Qld's lure history starts in the estuaries, mostly cast than trolled. Made tough for tough fish, from pioneer Eric Moller to innovative Alan Dolan, check out Qld's history in lure making.
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by TonyM » Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:51 pm
A few Reidys
Didn't know whether to put them in QLD or NT so as a QLD'er I made an executive decision!

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by Jenkins » Sun Aug 02, 2009 10:10 pm
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These are the first "mass produced" lures Jeff did.
Plastic NOT urathane.
He called it - Big Barra (I think)

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by Tagged » Mon Aug 03, 2009 6:26 am
Do they have metal bibs Jenkins ?
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by Goodoo » Mon Aug 03, 2009 9:24 am
The bibs are plastic Tagged, the same material as the body.
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by Tagged » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:44 am
These are the ones that broke easily, are they ?
So then the steel bibs are younger than these.
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by Goodoo » Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:14 am
I'm not 100% sure on the time line of these lures Tagged, but I think this was Reidys first attempt at mass producing moulded lures, so these are probably older than the steel bibbed lures.Jenkins would know more about it.
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by Jenkins » Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:39 pm
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You are right with that.
I was told these are the oldest moulded lure in australia.
I dont know where Bellbrooks were made so not sure if they were first or not.
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by TonyM » Mon Aug 03, 2009 5:11 pm
Thanks Goodoo and Jenkins, it's always great to learn more about a lures history.
Very interesting that those plastic bibbed models are supposedly earlier than the metal bibs (opposite what you'd normaly expect)
I'd really like to have an idea about the progression in how the name "Reidys" is printed differently on many of the lures. For instance there is five different styles of writing just in the ones I have posted above (plus those without the name) and I'm sure there are more.
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by Big_unit » Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:22 am
Reidy's Rubbers & Hardbodies
Wishart Siding, Stuart Highway,
Darwin, NT, 0800.
So as it stands Reidys are Territory lures, some people arent executive material allegedly.
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by Tagged » Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:27 pm
Reidy's belong in two states, Qld and NT, along with JaySea.
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by TonyM » Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:00 pm
Big_unit wrote:Reidy's Rubbers & Hardbodies
Wishart Siding, Stuart Highway,
Darwin, NT, 0800.
So as it stands Reidys are Territory lures, some people arent executive material allegedly.
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And QLD first I might add

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by TonyM » Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:24 pm
Now why would you say that Siegfried?
All I have to do now is find the time to pore through 30 years of magazines to figure out what's what in the
Reidys State of Origin Challenge!

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by SamTHorn » Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:04 am
I like those lures. They gave me a pretty great idea. I'll post them here in a bit.
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