Herter's stuff....

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OK, I got the ball rolling with my reply to BJ...so what is
everyone's/anyone's favorite Herter's stuff, good, bad, or nonsensical,
fishing, hunting, or general sporting goods?

TC,
R


Decoy and duck boat paint. I still have some out there in the barn ( may
be dried up, haven't opened in years )

If I remember correctly, Herter's had a small catalog of just waterfowl
hunting stuff for several years after the big one stopped coming. I wasn't
much into fishing back then but I bought several hunting items from the old
catalogs ... mostly usable.

Bong! Flashback! I had a good friend, now dead, ( my kid is named after
him ) that was a genius at 'trick paint' on cars. He had one van he did
featured on the cover of that Sunday Parade magazine. He mixed Herter's
paints with some of his own and painted a 12ft duck boat for me. Using an
air brush he covered her with cattails and such, much like some modern photo
quality camo patterns you see now, .... but this was long before their time.
Damn she was a thing of beauty. She was christened "Mud Hen" and turned
human heads, but was ignored by ducks, wherever she went.

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I usually made an order using
my Christmas money to buy the "World's Greatest" lures and the "finest
hand crafted" gear at prices that even a kid could afford.

Some compared George Gherke to Herter.

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Scott
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Scott Seidman wrote:
Willi wrote in news:1329onni97pnt35
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I usually made an order using
my Christmas money to buy the "World's Greatest" lures and the "finest
hand crafted" gear at prices that even a kid could afford.


Some compared George Gherke to Herter.



George G. would have been highly flattered.

Willi

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OK, I got the ball rolling with my reply to BJ...so what is
everyone's/anyone's favorite Herter's stuff, good, bad, or nonsensical,
fishing, hunting, or general sporting goods?

TC,
R

Ahh Herters I still have some of the feathers etc I bought long ago when
starting out. Didn't have a clue back then exactly what I needed :0) That
hasn't changed much BTW. I bought my first and only tying vise from them.
Still doing yeoman service after about 35 years. Oh I've looked at others,
but never felt the need to "upgrade", but why waste the money on a new one
when the old one does all I need it to do?

I sure miss their catalogues though, made great reading during the winter
vacation from fishing.

--
Panzer

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:08:29 -0600, Willi wrote:

wrote:
OK, I got the ball rolling with my reply to BJ...so what is
everyone's/anyone's favorite Herter's stuff, good, bad, or nonsensical,
fishing, hunting, or general sporting goods?

TC,
R

Herter was a one of a kind! His catalogs fueled my daydreams when I was
a kid waiting for our annual fishing trip to Minnesota or Canada. Each
one was worn out before the next arrived. I usually made an order using
my Christmas money to buy the "World's Greatest" lures and the "finest
hand crafted" gear at prices that even a kid could afford. Some of the
stuff was complete garbage but most was serviceable and some was
excellent. However, there was no way to tell before you ordered it
because EVERYTHING was "THE BEST". In his fly tying book, there is much
pomp and hooey but if you look past it, it is full of good advice and
there are a couple gems where he was decades ahead of everyone else. The
hard part was picking out the good stuff.


Warren took George Gherke and me on a drift down the Madison just before
George died. While we were fishing a dropoff on the edge of a gravel
bar, I remarked to George that his online demeanor reminded me alot of
George Herter. He stated with a smile that no one had ever said that to
him but that Herter was his hero and had corresponded with him as a
child. He said he tried to emulate Herter in his business dealings as
well as his personal life.


For those of you that have read even one of the Herter catalogs or any
of the Herter books, I think this sheds some light on at least some of
George's behavior on ROFF.

Oh, Lordy, from what I know of both Georges, George Gehrke (at least
online) coulda been George Herter, Jr. Some years before is death, I
had a conversation either on ROFF or via email with ROFFians about GG
being like Herter - IIRC, you were part of it. Not long after I "met"
the ROFFian GG (I actually crossed paths with him pre-ROFF), I/we
thought his online shtick to be like Herter, which, again, IIRC, is what
brought about the conversation. I've always thought that down at the
core of things and while the both of them might have had a temper (might
not have, too...) and some definite, um, "ideas," both were sportsmen
with a some heart and brains...and in the case of GG, a stained
pocket... Of course, E veryone's MMV...

TC,
R

Willi

On 17 Apr 2007 07:06:50 -0700, BJ Conner
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On Apr 17, 5:48 am, wrote:
OK, I got the ball rolling with my reply to BJ...so what is
everyone's/anyone's favorite Herter's stuff, good, bad, or nonsensical,
fishing, hunting, or general sporting goods?

TC,
R

Hereter was the last place I bought parachute fly hooks. They had the
shank bent to form a regular eye and then backwards and then up 90
degrees to a "reqular" eye. that eye being 90 degrees to the shank.
I still have a lot of herters hooks. The parachute hooks I gave
away.
I had a surplus Mexican Mauser ( $18.95 for the barreled action) and a
Herters second stock ( $8.95) that was really sweet.
Herters had lots of good fly tying material ( and lots of gaudy stuff
as well ) that was cheap. The reason they went out of business is
they got in trouble for importing endagered species more than once.
When they went out business they had a small store in suburban
Minneapolis. They brought up lots of stuff from Waseca. I bought
probably 40,000 hooks for maby $20-25. I also bought 75 -80 sets of
reloading dies. All for not very popular calibers like 218 bee,
25-35, 6.5 sweedish, 9.3 x 65 etc. Not an 06, 270 or anything like
that in the lot.

