Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted January 10, 2014 Root Admin Posted January 10, 2014 I hesitate to post this cause of the guy in it... not the point of the photo, nor the brown trout. Look at the gravel bar behind me. It's up at what we call Rocking Chair. The bar goes more than half way across the lake! I don't remember it. I didn't wade fish much at that time. Notice boats above me too. Must have been much deeper back then.
hknfsh Posted January 10, 2014 Posted January 10, 2014 If memory serves...it wasn't a restrictive trophy area yet either. All baits and lures were allowed too.
Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted January 10, 2014 Author Root Admin Posted January 10, 2014 Yep- if I recall I was using roe. And yes it was treated, not raw. But most ppl used it raw. It caught a lot of browns and rainbows. Bruce Steel taught me well...
ColdWaterFshr Posted January 10, 2014 Posted January 10, 2014 Ah, Steel's Bait and Tackle. Is it still there? Same Steel or different guy? Thats were we used to get our eggs and crawlers back in the 80's. Can't offer any memory of the gravel bar whether it was there or not. In those days we were bank fishing mostly down by the bridges.
Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted January 10, 2014 Author Root Admin Posted January 10, 2014 Bruce Steel became Bill Haynes when he got in trouble with the law. Never knew how that made any difference- lived in the same house behind his shop. Anyhow, he died quite a few years back. The shop was tore down. He was quite a character.
Wayne SW/MO Posted January 10, 2014 Posted January 10, 2014 The boat looks like one of the older bass boat models, Bullagator, Monark, Ouachita? Today's release is tomorrows gift to another fisherman.
rainbow Posted January 10, 2014 Posted January 10, 2014 Yep- if I recall I was using roe. And yes it was treated, not raw. But most ppl used it raw. It caught a lot of browns and rainbows. Bruce Steel taught me well... We used to buy the roe sacks from Steele. he was a heck of a character. Had a lot of big mounts in the shop and I asked him where he caught them and he said "in the mouth". We all about fell on the floor laughing. Hated to see that shop go, real old school. That was almost 25 years ago at Lilley's and we fished the sacks off the docks and slayed the trout.
Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted January 11, 2014 Author Root Admin Posted January 11, 2014 Ranger! It was my first boat.
Wayne SW/MO Posted January 11, 2014 Posted January 11, 2014 TR3? Not sure why that didn't come to mind. I fished with a buddy many times out of a TR3 with a 135 Rude on it in the 70's. Today's release is tomorrows gift to another fisherman.
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