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[justplugit]

Originally Posted by Flaptail

while awaiting those guys, what little I know .

Ya right, what little ya know, i'd be happy with 1% of it.

Thanks Steve.

[capesams]

the only thing I can add is they[wood] were first made in "44" lips were hand cut and weren't truly maketed till "45".

Bob pond lived in a trailer in buzzards bay where he turned and sold some of his earlyer wood baits.

charlie sherer and bill chasen came up with the name[atom bomb] for Bob's bait's which turned into just atom.

the glass eyed wood was only made in "48"and very few of those were made, because they were switching over to plastic and they weren't about to put eye's on plastic.
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the [first born] plastic striper atom came in "49".

the stinky and eel skin came in "55"

wood atom jr's come in two sizes

atom# 51's[plastic] had paint and glitter

atom #52's have white bottom's and colored top's

atom# 54[plastic] some were cut to made two different size popper's////atom 54's also came in foam.

atom stinky's[40's] came with a brass screw plug in the rear end so one could put the juice inside for smell.

atom 40 also came with a salted eelskin already covering the entire plug.

atom kill lure//a flat clear fish shaped plug...only made for a year.

the list go's on and on, but as far as pricing go's...condition...color[bait]....common/rare....color of box..bag...etc...they can go from beater $3.00 to $300.00 and higher depending on the bait.As more people start to take up collecting, bait's become harder to find forcing price's up higher reguardless if you think their worth it or not..

[gone fishin]

Anyone have a reverse atom they want to part with??

[thefishingfreak]

Originally Posted by gonefishintalk

Anyone have a reverse atom they want to part with??

i got two

[Karl F]

little more light reading for you JPI...
http://www.atomlures.com/mission.htm

[Flaptail]

Steve, is the "stinky" plug the same as the Arnold Laine model?

[Backbeach Jake]

Couple of seasons ago I found an old plastic 40 on the beach. The swivels are completely rotted off. It's a purple swirl plastic with a stainless lip. The lip is stamped but I can't make out more than "FG CO.. and turned up at the edges. Any idea of it's age?

[capesams]

Arnold was fishing the race with his secrert sause and killing cows, bob adaped the a40 to accept the sauce..hence the stinky lure.a mess it did make too,,the plug's didn't last long on the market because of it.

One needs to look at the wire in a atom to tell it's age....brass came first to about the early seventies....sst from then on.Bob wasn't a fan of catologing his bait's, so info at time's is hard come across.He was interested in saving the bass then his plug's.