Okay, here are he answers
1. Frank Middleton Woolner
2. Fur trapping on the Cape ( he made more money doing that than making plugs each year)
3. Jerry Sylvester
4. Cohasset Narrows seperates Wareham and Bourne at what we now know as the Buttermilk Bay bridges and was a contemporary of the Cuttyhunk, West Island, Pasque and Squibnocket bass clubs.
5. Creek Chub, Henry Dills, founder of CCBCO, invented the metal lip and thru wiring also he concurrently devoloped the scale pattern paint process with James Heddon and they shared that patent.
6. Frank Machado took that fish on a Stan Gibbs blue and white Castalure Popper 4 oz.
7. Montauk, and it was lost in the 38' Hurricane.
8. He was known as The Mad Russian and used lobsters as bait and made small stubby needlefish like plugs in black and in white to fish on dark or moonlit nights.
9. Boone marketed them first in the fifties down south, some enterprising New York fisherman in Staten Island in the fifties brought them to the No'east and the craze was born.
10. Of course the one and only Arnold Laine.
Thanks for trying and hopefully you learned a little something more about your sport, it certainly has a rich history.
Numbskull, JohnR and Stiffy I am afraid your all going to Striper Sped class for awhile.
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