“Knowledge is the key to fishing success,” said the late E.L. “Buck” Perry in his book “Spoonplugging”. Perry was a legendary angler who literally wrote the book on fresh water fishing that became the ...

Elwood Perry, a soft-spoken Southerner who translated his almost preternatural ability to catch fish into a finely tuned philosophy, a lucrative business and a personal legend as outsized as any fish ...

When it comes to antique fishing lures and other tackle, I’m more of an accumulator than a collector. If I see something cool for short money at a tag sale, then I’ll latch on to it. I don’t collect ...