Florida Antique Tackle Collectors
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FATC Newsletter

FATC publishes a high quality, magazine style newsletter three times each year and mails it to all Club members. The articles and colorful photographs in each issue are submitted by the membership. Each issue contains stories about old fishing tackle and the people who made it, as well as information about FATC members and Club activities. Click here for information about advertising in the FATC Newsletter.

Several back issues of the FATC News are reproduced below in PDF format:

Vol 38, No. 2, April 2024	Remembering Todd Mangan, A Great Day at a Yard Sale, Heddon Punkinseeds, Kenneth E. Bay, Wally's Day at the Market, William T. Heddon - Lure History, The Johnson Shrimp Bait
Vol 38, No. 1, February 2024	Remembering Jeff Windisman and Paul Snider, 2023 Savannah Southern Classic Review, The Barnhill Mermaids, Dennis L. Goddard - A Saltwater Fly Tyer, Unknown Florida Lure - Harry Finkelstein's Lure, Giant Display Lures
Vol 37, No. 2, September 2023	Unknown Florida Lure - Pelican Bait, Unknown Frog Lure Update, Grover Cleveland Inlow, Tom Lentz - A Professional Fly Tyer
Vol. 37, No. 1, April 2023	Unknown Frog Lure, The Story of the Cuban Yo Yo, The "Squiggly Lure" Might Just Be Straightened Out, Harry J. "Red" Greb - Father of the Bonefish Fly
Vol. 36, No. 3, December 2022	Unknown "Squiggly Lure," Plastic Worms of Florida, Zeno Bass and the Aggravatin Popper, The Allure of Lures, Pflueger "Star" and "Monogram" Bait
Vol. 36, No. 2, August 2022	Florida Lure Collection on Display in Tallahassee, FL, Unknown Florida Lure - Rattler Type, FATC Featured Member - Tom Wilkerson, Southern Bait Company and the New Porpoise Minnow, The Penrod Company Beryllium-Copper Fishing Rods, Porter Advertising Lures
Vol 36, No. 1, May 2022	Unknown Florida Lure - Palm Beach Fish Master, Pflueger Pakron Minnow, The Florida Shiner and the Artistry of Viola Mae Ricketts, In Memory Sam Griffin
Vol 35, No. 3, December 2021	Unknown Florida Banana Lure, Goodrich Special, FATC Featured Member - Charles Dangler, In Memory - Ray Heffington, The Florida Collection
Vol 35, No. 2, August 2021	Planked Gar Fish, Florida's Antique Lure Makers, Florida Lures and the Fair Trade "Fight," Hell's Bells...The Duke, Unique Fishing Rod Handles
Vol 35, No. 1, January 2021	FATC Past Show Memories, Sam Griffin Honored, Unknown Florida Lure, Featured Club Member - Mike Hall, The "Lowly" Bobber - The Porter Flame-Ball, Edward G. Jones Soft Rubber Bait, Jim-Bo Lure, Fish'N Club
Vol 34, No. 3 - September 2020	FATC Past Show Memories, Looking Back at Jan Cummings, Where Are They Now?, Two Weeks Vacation For Two Boys
Vol 34, No. 2 - May 2020	In Memory of Francis "Frank" H. Carter, Jr., Blue Angel - CoTco International, Featured Club Members Arthur and Karen Edwards, E.J. Lonn - More Than Meets The Eyes, Union Hardware Company Steel Fishing Rods
Vol 34, No. 1 - January 2020	Meet The Nominee, Unknown Florida Lure Makers - "Capt. Savage" - Tampa, FL, FATC 2020 Club Lure, Why Facebook?, Barracuda Dalton Special - St. Pete Colors
Vol 33, No. 3 - September 2019	2019 Fleming Island show recap, Unknown Florida Lure Makers - "Runk" Eagle Lake, FL., A True Tale of a Florida Fisherman's Bait Which Lures BASS & Bucks, What a Great Way to Spend a Day, Do You Remember When?
