Acknowledgements:
- Bill (William) Blauser, noted vintage spring-loaded hook, lever hook & mechanized hook collector, expert & author, for always freely sharing his wealth of knowledge with me (& others) and for allowing several very nice hooks from his personal collection to find their way into my collection, and for his wonderful book (co-authored with the late Tim Mierzwa), “Spring-Loaded Fish Hooks, Traps & Lures”, which is still a ‘must have’ for any serious collector of vintage or antique “spring, lever & mechanized fishhooks” from this unique part of fishing tackle history ). I have 2 copies ……… I pretty much wore out my first one).
- Brandon Turner, vintage spring-loaded fish hook & spring-loaded fishing gaff/gig collector (as well as a very accomplished guitarist), for freely sharing his knowledge & scans from his collection with me, and for his amazing generosity in loaning me a hard-to-find spring-loaded fish hook from his collection, so I could photograph it for one of my proposed articles (& for later making the trade that enabled that hook to become a permanent part of a very probable “One of a Kind” grouping in my own “Spring-Loaded Hook” collection).
- Steve Vernon, noted vintage & antique fishing reel collector, expert & author, who along with Bill Blauser & Terry MacDonald, was one of the prime motivators for me to begin writing my first vintage tackle article.