Elwood L. Perry

[1] Perry earning a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics from Lenoir-Rhyne College and then taught and coached at Hickory High School.[1] In World War II he was a lieutenant-colonel in the United States Army Transportation Corps in the European theatre.In 1946 he invented the spoonplug[2][self-published source] and soon went into business selling the fishing lures manufactured by him and his first wife Marjorie.[3] It was an airplane pilot named Don Nichols who first convinced Perry to promote his Spoonplugs in Chicago.[3] The fishing lures and the book Spoonplugging are still sold by the privately held Buck Perry Company in Hickory, N.C. Mr. Perry was known to three generations of fishermen as Buck, with his name forever linked to the lure he patented in 1946, the Spoonplug.
Hickory, North CarolinaTaylorsville, North Carolinafishing lureLenoir-Rhyne CollegeHickory High SchoolWorld War IIUnited States Army Transportation CorpsLake MarieNational Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame