Soory for the late reply but I have been ice fishing my brains out and doing very well on large trout! VB, that plug was made in June 46. Remember a little thing called WWII? Stan worked at the Quincy shipyards during that little skirmish as a fitter. He was fishing Creek Chubs at night for bass in the canal avoiding the guards posted along the ditch as it was a major convoy formation and debarkation route for convoys of ships going across the big pond. He knew he could make something more suited to the task at hand but didn't have the time, materials were scarce (metal hook shortage etc.) and they worked twelve hours aday six days a week plus the fishing at night. He told me that to replace a reel he was using that broke down he paid 45.00 dolars for a new one ( an ocean city) doesn't sound like much but it was a weeks pay back then. Anyway thats how it started and that is the date,believe it or not. In 1947 he made a 100 copies of that plug, a little more jazzed up of course, and sold them in days to guys on the canal.That prompted the beginning of Gibbs lures and the rest is history.
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