Fishing, back in the day!

[Timotha7]

This thread can be for chatting about fishing back when we were kids, the equipment that we used, the times that we had and I think perhaps we will all realize that wether you are 8 or 80, the one true beauty of our sport is that it can still make kids out of all of us!

Everyone should post here because another thing to remember about fishing is that no matter how old or young they are, most people can teach you a couple things you might not know about catching fish!

(An that means if you are 16 it could be 10 years ago, or if you are 4rum's age, it could be before electricity :icon_biggrin:)


My first fishing was done on cane poles, you bought at Harrisons 5 an dime
an my first fish was a carp on a cane pole (think he weighed bout 4 pounds, but you can imagine how big he was to a little kid!)

Those old cane poles came strung with bout 30 feet of dacron line, with
bobber, split shot an hook on em, an we could ALWAYS find worms

Tim

[Soupy_1us]

Folks ... it don't get no better than this.....
The real "Old Style" fishin'....
Most people today use them fancy fishin' poles and lures....

Not this bunch!

That third picture is Phillip.....watch him.

[Soupy_1us]

Yeah, I do.... I do remember Back in the Day when I started out this way...... "Hoggin'" Now-a-days they call it something else but, it's still Hoggin'!
Then we were upgraded to a cane pole !


And as you can see in that last picture.... Little Phillip had the same attitude that I had about this kinda fishin' !!!!


PEE ON IT !

[Timotha7]

Now that is some OLD SCHOOL fishin there!
Great set of pictures Soups!

[4rum]

Me an' a cousin on Glade Creek. If you was to google old water mills, you'll see a picture of a water mill on this creek, just above where I'm fishin'.

It wasn't there then... it was assembled from parts of several old mills and rebuilt on site in the 70's I think.

.. Oh... that's me on the left............

[4rum]

Well shoot... some o' ya'll are likely lazy as I am... so here!

[Soupy_1us]

I see somebody got ta diggin' in some old boxes too........Boy, ifin' we wore our Sunday-go-meetin' clothes ta fishin' mom would wear us out with a switch...
I did the google thing for "Old Water Mills" and when I got there and click on "Old Water Mills" they showed me a bunch of water heaters.......you don't sell waters do ya 4rum?

[4rum]

...nope :happy0194:

[gofish]

wish i had some old pics ta share guys but they got lost in a fire years back

[Soupy_1us]

Ya don't really need pictures to bring back the old times......It's just, that I had a few....I ain't fount my good'uns yet.

I have an old News Paper (local) that had a story in it about three guys that had robbed the local Western Auto store in 1965.....Really weren't but, two guys that robbed it... My brother kept tellin' the cops he was just givin' them a ride.... (can you say GET-AWAY-CAR). But, he got out of it somehow.
I weren't there but, I can still picture it in my mind .....Three guys in a '65 Mustang Convertable (6 cyl) drivin' down the road with two big Army Duffle Bags full of goods....Didn't look suspicious at all.

[Soupy_1us]

And this story didn't have nuttin' to do with fishin' way back!........See how easy it is to just post anywheres.

Sorry.

[gofish]

soupy MY replys gonna be in the right spot....lol still remember fishin with a cane pole catchin yeller bellys....an gittin suck by em too lol

[Soupy_1us]

soupy MY replys gonna be in the right spot....lol still remember fishin with a cane pole catchin yeller bellys....an gittin suck by em too lol


I'm...............I'm...........I'm just lost for words?????:confused0056:

[Soupy_1us]

Some days were good and others were even better.......Anytime I had a chance to go to the creek....was a good day...
We lived just on the edge of town.......The county and city line was right in the middle of the little gravel road we lived on.....So we weren't called "city folk" we were "country folk" and about 3/4 mile behind our house there was a creek....We had to walk through the woods and across the neighbor's "Hog Lot" ( that'll be another story sometimes) to get to this creek.....
CYPRESS CREEK ! That was the name of this creek.. Weren't a big creek but, you could walk up and down the banks and find the "holes" to where them "big'uns" were layin'... Now, this is a small creek, when I say "big'uns" I mean big enuff to eat.
We'd stop in the back yard ( where the neighbor's sewage would run to the top of the ground) and dig us some "big" ole red worms out of that stuff...then on our way thru the woods , we'd cut us one of them little Willow trees that was growin' out there....Just the right size for a fishin' pole......Got our pole....some worms (from the sewage) and line,hooks and sinkers in our pocket)
Head for the creek !
Stop every-now-and-then ta throw a rock at the deer that was always out there in them woods.... Then there it was....The creek... had nice hole right behind our house...
That's where we'd start.....
Bait'em up boys.....I got a good feelin' today !
After about an hour or so settin' there ( not catchin nuttin)... We'd pack up and move about a hundred yards down the creek to 'nother hole.....(stop and throw rocks at them deer again)....curious bunch they were. We'd bait up again and fish that next hole real hard...
After the sun would start going down and 'bout five or six good eatin' size "yellor bellies" on a stringer we'd head back for the house....Me and my brother would fuss all the way home 'bout who was gonna clean the fish......Guess that's where I got so good at cleanin' fish.........he was bigger than me.
Hard to talk about them days......'cause they're gone now.......The creek is still there....nobody fishes it no more... Kids just don't know what they're really missin'. I drive out by that ole creek all the time....Sure do miss fishin' it. ( and throwin' rocks at them deer)

[gofish]

stuck soupy stuck! gimme a break i fergot the t :confused0024:

[Timotha7]

Thanks for sharing that Soups, brings back so many good times
Couldn't count how many times we either hit the creek (ours did not seem to have
anything in it but crawdads an chubs though) or just got on the bikes with a
sack lunch an took off for the farm ponds we liked to fish

Kids really don't know what they are missing

[4rum]

Hey Soupy...

Cypress Creek reminds me a lot of the little race around Brookside Island. It calmed down from the currents of the river and flowed through the big river elms, birch and sycamores. It was full of 'potholes'. There was a good population of sunfish and bluegills. There were a few small flatheads and LOTS of carp.

I fished it with a cane pole, mostly. In later years me and a friend got into bowfishing for the carp. It was ideal. Pretty shallow so we'd just wade right in among'st 'em.

I hope everyone that reads your account of Cypress Creek is furnished with the wonderful memories of growin' up and learnin' to fish...... Thanks Soupy.

[Soupy_1us]

stuck soupy stuck! gimme a break i fergot the t :confused0024:







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[gofish]

soupy........:fighting0038::fighting0059::fighting 0081::fighting0025:........nuff said?:icon_biggrin:lol