I’d like to plan detail by detail that trip to lake Montgomery with George Perry on June 2nd 1932 and then sneak out there the day before with some 7” Senkos . Sorry George... 

yesterday,Headwaters lake.......that's as far back as I wanna go.......or maybe the day before that....

Same conservation area, but 40 years ago.  Back then the fishing season was only from Memorial Day to Labor Day.  There were a few bass anglers out there, but nothing like it is now.  Most people fished for catfish.

 

Lake fork when it opened. 
 

Just now, clh121787 said:

Lake fork when it opened. 
 

I wonder if Bois D'Ark is going to go off like Fork did?

 

Hopefully it's filling faster than planned with the biblical rain storms y'all have been getting.

10 hours ago, A-Jay said:

While I am very thankful for every fishing opportunity I get,

I definitely would not be opposed to going back to Oct 2018

and doing this 

ALL OVER AGAIN ~ ! 

 

 

 

6 ½ days (approx. 65 hours) for two guys fishing on Lake Baccarac:

Over 7lbs ~ 20

Over 8lbs ~ 16

Over 9lbs ~ 11

Over 10 lbs ~ 4

Over 11 lbs ~ 1

Over 12 lbs ~ 1

Fish Hard

A-Jay

 

What a video! All those fish caught, plus directing the shoot, adjusting for lighting*, commentating LOL I love it - it takes a lot to get a good vid! All very worth it! Looked like a blast!

 

* This is why your photos always look great here at BR. Very nice work, AJ.

29 years ago on a New Moon night when I took my girlfriend that's now my wife to a pitch black pond in a leaky paddle powered jon boat and put her on her first big bass a 6 lber. I'll never forget the excitement on that 18 year old blonde babes face illuminated by my Maglite. 

8 hours ago, schplurg said:

 

What a video! All those fish caught, plus directing the shoot, adjusting for lighting*, commentating LOL I love it - it takes a lot to get a good vid! All very worth it! Looked like a blast!

 

* This is why your photos always look great here at BR. Very nice work, AJ.

Thank you very much @schplurg ~ I really appreciate at it.

I have to prep and think about all of it well in advance just to get any footage that's even remotely usable.

But in the end Content is King - Big Bass make us all look good. 

Fish Hard

A-Jay

 

Only a years ago before a life long fishing friend was diagnosed with ALS. This was the first spring we didn't fish together in 35 years.

well duh, the Guadalupe River headwater springs 200 years ago, when both endemic bass and Rio Grande cutthroat trout were native here.  

 

 

I'd need a lookout, though, to watch for Comanches.  

I'd want to fish all the east coast rivers I now fish for smallies when they had trout instead.

On 6/3/2021 at 1:42 PM, TnRiver46 said:

If you’ve had a bowfin in your boat, you might change your tune about wanting to catch dinosaurs 

I did have a bowfin tow my canoe and kayak once or twice .I wish it happened more often. 

44 minutes ago, Mat_ski said:

I did have a bowfin tow my canoe and kayak once or twice .I wish it happened more often. 

They have the strength of fifty regular men 

On 6/3/2021 at 6:55 PM, Big Hands said:

I wonder if Bois D'Ark is going to go off like Fork did?

 

Hopefully it's filling faster than planned with the biblical rain storms y'all have been getting.

That Story is still unwritten. But you can bet I will be there ALOT. May put my home in quitman up for rent and just camp there for the first few years! 

Bristol Bay Alaska, sometime in the 50's before any lodges were built.  I would like to have my own Super Cub a good friend, unlimited time and fuel, and some modern fly rods, and conventional gear. As others have said I would trade all that for a day with my dad and grandfather on any water, any day.

On 6/3/2021 at 10:00 AM, A-Jay said:

While I am very thankful for every fishing opportunity I get,

I definitely would not be opposed to going back to Oct 2018

and doing this 

ALL OVER AGAIN ~ ! 

 

 

 

6 ½ days (approx. 65 hours) for two guys fishing on Lake Baccarac:

Over 7lbs ~ 20

Over 8lbs ~ 16

Over 9lbs ~ 11

Over 10 lbs ~ 4

Over 11 lbs ~ 1

Over 12 lbs ~ 1

Fish Hard

A-Jay

Funny you mention this. I can truthfully say that just this morning, I actually watched your 2018 video again!

 

To the topic, 2 times:

1) I’d like to see when Jesus told the apostles to cast their net the other way when they literally caught a boat load of fish. 
 

2) I don’t know how far I’d have to go back in time, but far enough to catch a megalodon. Go big, or stay home. 

I love to fish, don't get me wrong, but if I could go back in time there are a boat load of things I'd do other than fish. 

If the trip was solely to fish, it'd be any of the times when my dad only took me and not the family. Something very special about those times.

On 6/3/2021 at 2:42 PM, TnRiver46 said:

If you’ve had a bowfin in your boat, you might change your tune about wanting to catch dinosaurs 

 The sunfish species as a whole has been around since the eocene period (50 million years ago to 30 million years) I would've definitely love to fish prehistoric American lakes and rivers during this time to see what the ancestors of the fish we have today were located and how to catch them. At least during this time period the dinosaurs were already extinct. 

On 6/3/2021 at 4:23 PM, Smells like fish said:

I’d like to plan detail by detail that trip to lake Montgomery with George Perry on June 2nd 1932 and then sneak out there the day before with some 7” Senkos . Sorry George... 

This was my answer as well.

Below Pickwick Dam next Thursday.

 

I belong to a private club in SE PA. I've been a member since the early 1960's. 

 

I caught a lot of nice fish then but I'd like to go back to the 60's and fish those lakes with today's tackle and all the knowledge I've learned over the years.  

This is a cool thread. My first impulse is to say any body of water before people reached it, but I've fished such bodies of water in my youth. I would like to float and fish the Mississippi before they build the dams and levees, to see it flowing wild and ranging, maybe in the time of Twain's youth, when paddlewheelers still plied it. 

Lake Okeechobee 1,000 years ago.

 

St. Johns river 1,000 years ago.

Sure would be nice to fish a crystal clear river for some native smallmouth.

 

One that hasn't been changed from runoff/farming/humans.

 

Might as well go back about 150 years.

 

 

8 hours ago, HawkeyeSmallie said:

Sure would be nice to fish a crystal clear river for some native smallmouth.

 

One that hasn't been changed from runoff/farming/humans.

 

Might as well go back about 150 years.

 

 

 

Come fish the upper Mississippi with me! We'll catch some smallies and wave at the paddlewheelers as they pass.