Hooked On Creek Chubs: ; Charleston Man's Antique Fishing Lures Date Back to 1918

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A display case kept Ted Lanham's fingers from touching the fishing lures he saw long ago in that hardware store, but the lures eventually worked their hooks into his heart.

Lanham, 60, has spent most of his adult life collecting wooden, hand-painted plugs produced by the Creek Chub Bait Co. between 1911 and 1962.

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Hooked On Creek Chubs: ; Charleston Man's Antique Fishing Lures Date Back to 1918

"I fell in love with them as a kid, but I could never afford to buy them until I grew up and started making some money," says Lanham, a retired telephone worker from Charleston.

Now he owns more than 150 of them in a collection ...

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