In an front page article, the explosion in bass fishing is discussed and the huge numbers of participants exposed. Fully one third of whom are ages 25-34. Number of anglers was flat at 35.2 million. Just more people to get the collecting bug in the next ten years. Auction, June 7, 1998.
Private sales continue to set record prices.
Granted, those duck decoy collectors are a different breed of cat, but let's look at lures relative to who may be collecting in the future. Maybe we should take a look at this situation from a positive perspective and why you should stay in the program regardless of prices based on new baby boomer collectors, higher prices, and retirement forces. Almost nightly, there are conversations on the national phone network between collectors about how high prices are now and much agonizing over when will they top out. The other night, a broker quoted me a really high price for a rare Heddon in the wood box. A couple of weeks before, a long term collector I spoke with on the phone said he had decided to get out of the hobby because it cost too much and no one wanted to just trade anymore.