Posted January 28, 2015 5:40 pm by Comments

By HCom

Chummy Plummer

(AmmoLand.com) It was 1935 and a new hunting and fishing frontier was just opening up in North America. By the late 1940s sportswriters and sportscasters Jimmy Robinson, Art Mercier, Al Spiers & Ray Heady were scrambling to cover it. Fishing lure manufacturers like Lucky Strike, Harold Ensley, Virgil Ward and Dardevle’s Ed Eppinger wanted their bait to be the name behind the record-breaking trophies in this uncharted territory. Sportsman called it the “Lake of Dreams.”

“I wanted to belong to the most exclusive club in the hemisphere,” wrote Charles Elliot, Field Editor, Outdoor Life. Elliot recounts Chummy Plummer, third …read more

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