
  7. Yes it’s the one in the roll up tube, but I think most brands ate packaged that way. So far I found an off white and dark pink. I use pink 90% of the time and would like to see a fluorescent yellow or green but don’t think that’s going to happen.
  8. Switched to artificial chamois about 5 years ago and never looked back.
  9. The reel sounds like a 114H which was considered the go to school tuna reel before the lever drag reels became popular. I would think if he had that reel he would have put 50# Dacron on it. By the early 60’s braided lines replaced linen and both were replaced by monofilament short after that.
  10. Bill Wetzel is speaking at the next meeting of the Connecticut Surfcasters Association. The meeting is Wednesday February 7th at 7pm at the Madison Memorial Town Hall located at 8 Meetinghouse Lane, Madison. Bill is going to talk about “Reading the Water” and some info on fishing Montauk. He’s been a guide on Eastern Long Island for decades and has been in many serious and informative videos and publications.
  11. Sudsy, you have too many plugs! Wonder if the pinned lips run true?
  12. Atom built a plastic swimmer with a hinged lip sometime in the late 60’s or early 70’s. Looked nothing like the Atom 40 or 54. Sides on it were flat. Anyone have one?
  13. I’ve always felt better with my dominant hand (left in my case) pumping the rod and and my right hand on the crank. Ever watch a right hander with conventional tackle pump a fish for over 15 minutes, they start to switch hands and both pump up with their right hand, lower the stroke with their left and reel with their right. I asked a well known tuna fisherman why he preferred spinning over conventional tackle for jigging bluefins. His answer was that he wanted his dominant hand (right)on the rod, and he’s caught many a giant and almost giants on spinning tackle. When I sold tackle I would occasionally get a lefty ask if we had left handed conventional reels. My reply was that they were all lefties except the ones that said left handed on the box. A lot of the largemouth bass pros prefer so called left handed casting reels so they don’t have to switch hands. They cast right and reel left. If your a lefty use a left handed spinning reel and right handed conventional. In both cases the non dominant hand turns the crank.
  14. Jimmy the Greek is giving 2 talks at the Connecticut Surfcasters Association Demo. He speaking at 10am and 12 noon. Demo Day is at the Clinton Town Hall from 9 to 2, Saturday January 20th. The show features demonstrations by members and displays of tackle and custom plugs.
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