The Good Old Days

[arkansasbasser]

This old photo was of me and my daughter back in the late 80's. Check out the farmer Jones threads. The bass on the left is white because I had frozen him the day before. He was 8.5 lbs and I had him mounted. The 3 on the right were caught in the same hole the next day. All were over 6 lbs. Sure miss my 82' CJ7.

You have to remember, back in those days, catch and release was just beginning to be talked about. In the south, hardly anyone does. You are just brought up that way. You eat what you catch. Of course, there are lots more bass in the south and they grow way quicker there too. People there would think that you had lost your mind if they saw you throwing back nice fish like that. It's different up here. I don't keep the LM and only SM to 2 lbs here in the PNW. And I'm good with that.


http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Bass8.jpg

[TTFishon]

http://i456.photobucket.com/albums/qq290/tedfishmon/100_2002.jpg (http://s456.photobucket.com/albums/qq290/tedfishmon/?action=view&current=100_2002.jpg) This too is from the 80's. My first big bass ha ha.

[bad habit]

those are cool pics, nice jeep

[arkansasbasser]

This too is from the 80's. My first big bass ha ha. Rooster tail? The smile says it all!

[TTFishon]

Yep, that's a roostertail back when the blades use to spin. I remember following a drainage ditch about a mile that led me right to the pond I caught that fish in. I found the pond and went home to get my fishing stuff went back and caught that fish. How about the fish in your pic? Where did you catch them at?

[arkansasbasser]

Yep, that's a roostertail back when the blades use to spin. I remember following a drainage ditch about a mile that led me right to the pond I caught that fish in. I found the pond and went home to get my fishing stuff went back and caught that fish. How about the fish in your pic? Where did you catch them at? In a lake out in the middle of some farm fields in Arkansas. I don't remember the name of it now. It was an oxbow lake that was about 20' deep, 50 yards wide and had big cypress trees growing all over in it. We would pitch Rattlin Rougues to the base of a tree and let it sit forever, then twitch it once and let it sit some more. You had to let the bass have time to see it from 20' down then entice him to come up and get it. Then when he did hit you had to horse him away from the tree because it had branches under the water that you had to get him away from. Fun stuff!

[TTFishon]

Sounds like fun to me. I've always wanted to fish that area.

[arkansasbasser]

Sounds like fun to me. I've always wanted to fish that area.Buy us some tickets to Arkansas and I'll take you there.

[hawgcatcher]

I think the best fishing I had was growing up near the Willamette and fishing rooster tails in the back water sloughs south of Oregon city. Lots of largemouth, crappie and bluegill. In those days, they used to store log rafts in those areas and they sat there often for years. Well there were holes in these rafts and the bass would lay their eggs on the ends of the logs that were just under the water. We would creep up on these holes and cast the spinners. the bass would hit them hard and if you were unlucky, they would drag them under the rafts.

Those were good days. A handful of rooster tails, a hula popper, a river runt and a rapala would last for months and provide many great hours of fishing.