12/31/1969...What were you doing?

[justlookingn]

Sorry guys..that was a long time ago...but bass fishing was the newest thing...
Most bass fisherman during that time didnt think that a bass would bite after the sun went down...lol....boy were they every wrong... As we all know now
And using artifical baits....A whole new subject back in the 60's...Most used live bait in this area..
Best thing I ever did was join the BASS club in the early 70's...Hey got free baits, a magazine, and the info that makes what fishing is today. This was back in the early 70's and only cost 10 bucks or less. I can still remember the smell of those Jelly Worms by Mann Bait Co.....grape... strawberry were always my favorites....Man they sure could make a young man hungry...
And this bait called a spinner bait... I had never seen any thing like this bait before...But had read about it the articles in BASS magazine.
First time I fished the spinnerbait was in Salt River....and the bass eat it up....seems like everywhere I fished this "new bait" the bass loved it.....
Back in the day.....grin

[Moose1am]

Generation Gaps are both funny and SAD!

On Dec 31, 1969 I was at the at the French Lick Hotel and cuddling up with a sweet little girl named GWEN. Boy does that bring back some good memories. New Year's Eve at French Lick Hotel. I think I have some pictures of that night and that trip in my scrap book.

Graduated HS this year.

Went fishing with dad that spring and fall. Fished KY lake. Caught lots of Large Mouth Bass on crank baits. Bomber coach dogs and water dogs were the favorite crank baits. Fished with fiberglass rods and Pflueger or Ambassador reels. Used braided line. These days the young guys think this is new stuff. LOL I still have three huge tackle boxes of more artificial baits than most bait shops carry these days. Except for Cabelas and BPS! :P

BTW we fished drop off and deep structure as well as underwater points and creek and river channel intersections in deep water. Dad caught many a small mouth using jigs on the bottom near deep underwater points.

We were one of the first to purchase and use the first retail fishing depth finders for freshwater fishing. The Lowrance (little Green Box). We had this little unit and used it to map the bottom of Cypress Bay on KY lake way back in 1967/68.

Even before the days of electronic depth finders or sonar units the old guys used a weight on a string to determine the depth.

I was scuba diving and studying the underwater structure of the lakes I was going to fish in 1969. That was back in the days when Kmart sold the scuba tanks and regulators. The first setup I used was just like the one that Lloyd Bridges used on Sea hunt. LOL That was the one with the twin air hoses. If you let the regular go above your head the air would flow out of the regulator. I took that unit back and went with the single hose two stage regulator after only a few weeks.

Back in those days we hid the little green box from other fisherman so as to keep the thing a secrete. LOL

BTW I am one of those old guys that lived back in the 1960's. I started fishing at the tender young age of about 3 years old. I actually would swim underwater and chase bluegills at that age in my favorite swimming lake. Today that lake is sitting on very expensive real estate surrounded by Expensive homes.