Saturday, January 7, 2012

Coldwater Bait Company

 The Coldwater Bait Company- Coldwater , Michigan is best known among antique tackle collectors for their line of  early wooden plugs. Such names the Coldwater Wiggler ,King, Helldiver, Ghost and Skipper come to mind. Coldwater Bait Company  also sold a line of fishing floats and display equipment such as rod stands. Their line of rod displays were bought by many of the large well known Tackle manufacturers of the day including Shakespeare, Heddon , Horrocks & Ibbottson, and many small sporting goods stores and bait & tackle shops. If any of you have an early example of one of their floats with provenance, I'd love to see a picture of it.