The Universal History of Frog Fishing. Sorry, with Haunting.

Well, I've taught you about frog fishing the previous article, I have you too quantity, I also danced with you. Today we tell from the Universal History of Lure Fishing, also about the frog, his book Malin Musatescu, recently launched in the orbit of the Romanian fishing market.

1895 – Hastings Frog or the first frog program, The Universal History of Lure Fishing

The Hastings Frog is broadly the prototype of today's top water frogs and was patented in 1895 by James T Hastings of Chicago, Illinois. The Hastings Frog is a frog originally made of wood, then of rubber, reinforced with two hooks with the point pointing upwards and weighted at the bottom. Later, in 1910 Bill Jamison bought the patent from Hastings and produced his own versions.

1898 – Heddon, Bass and Toad, Universal History of Lure Fishing

James Heddon (son of an English immigrant from Devonshire), beekeeper and keen fisherman, had the inspiration to throw a piece of wood into the water and noticed how a bass attacked it. Encouraged by this episode, he carves his first lure (a frog) from the wood of a broomstick while waiting for his friend to go fishing. He attached a hook to the lure, fished with it on the surface of the water and caught a bass. The moment is very important, because it represents the beginning of the revolution that the bass triggered in the field of predatory fish fishing, inaugurating the top water - surface class, which will influence the evolution of fishing equipment and techniques.

1902 - Shakespeare, To Be or Not to Be a Frog, The Universal History of Lure Fishing

William Shakespeare Jr., who established himself since 1898 as a prolific inventor in the field of baitcasting reels, produces in 1902 the first lures: Revolution, Worden Bucktail, Evolution and a rubber frog.

1905 – Mechanical Frog, 51 bass and 5 pike in 4 hours, Universal History of Lure Fishing

Shakespeare was a company focused in its early years on the production of reels and rods in 1905 it would purchase the patent and manufacturing rights from the Rhodes Company for the famous Mechanical Frog topwater lure. This frog had movable hind legs, at rest being positioned perpendicular to the body of the lure, as frogs generally do. Some internal springs kept the frog's legs in this position, and at the moment of pumping the frog's legs moved closer together, very well mimicking the dynamics of a swimming frog. An advertisement in a vintage newspaper talks about the test done by two anglers who caught 51 bass and 5 pickerel pike with this lure in just four hours.

1910 - Coaxer, Lure War, Universal History of Lure Fishing

In 1910, the first bass fishing contest with lures takes place in the USA, with the aim of creating a competition between lures, but not between fishermen! The initiators of this competition are those from WJ Jamison Co., manufacturers of a surface lure that imitates a frog jumping on water (Coaxer). The announcement of the organization of this competition is publicized by FIELD & STREAM magazine and challenges to a duel all those who think they can make a better trick than Coaxer. The only answer came from Ans B. Decker, from New Jersey, the creator of a surface lure (Decker Bait), similar to a torpedo that had in the front third, a propeller that bubbled the water. The two lures raced on the waters of Congress Lake, Ohio. The winner was Coaxer and there was even a rematch also awarded by Coaxer.

1927 – Doctor Henshall and Mr. Luny Frog Lure, The Universal History of Lure Fishing

Across the ocean, in the United States, Heddon introduces a topwater lure that imitates a frog – the Luny Frog Lure. With the profile of a frog that hangs upside down, tilted at 45 degrees, the lure is armed with a triple anchor in the abdominal area and a simple hinged hook at the rear. Initially, the frogs were made of wood, later Heddon used a plastic material based on polyamide - solid Pyralin in making this kind of lures. In the Heddon catalogs of the time the Luny Frog Lure was presented as the providential lure that came to confirm the statement made by the considered authority on bass fishing, Dr. Henshall, that large specimens preferred frogs. The manufacturer recommends a fishing technique that gives the frog as natural a movement as possible, with jerky pumps, alternating with short linear recoveries. Before this lure, many American bass anglers caught frogs to use in rigs, but the advent of frog-imitating lures made it easier.

