This little rant is in response to my mate Albert`s very eloquent rant in the thread, “The Poor Cousins”.



I really don`t know where to start on yet another perfect illustration of the lure collecting fraternity`s hypocrisy. As Albert stated on the comments made in this discussion, “some of which were quite sensible”. I totally agree, as anyone who bothered to enquire to the facts would agree.
Unfortunately, and I don`t know these people personally, but the other uninformed contributors vividly illustrate a point I have been talking about for years. We are not all mates as we pretend, we are however, great mates as long as we conform to the opinion of the current elite, if we don`t , we have rocks in our heads and deserve to be told so.
Let`s face it, some self-appointed know-all`s have made it clear, they have more right to decide what we should collect than we do.The price we should pay is even their decision as well. In this case a decision was made on a man who probably by now has his set of timber Stumpies, and wishes to have a yet rarer set of Plastic Stumpies. His decision I would think and not really a topic for public approval. Let`s not forget that there`s always someone who knows more than us. I may be wrong, but I think the person accused of having rocks in his head, has vastly more knowledge of Stumpies than most of the contributors.
Almost every day you see someone ask in a facebook post, are these collectable, ID and value. Believe it or not, they always get a definitive answer on all of the above. I didn`t realise when I started collecting lures seriously that there were so many people out there who knew so f**king much. All we had to rely on years ago was our old legend “Frankie”




Of course the seller and ebay got they usual share of condemnation.






The lure hub oz bullshit deserves it`s own post, sorry Gus, we`ll get to that..
