Campbell Point Bass Club Newsletter

[Phil Lilley]

Thanks for providing this!! Very cool information.

[flipper]

Those are some pretty cool facts!!just imagine if catch and release was more common then!!look how the averages dropped over time. wish there were pictures of some of those lures.

[snagged in outlet 3]

That is very interesting and cool. I really like the "remember when" section.

"Two guys in 1970 kept 40 bass toatling 208 pounds?????" That's a smokin average!!!!

The award for the most times a guy turned a 3 and 3 quarter pound bass in as a 4 pounder. Man some things just don't change.

Thanks Phil.

SIO3

[SKMO]

This is real interesting reading. Thanks to all involved for taking the time to share it.

Sorry I was not fishing here then, sounds like a typical "new-lake" bonanza.

I guess these numbers are just from folks who checked in or out of Campbell Point Boat Dock. Imagine the real numbers and weights for all bass caught in the SK area, not just those checked through the CP dock. And this catch represents just a small fraction of the TR harvest I imagine, as people could not or did not need to run as far as we tend to today. Smaller boats, more fish, more trees to dodge. This was being done all over the lake.

Thought it was interesting that there was no mention of SM, or if there was at least I missed it.

Also interesting that even back then Fall must have been tough because Sept/Oct/Nov big fish are few. Or perhaps not too many people fished that time of year.

Makes me wonder what the fishermen in 2037 will think of our tournament results today. Will they envy us, (as we do these 1960's figures), or will they have it better? Worse?

The answer mostly depends on us.

Great stuff & Food for thought.

[bassman1308]

BB: this is really neat. i,m going to print this and show it to the old bassers in aurora. a lot of them are listed on here. i think this is the time period when the Haltermans from aurora owned the dock. i don't know about the 60's ( i'm not that old), but in the 70's, there were a lot of big fish caught at night that were not weighed in as the dock was usually closed. SKMO: if 'sm' means 'smallmouth,' i can tell you they were very, very rare back then, except up the rivers. frank mulick fishing 46 hrs with no rest or sleep, even in a lightning storm- fact. i know guys who fished with him and he was, to say the least , a dedicated fisherman.

[CMAC]

SKMO,

Your welcome, I didn't really think of it until the earlier discussion was brought up about the olden days (not that i would qualify).

How about the fish caught on the crappie jigs, Jan/Feb no doubt!!

I am doing an edit, thanks to phil for posting this information for me. Another interesting bit, Kentuckys are mentioned, but now days that get all the hype. One smallmouth caught 4 1/4# on a bomber.

[Gary Lange]

Interesting information from the past when the lake was new. It appears that it held a lot of really big Bass back then. I hope it gives up at least one for me in my lifetime.

[Bill Babler]

CMAC, Thank you so much for the great pieces of history, I haven't had a chance too look at it very closly yet as the lodge is full of love birds, It is the season, but when I get a minute, I'm going to take it apart.

Would you know if any of those guys are still kicking and throwing lures?

[fullmoon]

Hi Guys -This is my first post but have been reading the site for a few months. I'm one of the old timers Bill was wondering about. Started fishing "The Rock" while in high school in 1964. One thing I wanted to say about Campbell Point and the Lunker Club was that alot of those fish were released as best you could without livewells and alot more weren't weighted in in the early years because of the the long slow boat rides. The coves were so full of timber it was hard to get a boat (16' richline) back into them. After a day of fishing the bottom of the boat would be full of twigs. Most the time we released our fish because dragging a stringer that was getting caught on tress was a pain. I know and have fished with Frank Mulich, a great fiherman, and a wizard with an Agitator. Gary McCarty and I have been fishing "The Rock" since 1971. If you check 1975 Mulich had 22 lunkers and McCarty had 16 thats because I got married in Oct. of 1974 and Gary fished with Frank in 1975 and weighted-in most of his big fish. I haven't heard from Frank M. in several years and wonder what happened to Chuck Marshal and John Todd. I could talk for hours about"The Rock" earily years. I will say this that SKMO is letting the cat out of the bag. If you want to catch a big fish in the fall throw a spinnerbait an hour before daylight thats the only time they eat. Thanks Ron Field

[snagged in outlet 3]

I find it very interesting Fullmoon. Tell us any stories you like, I'm listening. Man what a great time to be on The Rock.

The best times I've had on The Rock were about 7 or 8 years ago when me and a buddy took our wives down around Mother's Day and stayed at Big Cedar. We would troll around fishing all day while the girls got lit up on mixed drinks. Oh yeah we caught fish, but man the nights in the jacuzzi were the real memories.

SIO3.