:grin: 'Yup its Walter Arnold Yotey! For those unfamiliar with Walter Arnold, I believe he was the first commercial lure maker, offering lures for sale to trappers about 1920. One of Walter's outstanding contributions to the trapping trade was the introduction of exoctic musks for use in lure formulation. Walter worked in Boston for a short time for a perfume maker's supply importer. When Walter smelled Siberian deer musk, Ethiopian civet musk, ambergris, etc. he wondered if they would hold attraction to animals in the Maine Wilderness because they smelled so good and musky. Later, he introduced these musks to my Dad (Herb Lenon) who he shared ideas with and eventually Dad was the first to really put them to the test and use them in commercial lure formulation in the early 1930's. The exoctic imported musks are still used widely in lure formulations today. Walter also wrote and sold a complete set of trapping instruction books. Walter's true love was trapping the Maine wilderness and selling lures required being near a Post Office so he sold his lure business to Oscar Cronk in the early 60's and retired to the wilderness where he remained until his passing in the mid 80's. Ace :grin:
P.S. Abe Lincoln couldn't even trap mice at the Whitehouse Wacky! :roll:
