Is was in high school--not a care in the world--well maybe passing the next test! Nah, not even that bothered me then.
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Is was in high school--not a care in the world--well maybe passing the next test! Nah, not even that bothered me then.
I was working for the United States Air Force with 3 months left to go.....
I'd been back from Nam for a couple of years, fishing farm ponds and the mighty Salt River. Also I think around about that time we were fisning the white bass "runs" above Millertown.
At 12 years old, I was secretly carrying around a picture of a 'hottie' I cut out of one of my mother's 'True Story' ragazines.
Jake Robinson, a crotchety old dude who lived about 1/2 mile away shot my bird dog with a 22 rifle the November just before that date. Shot went right thru the fleshy part of his neck and didn't hurt him much, but it was close. Knew it was him because he always complained my dog was chasing his chickens and he was always shooting at something up there. When I knocked on his door and asked him if he shot my dog, he cussed me out and ran me off. "I didn't shoot your $%#& dog boy, and you wouldn't do nothin' if I did."
Hunting season of 1970, I put a punkin ball in one of his prized cow's head with my .410 shotgun. My folks hauled me to the door as he stood on the porch raving and mad as I've ever seen anyone. "No sir, it wasn't me that shot your cow." My stepdad had to make him leave, I thought his head was going to explode. Years later I confessed to mama. She hardly needed a confession, she knew I'd done it all along. She knew all about them girlie pictures too.
I owned 2 lures, A Rapala Finnish Minnow, and a Mepps Comet. The explosions on that ole Rapala as I twitched it along the top was what hooked me for life on bass fishing. My favorite hole was a private lake about a 3 mile walk thru the woods. I'd take off in the morning with nothing but my Zebco 202 (upgraded later to a Johnson Century) and my tackle box. There were plenty of apple and wild plum trees for food, plus I'd raid ole man Robinson's Scuppernong bush often as not.
Later that spring I swam the watershed lake I grew up on across and back after my buddy said I couldn't do it. Me and him ran a trot line a few days after that and had 30 pounds of dressed catfish.
I can almost feel that ole hot Alabama sun now, wish I could do it all over again!
12/31/9 Had just finished my 2nd season tournament fishing. Second son was born in 3/69. Had a mortgage,a van and a 14ft applebe with a 20 horse johnson. Had two 5000's, one for cranking and one for wormin', I was in tall cotton.[QUOTE=justlookingn;285019]According to my profile info...I joined this forum back in 1969.....lol
Wow that was a long time ago...
What were yall doing in '69?
I was driving my first car....1964 Dynamic Olds..We fished in local ponds, Salt River near here and Herrington Lake. Best i can recall that was the year I bought my first Ambasorter(spelling) red 5000 Garcia bait casting reel...I had been using a Johnson Century spincast...... I still remember all those backlashes.....back in the day..
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I was getting the crap beat out of me for being a white kid in the wrong place at the wrong time.
" Detroit Race Riots."
Thank God we moved to Kentucky when I was still young.
I was graduating third grade at Southern Elem. in Scott Co. Spent every minute i could fishing w/ my grandmother on Elkhorn Ck. for bluegills and redeyes. Nobody loved fishing more than she did. Didn't get smallmouth fever on the creek for a few more years. I remember buying a plug about this time from a magazine that looked like an orange and white submarine and you put a white tablet in it that was supposed to make it swim. Only thing it caught was me. A few years later, I caught my first smallmouth on an "artificial", which was a big deal then. It was a shallow diving crankbait called a Rebel Quarterback which I also bought for one dollar out of a magazine. Of course it became my favorite lure and I caught a bunch of bass on it for a few years. Where has the time gone?????
I was in the U.S. Air Force serving in southeast Asia.
I was a "short timer" in South Korea ... US Army. Thinking about coming back to "the ville" (home) in a few more weeks, and raising all manner of cane in the local watering holes/dance halls (I'd turned 21 in June of '69). Also thinking of getting me a "hot ride", so I could chase/impress the ladies !!
But, on that specific date ... it's hard to tell. I don't remember celebrating New Years Eve ... so I was probably on QRF duty (Quick Reaction Force - aka "guard duty") as truck driver & M60 Machine Gunner.
By the way ... I got that "ride" -- 1969 Chevy Nova SS 350 (300hp) 4speed ... removed the Muncie (mickey mouse) shifter and replaced it with a Hearst 4spd - added two Thrush mufflers with extended pipes out the sides - put Gabriel Highjacker air shocks on the back wheels (California rake style). And cruised the Jerry's Drive-In (Southland) ... looking for the ladies, or a drag race ... whichever came first ... LOL!! ........ cp
[quote=crappiepappy;285409]I was a "short timer" in South Korea ... US Army. Thinking about coming back to "the ville" (home) in a few more weeks, and raising all manner of cane in the local watering holes/dance halls (I'd turned 21 in June of '69). Also thinking of getting me a "hot ride", so I could chase/impress the ladies !!
But, on that specific date ... it's hard to tell. I don't remember celebrating New Years Eve ... so I was probably on QRF duty (Quick Reaction Force - aka "guard duty") as truck driver & M60 Machine Gunner.
By the way ... I got that "ride" -- 1969 Chevy Nova SS 350 (300hp) 4speed ... removed the Muncie (mickey mouse) shifter and replaced it with a Hearst 4spd - added two Thrush mufflers with extended pipes out the sides - put Gabriel Highjacker air shocks on the back wheels (California rake style). And cruised the Jerry's Drive-In (Southland) ... looking for the ladies, or a drag race ... whichever came first ... LOL!! ........ cp[/quote]
O how them was the days i for one do miss them days= a lot of hot cars back then and the girls were diff. back then if you know what i mean lol :) And yes me an my buddys got pulled over a few times for drag raceing lol
[QUOTE=crappiepappy;285409]I was a "short timer" in South Korea ... US Army. Thinking about coming back to "the ville" (home) in a few more weeks, and raising all manner of cane in the local watering holes/dance halls (I'd turned 21 in June of '69). Also thinking of getting me a "hot ride", so I could chase/impress the ladies !!
But, on that specific date ... it's hard to tell. I don't remember celebrating New Years Eve ... so I was probably on QRF duty (Quick Reaction Force - aka "guard duty") as truck driver & M60 Machine Gunner.
By the way ... I got that "ride" -- 1969 Chevy Nova SS 350 (300hp) 4speed ... removed the Muncie (mickey mouse) shifter and replaced it with a Hearst 4spd - added two Thrush mufflers with extended pipes out the sides - put Gabriel Highjacker air shocks on the back wheels (California rake style). And cruised the Jerry's Drive-In (Southland) ... looking for the ladies, or a drag race ... whichever came first ... LOL!! ........ cp[/QUOTE]
You go crappiepappy, that's what I'm talking about......
I was 12 going on 13; starting to think of girls. I do remember going fishing with my uncle down below the dam on the falls of the Ohio. We called it the Wickets in those days. I was more interested in exploring with my brother than fishing.
Did not get into fishing really until 2004; started because I wanted to hang out with a buddy of mine and I was recovering from a second bout of cancer. Now I am recovered and probably fish more often than my buddy.
I am looking for my first boat and my hope is to catch a large mouth that is about 20" and over 5'. After that; catch one bigger. After all there is always that next catch.