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Post 18 Jun 2021, 16:52 • #1 
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Location: US-north ga.
My family lived near where peckinpaugh made his
lures,on willow street in Chattanooga.
As a young boy,who loved to fish I was fascinated
by watching the women that worked there.
Some of them painted ,others tied colorful feathers
on bug bodies.Some stapled lures on the cards and
bagged them.
Every time I smell lacquer paint it reminds me of
that place.
I was in mobile Alabama a couple of days ago and found these lures at an estate sale.





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Post 18 Jun 2021, 19:01 • #2 
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I love packaged flies, poppers, lures etc. 'cause they are always local. I always buy them when I see them.

Nice stuff!!


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Post 19 Jun 2021, 10:16 • #3 
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Made in my hometown in the 1960s




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Post 19 Jun 2021, 11:42 • #4 
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I like the flies caught in the spiderweb.
That's cool arknymph


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Post 19 Jun 2021, 18:42 • #5 
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Really cool stuff. Thanks for sharing


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Post 20 Jun 2021, 08:52 • #6 
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Nice!!

I dig carded stuff too. I have cards of minnow rigs and spoons from local shops.

A couple of years back I got some neat packaged streamers at Maine Sports in Camden, Maine from a place called Mr. Ed’s Flies in Brunswick, Maine.

I don’t have them handy, but here is a link to some of his offerings.


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Post 05 Sep 2021, 18:43 • #7 
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When my dad taught me to fly fish in Florida 65 years ago, he said a bass fisherman only needs 2 flies. A Pecks Popper & a queen bee. He always pulled the rubber legs out. Claimed they attracted the small fish.
We never went home empty & often limited out.


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Post 05 Sep 2021, 19:03 • #8 
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Location: Tucson, AZ
Very cool.....bought high quality popper flies from an outfit in Chattanooga named "Ultimate Popper Company"

Wonder if they began as Peckinpaugh..maybe some of the same people worked there in the factory


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Post 06 Sep 2021, 17:25 • #9 
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Fishing on card is one of my favorite search terms.I have 4 display boards of Gapen flies.Sales samples i guess.One has at least 10 different versions of muddlers.I have 100s of loose balsa and cork poppers from tiny to big.Easy and cheap to collect.I have a couple flies in plastic capsules that came in gumball type vending machines,i know little about them.


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Post 07 Sep 2021, 18:44 • #10 
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Hey Phil a flex
Ultimate poppers did make high quality bugs.
The guy that owned the owned the company
is a friend of mine.
He bought a business called Mr. Bob bugs
a local bug maker that made very high guality
bugs. Mr. Bob made and sold poppers years before,like in the mid sixties,the name of that
business was lucky day lures,also in Chattanooga.
Ultimate went out of business a few years ago.
New maker from here ,who was a big fan of all the bugs made by these guys,carried on the
tradition of making the best cork bugs,and the name of his business is Boogle bugs.
Quite a history of fly fishing lures in Chattanooga area.

This is an ultimate popper.

This is a mr.bob slider called Mr. Jet

Original lucky day popper named prissy miss.
Date from mid 1960s


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Post 07 Sep 2021, 20:49 • #11 
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what a great find!


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Post 07 Sep 2021, 21:58 • #12 
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Location: Tucson, AZ
swamp wrote:
Hey Phil a flex
Ultimate poppers did make high quality bugs.
The guy that owned the owned the company
is a friend of mine.
He bought a business called Mr. Bob bugs
a local bug maker that made very high guality
bugs. Mr. Bob made and sold poppers years before,like in the mid sixties,the name of that
business was lucky day lures,also in Chattanooga.
Ultimate went out of business a few years ago.
New maker from here ,who was a big fan of all the bugs made by these guys,carried on the
tradition of making the best cork bugs,and the name of his business is Boogle bugs.
Quite a history of fly fishing lures in Chattanooga area.

This is an ultimate popper.

This is a mr.bob slider called Mr. Jet

Original lucky day popper named prissy miss.
Date from mid 1960s


It had to be more than mere coincidence that high quality poppers all came from that area. The pride in the product came shining through with the Ultimate Poppers...perhaps like the hand-crafted wooden lures from back in the day and the flies tied at Dan Bailey's in Montana.

Thanks for the response..that is very cool. Tell your friend we loved his poppers out here in AZ...hope I still have a few I have not lost . Maybe he remembers Tightlines Flyfishing in Tucson, one of his clients, though closed 13 years ago...


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