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Little Cleo - Do They Still Make Em Like This ?


Afraz

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I was at an outpost fishing camp with my son (who was 13 years old at the time) and he snaged a lure on a leader.... It was one of these!.

 

You could imagine how wide his eyes were when bourght this up and saw it! :clapping:

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Here's the story behind it, taken from a Field & Stream article:

 

 

 

1) Little Cleo
She was a hootchie-kootchie girl who for 43 years had her dancer's image stamped on the back of a fishing lure. A New York City songwriter named Charlie Clark saw Little Cleo perform during the 1930s; when he developed this popular spoon with its wiggling, dancing action in 1953, she became its namesake. In 1996 a female employee of a major retailer took offense at the dancer's image on the lure, and for the sake of newfound political correctness, the image was removed by Acme Tackle of Rhode Island, the current manufacturer. Little Cleo spoons are thick in proportion to their surface area, so they fish relatively deep. This makes them a favorite trout spoon, but in sizes ranging from 1/16 to 11/4 ounce, they're suitable for everything from panfish to steelhead and stripers.
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