Henry O. Stanley (1829-1913) of Dixfield was Maine's longest serving Fisheries Commissioner. He also invented and manufactured four fishing lures: the Rangeley Spinner, State of Maine Spinner, the Stanley Aluminum Smelt, and the Cupsuptic Spinner. This article is an expanded version, with color illustrations, of Krohn’s Stanley article published by the Dixfield Historical Society in 2012. Krohn's article is followed by another authored by L. Hirsch that documents the discovery of Henry O. Stanley’s personal fishing tackle. Stanley’s tackle, more than 100 years after his death, was still relatively intact. Originals of the articles by Krohn and Hirsch are on file in Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine.

For more recent information about H. O. Stanley and his fishing lures, see Krohn and Hirsch (2018).