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Vintage Bass Fishing Pics
Posted on 6/3/25 at 5:13 am
Posted on 6/3/25 at 5:13 am
My grandfather and friends after a good day of bass fishing. This picture was from the early 60s. These fish were caught in spring bayou in Marksville Louisiana before the Weir was built and was naturally fed from the red river.
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Posted on 6/3/25 at 5:54 am to Potchafa
They ate well that night.
Dad and grandpa used to catch bass and crappie by the ice chest full when Toledo Bend first opened. Grandpa had keys to the oil leases that surround the area around Logansport and used them daily to fish in retirement.
We ate many a bass through the 80’s (I was born in ‘64 and raised eating fresh and frozen in a block of ice bass/crappie). Grandad thought nothing of eating almost every bass he could. He grew up orphaned by 13 and hobo’d around for a decade. Food was food and trophies were for other people.
Dad and grandpa used to catch bass and crappie by the ice chest full when Toledo Bend first opened. Grandpa had keys to the oil leases that surround the area around Logansport and used them daily to fish in retirement.
We ate many a bass through the 80’s (I was born in ‘64 and raised eating fresh and frozen in a block of ice bass/crappie). Grandad thought nothing of eating almost every bass he could. He grew up orphaned by 13 and hobo’d around for a decade. Food was food and trophies were for other people.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 6:31 am to Potchafa
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These fish were caught in spring bayou in Marksville Louisiana
I remember in the early-mid 70’s, Spring Bayou was one of the top bass lakes in the USA. Hard to fathom what it has become now, all silted in, shallow, it’s just terrible. But, that dam/weir on Little River did manage to protect lots of farmland & camps.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 7:53 am to Potchafa
Imagine the stories that group told one another when they were together....I bet they had a blast when they got together like that. Probably was pretty rare for all of them to be together
Posted on 6/3/25 at 9:56 am to Sidicous
We love eating bass too. Crazy how that's looked down upon by some because its a "sport fish". Culling 1-2 pound bass for lakes and ponds is so important.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 10:04 am to Potchafa
Who the heck downvoted a post like this????
Helluva a stranger there for sure!! I wonder if they were throwing any old (to me) H&H spinner baits.
Helluva a stranger there for sure!! I wonder if they were throwing any old (to me) H&H spinner baits.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 11:00 am to TankBoys32
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We love eating bass too. Crazy how that's looked down upon by some because it's a "sport fish".
Sort of like a religion now.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 11:02 am to TankBoys32
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We love eating bass too. Crazy how that's looked down upon by some because its a "sport fish". Culling 1-2 pound bass for lakes and ponds is so important.
I feel the same way. When I was in my late teens, we used to fish a pond on someone's property. He was adamant that we could fish all we want, but just don't keep any bass. That lasted about 2 trips when we were catching underfed fish. I think I took out 15-20 myself over the course of that fall.
The next spring it was like a whole different pond. Chunky 3-4 pounders with all of the 2 pound bass you could catch. That man swore that his catch and release policy was the reasoning for the growth.
I did that for a couple seasons before life took over and I stopped going. Went back a couple years after that and the pond was in bad shape again. I never had the heart to tell him that I filled my freezer for a year and a half to make his pond healthier.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 1:09 pm to Monday
that's hilarious. It's crazy how important and effective culling can be for a bass pond
Posted on 6/3/25 at 1:13 pm to Potchafa
The Bear with a nice haul from somewhere around Tuscaloosa in 1963
Posted on 6/3/25 at 1:13 pm to Potchafa
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Posted on 6/3/25 at 1:18 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
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Sort of like a religion now.
Nowadays people know it's good to cull small bass, they just don't want to. They just want to spend a day on the water and catch fish, not have to clean them and fry them.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 1:40 pm to TankBoys32
quote:Fish biologist who manages our lake also does management for the state. He said state agencies are worried about one thing: people catching lots of fish, so any push to encourage bass fishermen to keep bass in order to grow fish falls on deaf ears in all but a few cases.
We love eating bass too. Crazy how that's looked down upon by some because its a "sport fish". Culling 1-2 pound bass for lakes and ponds is so important.
He said it's why records aren't being broken and you don't catch stringers like in the OP anymore: it's not because too many people are catching bass, it's because too many people aren't keeping them.
Bass fishermen are their own worst enemy when it comes to increasing the number of lunkers. 16-17" bass should be kept, plus they eat good too.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 2:32 pm to TankBoys32
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that's hilarious. It's crazy how important and effective culling can be for a bass pond
Black Bass are sunfish like bream and can spawn multiple times a year and in some locations year round. Like bream if they ain't culled they will get stunted. It is possible to keep to many for certain in a small body of water but its far more likely most populations are at or above the carrying capacity instead of below it. Keep some every once in a while, its good for them.
I fished about a 3 acre pond on the south side of Atlanta from the time I could walk until I was about 30 and occasionally after that until I was about 45. IT was LOADED with 14 inch LM. I am talking catching 100 in 4 hours just about any day of the week any time of year. This lake became choked with coontail moss.....made fishing and swimming unenjoyable, fish thrived in it though. The owner dropped the lake level down significantly and applied fertilized as directed by the UGA county extension agent. It took care of most of the vegetation and the fish populations dropped somewhat due to the lack of cover and forage....but every species in the lake except catfish saw a dramatic increase in quality. Bream went from being 3-4 inches long and present by the gazillion to pushing 12 ounces and being slightly less in number....but the bass went from 12-14 inch fish to 18 inch and better in about a single year...and kept getting bigger and bigger. Again, their numbers did decrease....instead of catching 100 1 pounders in a 4 hour trip you'd catch 20 - 3 pounders...it was FANTASTIC. Instead of catching tiny little bream to small to clean we started catching big old titty bream. For some reason the catfish disappeared completely. Never were many but they were completely non-existent after he fertilized the lake and got rid of most the coontail moss. This little pond also began to produce a serious number of 5 plus pound largemouth and even the occasional 8 pounder. Nothing I am aware of bigger than that but it was 3 acres in what amounts to south Atlanta...8 pounders are kind of big deal anywhere but especially in the area. It was great.
Unfortunately the man who owned this property passed away and as heirs are wont to do they have applied a dose of housing development to it which included draining the lake, removing the dam, backfilling it and building homes where there once was a magical fishing lake. It has not recovered and is unlikely to but some of them houses are settling pretty seriously....
Posted on 6/4/25 at 7:36 am to TankBoys32
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that's hilarious. It's crazy how important and effective culling can be for a bass pond
I have a pic of me and my boys with 100+ bass we took out of a lake. It would piss off all the Facebook bassholes
Posted on 6/4/25 at 8:29 am to Slickback
they would melt! I will say probably about 10 years ago my dad and his friend would catch 20-30 1-2 pound bass out of a large pond we have access too and I was in disbelief thinking he would take all the fish out the pond, but I realize now that it was actually a good thing. Especially for a pond that's not fished a lot.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 10:34 pm to Potchafa
I guarantee you they didn't need some $70K bass boat with a 400 hp outboard and more electronics than an airline to catch all of those fish. My guess would be a 14' DuraCraft with about a 10-15 hp Evinrude engine.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 10:28 am to Slickback
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I have a pic of me and my boys with 100+ bass we took out of a lake. It would piss off all the Facebook bassholes
I culled 60 stunted bass from 8 ponds and a friend posted a pic. It got every negative post you could imagine reinforcing one of the many reasons I don't have youtwitface.
I've eaten many 5 to 10 pound bass. I fish for food.
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