March Brown design drafts

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Re: March Brown design drafts

Post by letumgo » Sun Sep 09, 2018 12:03 pm

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Bill - Do you have any idea what the "Quality 777" stood for? Or is the "777" the hook model number?

Thanks for sharing. These look like ideal flymph hooks. Nice score!
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Re: March Brown design drafts

Post by wsbailey » Sun Sep 09, 2018 12:24 pm

I believe that was Herter's way of designating a model number. To call George Herter unique would be an understatement.

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Re: March Brown design drafts

Post by letumgo » Sun Sep 09, 2018 1:13 pm

Great article. I am still laughing, after reading it. Funny stuff! :lol: :lol: :lol: :D
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Re: March Brown design drafts

Post by wsbailey » Sun Sep 09, 2018 2:03 pm

The world today is much more corporate. I read somewhere that while L.L. Bean was telling hunting and fishing stories at the front of the store; employees were stealing stuff out the back. When he died the number one rule for a replacement was no "characters". The mail order business used to be more or less the wild frontier but when Lee Harvey Oswald bought his rifle by mail things changed drastically.

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Re: March Brown design drafts

Post by redietz » Tue Sep 11, 2018 1:06 am

wsbailey wrote: Sun Sep 09, 2018 11:03 am The one thing Herter admired about England was the fishing hooks.
I thought the only thing Herter admired was Herter.
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Re: March Brown design drafts

Post by wsbailey » Tue Sep 11, 2018 2:01 am

Apparently, he made an exception for English hooks.
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