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Article: Glass minnow tube is blast from angling's past.
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- The Morning Call (Allentown, PA)
- Article date:
- June 6, 2007
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Byline: Christian Berg
ALLENTOWN, Pa. _ The first time tackle collector Bill Blauser saw a glass minnow tube, he thought it was one of the stupidest things ever invented.
Created in the late 1800s, the clear lures were designed to hold a live minnow safely inside _ attracting bites from hungry fish while allowing fishermen to use the same minnow all day long.
"One of those with me would last about five minutes," said Blauser, of Pittsburgh. "If you didn't hit it on a rock or bang it around in the boat, then you'd have a fish flopping around with glass in its mouth."
Apparently, most fishermen felt the same way 100 years ago. Minnow ...