Vol 33, No. 2 - May 2019	In Memory of William H. "Bill" Stuart, Jr., Rat-Trap - "The Only Bait With Confidence", A Collage of Sporting Listings in the 1950's Florida Wildlife Magazines, Florida Wildlife Field Test and Tells, Unknown Florida Lure Makers - Central Florida Area, Featured Member Profile - Jim Berglund
Vol 33, No. 1 - February 2019	The Year In Review 2018, Featured Lure, Member Profile - Mac Hoover, Gephart Manufacturing Company Steel Rod Maker, The Anatomy of a Trade, Tail-Weighted Dalton Special
Vol. 32, No. 3 - December 2018	Carlos & Cleo Lures, Leapin' Lil - more of the story, FATC Member Profile - Dale Van De Voort, The Collecting of Steel Rods, Max Boales, SR. "Prototypes", Southern States Casting Tournaments & Conservation Connections, Large Mouth, Small Mouth, or Rock Bass
Vol. 32, No. 2 - May 2018	Al Foss: Florida Fisherman, Richardson Rod & Reel Company - The Water King, Bagley Experimental Prism Baits, FATC Featured Lure - Leapin' Lil, FATC Member Profile - Ed Bauries
Vol 32, No. 1 - February 2018	Florida's "Champion Tarpon Angler", Sculling Help, Running Out of Things to Collect? Try Something New, 2018 FATC Patriotic Tarpon Darter, Does Sex Sell Fishing Tackle?, Scott Taylor: A New Found Focus
Vol 31, No. 3 - August 2017	Harrison SW Florida Fly Reels, An Old Man and a Bucket of Shrimp, Steel Fly Rods - End of an Era, Marsh Conference, Collecting Vintage Paddles, Remembering Dennis McNulty
Vol 31, No. 2 - May 2017	Pelican, Captiva, Lures by the Price Family, It's a Match (made in Heaven), Murphy Kelly Hand Made Lures
Vol 31, No. 1 - February 2017	Bringing a Lure to Market, The "Ol-Albert" Produced by Florida Tackle Mfg., Co. Inc., The Frank S. Sams Florida Lure, True Temper Fishing Rods, FATC 2017 Club Lure
Vol 30, No. 3 - August 2016	Jan Cummings Presented Honarary Membership, The 20th Century Rod, The Mystery of the Trolling Fin
Vol 30, No. 2 - May 2016	Patent for the South Bend Flipit, Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians, Martin Fishtail Propeller, Daniel's Deceivers, FATC Camera Card - Lost, But Found, Creek Chub Bait Co's "Pencil" Wooden Floats, Put a Little Spring into Your Cast, Jim's Last Cat - The Meer Kat
Vol 30, No. 1 - February 2016	The Lure That Started "Bagley-Mania", Keepers of the Past, A Cure for Insomnia, Florida's First Metal Fishing Lure & The History of Frank Sheldon Sams, Waltco's Unusual Nylon Reel
Vol 29, No 3 - October 2015	Leesburg National Tournament, Robert Moser & Miracle Tackle, The Porter Pop-Stop, The Stubby Rod/Reel Combo, Pfeffer Finds, Bill Stuart's Lore and Lures
Vol 29, No. 2 - May 2015	CLEECO Tackle Box, Bagley Lit'L John, The Gentleman's Stream-Liner, The 1983 Leesburg National Bass Tournament
Volume 29, No. 1 - February 2015	FATC 2015 Club Lure, The Handle Rod, Color Collections, Zebco "Deceiver" Reels, Casting "back in time", Lost Pfeffer Collection, CCB History - Henry Searight Dills
Volume 28, No. 3 - October 2014	CASTING - “back in time”..., Unknown Dalton Special Look-alike, New Ideas In Fishing?, CREEK CHUB BAIT COMPANY HISTORY, FATC SURVEY RESULTS, It Makes “Scents”
Volume 28, No. 2 - June 2014	Bagley Poor Penny, Pfeffer-Woodall-Densmore Connection, Gone Fishing, Zebco Guy Goes to Tulsa, Carry-All Leader Kits, The Hurd Super-Caster, The Lure of Florida Fishing
Volume 28, No. 1 - February 2014	FATC 2014 Club Lure, To B or Not to B....Flat, Tenacity, Networking & Some Luck, Flounders, a Slam-Dunk, A Bird in the Hand
Volume 27, No. 3 - October 2013	One of a Kind Florida Lures, Dazzled by Dazzlers, Daytona Memories, Zebco and Inflation, Eger Frogskin Baits Not!, Bang-o-Bucks, Gone Fishing, Cooking With Jim
