Hey PROFESSOR FLAPTAIL--

[justplugit]

any chance you will be offering a course on GIBB'S LURES this winter at The Online Plug College?

[Tagger]

I know the first Stan Gibbs plug was a hoe handle,,I had it in my hand ..Flaptail is an excellent source of Stan Gibbs history .. I see alot of books that say they have Stan Gibbs in them..I don;t know wich ones are good ???? Great local legend ..

[BigFish]

Isn't it only fitting, at least to those of us on this site, that the first Gibbs plug was made from a "Ho" handle? Being plug ho's and all!

[Backbeach Jake]

Originally posted by BigFish
Isn't it only fitting, at least to those of us on this site, that the first Gibbs plug was made from a "Ho" handle? Being plug ho's and all!

That's one fine observation there
BigFish!

[BigFish]

Thanks BBJ...just call me a master of the obvious!

[tlapinski]

Originally posted by Tagger
I know the first Stan Gibbs plug was a hoe handle,,I had it in my hand

Flaptail is the owner of that very plug. stan gibbs # 1.

[BigFish]

Yeah...we saw it and even got to hold it at the Plug Feast....sorry you could not make it T-Lap!

[Slipknot]

He saw it last year Bigfish

[Nebe]

the million dollar question is wether or not flaptail "hoed" the Hoe handle. and if he did "ho" the ho handle, did he say "handle it over" And... did he Ho the Hoe handle while selling seashells by the seashore

[fishweewee]

this one?

[tlapinski]

that is the girl!

[vineyardblues]

Not to open a can of worms , but 1946 is kinda late ?????
VB

[BigFish]

Vineyardblues....I could be mistaken, but Flaptail will tell us anyway....I think that is Stan Gibbs writing and signature on the backing card. 1946 is after WWII and that is when these guys started making these plugs! Flaptail....please clarify!

[Flaptail]

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.

[tlapinski]

Originally posted by Flaptail
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.

price range of VS these days, huh?

[vineyardblues]

Flap u old ice fishing dog u

How come on the gibb's lure home page it states Stann started in 1945 ?
ALso in the National Fishing Lures Club it also has a early date before 1946 ?

VB

[Flaptail]

Because my dear VB, they are wrong. All the info I have given here is from Stan's own mouth. 1996 was the fifty year anniversary. As a matter of fact do you know what plug they issued as a special fifty year memento of the occasion? Jim Griecci was running the company then. They made only fifty of them and I am lucky enough to have been given one. Also, I know a dealer that has several left and sells them at his annual yardsale out of his seconds box no less!

In the fall of 45' when Japan surrendered (September 1945 to be excact) production was still in full swing on the homefront ie; the shipyards. And, Stan never fished or thought about fishing after October 1st as he was fully engaged in preparation for the trapping season. He was a full time trapper running trap lines all over the Cape and Buzzards Bay area for fox, muskrat etc.. This was extra income needed to survive.

His thoughts returned to fishing in April 46'when the first schoolies showed on the south side (which for many years he was the first to bring in a fish and usually from the Narrows at Buttermilk Bay.) Along with the herring the squid also made an appearence around the same time and none of the lures he had could reach the breaking fish in the canal so he created the one I now have in my possession.

Like Carl Luckeys book and others I have seen that might mention Gibbs as a manufacturer, the dates are wrong and the collecting of Gibb's Lures is lightly treated ( they do not yet get the recognition they rightly deserve). The National Fishing Lures collecting Club info is a year off and the I have found that the people, who freely admit it, that have owned the company since, do so because of the name and really don't know a lot of the history of the company. I sat with Stan and later his son John watching them and listening to them for hours when I was younger and I know the correct history of the Gibb's Lure Company and what I have written here is the truth. It started in 46' .

[vineyardblues]

Well not to open a can of worms , I find it very strange that you are the olny person who has the correct info on the Famous Stann Gibbs lures and every one else is wrong


ps, Stan said to say hello last weekend when I talked with him

VB

[justplugit]

PROF FLAP, good to read your posts again. Thought you might be on Sabatical or offered a position at another University.
Glad to hear your getting some R&R fishing before the semester begins. thanks.

[Flaptail]

Well VB, thats the way it is.

[BigFish]

Some people just know more than everyone else Flaptail!

[bassmaster]

what we gonna fight over this %$%$%$%$%$%$g #^&#^&#^&#^& now?
Ya know what it boils down to one thing
Numbers on the beach
I Love both of You #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&s
so would You 2 get a room and let me film it
Im broke
and give me a friggen plug for reading this #^&#^&#^&#^&

[vineyardblues]

BM, I love when you talk dirty

WOuld you even think I would pick a fight with Flap ...ouch
Never , never and never .
It's just a little winter fun
Flap has forgot more about Stan and cape cod history, than most of us will ever know !
So don't start any thing u Italian fishing nut !
How many plugs u want ? ho ho ho

VB

[bassmaster]

OK
I dont like when My plug sluts get nasty