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“Around and around and around she goes, and where she stops only the big king knows!”
My fishing buddy for the morning, John McKessock’s favorite fishing phrase. He had just lowered the Shark 12-pound downrigger weight to the 80 foot level a few minutes earlier and now he was battling another Georgian bay king for the third time in just the last thirty minutes. Every time he lowered the lead and tackle, he got the same result, another silver Chinook and another battle royal.
Then came a transformation. First, as mostly cottage industries and then as big business, mid-west and Ontario tackle manufacturers began to blossom all around the Great Lakes. In fact, the boys from the east began to take over the Great Lakes’ tackle sales on the entire Great Lakes. Products like Walker, Big Jon and Cannon owned the downrigger trade. Spoon makers like Dreamweaver, Eppinger, Chuck’s, Moonshine, William’s, Northport, Northern King, Miller, Stinger and dozens more proved they could stamp out and paint spoons as good or better products than the boys in the west.
https://www.glangler.com/blogs/articles/the-rotating-flasher-darryl-choronzey
As I have known Darryl for many years, I had a FB Msg from him last Dec.
He said. We originally moved from Wiarton and bought the lake across from the O.S. airport and the old golf course that was beside us. Built a house on the lake . Sold after 10 years and then started the buy and sell from Point Abino and around for the last decades..I'm from Port Colborne/Crystal Beach and love the fishing down there and am looking to move back.
My fishing buddy for the morning, John McKessock’s favorite fishing phrase. He had just lowered the Shark 12-pound downrigger weight to the 80 foot level a few minutes earlier and now he was battling another Georgian bay king for the third time in just the last thirty minutes. Every time he lowered the lead and tackle, he got the same result, another silver Chinook and another battle royal.
Then came a transformation. First, as mostly cottage industries and then as big business, mid-west and Ontario tackle manufacturers began to blossom all around the Great Lakes. In fact, the boys from the east began to take over the Great Lakes’ tackle sales on the entire Great Lakes. Products like Walker, Big Jon and Cannon owned the downrigger trade. Spoon makers like Dreamweaver, Eppinger, Chuck’s, Moonshine, William’s, Northport, Northern King, Miller, Stinger and dozens more proved they could stamp out and paint spoons as good or better products than the boys in the west.
https://www.glangler.com/blogs/articles/the-rotating-flasher-darryl-choronzey
As I have known Darryl for many years, I had a FB Msg from him last Dec.
He said. We originally moved from Wiarton and bought the lake across from the O.S. airport and the old golf course that was beside us. Built a house on the lake . Sold after 10 years and then started the buy and sell from Point Abino and around for the last decades..I'm from Port Colborne/Crystal Beach and love the fishing down there and am looking to move back.
