There is a YouTube channel by Lynn Dollar and has all the old Bassmaster and FLW from the 80 s till now. It’s really neat to look back. FLW has really good ones in the late 90s and 2000. Rick Clunn tore it up The guy is a machine 

 

I've been watching Lynn Dollar's channel for a couple of years.  It's interesting to see how much things have changed from then to now!

Do you remember seeing some of these when they were new?  Those guys seemed 

"really old" back then, now spring chickens.

Bobby Murray won the first Bassmaster Classic in 1971.  He won an unheard of $10,000 prize.   I fished my first bass tournament around that time. Some of the things we did were comical if not downright dangerous.   Shotgun starts were the norm.   Overpowered boats were everywhere.  Mix those two with 100 boats in the dark and it's amazing so few were killed. 

 

Bill Dance was king back then.  I fished a tournament in Kissimmee where a young good looking Roland Martin was the guy to beat.  Tom Mann, Hank Parker, Rick Clunn, Don Okiebug Butler, Johnny Morris and Jimmy Houston were tough.   Back then there was little electronics and no GPS.  Pros couldn't see fish on a TV screen mounted in their boats.  Yesterday's tournament winners were better fisherman.   You would think with all that help an angler today would never get skunked.  I imagine this gives the bass a chuckle.  ?

 

 

30 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

Do you remember seeing some of these when they were new?  Those guys seemed 

"really old" back then, now spring chickens.

Yea we all looked different then. I got snow on the roof now lol

8 minutes ago, bowhunter63 said:

Yea we all looked different then. I got snow on the roof now lol

At least you have something on the roof...mine's been 'retreating' for years.