Elwood L. Perry

Elwood "Buck" Lake Perry (15 July 1915 in Hickory, North Carolina – 12 August 2005 in Taylorsville, North Carolina) was the inventor of the form of fishing lure known as the spoonplug, along with being an author.

Perry earning a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics from Lenoir-Rhyne College and then taught and coached at Hickory High School. and soon went into business selling the fishing lures manufactured by him and his first wife Marjorie. Business was slow until 1957 when he had a major success in sales promotion.

It was an airplane pilot named Don Nichols who first convinced Perry to promote his Spoonplugs in Chicago. Perry and outdoor writer Tom McNally fished Lake Marie, which was reportedly fished out, and put a hurt on the fish. Word spread quickly and he began promotions throughout the upper Midwest.