A Bit of Winter Time Expounding

As a senior citizen (77 Yr )I have seen a lot of changes in the sport fishing scene.
As a youngster there were few artificials on the market.Fred Arbogast,Epinger spoons, not a lot else.
Boy, it was something when the Rapalas came out.Those surface floater divers were deadly.
Not a lot of catch and release back then, mostly meat fishermen, size limits were pretty much unheard of then. Now many of the game fish have to be measured if they are to be of legal size if one wants to keep them.
Fish finder were in their infancy, and GPS was unheard of back then.
It took a lot of patience to use a old bait casting reel as backlast bird’s nests were the norm after most every cast.
The flat casting surface on the fishing boats were just something most just dreamed of.
These are just some things that the younger ones in the sport missed out on. DARN
Now I surf around here on the innernet and see the thousands of lures, various fishing equipment and wonder how we ever got along without this stuff.
It is a changing world, no one would want to go back, at the same time we wonder how much chemicals that we all consumed in all our food.
As an example:
A poultry medication was rountinely fed to meat birds from the time they hatched til slaughter, it was named 3 Nitro.It was multipurpose, it prevented worm eggs from hatching and also prevented Coccciddiosis, a common disease of young birds. It now considered a carcinogent and off the market.

As that old song goes, ” Time changes everything.” Nothing truer stated.
I hope I have not bored you good people too much, just some of my idle thinking of this old geezer.

Thanks for reading,

Roger Heywood

Great read. Thank you for YOUR time.

As another senior it’s fun to remember all the changes to this great pastime.
Back in the 50’s if you collected enough Wheaties box tops you could send $3.00 and the box tops and get a Johnson Century spin cast reel. With that reel it allowed casting all those lures without the backlash issues.
I still have one of those reels.

One thing that doesn’t change is the excitement one feels when you get a bite on the end of your line.

Thanks for taking me back to the good old days.

Now here is a conversation that I think is worthy of the 90 and better some posts that is happing now on another thread!

All of those that have the answer to the world’s problems and how to save the economy, How about we all do a back seat in the old jalopies’ get back to basics so to speak.

Do not misunderstand, I do enjoy the new stuff and what it offers, I just am thinking, basics, basics, basics….Like get back to fundamentals, don’t over think some of your issues that face you during your day, some time the simplest answers are starring you right in the face.

Simplify the stem of the issue as best you can, find the simple solution.

I think it is get back to the basics.

Roger I hope you don’t think that I’m derailing your thoughts, I’m in agreement to them. I think your thoughts go a whole lot farther than this,,,,,,,

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Roger I hope you don’t think that I’m derailing your thoughts, I’m in agreement to them. I think your thoughts go a whole lot farther than this,,,,,,,

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Don’t think it, know it… way to turn a great post into something else…

When I was about 6 [1961] about, my dad had a yellow rubber, duckling with treble hooks attached to its feet that he would pull along slowly. I only saw it work once, but it did work. Thanks Roger, for stirring up some good memories.

I too, enjoyed your post. Nothing boring there at all and i admire the amount of typing that you had to do to present it to us.
Thanks!

Reading this made my night Roger… Brings back great memories of fishing with my grandfather when he was around. Thank you!

You have got 30+ years on me Roger, but your post reminded me of the days, when I could take a can of corn and a plain hook, spend all day on the dock and catch a mess of pannies Some people call it progress… I am not so sure, but I do love all the advances in technology (for the most part)

GAL

Glen, I think you are getting my thoughts.

Learned to cast with a bait caster that had no magnets or auto brakes.Soaked big suckers with the old man and caught northerns longer than I was tall.
Fully embraced all the new reals,rods and lures over the last 50 years.But last fall my childhood friend and I went on our annual fall trip together to night troll for big walleyes.The first night the wind was bad so we stayed in the cabin and had a few beers and started talking about our fathers and how they fished in the old days.
Next day the wind was still howling so we went old school,couple dozen suckers,some bobbers and warm clothing and off we went.We had the time of our lives catching fish and catching up on our B/Sing.
The other guys at the resort went with the trolling and had a few fish.We smacked dozens a day and thanked both our fathers for showing us the way all those years ago.
Thanks Roger,you gave me a reason to re live this past year again!

Roger, GREAT READ!! I am 30 years younger but i agree with your thoughts and observations. I often wonder how we ever caught fish 40 years ago. I grew up fishing with a mitchell 300 reel and a heavy abu garcia fiberglass rod that dad bought me when i was 5 years old. In its day that was a expensive top of the line combo! I still have that combo, Its mounted in my basement as a reminder of the good times fishing with my fishing mentor or dad as i still call him.

I know i must be getting old as I keep looking at all of the new, improved products and think to myself that these products are all designed to catch fisherman instead of fish! Not that i’m against progress but do you really need a $1200.00 Marcum flasher/camera for ice fishing? Do you really need 20 colors of shap raps and using fishermans logic you have to at least two of each color in case you loose one!

Again thanks to Roger for taking me back to the good old days, now i’m going to call my fishing mentor, and then hit the ice!!