Things we didn't buy...

Abercrombie & Fitch once sold bamboo travel rods that fit in a passport sized box. Now they hawk clothes to cool kids who probably haven't ever seen a fly rod. Can you imagine the ads they would have for fly rods if they sold them today? At $450 I seriously considered whipping out the plastic...

Much to the Editorial Trophy Wife's relief, I did not consider purchasing this copy of Izaac Walton's famous book. Note the price in the lower right...

Have any of these lying around?

If so you might have just paid for Junior's college education.

"That's nothing, really," Kotch said. "A buddy of mine paid $110,000 for one - a Haskell Muskie Minnow in the box. He sold it within a year. I think he tripled his money. I know the guy who bought it said he was offered $500,000 for it, but he wasn't going to sell it."

The 10-inch Haskell Minnow, designed by Riley Haskell of Painesville, is the rarest fishing lure in the world, according to the National Fishing Lure Collectors Club. It was the first casting plug to receive a patent, in 1859.