The Curly Tail Grub
I clicked onto Field & Stream‘s “The 50 Greatest Lures of All Time” and saw this and was transported back to summer days in Texas and Minnesota and Alaska. I’d be sitting in our alumninum bass boat with my brother and dad as it rocked slowly on the surface of a lake. We were fishing, though fishing, for me, often consisted of lounging in one of the vinyl chairs or sitting on the crinkly blue plastic-fiber floor reading a book as my brother and dad reeled in bass or sunfish or crappie or pike.
So this little guy looks familiar, though I would never have known he was “The Curly Tail Grub.” I recognized the top five of the 50 lures, as well as several others down the list. If we ever run short of arguments for how useful biodiversity is, we can turn to this gallery of manufactured minnows, bugs, worms, and frogs.
(Photo by Todd Huffman. Thanks to Kottke for the link.)
