Florida Antique Tackle Collectors
A non-profit, member-supported organization dedicated to
the preservation of our angling heritage, history, and artifacts.

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:

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