Bucho
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As of monday, I am the proud owner of two behm spoons, together with a couple of Bachteufel ("creek devils"):
This spoon was designed by Alexander Behm. Behm was the kind of guy who heard of the Titanic desaster, committed himself to engineer an iceberg-warning device and came up with the invention of the depth sounder. He moved fom inland vienna to kiel for the deep water and opened a venture here. The beem spoon and the depth sounder are only two of 110 patents he held, most of them fishing stuff. Back in the day, spin-fishing widely meant that the lure was supposed to spin, which is exactly what this thing does. Depending on which of the multiple eyes you choose to fix your snap, it makes a more or less tight roll.
The guy who I traded these spoons for jigs said he nomally charges 2,50€ for a bachteufel but 12,50€ for a behm spoon: I find thats still a steal cause it is a badly sophisticated piece of work. Way to complicated for a lure in my opinion, no wonder it never made it into the shops.
These Bachteufel however are really something. They were invented in the late 40ties by a finesmith/lurecrafter and quickly earned themselfes a reputation as brown trout spoons that last till today although they haven`t been marketed in decades. I pulled them trough my tank and was impressed. While simple and fool-proof in design, they do everything a trout spoon is supposed to do.
This is in cm, Meister Schrader´s favorites are about 1,5" small:
From the same aera as the behm lures, these two classic spoons became so popular I don´t think there is a single german lure angler that hasn´t fished either one of them at one time or another:
The Heintz spoon was designed targeting hucho. That´s pretty much a lake trout that lives in a river. Maybe even bigger. At the beginning of the 20th century when these lures were designed and river´s weren´t crippled canals they reached up to 80 metric pounds. In today´s absence of hucho, the heintz is mostly known a s a northern pike lure, but in the tank it showed every charactaristic of a trout catcher. It has a very complex lureplay and seems to never do the same move twice.
the Effzett - originally F.Z. for Fritz Ziegenspeck however is a true blooded pike spoon.
Effzett and Heintz were so popular and effective that they formed the german ideom "verblinkert", meaning "spooned out", naming a mark that is pressured so hard by lures anglers that nothing but live bait would work any more.
This spoon was designed by Alexander Behm. Behm was the kind of guy who heard of the Titanic desaster, committed himself to engineer an iceberg-warning device and came up with the invention of the depth sounder. He moved fom inland vienna to kiel for the deep water and opened a venture here. The beem spoon and the depth sounder are only two of 110 patents he held, most of them fishing stuff. Back in the day, spin-fishing widely meant that the lure was supposed to spin, which is exactly what this thing does. Depending on which of the multiple eyes you choose to fix your snap, it makes a more or less tight roll.
The guy who I traded these spoons for jigs said he nomally charges 2,50€ for a bachteufel but 12,50€ for a behm spoon: I find thats still a steal cause it is a badly sophisticated piece of work. Way to complicated for a lure in my opinion, no wonder it never made it into the shops.
These Bachteufel however are really something. They were invented in the late 40ties by a finesmith/lurecrafter and quickly earned themselfes a reputation as brown trout spoons that last till today although they haven`t been marketed in decades. I pulled them trough my tank and was impressed. While simple and fool-proof in design, they do everything a trout spoon is supposed to do.
This is in cm, Meister Schrader´s favorites are about 1,5" small:
From the same aera as the behm lures, these two classic spoons became so popular I don´t think there is a single german lure angler that hasn´t fished either one of them at one time or another:
The Heintz spoon was designed targeting hucho. That´s pretty much a lake trout that lives in a river. Maybe even bigger. At the beginning of the 20th century when these lures were designed and river´s weren´t crippled canals they reached up to 80 metric pounds. In today´s absence of hucho, the heintz is mostly known a s a northern pike lure, but in the tank it showed every charactaristic of a trout catcher. It has a very complex lureplay and seems to never do the same move twice.
the Effzett - originally F.Z. for Fritz Ziegenspeck however is a true blooded pike spoon.
Effzett and Heintz were so popular and effective that they formed the german ideom "verblinkert", meaning "spooned out", naming a mark that is pressured so hard by lures anglers that nothing but live bait would work any more.