1980 - Zoom Toad Frog, come on let's Mister Twister again, The Universal History of Lure Fishing

Mister Twister is also launching the Twister Hawg Frog, a floating frog that will pave the way for a whole frog fishing technique. But this kind of fishing would become truly famous 25 years later, in 2005, when the Zoom Toad Frog would take the professional bass tournaments by storm. Twister Hawg Frog was armed with a special hook (also available in ballasted form) - Keeper Hook, and used as legs two vibrating appendages - curly tail - similar to the vibrating tail of the grub that made Mister Twister so famous so that in the 80s and 90s the name "twister" had already entered the common language of Romanian fishermen, who designated with this name the entire range of soft lures of that period.

2018 – Go Westin, Freddy The Frog, The Universal History of Lure Fishing

Westin is coming to market with a hard wobbler – Freddy The Frog, an articulated surface that mimics a frog. Being a wakebait, this frog has jointed legs and swims jerkily on the surface, generating a turbulence that cannot go unnoticed by pike. With a body of 9 cm and the extension of articulated legs reaching 18.5 cm, this lure impresses with both natural dynamics and appearance. It is made of durable ABS plastic and contains glass balls inside, with the frog's body acting as a resonance chamber when the balls hit the walls.

2022 – Live Target, The Ultimate Frog, The Universal History of Lure Fishing

After the Canadian company LiveTarget won the special award from the anglers at EFTTEX 2022 with the Ultimate Frog, this year came confirmation of the quality and innovation of this lure. Floating, imitating a frog, the lure has instead of the classic skirt - which imitates the hind legs of a frog - legs made of soft plastic. And the detailed copying of the frog's shape and color, its legs, and the way it floats slightly at a 45-degree angle in the stop, continues when the lure is imprinted with jerky pumping motion. LiveTarget uses the term "biometric dynamics" for the way the frog's supple plastic legs move. The resemblance to the way a real frog swims is striking, including how this artificial frog keeps its eyes just above the water film, as a real frog naturally does. The company LiveTarget is known for the detail in which it achieves the anatomical duplication of its lures, and in the case of the Ultimate Frog they succeeded in this superlatively.

2024 – AndyArif.ro releases the super hit of the summer “Hai slet's go to the frog!"

And a complete guide to pike frog fishing that you shouldn't miss. Don't miss Mălin Mușatescu's book either, The Universal History of Lure Fishing, probably the best fishing book to see the light of day in a Romania where flies teach bees how to make honey.

About the book The Universal History of Lure Fishing

A book dedicated to lure fishing in 508 pages and over 1,400 images, everything to bring to light the 40,000-year history of this occupation, from the rudimentary bone hooks of primitive man to the state-of-the-art digital tools that anglers use they use them today to locate and capture predatory fish. Everything about lures, reels, books, magazines, exhibitions, rods, boats, kayaks, accessories, sonar and GPS, thermal and electric motors as they have evolved especially over the last six centuries. Famous fishermen, lure makers, successful entrepreneurs of the profile industry, authors of articles and books dedicated to predator fishing, but also champions of fishing competitions are the characters of this book dedicated to predator fishermen eager for knowledge. Embedded in the succession of industrial and agricultural revolutions fishing with lures was directly influenced by the technological evolution, the degradation of the environment and the tumult of human civilization that carried the fishermen including through the whirlwinds of the two World Wars. Lure fishing has in turn become both an economic, social, cultural and political factor that cannot be neglected, as well as a catalyst for the protection of waters and fish in a world increasingly tested by economic and climate crises, pandemics and armed conflicts. This is why reading this book will give the reader a global vision of the passion of predatory fish fishing to demonstrate that the act of casting a lure means much more than a simple relaxation for a few hours in a boat or on the shore of some waters. – Malin Musatescu

 

Where to find the book The Universal History of Lure Fishing?

Currently, the book The Universal History of Lure Fishing it is not listed on the websites of fishing shops in Romania, but surely, if you ask for it, it can be available in a few days by simply contacting the author, who is waiting for them with open pages. To purchase frogs for fishing press on key 2.

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