Daily News | Family-owned bait & tackle stores, once full of worms and wisdom, have nearly disappeared in Philadelphia.
Photographs of people holding fish have faded, like memories, just beyond the front door of Brinkman’s Bait & Tackle Shop.
“We had a guy bring in a tuna that barely fit through the door. There was the carp guy who caught a piranha in Philly. We had the state record crappie weighed in there, but it’s been broken a few times since. There’s too many to remember,” said Bill Brinkman, who sold the shop in 2018. “A lot of those folks in those pictures are long gone.”
“I’m prepared to give you $400 now for the line spooler,” fisherman Max Rubinstein, 31, told a woman at the counter. The family, according to the store’s Facebook page, has decided not to keep Brinkman’s open and declined to comment Saturday amid the flurry of transactions.and a spiderweb of adjoining creeks, waterways where the young and old of every race spend weekends sitting on buckets and chairs, soaking worms and waiting for a tug on their fishing pole.
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