when we were young....

[wisconsin heat]

2010 is it! its a the start of a new decade, so lets all celebrate by going back to what turned us on to bass fishing! that means im throwing rapala original floaters, and every available soft plastic rigged weightless! who is with me!? and what will you be throwing this year!? ;D

[Hammer 4]

8" swimbaits... ;D

Seein how I don't have any baits left over from the early 80's.. :'(

[Blue Streak]

I would like to have some of my favorite old baits but they are all collector's items now.

[swilly78]

I started with crawlers and minnows.  I dont see myself using those again, except for catfish.....

[Radical Conservative]

Ahhhh.... The sound of a jitterbug...  8-)

[tnbassfisher]

I started with crawlers and minnows. I dont see myself using those again, except for catfish.....

x2.

It was always fun. But just seems a little boring to me now.

[RobE]

Bill Dance was in his early tweens and Jelly Worms actually tasted like jelly. You could buy little 4 oz spray cans to "renew" your Jelly Worms if the factory scent didn't get you high. Jimi Hendrix was gone but Jimmy Buffett was good. We ate a lot of chloresterol and watched the Denver Broncos win the Super Bowl. I bought a truck from John Elway and the tranny went out six years later.  >

[b.Lee]

I watched Bill Dance tv shows when i was a kid.  I saved up bought a South Bend Red Bait-caster combo and one chartreuse strike king small spinner-bait.  Tied it on. Cast about 15 feet, and back lashed to hell!!!!  While I was sitting there picking it out for about 10 minutes with the lure still in the water, something almost a yanked the rod out of my hand.  So I started hand pulling the line back in and behold it was my first large-mouth bass, 4 pounds of glory.  After that I was hooked.

I was 13 years old.

[Fishing Rhino]

While I had a ball with them when my age was still a single number, I ain't goin' back to a bamboo pole, kite string, a cork thermos bottle stopper for a bobber, a can of earthworms and a hook that rusts before it gets wet.

It was great in its day, and a great way to introduce kids to fishing, and inexpensive to boot, but it wouldn't excite me today.

[mako]

Had a 6' rod and a spinning reel, used my Dad's wader that had a small leak.  Waded the marshes of St. Clair or sneak into the marinas.  We'd throw Panther Martin spinners and pre-rigged plastic worms with the propeller on the front.  Good topic.  Funny thinking back.

[simplejoe]

I grew up on my dad's pontoon boat and a canoe, we always fished with a splitshot and a minnow or worms. He had bought me a Tom Manns rod, I called it the Christmas tree the bottom half was green and top was red, I still have that rod.

[NitroBass23]

My first bass came jigging for panfish on the marina docks nextdoor.

[salmicropterus]

Well I go back a ways. Started fishing in MO at LOZ, Bull Shoals and Table Rock with minnows and we basically crappie fished and caught the occassional bass. My dad would also use a jighead and a long worm and he called it a "jig and eel" and would drag it on gravelly banks. When they came out with spinnerbaits he just shook his head and laughed. He had an Ambassadeur and spent a lot time picking out tangles and  I had a spin-cast Abumatic. I also had some sort of baitcaster but was under strict orders to not cast with it and just use it for vertical fishing. I guess Dad didn't want to be picking any more birdnests than his own LOL. The only fishing show I remember was a guy from Missouri named Virgil Ward. When I was 8 or so I caught a very large bass full of eggs-it weighed 8 pounds and the people at the Indian Point Marina at Table Rock took a lot of pictures and made a big deal about it. I cannot find any pictures of it but maybe it is still there on a bulliten board or something (it'd be the kid that looked like Larry Mondello {you know the kind of heavy dull kid in Leave it to Beaver}. Lot's of memories of fishing and all good. Don't really know why I left it for over 40 years but I'm glad I'm back at it

[D4u2s0t]

I started fishing pieces of bread and corn for carp when I was about 4, that's boring fishing to me, not going back to it lol.   

This year, i'll mostly be using a bluegill swimbait, money minnow, stick baits, and assorted rage tail baits.  These baits cover all the bases, speed, depth, varied amounts of noise and vibration, and I don't think i'll need anything else.  I never saw the need to use 200 million baits in a day, if you can't catch fish with what you're using try making your presentation better to match what the fish are looking for.  That's my philosophy, and that's what i'm going to work on this year.  Bettering my presentations.

[bassinbob54]

i remember sitting on the bow of my dads old boat.throwing those 1st "rubber" worms with 2 hooks in them and a little tint blade swivelling in front on the worm..caught a lot of fish like that..

[pennyankees]

a trip down the new river with a few dozen hellgramites and a few dozen lizards....... thats the life

[clipper]

I started out fishing shiners in the St. Johns River in Fla.  Then graduated to Big Daddy Fliptails on a weedless hook split shot rig.  I would still fish them if I could find some.  Caught my best bass (11+ lbs) on a Fliptail in Lake Lanier in the late sixties.

I would like to be throwing swimbaits to Allatoona Spots this year, but it's beginning to look like I would have to quit my job to have time to fish.  Since my wife refuses to eat roadkill that probably won't happen and I will work instead of fish.  :'(

[RobE]

i remember sitting on the bow of my dads old boat.throwing those 1st "rubber" worms with 2 hooks in them and a little tint blade swivelling in front on the worm..caught a lot of fish like that..

You're hardcore 'old' like me!  :

[bassinbob54]

lol  yep thats the truth..but still fishin