FREE: New Old Stock-ALOU Bait Tail 1 oz.Jig in Black, Green or Amber

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Vintage ALOU Tackle Mfg. Corp. 1 oz Bait Tail in Amber, Green or Black. New old Stock. Auction is for one, choice of color. Thank you for looking.
Brief History of ALOU Tackle Mfg Corp
Al Reinfelder was a great educator via his articles regarding fishing tactics. He also used articles to speak out strongly for striped bass conservation. In other articles he wrote about the human aspects of what it meant to be a true sportsman - what it meant to help a kid or help a beginner. He had a long time fishing partner named Lou Palmer. They were great bucktail jig and rigged eel fishermen. Around the time that soft plastics began getting nationwide attention as fishing lures in the early seventies, Al and Lou got the idea to create some soft plastic eel bodies to use in lieu of real eels. They experimented and had some of their original mentors and cronies help them test various prototypes on the bass. Realizing they had a marketable product, AL & LOU formed the ALOU Bait Company, operating out of their basements. Thus was the Alou eel born. The Bait Tail was born as a kind of "problem looking for a solution." Problem was they had a whole barrel of unusable soft plastic eel tails that were not riggable for whatever reasons. Rather than throw them away, they molded a fishhead-shaped leadhead. Then they cut the eel tails short, thereby making them into "bait tails." The soft plastic bait tails perfectly matched the size and shape of the fishhead jig, thereby making a seamless silhouette of a baitfish. Al & Lou were masters at fishing lighted bridges and docks at night. To them, the seamless silhouette of the Bait Tail was an important strike trigger for bridge fishing under lights. I am not aware that Alou made any other commercial lures. Within a short while, the Alou Company was sold to Abu-Garcia. .Al Reinfelder also wrote a great book, entitled "Fishing with the Bait Tail." It focuses on jig fishing around bridges, piers and rock formations. GIN is for all three(3)