Word: spoonplug
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DIED. ELWOOD (BUCK) PERRY, 90, enterprising angler who invented structure fishing-- a system of attracting deepwater fish by mapping out the underlying contours of a body of water, which he said revealed the routes taken by traveling fish--and the bottom-bumping Spoonplug lure to facilitate it; in Taylorsville, N.C. Although he patented the lure in 1946, his Spoonplug business did not take off until 1957, when he caught hundreds of bass at a demonstration at supposedly "fished-out" Lake Marie, near Chicago...
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