Who: More than 200 antique dealers. What else: Doll repair, crystal and china repair, free fishing tackle appraisals, book signings by local authors and a children’s scavenger hunt.

Buying tackle at a good price is the best and smartest way to turn a profit in aged fishing gear. Purchasing an old metal tackle box at a garage sale for $10, and discovering a few plugs inside in ...

The thought "You never know what you might find for sale on eBay" is never truer than when it comes to fishing lures. I had a ...

When it comes to antique fishing lures and other tackle, I’m more of an accumulator than a collector. If I see something cool for short money at a tag sale, then I’ll latch on to it.

Is your grandpa’s old tackle box stashed somewhere in the attic? Might those dusty containers in the basement house the fishing lures Uncle Fred ... SERIOUS COLLECTORS LURED BY VINTAGE ...

Mann, of Gresham, Ore., has set up his Outback Angler antique and collectible fishing tackle display at this year's Rimrock Subaru/ Billings Gazette MORE show at the Expo Center at MetraPark.

Your old tackle box might turn out to be more than a tangled mess of snagged fishing line and rusty hooks. It could be a cash box. When Terry McBurney of Ada waded through five dirty tackle boxes ...

Collecting old fishing tackle is a great hobby. This is a selection of tackle dating as far back as the 1880s. The bamboo fly rod was refinished by me and is from the 1920s.

In 2007, Lang's Auction of Waterville, N.Y., sold an 1859 side-mount fly reel made by gun maker William Billinghurst for $40,000, believed to be the highest price ever for a fishing reel at ...

The state's longest-running antique fishing tackle show will be held Oct. 2 in Lockport. For 31 years, a local group of fishing tackle collectors have catered to anyone interested in ...

Scott Platt of Kansas City caught a big bass the old-fashioned way in early May. Fishing with antique tackle on a small conservation area lake in northwest Missouri, he landed a largemouth that ...

Who knows what riches might lurk in the back corner of your old fishing tackle box? Hobart Manns knows. And now, so does a Billings fisherman. Mann, of Gresham, Ore., has set up his Outback Angler ...