![]() ![]() ![]() In a blow to Hood River’s improving economy - and, to a certain extent, its pride - Jensen last fall sold his fishing-lure business and its brand names to the world’s leading luremaker, the Finnish company Rapala, which in June will start making Luhr Jensen lures in a four-story concrete factory in southern China. Soon his family’s 74- year-old Hood River company will be but a memory, too. Peanut figurine, a 1950s Yashica camera, a cigarette lighter adorned with the image of Mao Tse Tung.Įach item, says the nostalgic president of fishing-gear manufacturer Luhr Jensen & Sons, holds a cherished memory. Behind him sit bookshelves chock full of random bric-a-brac: a plastic Mr. ![]() I know they are used in River Fishing in the Pacific NW.From his desk, Phil Jensen can look out across the Columbia River to the very spot where he and his father cast for salmon in the 1940s. The flat fish my also be a good bait for drift boat fishing and back trolling where a slower presentation is required. Some things just were meant to run SLOOOOOWER. It may be that tweaking these plugs will not work. A lot of the NW anglers uses these flatfish with Herring and Sardines on them. If I can get these flatfish to perform our normal Salmon speeds, I think they will work as well as a J-Plug for Salmon. If the holes don't work, I can always plug them. Even using the original attaching point, these holes should make them more speed tolerant. I thought I would put a bead chain swivel through the drilled hole with a split ring to keep it from pulling through then attach the line to the bead chain. I was thinking about trying to drill one or two holes down from the attaching point. This attaching point creates a very large bill, that will make it dive. What makes the Flatfish less speed tolerant is where the line attaches. ![]()
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