Larry, I was going to hold off of questions, but ....... just cannot do it.
On the lighter side, I see that in almost all of your early wiggley models you had a red tail and an orange body. You used it for Stripers, Peacocks, Muskie, Tuna, etc.
Did you use that color just because it shows up so well on film, or did you find that that color option was just so good?