Captain John’s Fishing Tackle Price Guide (Paperback)
Online dealers and collectors will delight in reeling in Captain John’s Fishing Tackle Price Guide. Captain John, a.k.a. John Kolbeck, has been in the online fishing business for over 10 years and has sold thousands of items over the Internet ‘Captain John’ still spends up to 70 hours each week online buying and selling. His diligent record keeping has produced an amazing database of items and their actual selling prices which he and co-author Russell E. Lewis (a.k.a. ‘findingo’ and author of Modern Fishing Lure Collectibles, Volumes 1 and 2) have compiled into this handy reference guide. Each listing in the book contains the name, model, description, maker, condition, selling price, and date of sale. There are over 10,000 listings, of which over 7,000 are lures. There are also rods, reels, tackle boxes, catalogs and vintage advertisements, and over 1,000 miscellaneous items. All this data in one easy-to-use guide allows readers to see sales trends and compare lure makes, (more…)
July 17th, 2009
I don’t know a lot about fishing equipment, but my dad does. I bought this book for him as a gift and he loved it.