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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' .
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