Final Weekend of Catch and Keep

[laker67]

21 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

If that's true then I wasn't there.   I was thinking that me and 2 buddies went down for the first day of C&R.  But I know where I was during December of '76 and it wasn't anywhere near a trout park.  

Would you believe Gitmo? 

I googled the archives FW, and 1976 is correct. Not sure if was on the 11th or the 18th. the other parks were added around 1980. If I could find my earliest log book I could tell exactly because i caught a lunker that day. It was at the big rock across from the  gauge tower. We were only allowed to fish zone 1 for the first couple of years.

[snagged in outlet 3]

I was there.  Too long ago and too many trips since then.  Sophomore in high school.  

I do remember it was a lunker fest in the early years.  Not that they fought that good, they were just big.

[snagged in outlet 3]

58 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Would you believe Gitmo? 

Okay, now things are coming together.

[fishinwrench]

28 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Okay, now things are coming together.

No no no...My sister was marrying a Marine.   

I'll never forget it because it was the first time I ever got to drive away from Winter.   It was mind boggling.

 

Beings as there was no internet back then it probably took until 79-80 before us Audrain county hicks knew there was a C&R season.

[Bill B.]

It was way back there, I know that. Bennett was the only park open for it, and you had to buy a special winter permit. 

[Bill B.]

I took a girlfriend down there one day in about 1975. She asked me why the people standing in the water were wearing tags pinned to their hats and chests. I told her there was a state mental hospital in Lebanon, and that one day every week, the inmates got to ride a bus down to Bennett and go fishing. They had to wear tags so that other people would know who they were. My girlfriend was a newly minted registered nurse, but she didn't have a lot of common sense. She was afraid to get out of the car.

[fishinwrench]

Yep I remember standing in line at the hatchery building to get a tag.  

[Terrierman]

2 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Would you believe Gitmo? 

I do.  You strike me as the sort of guy who's no stranger to the brig.

[snagged in outlet 3]

There is a mental ward in south St. Louis near my family’s bike shop.  The inmates loved apples and Tab soda. Turns out a few of them could sing quite well. 

They formed a group and started doing shows. 

The moron tab and apple choir was formed. 

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

17 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

There is a mental ward in south St. Louis near my family’s bike shop.  The inmates loved apples and Tab soda. Turns out a few of them could sing quite well. 

They formed a group and started doing shows. 

The moron tab and apple choir was formed. 

Lol.  Are you referencing the one on Wyoming, or South Side Cyclery?   That is where I grew up (sorta).