Don't happen to have either a .256 Win Mag or a 6.4mm-30/40 Krag in
there somewhere, do ya?

TC,
R

Christian Herter was not related to George and the folks from
Minnesota.

On Apr 17, 9:21 am, wrote:
On 17 Apr 2007 07:06:50 -0700, BJ Conner
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On Apr 17, 5:48 am, wrote:
OK, I got the ball rolling with my reply to BJ...so what is
everyone's/anyone's favorite Herter's stuff, good, bad, or nonsensical,
fishing, hunting, or general sporting goods?

TC,
R

Hereter was the last place I bought parachute fly hooks. They had the
shank bent to form a regular eye and then backwards and then up 90
degrees to a "reqular" eye. that eye being 90 degrees to the shank.
I still have a lot of herters hooks. The parachute hooks I gave
away.
I had a surplus Mexican Mauser ( $18.95 for the barreled action) and a
Herters second stock ( $8.95) that was really sweet.
Herters had lots of good fly tying material ( and lots of gaudy stuff
as well ) that was cheap. The reason they went out of business is
they got in trouble for importing endagered species more than once.
When they went out business they had a small store in suburban
Minneapolis. They brought up lots of stuff from Waseca. I bought
probably 40,000 hooks for maby $20-25. I also bought 75 -80 sets of
reloading dies. All for not very popular calibers like 218 bee,
25-35, 6.5 sweedish, 9.3 x 65 etc. Not an 06, 270 or anything like
that in the lot.

Don't happen to have either a .256 Win Mag or a 6.4mm-30/40 Krag in
there somewhere, do ya?

TC,
R



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Sold em all at gun shows. Made money on all of them. Had at least
one 30-40.
Gerke is the guy I gave the parachute hooks to. I still have some
Model Perfect keel hooks. The size 4 make great smallmouth flys. I
can tie a little lead wire on them and get big flys to the bottom of
the Umpqa. I had some model something or other size 28 dry fly
hooks. I gave those away while I could still see them.
All the Herters hooks were made in England or Norway. None from Japan
or east of the Suez.

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Oh, Lordy, from what I know of both Georges, George Gehrke (at least
online) coulda been George Herter, Jr.
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TC,
R

When he was in his manic state, that assesment of GG applied even in person.
GG's home on the Snake was less than a half mile downstream from one of my
favorite Steelhead runs on the Snake, and in addition to meeting him several
times, we had several close aquaintences in common.

Bob Weinberger La Grande, OR

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:06:43 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
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wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
wrote:
OK, I got the ball rolling with my reply to BJ...so what is
everyone's/anyone's favorite Herter's stuff, good, bad, or nonsensical,
fishing, hunting, or general sporting goods?
Herter's was a little before my time. I was in a rod building
club in 7th grade and we all built spinning rods using Herter's
blanks, cork, reel seat, guides and thread. The Herter's catalog
was one-stop shopping for rod builders circa 1969.

Huh? You're MUCH older than me, and it wasn't before MY time.
Seriously, they were still producing the "George style" catalogs into,
IIRC, the mid-70s (definitely the early 70s). I think the name is still
around (it was a year or two ago), but it's about like A & F...well,
nothing in sporting goods is THAT bad, but...

And speaking of A & F....

By the time I started doing a lot of catalog shopping and buying
my own fishing gear Herter's was already out of business. I do
remember the Herter's catalog from the late 60's - early 70's but
the only time I remember actually using the catalog was that time
in 7th grade. A lot of folks have memories of some of the more
outlandish and "PT Barnumesque" aspects of the catalog but I don't
remember any of that.

I assume you're talking about Abercrombie and Fitch ? It's funny,
I was looking at old Hardy reels on eBay and a lot of the classic
lightweight series reels for sale were manufactred by Hardy for
Abercrombie and Fitch.

"Abercrombie and Fitch?" Never heard of them...are they friends of Don
Imus?

Yep, Abercrombie and Fitch.

And what's with this MUCH older crap ? Hell, I'm only 50.

Oh...um, er...sorry...

....gramps...

TC,
R

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:19:08 GMT, rw
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wrote:
OK, I got the ball rolling with my reply to BJ...so what is
everyone's/anyone's favorite Herter's stuff, good, bad, or nonsensical,
fishing, hunting, or general sporting goods?

I never had one, but I was always amused by their duckling harnesses
(used for muskie fishing).

A PETA favorite in the making...anyone interested in resurrecting them
for a little, um, street theater?

TC,
R
....I wonder what a baby seal harness for spotted owl hunting might
do...naturally, it would need to be trimmed in force-fed mink and be
packaged with steak tartare, fois gras, and veal recipes...