Likes Likes:  0
Thanks Thanks:  0
HaHa HaHa:  0
Page 2 of 3 FirstFirst 123 LastLast
Results 11 to 20 of 23

Thread: Diging Through

  1. #11
    Join Date
    Mar 2011
    Location
    MS
    Posts
    28,841
    Post Thanks / Like

    Default


    Quote Originally Posted by SlabLapper4sure View Post
    That's about what we fished out of was a ark made of wood and creosoaked to make it waterproof!My grandad made that boat himself and commercial fished Sardis for catfish!!
    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.
    1990 Stratos 285 Pro 200 HP Merc
    SpyderLok Rod Holders
    Proud Member of Team Watch The Finger!!!
    (662) 458-8925

  2. #12
    Join Date
    Dec 2011
    Location
    Louisville, Mississippi, United States
    Posts
    7,822
    Post Thanks / Like

    Default

    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!
    Quote Originally Posted by SlabLapper4sure View Post
    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!
    The two best times to fish (when it's raining & when it aint). Proud member of team GitDaFeeshGrease

  3. #13
    Cray's Avatar
    Cray is offline Crappie.com 2019 Man of Year, Supermod & Moderator of the Mechanics Forum * Crappie.com Supporter
    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Location
    Byhalia,Mississippi
    Posts
    17,343
    Post Thanks / Like

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Rees Guide View Post
    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.
    Proud Member of Team Geezer
    Charlie Weaver USN/ENC 1965-1979




  4. #14
    Cray's Avatar
    Cray is offline Crappie.com 2019 Man of Year, Supermod & Moderator of the Mechanics Forum * Crappie.com Supporter
    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Location
    Byhalia,Mississippi
    Posts
    17,343
    Post Thanks / Like

    Default

    Got one of them maps somewhere in the attic and got one of those old Green Box Lowrance flashers that is like brand new.
    Proud Member of Team Geezer
    Charlie Weaver USN/ENC 1965-1979




  5. #15
    Join Date
    Dec 2011
    Location
    Southaven, Mississippi, United States
    Posts
    5,903
    Post Thanks / Like

    Default

    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!!
    OLD GEEZER FISHERMEN NEVER DIE, THEY JUST SMELL THAT WAY!!
    Member of TEAM GEEZER
    SpyderLok Rod Holders

  6. #16
    Join Date
    Dec 2011
    Location
    Southaven, Mississippi, United States
    Posts
    5,903
    Post Thanks / Like

    Default

    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!!!
    OLD GEEZER FISHERMEN NEVER DIE, THEY JUST SMELL THAT WAY!!
    Member of TEAM GEEZER
    SpyderLok Rod Holders

  7. #17
    Join Date
    Apr 2011
    Location
    Horn lake, MS
    Posts
    3,232
    Post Thanks / Like

    Default

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

  8. #18
    Join Date
    Aug 2008
    Location
    hushpuckena,ms 38774
    Posts
    11,161
    Post Thanks / Like

    Default

    May well be GEEZERS but where would you be if it wernt for a geezer!
    Quote Originally Posted by Big H trucking View Post
    Geezers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    PROUD MEMBER OF TEAM GEEZER
    Sales and service on Directv and Wildblue internet
    Owner of Sickle Jigs.
    Slab Bandit Pro Staff

  9. #19
    Join Date
    Feb 2010
    Location
    Arkansas
    Posts
    23,375
    Post Thanks / Like

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by ducker View Post
    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


    Big River Marine
    Bill Burnett
    870-635-0202

    We offer Xpress, Excel, and Alweld Boats. Yamaha, Suzuki, Evinrude, and Tohatsu/Nissan Engines.
    Pro Staff, Southern Pro Tackle and Ozark Rods.
    Member, Tri-State Crappie Anglers
    We only sell the Best. Ranger, Xpress, Yamaha, Suzuki, Tohatsu.

  10. #20
    Cray's Avatar
    Cray is offline Crappie.com 2019 Man of Year, Supermod & Moderator of the Mechanics Forum * Crappie.com Supporter
    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Location
    Byhalia,Mississippi
    Posts
    17,343
    Post Thanks / Like

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by ducker View Post
    Aight y'all help this youngin out here! What the h e double hockey sticks is a flasher?
    Box with a round dial and depth numbers imprinted around face. Electric motor spins arm with a red bulb on end.it would light up at zero and whatever depth transducer said. Anything in-between was fish or limbs. Had to learn to tell the difference. Could pick up structure and very accurate but had to spend a lot oof time on water to learn to use. No recording or play back.then they came out with a paper graph that had a roll of special paper and a stylus like a sizemagraph that drew pictures of lake bottom and structure. Not many people could afford them back in the 70,s if I remember right they were about a 1000 bucks back when they first came out. Still have a few guys that still use them today.
    Proud Member of Team Geezer
    Charlie Weaver USN/ENC 1965-1979




Page 2 of 3 FirstFirst 123 LastLast

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  

BACK TO TOP