Volume 27, No. 2 - June 2013	Richardson Steel Fishing Rods, Poe's Lures by Zebco, Antique Reel Collecting...Small Beginnings, Bagley Cripple Shad, Bagley's Midnight Special, They (Dalton Specials) Get No Respect, Florida Surprise Minnow Part III
Volume 27, No. 1 - February 2013	Part A - Altamonte Recap, Bagley's Biggest Hunk of Wood, FATC 2013 Club Lure
Volume 27, No. 1 - February 2013	Part B - Collecting Zebco Lures, Cooking With Jim, I Love Spoonplugs, Bagley "Small Fish" Lures, Glen Lau's Secrets of Fishing
Volume 26, No. 3 - October 2012	A Million MirrOLures, Merrit Family & The Keystone Item of a Collection, The Tycoon Tackle Story, Scott Morgan Lures, Kelvin Krotzer visits Bartow, Review of Vera Bagley's Bagley Tale, Bagley's Deadly Dozen Part 2
Volume 26, No. 2 - June 2012	Bagley's Deadly Dozen Rarest Baits Part 1, Whistling Dixie, History of the Lure Part 1, With Bait and Fly
Volume 26, No. 1 - January 2012	Part A: Southern Lures, The "Greatest" Find, Frenchy Chevalier
Volume 26, No. 1 - January 2012	Part B: FATC 2012 Club Lure, Gone Fishing, Tiquing Tackle, We Were All KIDs Once, Fanatical Insights, James Clark
Volume 25, No. 3 - October 2011	Part A: Ralph L. Miller & Oceanic Tackle Shop, Coast To Coast Tackle, Jack Hopkins
Volume 25, No. 3 - October 2011	Part B: Florida Surprise Minnow part 2, Ken Bay Honorary Member, Must Have License, Zebco Fly Reels, Roughing It Smoothly
Volume 25, No. 2 - June 2011	Captain Edward Lewis Evans, Who Was Paul Covington, A Bird In The Hand, Speed Dating Zebcos, Plastic Bang-O-Lure
Volume 25, No. 1 - January 2011	Earl Robinson Perfects His Baits, The Florida Surprise Minnow, Murphy Kelly Hand Made Lures, Bagley Salty Dog, Zebco Reels, Fishy Patchwork
Volume 24, No. 3 - November 2010	Memories by Chuck Heddon, Captain Curtis Ware, Art in Your Tackle Room, Seminole Club
Volume 24, No. 2 - July 2010	Magic Of a Tackle Box, Quarantine Baits part III, Field Find Tales. Interview with Norm Pinardi, Cox's Sporting Goods Company
Volume 24, No. 1 - January 2010	Muskie lures made in Florida, Quarantine Baits, A Pfeffer family tradition, Daniel Mark Graham, Jack's Hookers
Volume 23, No. 3 - October, 2009	Part A: Quarantine Baits, Hartman Muskie Lures, Fair Trade
Volume 23, No. 3 - October, 2009	Part B
Volume 23, No. 2 - July, 2009	Part A: Bagley Mama Cat, CAZAZAs, Minnow Club
Volume 23, No. 2 - July, 2009	Part B
Volume 23, No. 1 - February, 2009	Part A: Big Fish Story, Porter's Tavern, Restoration, FATC History
Volume 23, No. 1 - February, 2009	Part B
Volume 22, No. 4 - October, 2008	Part A: Blue Boy, Carter's Heaven, Joe Stag, FATC History
Volume 22, No. 4 - October, 2008	Part B
Volume 22, No. 3 - July, 2008	Part A: Anatomy of a Trade, Lloyd's Best Lures, FATC History
Volume 22, No. 3 - July, 2008	Part B
Volume 22, No. 2 - April, 2008	Part A: Florida Made Scullers, FATC History, Williams Wobbler
Volume 22, No. 2 - April, 2008	Part B
Volume 22, No. 1 - February, 2008	Part A: Do-All Bait Mfg. Co., Barracuda Advertising History D
Volume 22, No. 1 - February, 2008	Part B
Volume 21, No. 4 - October, 2007	Part A: Shakespeare in FL, Barracuda Advertising History C
Volume 21, No. 4 - October, 2007	Part B
Volume 21, No. 3 - July, 2007	Part A: Lloyd Jett Made Lures C, Barracuda Advertising History B
Volume 21, No. 3 - July, 2007	Part B
Volume 21, No. 2 - April, 2007	Part A: Lloyd Jett Made Lures B, Barracuda Advertising History A
Volume 21, No. 2 - April, 2007	Part B
Volume 21, No. 1 - February, 2007	Part A: Lloyd Jett Made Lures A, Doc's Menhaden Lure
Volume 21, No. 1 - February, 2007	Part B
Volume 20, No. 4 - October, 2006	Part A: Eger/Paw Paw Connection
Volume 20, No. 4 - October, 2006	Part B
Volume 20, No. 3 - July, 2006	Part A: Bender & Flynn Connection, J.W. Gilson Tackle Boxes
Volume 20, No. 3 - July, 2006	Part B