Was at my folks house over the weekend for an early Thanksgiving and dug through some old picts......
1st 2 picts are from a trip to Rochester NY in '95, would have been 17-18 yrs. old. I caught one of those big coho (biggest of the trip) hanging in the middle but couldn't find the picture of me holding the fish... have to dig more next time i'm there.
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Next from '92 maybe. 30" L. Erie walleye caught off the break wall @ Mazurik Access on Thanksgiving night. Can remember that trip well! VERY cold night melting ice out of the eyes of the rods. Was the only fish me and my Dad caught. Caught on a Rattle trap late at night and didn't make it home till wee hours of the morning.
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This one is from '90 off the old Sunshine Skyway bridge in Florida fishing with my G-Parents. Fish was a yellow tail something-or-other.... can't remember the name.
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No date on these 2 but would guess around '90 or so. Big bluegill from my parents pond and some more L. Erie walleye... my older brother on the left, me in the middle and cousin on the right.
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Couldn't find too many ones older than those, but i know they have alot more. They must be tucked away in other boxes. These 2 will fit in well with RadT's knee sock pics......
This one has a date of '85 on the back so would have been about 8 yrs. old. Taken at my G-Parents retirement community in Largo Florida. Check out that Big Mac Hat!!!!! hahaha. Also, hard to see them, but those purple/black worms with the bullet sinkers hanging off the rods were the 1st memories i have of fishing (successfully) with artifical baits. Grandfather taught me how to fish them and man did i love it!
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Last one has no date but would have been around the same time frame, maybe a year or so earlier fishing off a Gulf pier near my other G-Partens house in Brooksville Florida, north of Tampa. I would be the one with the white hair sporting those in-famous 80's striped tube socks.
Looks like my brother was working to remove a fish (probably a grunt) that my Mom had caught. I do remember catching a few spotted trout and running some small crab traps off that same dock. Good memories.
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