Andy and I took his old Mon Ark McFast down to Aunts Creek on 5/27/22

[*T*]

One of my first really good bass on Table Rock, maybe 5#, 58/60 years ago, on a Texas rig, 6” Blueberry Jelly worm using a 6-1/2’ fly rod with a Mitchel 408 spin reel attached, 6# mono.  My younger brothers were with me in a 15’ Richline? Aluminum lake boat with my dad’s 5.5? Evinrude attached. Took 15+ minutes to run from Schooner Creek Resort to White’s Branch where we loved to fish. 
 

Memories like that are priceless!

[vernon]

14 hours ago, *T* said:

One of my first really good bass on Table Rock, maybe 5#, 58/60 years ago, on a Texas rig, 6” Blueberry Jelly worm using a 6-1/2’ fly rod with a Mitchel 408 spin reel attached, 6# mono.  My younger brothers were with me in a 15’ Richline? Aluminum lake boat with my dad’s 5.5? Evinrude attached. Took 15+ minutes to run from Schooner Creek Resort to White’s Branch where we loved to fish. 
 

Memories like that are priceless!

Now you got me thinkin' which ain't usually a good thing!

In the early '70's we had a white aluminum V bottom that dad and me bought from Walmart along with a 2.5 horse Eska motor.  Use to carry "extra" gas in an old Listerine bottle which would last at least a couple of weeks.

I also bought a trolling motor that was green and black but can't remember the name of it now.  Seems like it might have been a Signature whatever that was.

We would leave the boat flipped upside down at the little lake we fished (the snakes seemed to like it best that way) and would haul the motor, troller and battery back and forth.

Along with a .22 for the snakes.......

Some of the absolute best times of my old life!

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, vernon said:

 

I also bought a trolling motor that was green and black but can't remember the name of it now.  Seems like it might have been a Signature whatever that was

Shakespeare Wondertroll.   2-speeds (high or low) 😉

[Steve McBasser]

10 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Shakespeare Wondertroll.   2-speeds (high or low) 😉

Now you're talkin'. We had a Shakespeare too ..... clamped on the transom..... it would last for hours. We would actually troll with it instead of just using it for boat position. Those were the days when you really had to work at it and earned every fish you caught.... good times.

[fishinwrench]

41 minutes ago, Steve McBasser said:

Now you're talkin'. We had a Shakespeare too ..... clamped on the transom..... it would last for hours. We would actually troll with it instead of just using it for boat position. Those were the days when you really had to work at it and earned every fish you caught.... good times.

I'm pretty sure the Wondertroll existed long before deep cycle batteries.  And nobody owned a BATTERY CHARGER.  Back in those days you'd pull the battery out of your truck.....and park on a hill so you could bump-start it if you ran the battery dead.   The truck recharged the battery.  😉

[vernon]

23 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Shakespeare Wondertroll.   2-speeds (high or low) 😉

Yep that's it.  

Actually occurred to me yesterday when I was out mowin' where I do most of my best thinkin', memberin' and philosophizin'!

[vernon]

9 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

I'm pretty sure the Wondertroll existed long before deep cycle batteries.  And nobody owned a BATTERY CHARGER.  Back in those days you'd pull the battery out of your truck.....and park on a hill so you could bump-start it if you ran the battery dead.   The truck recharged the battery.  😉

My dad was kinda the original Tim the Tool Man Taylor so we actually DID have a battery charger and pretty much every other contraption ever featured in Popular Science or that you could think of.

If mom needed a new toaster dad would first have to take it apart and see if he couldn't figure out a way to make it toast better or faster or both.

Unfortunately I inherited zero parts of his creative and mechanical skills.......🤷‍♂️

[Champ188]

On 6/4/2022 at 4:34 PM, Steve McBasser said:

Champ188..... every now and then Andy or I will run across some of the blueberry worms at a flea market or garage sale. When we do... we buy all of them they have. They still catch fish like crazy....

Yes they will, Steve. There's a certain water color where the blue hues are more visible than anything else. I presume that's when they bite those blueberry worms best.