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Article: Fishing tackle '95. (equipment)(includes related article) (Fishing)
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- Field & Stream (West ed.)
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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This year, some old favorites take on a new shine.
"Try a hula popper. All you need is a Hula Popper." This is the advice that Irwin "Steamboat" Salovin gives me every summer when I visit his son. To him, it's the only bass lure to use. But Steamboat knows that not once in recent years has either his son or I fished the Hula Popper, a popular Arbogast lure since 1941. It's a nice lure, but a bit old fashioned.
So there I am at a sport show speaking to Ken Chaumont of Bill Lewis Lures, makers of the enormously successful and much-copied Rat-L-Trap crankbait, when Ken whips out a sparkling and newly introduced SpitFire topwater plug. It's about 3 inches long, ...