Tackleholic

I live high in the Ozarks and I am often criticized for removing every tree which could cause property damage if it ever fell; 35 trees in all.

Google "Theft Proof Bolts", you will find what you need.

I'm a big fan of 3/8 ounce swim jigs and use a variety of trailers. One trailer I always have rigged is a Zoom Z Craw Jr..

I eventually inherited my grandfather's Phleuger Supreme, spooled with the same Cortland Camo you show, and probabably the same rod. Old memories, aren't they? I'd forgotten about those Hawaiian Wigglers, used to borrow them from my Dad in the late 1940's.

Pfleuger Triumph, spooled with 50# black dacron line, and mounted on a 5 foot, four sided steel pistol grip rod.

When wet wade fishing I have had leeches get inside my shoes and attach to my feet, also to the outside of my leather wading shoes. They make good bait.

Top one you are holding is a Bass Oreno; 2nd is a Creek Chub Minnow; I'm stumped on the 3rd.

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So do I.

Smallmouth, Largemouth, and Spotted Bass size records have not been broken in 40-50 years on my lake, which is always a top 100 lake. 45,000 acres which never freezes, loads of baitfish and other forage. I think of this every time I see a 4 pounder headed for the fillet table. Each year of survival = a larger fish and increases it's chances of eventually being caught and killed by mishandling or targeted for dinner. I'm strictly catch and release but know I'm a minority. I respect others, especially the guides who do the same.

Smallmouth are the hardest fighting and slowest growing. 100% catch and immediate release would receive my vote.

Your addiction is hopeless, so is mine.

Being on the lake, and the flies find you, in hordes. You leave the area, pedal to metal, stop at a new area, find the same flies have hunkered down on the boat and are still with you.

Staying home because the Weatherman lied.

I don't use it much out loud and never in front of women. However, yesterday I was alone on the lake and dropped a bomb when a big 'un came off, and another when my braid backlashed.

Tin Liz, Heddon Sonic, Yellow River Runt.

FYI : Omnia has a sale on Zillion 100 sv twg for 30% off; no need to order from Japan.

Expensive, dangerous habit; tough to quit.

When I was 21 I could put a quarter in a vending machine for a pack of cigarettes; buy a carton over the counter for $2.00. Don't know what they cost today 'cus I quit!

There must be more of us "80 plus" Bass Fishermen on this site than I realized. Maybe Glenn will set up a new reference section for us; title it "Geezers' Nostalgia", or something like that?????

That same attendent also checked the oil.

Got my driver's license in 1957; gas was about a quarter, an attendent pumped it and washed the windshield. How many of you guys remember that?

Back then we did have huge Alligator Gar, Sturgeon, Blue Cats, and Flatheads. Pollution and trophy killing eventually wiped them out. My first guess is an Alligator Gar. It's immediate effect on me was worse than my first case of "Musky Fever".

I was a young teenager in the 1950's, in an old jon boat, drifting down the Mazon River in Illinois, shooting squirrels with a 20 guage. I was not very far from where the Mazon River empties into the much larger Illinois River. I rowed to the bank to retrieve a squirrel and parked next to a submerged log which was about the same length as my boat. I hopped out, picked up the squirrel, walked back to the boat, and watched that "log" slowly swim away. So long ago, and I still remember like it was yesterday. (There are no alligators in northern Illinois)

I was with a guide, a drunken jet skier buzzed us twice. The guide approached him at a dock, held up a 3oz. spoon rigged on an extra heavy rod and explained what he would do with that rig if the jet skier came within casting distance again. Cured the problem.