Over the course of the last 25 years I've moved three times, separated, divorced, remarried, and in that time period, I managed to "lose" a small box of lures I purchased back in the mid-80s.
They surfaced recently this past summer when I got around to cleaning out the back end of my garage which hasn't seen daylight since the last move when I hauled stuff out of my ex-wife's garage, both before and after it burned.
Well, there were bottles of lures from three different lure makers in there: Carmen's, Miranda's, and a fella from Wisconsin, the Columbus area I believe, by the name of Don Seymour.
Don Seymour made an excellent bobcat gland lure that I used consistly to take mink on the riverline. I shared that with him recently, and he was pleased and perplexed to hear that. Don has since retired from the lure making business and spends some of his leisure time attending rendezvous, recreating 1800s times.
Anyway . . of the three lure makers, both Don's and Carmen's lures were just as fragrent, pungent, and sassy as the day I last used them.
Miranda's?? Junk. I have nothing personal against Tom Miranda, so you know, but all of his lures had gone south, stinko, sour. Pocket Popper was one of 'em, another coyote lure and I forget the other(s). But there wasn't a one of 'em that had held up. Dark box, but in the garage, and the garage hits 90 degrees somedays in the summer and whatever it is below zero in the winter.
I'm a dumb water trapper who prefers the stink of jack mackeral on my gloves over anything else, and rarely uses any lure, but thought you'd enjoy the sharing on the lures here.
