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I don't know how far back people started taking their own pictures, but this is one I came across that has my Great Grandma holding a crappie and I think a stringer of walleye and a basket and box full of crappie or some panfish? This is a pretty old picture. Anybody else have any "vintage" crappie photo's?
Now I know why I love to fish Crappie so much, it's in my blood.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...nnyCrappie.jpg
That is one cool pic,they really got duded up to fish back in the day.
heres one of my great grand father his wife and alot of close friends
with a haul of Crappie, from one of his early years trips. Not sure what lake they came from, but it could be Cherokee Lake Tn, since I remember him mentioning fishing there.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42...dPaknewhow.jpg
Here's where I remember starting my fishing - Red Gate Dock, Herrington Lake (Ky). This would have been in the late '50s, for me. Picture is probably from the early '50s. You can see the "lockers" along the sides of the marina, where people stored their fishing gear. Dock floated on 55gal metal drums, where one can be seen under the far right end of the dock. The "rental" boats are tied in front ... flatbottom wooden rowboats. We had a 10HP Johnson Seahorse outboard, that we put on these boats. We had no trolling motor ... that was me and a skuttle paddle :D
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42...ingtonLake.jpg
And here's my Grandfather and his fishing buddy, Lawrence (& wife, Beulah) ... showing off a Catfish, while standing on Red Gate Dock.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42...pascatfish.jpg
And here's my Grandfather - all ready to head out Crappie fishing:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42...randfather.jpg
The Red Gate Dock is collapsed, and being removed from the lake ... my Grandfather/Grandmother and Lawrence/Beulah have long passed ... but, my memories are not. Thanks to these people, this marina, and this lake ... fishing has kept me from going down the wrong path in life, and led me here.
Thanks for allowing me to share the memories of my fishing mentors .... luck2ya ... cp :cool:
Great pictures
Those are some awesome pics keep em comin.I gotta go diggin and find some if i can.
very cool thread... i love seeing that nostalgia.
What is the lady on the left holding? Looks like a huge fish on a stick. Thanks for sharing an awesome pic!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Bluegillfreak
looks like a paddlefish!?
i agree looks to be a spoonbill.
that is a shovel bill catfishQuote:
Originally Posted by Crappisaurusrex
I'm enjoying these, too. The Pier Restaurant at Reelfoot (Southshore Resort) has a lot of great old photos by the cash register. I always enjoy looking at those.
Those are awesome pictures and a lot of nice fish. Wish I had lived back in those days.
Great pics,especially the spoonbill.....wish my family had been the "outdoors" type.....amazing they could catch fish without glow jigs,graphite rods,and super braid lines :) guess they were just "lucky"
great pics......but, i'm surprised.....a thread called "old crappie pics" i figgered id see a pic of a crappie with a long white beard.lol i know some ofg you computer wizs can do it
It's not that they were luckier I don't think, but there were more fish in alot of lakes, and the fish were dumber. Now it's harder to fool them with all that old stuff... Well that's what I tell my wife when I'm buying some new kinda jigs or lures anyways.Quote:
Great pics,especially the spoonbill.....wish my family had been the "outdoors" type.....amazing they could catch fish without glow jigs,graphite rods,and super braid lines guess they were just "lucky"
Pictures from Sabine River, located around Negreet, Louisiana area around 1955. This area is now know as Toledo Bend
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...verCrappie.jpg
Thanks Glowgood!
not real sure of the year--prolly1980 or some where close to there
the young couple [ha] is my wife and I --with friends on Lake Peirce in Polk county fl.
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/7...epierceyo8.jpg
Looking at these pictures makes me wonder what people will be asking for picture-wise 50 years down the road. Wonder what pictures then will look like. Probably 3-D or something.
Great thread and Super Pictures!!
Picture of our 7 or 8 year old daughter in 1984 or 1985 at Norfork Lake with the 2-18" crappies she caught.
having grown up on the missippi river.i can tell you for sure,it a spoonbill catfish. These posts are great. brings back some great memories.:) :) :)
I've caught and released over 50 in the last few years that I caught in drainages off the Mississippi and Ross Barnett Spillway. They put up on heck of a fight when you get one over 20lbs. In the MS area we call them spoonbill catfish but they are closely related to the sturgeon not the catfish.
Just wanted to say that I've really enjoyed looking at the old fishing pics....keep them coming.
Long ago
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Same location but in the last couple of years.
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Old post card from when Reelfoot had a beach
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