The "Good Old Days"

[Boatloadakids]

You know how it is with us old-timers.  Always looking backward more than looking forward.  Around the first of the year I started doing some cleanup and maintenance on my vast (maybe half-vast) photo files.  I was reminded of some of the great fishing I have had in the past...a lot of which is no longer available today.  And I whimpered a lot.

We are always getting new members on the board and some of them might be prone to discount the tales from us oldsters about how fishing used to was on some of our waters.  So I figured I would resurrect some old pics and put together some narrative to illustrate some of the glories of the past.

You know, you really don't have to be very old to be able to remember spots you used to fish with better results than today.  The combination of drought conditions, increased angler numbers, better fish-finding technology, better tackle and lures and other factors has decreased angler success rates on some waters in only the past few years.  We all have our stories and our rememberies.  What are yours?

Hope you like the attached.

Pat-- Those of us who have fished with you in the past few years know that the first picture of "you" in your write up is a fake. Nice try.