Mitchell Reel Museum Discussion Group

SAW A LITTLE SPINNER LURE ON JOES OLD LURES MARKED MITCHELL.LOOKS LIKE THE MITCHELL LOGO TOO, ANYONE KNOW WHEN THESE WERE MADE AND WHAT OTHER LURES THEY MADE, THANKS
CHARLIE

Hi Charlie,

Please see http://www.mitchellreelmuseum.com/index.php?option=com_easygallery&act=categories&cid=580&Itemid=72 for information on the lures sold by Garcia.

Regards, Wallace

As far as I know Mitchell only made themselves in France 2 "types" of lures :
1) the inline-spinners sold by Garcia as "Mimi" and "Can-can", they have the typical blades only used by Mitchell and patented as such, these come in a whole range of colors and sizes, some have the Mitchell name, some don't, in Europe these spinners sold also as "Pickwell" spinners. Discussed before on this forum :
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2) the Bracko-spoon (also patented by Mitchell) available in a few sizes and with yellow or red plastic "stabeliser-wing", the Bracko spoons I have seen always carry the Mitchell name. Some pics of this spoon I found on the internet posted below

The Garcia lures are a mix of many different brands (e.g. some of them are made by ABU-Sweden), including the above from Mitchell.

Note : Mitchell (as wholesale) has also sold other French lures e.g. Rublex, Ondex, etc, but only the Mimi, Can-can, Pickwell and Bracko are actually Mitchell products as such

Jean-Paul

Hi Randy,

Thanks for the nice pictures.
I was going to add the flopy lures but i couldn't find a mitchell logo on them ,only Rublex france.
Maybe someone knows the story behind this .

regards , Dries

Another pictures

Very cool photos of the catalogs and advertisements Liondor. You learn something new here every day, thats what keeps me interested. Keep up the good work! Dries - I did the same thing with the Flopy's so didn't include them. I have to be careful not to get distracted by all the Mitchell stuff. I try to stay focused on 300 and Salt Water 302's.

Thanks Chris! More stuff to be aware of!
It only makes sense that Mitchell or Garcia would market their own lures. I'll bet there are more that we don't know about yet.
Randy

Hi Randy,

Good to see you in the Forums. Seems the more I think I know about something, the less I really do know . I keep finding new (old) items all the time and with the help of other Mates, I never knew existed.

Hi Trevor,

I'm not sure if Mepps manufactured lures for Mitchell or Garcia Mitchell but I think your right, some of the lure characteristics are similar - particularly the bodies of some of the spinners. I do know that ABU of Sweden made many of the lures for Garcia Mitchell. And Rublex made some for Mitchell as previously stated by Christian. Perhaps some of our other Mates may have some additional insight??

Regards,
Chris

Hi Mates,

I got tired of the Garcia Lure card/displays taking up room on my counter tops so decided to mount and frame them to hang on the wall of the reel room.





I think they display nicely and now have my counter space back to add more Mitchell Reels

Regards,
Chris

Hi Chris,

Those are nice Charles Garcia dealer cards you have framed.

As to your Garcia Corp ABU-Reflex dealer card though, unfotunately the spinners mounted do not belong on that card. This is not something one would expect a Mitchell collector to know, so I may be getting off topic. However, since it's posted here, I thought you and others would appreciate knowing.

Garcia did not ever sell any Reflex spinners with foil on the blade; maybe post 1981 Abu Garcia did. The only brown Reflex that Garcia ever sold was in the Fishscale series made by ABU (Sweden) solely for the Garcia/US market. Garcia sold the brown Fishscale 1964-66 (the other members of that series, however, were sold 1964-76).

Your dealer card has "Brown/Silver No. 7544" printed on it, which matches the brown Fishscale number and brown/silver blade shown in the 1964 Garcia Annual (see below). I have included a blister card below for a better image of the spinner (on a single card apparently the number becomes 7644).

Also, your dealer card has "LURE-LOCK Snap Swivel" printed on it (yet no snap swivels are actually attached). I have attached another 1964 page to show that snap swivel by Garcia. Plus, don't those mounted spinners look big for 1/4 oz?

John

Syd,

Indeed!

Not by Mitchell (yet sold by Garcia, but maybe still slightly off topic for this forum), however, a highly successful lure.

Nearly 18 million sold in the US by early 1974 (stated in ad below).

John

Hey Chris,

NP. So glad to see you back.

A couple of comments.

What I know about Mitchell spinners exported to the US (based on Garcia Catalogs) I recently posted here: http://www.mitchellreelmuseum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=5370&sid=96298525462701dfb46dcaa709020308
I think we would need French mates to tell us more about the history of these spinners in France.

If you (or others) ever go for historical accuracy on such an ABU Reflex Spinner Garcia Corp dealer card (aka easel or display card), I'd like to share what I recently observed on other such 1/4 oz cards of that era. The spinners were mounted somewhat diagonally (not vertically as you have) - the treble hook was inserted under a straight line from the adjacent (next right) spinner's shaft eyelet. This had the effect of displaying both the body and the convex side (exterior surface) of the hanging spinner blade. (That said, this was not the case for all Garcia Corp. dealer cards.) The spinners were mounted onto the card by the eyelet of the shaft - the Lure-Lock snap-swivels (referred to on the card) hung down from the spinner eyelet.

John

I forgot to post the actual pictures of the lures. You see they are Voblex identical to Garcia's that Chris had posted. The picture has a certain "twist" to it.
Kim

More lures. I believe the yellow box is older than the blue one looking at the writing style. Haven't checked any catalogs due to hot weather and work.
Kim

Sorry, another picture.