Old Fish Pics

Love the old photos keep them coming.Sharon how many is a “few” years.
Drifter have you always liked holding those slimey pike? Nice pics though.

I am taking photos of the spot on all the reds I catch and plan on printing them out, putting them on a poster board and hanging it in the shed or garage. Something like this.

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chuck100 wrote:

Drifter have you always liked holding those slimey pike? Nice pics though.

Love me some big pike! My favorite is BIG pike. But have gotten the walleye bug the last 20 years or so. Big pike are very far and few between now days except for a few larger lake haunts. I still take a trip or two every year, mostly late ice to scratch that itch. I can’t remember the last time I’ve bought a spearing license.

Great thread and pics! Drifter you look just like your old man in that ice fishing pic, the apple doesn’t fall far!

Polaroid pic from spring of 1976,first year of successful steelhead(rainbow trout)fishing on Root river in Racine.Guy that took picture was gifted the fish,even back then I had no desire to keep those fish.

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I can’t take credit for this one. I follow the Cokato Museum on the bookface and they had this posted today. Figured the bass guys would like it!

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Bass Derby May 2, 1971. Brother Todd and me made the paper.

-J.

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Very cool, Jon!

I put this together on my mom. She was 15 and ran the table in her age group. First five fish caught, largest and smallest. My grandpa would tell the story like only a proud dad could, how she outfished the boys and all.

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Finally found this one from January 1971. My brother and I would take turns going with my dad to Brainerd to fish with my uncle. We would fish Saturday and Sunday am, then watch the Vikings before heading home. This was when the Vikings home games were blacked out within 50? miles of Mpls. The boy that didn’t go would sometime fish Minnetonka with our neighbor.
It was my turn to stay home. We fished from 9:30 am-4:30 pm. Only 2 bites all day. The 30 inch 10-pound walleye bit at ~11:00 am on my neighbor’s line (only one line each back then). Put up quite a fight. I think my neighbor was more excited than I was. That fish made the day right there. At 4:30 I gave my sucker minnow one last lift and drop before we were going to leave. I saw the gills of the northern suck in the minnow after I lifted it up. Another big fight. It was 36 inches and weighed 14 pounds and my first northern at age 11. Both had a dent in the top of their head where my neighbor hit ’em with a hammer before putting them in a gunny sack. My neighbor couldn’t wait to show them to my dad the next day. When the fish were dumped out all my dad could say was, “Noooooooooo!!”

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We have a couple fun photos here at our office.. One is my great grandpa. The photo is from 1937 I believe and was taken at Forest Lake. We have it framed so there is glare. Sorry.
The second is what it look like when my dad an uncles took us kids to Grey Cloud Island fishing.. Snot nosed smart asses ready to knock some stones out of some drums head. You can see the screwdriver jug in the back round.. Haha. The adults always yelled at us kids when we tried to drink their orange juice.

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Walleyestudent Andy Cox wrote:

Cute pic Sharon.

Looks though like dad (Steve) hasn’t shaved in at least well over 30 years.

Andy…The last time I shaved was in 1976. Anything that covers up this face can’t be all bad.

SR

I’m the one on the right. San Francisco Bay for Stripers and Flounder. 55 years ago.

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This is an awesome post.

I believe this was around 1980. I rode my bike to the river almost every day in the summer.

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