Vintage Fishing

[Flysmallie]

3 hours ago, MoCarp said:

 

 

One of my all time favorites. The bass in the farm ponds of Oklahoma loved those things. 

[MoCarp]

6 hours ago, Mitch f said:

I can still hear the guy whistling the Virgil Ward theme.

 

[MOPanfisher]

When i was a kid I was too cheap to buy actual beetle spins, but could buy offset safety spin type spinners and put whatever crappie jig or curly tail yu found and hammer bass in ponds, and fish in the creeks.  Dad was a die hard Mepps guy in the creek, but some days I could whoop him with the plain old spinners.

[Flysmallie]

55 minutes ago, MOPanfisher said:

Dad was a die hard Mepps guy in the creek

I still fish a Mepps a lot of the time. 

[curtisce]

Nice collections

 

[MOPanfisher]

5 hours ago, Flysmallie said:

I still fish a Mepps a lot of the time. 

I have several, sometimes they are white bass killers.

[BilletHead]

6 hours ago, Flysmallie said:

I still fish a Mepps a lot of the time. 

 

44 minutes ago, MOPanfisher said:

I have several, sometimes they are white bass killers.

             I sent 183 squirrel tails to Mepps last week. When you buy more, Moore and mopan  you can thank me or cuss me for the price.

  I fished them in 75 through 80 quite a bit. They were the cats meow right after ice out on farm ponds and into the spring. Slow retrieve size 4s and 5s with dressed trebles. Those big stinkin green bass loved them.  

    

[MOPanfisher]

1 hour ago, BilletHead said:

 

             I sent 183 squirrel tails to Mepps last week. When you buy more, Moore and mopan  you can thank me or cuss me for the price.

  I fished them in 75 through 80 quite a bit. They were the cats meow right after ice out on farm ponds and into the spring. Slow retrieve size 4s and 5s with dressed trebles. Those big stinkin green bass loved them.  

    

That's the problem with fishing for white bass with them.  Stinky ole largemouth can't leave them alone.

[fishinwrench]

8 hours ago, MOPanfisher said:

That's the problem with fishing for white bass with them.  Stinky ole largemouth can't leave them alone.

If you're targeting Whites, and catching LM, then you probably need to move.  The 2 don't usually pal out together.   At least that's MY theory, and I can't think of a single time where I've been catching both in the same area at the same time.   

It works the other way around too.  I'd challenge you to catch a green bass in the same area of a creek during the Spring white bass run.  Doing so has always been extremely rare in my experiences. 

[Jerry Rapp]

1 hour ago, fishinwrench said:

If you're targeting Whites, and catching LM, then you probably need to move.  The 2 don't usually pal out together.   At least that's MY theory, and I can't think of a single time where I've been catching both in the same area at the same time.   

It works the other way around too.  I'd challenge you to catch a green bass in the same area of a creek during the Spring white bass run.  Doing so has always been extremely rare in my experiences. 

the more I think about it, it does work that way.  What's your theory?  Do the whites corner all the food for themselves?