That enables Zoom to only use fresh new plastic in their worms where some manufacturers might regrind and mix new plastic with old plastic. Zoom started in with Ed still working his other full-time business selling and repairing gaming machines.
In fact, Ed Chambers was the first person to bring poker machines into the state of Georgia. He hired Ed Wortham while Wortham was still in high school, and Chambers would work his full-time job all day, come home and eat dinner, and then the two of them would pour and package worms until midnight. Their first plastic mixer was a Mercury Thruster trolling motor in a gallon barrel hooked up to a car battery that was hooked up to a battery charger that was plugged into the wall.
My how things have changed. Along the way, Ed has been able to help other companies develop some very unique and influential products. He came up with the idea and talked with Lew Childress about making a v-spool on a reel to manage the line better on a baitcaster. Several other baits and ideas came from the brain of Chambers that he never got credit or money for, all because he was just exceptionally gifted at seeing a problem and figuring out how to solve it. Wortham was preparing for an upcoming night tournament this Saturday; Baxter had his boat up at the shop getting it gassed up on the way to work for running a camera boat at the Forrest Wood Cup.
Chambers was headed back to his WEC shop article on that coming soon to paint and work on crankbaits. When you buy a Zoom bait, you are buying a product that has been a labor of love for more than 33 years for Ed Chambers and Ed Wortham and now the folks working alongside those two.
The enthusiasm Chambers has for creating a new shape of plastic or carving a new crankbait or even changing the line pull on a lip of a bait is tangible. He was the behind-the-scenes guy. No matter who was running [Zoom], he had the final word on pretty much everything there. That was an amazing thing about him — with everything he did in the industry, he was behind the scenes. He never wanted the limelight. It was the company first and him second.
The main thing to me was how private he was — his private life meant more to him than anything else. He just enjoyed being on the water, learning and teaching and fishing — he just had a ball.
The bait business was kind of a fun thing for him, what he enjoyed doing. Every hard bait that went out of that shop, every single one, he hand-painted himself. He never took any of the glory, he just did it.
He was a unique individual in this industry. He was just one of those giants that walked softly and carried a big stick. He had a knack of figuring out the little things that made fish bite, first in plastics and later with his WEC crankbaits.
Truly sad to see another great innovator passing. I loved that man and he will be missed dearly. Ed developed Zoom baits and also WEC cranks , which are well-known, not-so-secret handmade by him cranks:.
That was all Ed Chambers. Ed also helped other companies — some of which could be considered competitors — because that was the kinda guy he was. K-Pink again:. So my only thoughts are from the outside looking in and might be obvious but:. And I, like literally millions of other bass-heads, caught and still catch fish on those baits.
You can read it a mile away, and when those logos started popping up on a bunch of the old Bassmaster Top guys — while Ed was giving them a ton of free baits — I thought: This guy knows how to do it. Couple thangs from a cool piece on Zoom by Wired2Scout :. So I wanted something that stood out…. It really stood out. Over here [on the Elites] you can run a long ways — you can do it. I kind of get weirded out — like did I miss blastoff, miss checkin…did my watch break or something? You know?
So here we are with Jason Christie, who fished a:. Jacob Powroznik gets Maxx HD shades. Pic contest to fish with Z. Asian carp were all over Kentucky Lake. Stray Casts show tomorrow night. NC: Gaston charity derby May Sho-nuff Newell will sell Pure Fishing brands. Dean Rojas uses a double Palomar for frowgs. I guess it was about being in the right multiple places at the multiple right times multiple different times.
How happy does this frog look…that he just tried to eat a frog that looks exactly like him?? Dang cannibals…. They lack the gravitas to honor a man who made such an immeasurable impact.
A month or so ago, I assigned a writer to do a profile of Mr. Chambers and Zoom. He reached out to no avail. Now we know why. Chambers had become very ill — something called Mantle Cell Lymphoma — and the illness ultimately took his life. On the day Mr. Chambers died, I found myself in a tackle shop wandering through the baits and looking for something new and interesting. It reminded me of those days at Franklin Sports when everything from Zoom fit that description so perfectly — new and interesting.
In my garage, I have hundreds of bags of Zoom baits, and most of them are green pumpkin. I had a customer complain about having too much Zoom in the store. He blamed excessive advertising. Skip to content.
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