Donaly Redfin Floating Bait

Extremely rare, with "Patent applied for by Jim Donaly Newark, N. J." appearing on the top label and a crisp illustration of the No. 57 Redfin Floating Bait. Perhaps the rarest of the early Donaly box

Scarce 4" woodpecker style surface bait, white with a red collar and hand painted belly fin detail, about VG+ with wear, a few chips and a replaced tail hook.

2 7/8", Jersey rigged, featuring Donaly's large marked aluminum spinner, orange/red back and white belly with black accents, VG+/Ex- (wear, hook marks, old over-varnish). The box grades VG/VG+ (wear,

Perhaps Donaly's rarest bait, 3 1/4", white with red hand painted gill marks, specially rigged rear single hook, original swivel with both aluminum flappers. Most likely unfished, but light tackle box

Finished in rare white body with wide hand painted red stripes and gill marks, with three nickel silver flashers and Donaly's large clip through belly cup hardware. Condition is about VG+, with genera

"Baby" 3 1/2" version, rigged with two weedless hooks, finished in red head luminous body, grading VG/VG+ due mostly to common small flakes to the luminous paint. The early yellow box is stamped 90.WM

Shakespeare Favorite Floating bait, frog spot, glass eyes, scarce bait, wear.

Includes a Moonlight #1 Baby Floating Bait, washer rigged with 2 weedless treble hooks (about VG+), and a no-eye South Bend Bass-Oreno, green scale, rigged with uncataloged removable single hooks (nea

Introduced in 1911, the Trout Bob is one of Moonlight's rarest flyrod size baits. Discontinued almost as soon as it was advertised, this "baby" No. 1 Floating Bait (just under 2" in length) comes in s

A very interesting variation of the Redfin Floater with two propellers and clearly the early work of Donaly. This very unusual prototype lure measures 3 1/2" and comes with staple rigged belly treble,

Striking early Immell Bait Co. floating minnow, the wood body measuring 3 5/8" with good white iris glass eyes, red painted center spinner (marked with the Nov 1, 1910 patent date), hand painted gill

An impressive early Immell Bait Co. floating minnow, the wood body measuring 4 3/4" with good white iris glass eyes, red painted center spinner (marked with the Nov 1, 1910 patent date), original doub

Jim Donaly Jersey Wow surface baits.

A rare 11 1/2" x 6 1/4" x 2 3/4" pictorial box, which once held a dozen individually boxed baits, retaining both its “Floating Injured Minnow Day-N-Night No. 1521” end labels, empty box, a

Extraordinary condition and color on this rare 4 1/8" pike-size bait, with blemish free white iris glass eyes, red painted center spinner marked with the Nov 1, 1910 patent date, and finished in green

Early floating minnow finished in rarely seen aluminum with a red back, the wood body measuring 3 3/4", with good white iris glass eyes, red painted center spinner (marked with the Nov 1, 1910 patent

From the Colorado Floating Moth Co., one of the smallest sizes of this elusive bait, finished in "Professor", the only pattern with yellow used on the body. The celluloid wings, 1 1/4" wide, have vivi

From the infamous group of thirty five lures discovered in a New Jersey carriage house some twenty five years ago known as the "Carriage House Find" this is quite possibly one of James Donaly's person

With a 3/4" wingspan and a 3/4" body this colorful flyrod bait is in Excellent plus condition with no noteworthy flaws.

With a 2 1/4" wingspan and 7/8" body this colorful flyrod bait is in Excellent plus condition with no noteworthy flaws.

Short production bait in tough white with red head and flitter, good glass eyes, toilet seat belly hanger, flakes on the belly weight and at the tail so VG+/Ex- condition, nicer than most.

One of Shakespeare's rarest baits, measuring 5 1/2" in length and finished in white body with blue head. Rigged with see-through plate hardware, this large 5 hook minnow is VG/VG+ with wear, hook mark

Nice pair of boxed baits from James Heddon's Sons, including an excellent condition #9509M Floating Vamp Spook, pike scale in the patent applied for marked box with casting line ad insert, and an uncl

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