This funny, flippy-floppy silicone rubber fishing lure was found on the strandline at Whiteford Sands. It’s very realistic. It has great googly eyes and even the scales are painted on the body. It feels wet and sticky and wobbles when you pick it up. Originally it was lying amongst empty dark blue mussel shells on the wet sand. I couldn’t resist picking it up and taking it home. Now it resides in the bright blue bowl of beach-combed shells on my window sill.
Revision of a post first published 10 January 2010
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Thanks, Jan. Just a bit of nonsense ….but I like quirky things like that.
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I didn’t even know such things existed and I’d have taken it home too!
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Sweet! It looks a bit like the smelts I love to eat 🙂
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Hello, Viv. I wish I had thought to use the video function on the camera so I could have included an action shot of the way the fishing lure wibbles so inticingly.
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Hello, Amy Lynn. I’m not sure what a smelt would taste like but the lure was very similar in appearance and size to some delicious fresh sardines I ate in a harbourside restaurant in Chania (Crete) this summer.
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What a find! I love beach treasures like that. I wonder what happened in its previous life…
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I sometimes find the strangest things on the beach and, as you say, would love to know the story behind their ending up there.
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