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I don't have many pics from the good ol days but have a few that I want to share. Dates are shown on bottom. My dad with a slab caught the year after I was born and a couple of me from the 70's. These fish were caught in Minnesota, my first trips out of state. I'd like to see more old pics so if you have some post them up.
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Nice :highfive
Very cool Jim. Never thought we’d say back in the day in the 70’s.
Mighty fine catches
Very nice. Thanks for sharing the memories
Great pics. Thanks for sharing.
Great Pic's Jim. I personally don't have any to share, but do enjoy others photo's.
Cool pics and great memories! Wish I had some photos from the old days of the 80s. Most all outdoor polaroids we're lost in a house fire early 90s. On another note, you look just like your Dad. If not for the dates and story background I would just assume you were the same person.
I got one from about 50 years ago , sure was skinny back then, will see if I can find it
In the 1973 photo I don't think I weighed 100 lbs. Talk about bird legs.
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First pic is with my godfather back in the early 80’s. Second is with my oldest brother. He was the fishing legend in our area for at least 50 years. I’m proud to keep the family legacy going.
Somewhere in my boxes of pictures I have one of my grandpa, who was born in 1906, when he was maybe 12 or 13 standing in the local river holding a stringer of smallmouth bass. I need to dig it out and share it.
I was 165 give or take it seemed like forever , but to be sure my frame made me look more like 95 ......:RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by JUNGLEJIMJIGS
Awesome pictures Guys, very good to see Crappie fishing is in the blood with y'all.
Rockin a Bourea game, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and a fishing hat. That’s the true pictures of the 1970s. That takes me back a while.
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On the trip to Minnesota in 1974 I made the trip myself and took a Greyhound bus to Duluth, Minnesota where I was picked up by my dad's friends mom and aunt who had a summer home there complete with a two hole outhouse. I showered there in the front yard by water hose heated by the sun. Had to be quick, well water was really cold. Spent two weeks there, best time of my life at the time.
thanks for the pictures and ideas Jim. reminded me of the times I and my cousin would stay with my grandparents and I would go over to a cousins house where they had a pond with huge bass in it. Caught a bigun with my zebco 202 and a Gaddabout Gaddis lure I had sent away for. I have a pic somewhere of it and my grandpa grabbed it out of my hand and immediately fileted it and had it for dinner. They were so proud.
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My "Pa" (Grandfather) and the catch he, my "Nannie" (Grandmother), and the couple they fished with came home with from a trip to (I believe) Dale Hollow.
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"Pa" getting ready to head out.
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"Pa" and the couple that were my grandparents hunting, fishing, Old Maid playing, church going BFF's. Taken on the Red Gate Marina dock on Herrington lake.
My Grandparents were my fishing mentors, and we spent a lot of time in those rental wooden row boats ... 10hp Johnson on the back ... fishing for Crappie !! :heart
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Yea, that's me kycreek at 10 years old crappie fishing a tree top with my mom & dad in 1972. My parents & and an Aunt/Uncle (Dad's brother) started/owned/operated a small campground & bait shop here along the Ohio river where I still live today 50 years after this picture was taken. We had 3 johnboats at the time that were rented for 50cents a day. LOL I still own one of them.
Dad passed away from a heart attack about 2 months after this picture was taken making this one of my favorite old pics. The campground eventually was sold after his passing, but it is still in operation today.
I fished with that same uncle up until this past year when at the ripe old age of 89 it just isn't safe for him to be in the boat any longer. I'm so grateful that we have shared so many good memories together on the water. Talked to him last night and filled him in on yesterday's catch. He always want to hear every detail & is still mentally sharp. He still gets out occasionally with a family friend who has a pontoon. So, I'm thankful for that.
I surely wish Dad could have lived & been a part of our lives. Who knows how things would have turned out.
Take your kids fishing my friends. You just never know. You will never regret it.