Smaller than a baseball, Fish Hunter, a lighted Sonar unit on its charger, just left of the fishgraphic!
APtravelnews-Sept. 27th, -Goose Holler’ Ranch, TN.-Casting about at ICAST this past July, I found several new innovations that an angler would want. There have been many comments both written and talked about that claim a huge amount of fishing lures and angling gadgets, that have as much allure to the angler, as they would to fish. One item I found called the “Fish Hunter” is definitely a new, no nonsense fish and bottom finder. Its not much larger, actually even a bit smaller than a baseball. Picture your Smartphone as the viewing screen, yes that’s right; this item lets you pair your Smartphone or tablet with a spectacular “throw into the water” tethered and floating unit that lets you see the bottom contour, water depth and fish locations-WOW! The unit connects by Bluetooth with up to a 100 ft. range use. The depth range is up to 130-feet deep. The unit offers Military-Grade Sonar Technology with night illumination as well. Look for their upcoming 3-D Model and check this incredible company out at: www.fishhunter.com
APtravelnews-August 24th, Plano, Texas–After a twelve hour drive, we arrived in Plano, TX. through Dallas. We, Dennis Macalister, President of Click-It Hot and I will be at the Dallas Convention Center with the Click-It Hot booth all set up, to provide for the needs of truckers and their families for their need of pain and relief during the colder months of the year.
The Dallas Convention Center is holding the largest trucking show in the world. This event, if you do, or don’t drive a big rig truck is a lalapalooza! About every truck and innovation designed for trucks and the trucker, in safety and comfort will be on display this coming Thursday through Saturday of this week. See Dallas Truck Show on the web.
A Click-It Hot for any body part: neck and shoulder, hand and legs, back-anywhere theirs pain or warmth is important as in ice fishing, hunting, boating, birding, or trucking on down the road too!
Couldn’t stay away from this booth. Mahi Mahi and shrimp were fantastic fried with Shorty’s breading mixes!
APtravelnews-August 2nd,–Goose Holler’ Farm, TN.–At the recent ICAST Show in Orlando at the Orange County Convention Center I found a few great items to call home about! Shorty’s kept me in fish and shrimp, but in the finest and tasty style. They had a breading for seafood, chicken, just about anything you can fry. Their mixes were the tastiest I ever experienced and as a food writer, thats saying alot! The Spicey Seafood & Chicken Breading is designed as an all-purpose breading good for all types of foods including: Veggies, seafood, chicken, wild game, pork, oysters WOW!, and soft shell crabs too! Go shortysbreading.com or call them at 434-390-1101 and they’ll ship to you anywhere you like!
a 12-OZ Bag of Shorty’s goes along way to making whatever you fry really taste great! I went back to their booth to taste a whole lot more than “seconds.”
Aptravelnews-Throw-back and forward- Goose Holler’ Farm-Several decades ago, I proudly owned a Mitchell 300 Spinning Reel with “fat” (compared to today’s diameters) 6-pound test monofilament, attached to a clear fiberglass spinning rod from the long gone, Davega, Brooklyn sporting goods store, and a small metal tackle box, (I still have today) whose little compartments contained the few lures I could buy, after begging my Grandfather David and Uncle Sid for a buck or two! In that steel, brown painted box was a shiny, golden metal lure called Al’s Goldfish. It shared compartment spaces with a Jitterbug, Hula Popper, a Mepp’s spinner or two, and 3-sizes of red and white, and black and white Daredevils spoons.
Playing with 5 of Al’s Lures and after using them to catch several fish, I popped the treble hook covers on and no finger hookups!
I lived in Brooklyn, New York in a tenement building with my mom, Mary, Dad, Nat and Brother Mike. My dad was an amputee (his toes) from being in the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium, during the Nazi War. He was an excellent musician, and never had the patience or interest to take me fishing. The only fishing I could reach at my early age, was when I cut school to head over to the nearby Brooklyn Navy Yard docks, and I let none of these lures ever touch the diesel coated waters, I used grizzle and fat I collected from my grandmothers garbage pail, impaled on a size 8-hook, under several pinch-on lead split shot, the kind a kid used his teeth to clamp them on the line with, and hoped for the tug of an eel, so I could yell triumphantly when I felt the bend and throb of the rod.
Only during the summer, when my grandfather rented a bungalow in the Catskill Mountains, did I choose to use my prized lures. Before I was 10-years old, I caught trout, bass and sunfish always referred to as “Bluegills” in the lake regions of upstate New York. My favorite lure then was Al’s Goldfish! All my lures worked, but the action this little shiny, gold-plated, brass spoon always offered, seemed to guide my hand at decision time, to tie one on, as I opened my treasure chest, tackle-box; like a Ouija -board pointer, my fingers selected the “gold.” Many years, and trillions of gallons of rushing waters later, I heard that Al’s Goldfish had been languishing in the hands of folks that finally sold the business and patents to someone new, a young entrepreneur named Mike Lee from Maine. From all indications he is dedicated to resurrecting Al’s Goldfish to the “top-of-the-mind” of freshwater anglers once again and genuinely wishes to offer jobs to Americans as well.
I’m here to tell you, even though I’ve drifted over to the fly fishing genre of fishing, I still love and use spin, conventional and if I have to, in far-away places like the Congo, for one of the many places I’ve fished; hand-lines too! Look for more on Al’s Goldfish story and heritage in upcoming posts. www.alsgoldfish.com
As you will see, from Al’s new Living Lures, to Field and Stream naming Al’s as one of the “Top Ten Lures” and still being made only in the USA, together with Al’s treble hook covers, as Arnold said: “Al’s be back!!!!
Always like great fishing tools and Frabill makes excellent fishing pliers and forceps to help preserve the fingers and the fish when unhooking them!Al’s new Living Lures have just been introduced and I tried a fingerling bass. Bass are more than big mouthed predators, they are also cannibalistic! 1st cast, hit hard!
