Heritage Fishing Tackle

[MikePal]

I had an idea while doing spring cleaning of my tackle box that it might be interesting to see some of the Heritage /Antique handme down tackle that other guys have collected thru the years.

For example; I inherited my fathers tackle box and I found a pair of metal (brass?) bobbers in it. I've been fishing since the early 60's and I had never seen these, so they predate that era, at least in southern Ont. Maybe they were more common on the East coast.

If anyone knows about these let me know....if you have heritage tackle that us old guys may enjoy seeing again, post up a pic...

[Bo D]

Mike is that a $1 coin beside them. If so they are huge. Can't imagine what they were used for or how they were used. Been fishing a long time and have seen numerous collections but never seen anything like that...

Pete

[sawbill]

Could they be floats for a net?

[sambo]

They look like carb floats

[MikePal]

Could they be floats for a net?

Makes me wonder if they were used for something like that. They were in the main fishing tackle box so I assumed they were bobbers.

[MikePal]

Mike is that a $1 coin beside them. If so they are huge.

I have red/white ones in my box that are bigger, use them on rough water.

[oaknut]

Makes me wonder if they were used for something like that. They were in the main fishing tackle box so I assumed they were bobbers.

I do believe they are gill net floats. Extremely old ones!

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[fishermccann]

Can you take them apart , unscrew them. Is there something inside? I had something similar but half that size, it held matches, sort of waterproof.

[MikePal]

I do believe they are gill net floats. Extremely old ones!

Google has a few pics of Gill floats, this is one of aluminum ones from the 30's. You may be right, similar in appearance.

[jlmorgan]

Look like net corks to me, just can't imagine brass though, would be awful expensive to outfit with brass corks. I have seen wood, cork, plastic and aluminium like the ones shown.