Vintage Chum - 50's Striper Style
Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 12:00AM
El Guapo in Legends, Vintage, frank woolner, vintage chum

From Dr. Sam Snyder.

Came accross this pic in Gray's Sporting Journal, Vol 1, Issue 4, Summer 1976.
It wasn't caught on a fly, but still a sweet pic of Frank Woolner posing with a huge striper against his fly-ass fishing mobile. I think the pic is from the 50s, or so it says.

Of course Sam's e-mail got me curious about the man behind the fly-ass cammo beach buggy.

Frank Woolner was a World War Two combat correspondent who went on to become a nationally recognized expert on ocean and fresh-water sport fishing. He was also a newspaper columnist; the Editor of Salt Water Sportsman Magazine of Boston for over twenty years; and wrote or co-wrote seven books on fishing and hunting. He also co-hosted a weekly TV show in the Boston area for a number of years with his brother Jack called "Woolner Brothers Outdoors."

The man lived large. LINK 

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