As a kid, I never went fishing much. But fishing lures? My father did some work for Heddon’s – the old fishing lure company in Dowagiac, Michigan. He made wax-dipped paper tubes for storing fishing rods. I would sometimes accompany him on trips to Dowagiac and the nice Heddon folks would always give me a few lures to take home. Sooooo. . . . I acquired a fair number of old lures. And I was bequeathed my great uncle’s fishing tackle box. With a few lures from the 1930’s. Fast forward to today. . . . .

Donna and I are doing some downsizing of “stuff.” No plans to move. But pondering the next chapter. My tackle box is jammed to the gills – no pun intended – with fishing stuff. One fellow offered me a “hundred bucks or so” for the lot. And I thought to myself – I can do better than that. Then a good friend suggested I check out The Angling Marketplace which has monthly auctions for lures, reels, rods and anything related to angling. I did and promptly signed up. Over the course of four auctions, I have netted over $450(!).

My collection of lures is slowly dwindling but so far so good. The process is pretty easy so I will probably give it another go. Oh – and my name on the site? “Topwater.”