How old were you.....

[Pop1414]

Hey y'all were lucky to have the truck. My son and I would load my 10 footer into the hatch of my little Chevy car with about 5 feet sticking out the back. Always put the battery in the front and slid the trolling motor in as far as we could.

Heck yeah!! My son and I hauled in a Isuzu rodeo sticking out back for awhile

 

[fish hawk]

Back in the day my bud had a old buick station wagon and a 12 ft gheenoe,with the back seat down that old boat slid perfectly in the back of that station wagon,good times!!!

 

[Taco4x4]

I kept my 12 footer in the back of my Yota 24/7. When I went to work I would back it up till it touched our fence so no one could steal it. Get off work and straight to the lake or river. As said above take the battery out of my Yota after I parked it on a hill because most of the time the battery was dead and had to roll down the hill in 2nd gear and pop the clutch. Those were the days. Now I keep a bass boat hooked up to my Tacoma 4 or 5 days a week and it cost me a lot more money than my old Jon boat did.

 

[Pop1414]

I’m sure. But nothing like being in a small boat on small reservoir. No traffic running up and down the lake. Just peaceful ?

 

[Browniez]

I remember being thumped on top of the head with a jiggerpole , because I was making too much noise as I was sculing the boat.

Is jiggerpole fishing as fun as it looks? Looks like an absolute blast!

 

[oldguy]

Me and my partner still scull, or I should say went back to sculling, dadblame 'lectric trollin' motor an aggrivation in the rocks on the river. Late summer, late afternoon the wind, water and day is calm, cooler already got a mess, it's hard to decide which is more fun/relaxing - fishing or sculling.

 

[oldguy]

... and real cane poles rigged tied together w/ a strip of sheet cloth sticking out the back window. Or riding in those holders that attached to the rain channels on the car.

 

[Anvil Head]

Used to tie them over the side mirror and to the back door handle. But when we took the tractor we just held them in one hand and kept the bait bucket between our knees.

 

[oldguy]

Used to tie them over the side mirror and to the back door handle. But when we took the tractor we just held them in one hand and kept the bait bucket between our knees.

!!!

 

[Anvil Head]

Pop was too cheap to by any holder. He had five kids to hold them on the short trips. I remember hunting night crawlers, knocking down wasp nest, seining creek minners, catching craws, periwinkles, and helgramites was almost as much fun as fishing (not to mention a tube of hoppers or bag of 'talpa worms).
Yessir, fun being a kid in a family that loves to fish n hunt!

 

[Ruger#3]

Lawd, this brings back good memories. I surely couldn't afford much back then. 12 ft V bottom with oars with an old 5 hp that had a slide throttle. I caught a truck load of fish out of that boat. It was a permanent fixture in the back of a Chevy, 6 cylinder with 3 on the column. Fished ponds, rivers and even saltwater bays in that boat. There was always a coating of beer, fish and bait in the bottom of that boat.

 

[crackerdave]

Lawd, this brings back good memories. I surely couldn't afford much back then. 12 ft V bottom with oars with an old 5 hp that had a slide throttle. I caught a truck load of fish out of that boat. It was a permanent fixture in the back of a Chevy, 6 cylinder with 3 on the column. Fished ponds, rivers and even saltwater bays in that boat. There was always a coating of beer, fish and bait in the bottom of that boat.

I fished West Point a lot from a Coleman Crawdad with oars.It's a great way to troll s-l-o-w! I'd get folks asking me if I needed a tow? and when I'd load the boat up,folks would say "You caught all them fish in that boat???"