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Answers to Creek Chub Quiz #1:
1. 9500 Series - the spinning Injured Minnow started using this color in 1957.

2. Although Pikie (00) color was perhaps produced in a greater total quantity, it wasn't made on as many different models of CCBCO lures. Red/White was utilized on 74 different models until c.1960. Pikie color was painted on 57 models.

3. 1950

4. Two - Pollywog, Red/White.

5. The middle size #6600 series Dive Bomber (Kreeker).

6. There was a shortage of white cedar in the late 1950's. CCBCO could made 6-7 smaller lures with the same amount of wood used on these large baits, hence there was more profit in small lures.

7. One - the Bull Pup (F900-909).

8. The red border boxes held fly rod baits.

9. The rare #500 series Open Mouth Shiner box is seen in shades of lavender.

10. Dills, Heinzerling, Schulthess.

Answers to Creek Chub Quiz #2:
1. Eight: #5100, #5200, #5300, #5400, #5600, #5700, #6100, #6200. (Also, 2 Fly Rod Dingbat Series.)

2. Six - Two treble hooks instead of three on a regular #700 Pikie.

3. This is a tough one. The "National Recovery Administration", a Depression Era Government Office.

4. No. For instance, the company used the same cover from 1940-1951. CCBCO would purposely produce more catalogs than they needed for a particular year to get a quantity discount on printing costs. They often pasted a sticker with the current year over an older date. Updated prices were either entered by hand or in the form of an insert. 

5. Creek Chub's first line of lures were often too expensive for many anglers. A price of $1.00 ea. or more wasn't unusual. Shur Strikes were made to compete with other economy line baits.
 

6. A Canadian affiliate company: "Allcock, Laight & Westwood Co."

7. 1978 or 1979 is correct. The family sold the company in 1978. The new owners operated CCBCO into early 1979.

8. 1952

9. Most have three trebles instead of two on regular #8000 series.

10. Nope, the face of the Pop'N Dunk (when viewed from the side) is vertical. Whereas the top front edge of a Plunker and its bottom front edge are at an angle from each other.

Answers to Creek Chub Quiz #3:

1. 1925

2. Flexible Fins

3. b. A color named after a bait fish.

4. Casting lure according to the old CCBCo catalogs.

5. This lure was made from 1929-1960 with glass eyes but only one year with tack eyes - 1961.

6. #3700 series River Rustler although the lip was "inverted".

7. Seven

8. No. They copied lure designs from many companies plus some unique designs.

9. The rear treble hook on a Wiggle Wizard replaces a metal tail on the Baby Wigglefish.

10. a. Plunker

Answers to Creek Chub Quiz #4:

1. A metal spinner attached to a metal leader.

2. No

3. The "Flyrod Flexible Floating Feather Minnow".

4. A metal plate.

5. Kansas City, Missouri

6. #5000 Close Pin series.

7. #10 Blue & White - #22 White/Red Head/Nite-Glo.

8. Three

9. Hump Back profile and screw eye holding each treble. The #5800 series had the traditional late plunker shape and through wire rigging.

10. #3700 Series River Rustler.

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