With a lever pointing at numbers from 1 to 16 on top, user’s could focus on a landmark, then, with the lever, shift the view among landmarks recording two with their number, then return to that exact spot. Next is the Thomas Locator, marked “Patent Applied For,” made in Watertown, Minn. Then, you would have to line up two other landmarks with the Loca-Scope oriented east and west to find the spot. And you can’t wear it out.”Īngler’s peered through a window at two angled mirrors locating two landmarks, writing them on the pages provided while orienting the device north and south. It is an optically perfect, precision-built sighting instrument of practical help to every sportsman. Instructions state, “It was invented in answer to the oft-expressed desire of marking a location to which a sportsman desired to return. The first is a Loca-Scope, still in its original box, from National Sales, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn. The three items in the top left corner of the accompanying photo are arranged clockwise. Anglers back then talked about good spots. In addition, no one was teaching about structure. Laid out on a map from the State of Illinois in 1956 (back then it didn’t even show depths of the lake bottom or structure), an angler had to use tools like these, fish blindly or, more often, just cast to the bank. I just couldn’t live with myself taking advantage of other competitors with these very scarce tools that they don’t have a chance to own.” Tools of a very old trade This 1956 map is topped by many navigation and early fish finding devices of that era. It would be like taking candy from babies. No other competitor has these tools that locate and find the spots, measures depth, measures distances on maps, records barometric pressure, suggest productive lures and more. In presentations to various groups of anglers, we share these early artifacts, jokingly proclaiming, “I no longer fish tournaments as it wouldn’t be fair using these early fish finding instruments. They reveal the ideas designed to help anglers find fish and provide income to their makers. Over the 60 years I have collected early fishing items, we have also gathered early fish finding items, here and there, that have reached sufficient numbers to now share these interesting inventions. Meanwhile, the information about the early fish finding tools used to locate fish has been absent and under-appreciated. Early fish finding gear gave the first peek beneath the wavesĪs we study the evolution of fishing, most focus is on the early lures, reels and rods.
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