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Its what darters are based off of.
If I remember what Chet and another ex-Cuttyhunk charter guy told me, they showed up in the 60's here after someone took a trip out west.
Brought about 40 of em with em.
They SLAUGHTERED fish on em around the islands.
One of the guys had his boat broken into one night and about 20 of em were stolen. Not too long after that they showed up on store shelves left and right all over this region, eventually (as we see currently) they fell out of favor.
I have 4 or 5 of the origionals from that group that came here to New England that have now been in my family for about 15-20 years now.
They don't really cast worth a damn (they flutter bad.... plastic and light) but I'm sure if someone copied the actual ace hi in wood with the single they could weight it correctly to fly and float.
Take a look at the pic in the plugs section on the site of my popper, you can see one of the origionals sitting behind the popper.
Silver Horde seems to have bought the rights and molds to the origional Ace Highs.
I just picked up a darter of similar size today so I'll swim it this weekend against the Ace Hi and give you a good comparison.
(At this rate with the people I've asked, I may have to get a lathe myself and spin a couple)
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