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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!
Hate to admit my age, but I have one of those maps too!!!! Mine prolly ain't that old tho!!! Lol
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This is funny as heck. My business partner gave me one about a year ago he had from when he tournament fished along time ago. It looks like it was in the Ark with Moses? You old guys !!Attachment 99251
Those were the days, you could have secrets back then.
I remember my first Lowrance flasher.....It ran on a couple of 6 volt lantern batteries.
Man I remeber my uncle finding places on Tibby with the flasher and marking em with a home made bouy, back off and go to casting. Wore some bass out, gadgets have come a long ways.
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!!
Geezers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you guys are a bunch of old geezers
yall do know that you dont have to stick your pole in the water to check the depth they got these things that are called depth finders.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by SlabLapper4sure
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rees Guide
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by Big H trucking
Being so you young, you can google it. LolQuote:
Originally Posted by ducker
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by ducker
I have the map for both Sardis and Enid, they were from the late '70s. Mine have a lot of spots marked, some are still good, but they are on the GPS now!Quote:
Originally Posted by SlabLapper4sure
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All the really cool kids still use flashers.
Wannabe...
Wish mine worked, gonna replace it before long.