Thread: Diging Through

i didn't know you knew about sauger fishing, that is something i've been curious about since my first trip to pickwick 10yrs ago. we may have to get together sometime, that is a very neat map, wouldn't it be great to have an old glass top coffee table with a map like that under the glass and some old fishing pics here and there on it!

Originally Posted by SlabLapper4sure

Was out in the shop going through some old tackle boxes I used for Pickwick back when I sauger fished a lot and I found this old topo map of Sardis in a old shoe box. It has to be at least 37 years old.They really put some detail into these things back then.Bet most all on here is gone or silted in in all those years.Just thought it was pretty cool!What a man couldn't do back then with a flasher, a compess, and a map like this!

Originally Posted by Rees Guide

We had one boat that was 2 old 50 something model car hoods welded together, man that thing was heavy but it was steady and no telling the fesh that got caught out of it.

Rees, when I was a kid I fished with a older fellow had one of them made from 2 1948 Buick hoods welded together. Hauled it in the bed of a 1937 ford pickup. Good times for sure.

Got one of them maps somewhere in the attic and got one of those old Green Box Lowrance flashers that is like brand new.

I had a Eagle Silent Sixty on the last boat that I had. Sold that boat to a guy I work with. It was a portable model with a suctioncup ducer. Read to 120 ft.I took it and mounted it on a gimble mount and got me a kickup bracket and mounted it permanate.That unit has never been serviced and the guy that has it now still uses it to navigate with!I bought it in the late 70's.Feesh, I would love to give them saugers a try again. It's been a while but I used to go every year. Caught a ton of stripes, cats ,smallies,and crappie off them dam walls.I remember a friend and I went sauger fishin in 7 degrees one time. Boy was we crazy. Had them handwarmers that you break and chemicals combined to make heat. Had 1 in each boot and 1 in each glove, and couldn't tell they were even workin till we finally got back to the truck.I think we would have caught a few fish if all the turbines had not been runnin!There was just too much current. I love that Tennessee River!!Used to rent a cabin at Bellises Boatell and fish all weekend!Those were some good times there. Yep,I'm a Geezer, but I'm a wealth of fishin knowledge that was learned the hard way!!I wouldn't change a thing!!Mostly full of BS!!

Cray, you need to break that thing out and use it. Won't nothing find a break or breakline more accurate than a flasher. When you see that light fall or rise, you know you have passed directly over it.Not like a graph where you have to guess where the break happened.I hit a 3 lb. bass on the head with a rubber jig one time and caught the fish. It was directly under the boat suspended in a creek channel. I dropped the jig and watched it fall on my flasher and when it got down to the line I was reading I felt it hit something the next thing I knew I was fighting a bass.Wish I had mine back!!!

Aight y'all help this youngin out here! What the h e double hockey sticks is a flasher?

May well be GEEZERS but where would you be if it wernt for a geezer!

Originally Posted by Big H trucking

Geezers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by ducker

Aight y'all help this youngin out here! What the h e double hockey sticks is a flasher?

Being so you young, you can google it. Lol


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