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90% of what we have in Saltwater for lures originated in freshwater.
It's historical fact. And as far as we in the northeast are concerned with Striper fishing, excepting rigged eels, tin squids and eel bobs and skin rigs, lure manufacturers such as Creek Chub and Heddon influenced the famous makers of Striper specifics baits such as Gibbs, Pond and Sylvester.
Jerry Sylvester of Rhode Island was making lures (Flaptails bases on Heddon) in the late 30's. There may have been a few others but they were not commercially produced as were Sylvesters designs.
The Cape, which still can be that way, was slow to adopt as the most often dictum followed was that of "that was the way my Father showed me" and a hard train of thought to derail.
Nowadays look at Sluggos, and rubber which by the way was popular in the late forties and early fifties but waned with the upsurge in wooden plug making. I have a book by Ollie Rodman called "Striped Bass" written in 1944 that shows a rubber eel rig. Ollie was the original publisher of Saltwater Sportsman, which he founded with H.G. "Tap" Tapply in Boston in 1937. Somewhere in my archives I have a copy of the first issue. It was a 3 page newsletter printed in May of that year.
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