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When I was a young boy fishing with my dad, we had had a great day. We
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Jan 30, 2024, 11:36 PM
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had a basketfull of big ole crappie on Clarks Hill....The basket had a small rope tied on the handle and you tossed it over the side into the lake when you stopped so the fish would live until you put them on ice to come home. Well...it was getting late but not all the way so we were gonna ease over to another spot using the 18 horse Johnson motor instead of wasting time paddling. No electric motor back then. Anyway, my dad sped up just a little and then we heard..."Tink".....and about 2 seconds later it hit us....The rope to the basket had snapped and the fish were headed to the bottom of Fishing Creek (if any of you know that spot).....and I, mad and sad, looked at my dad and he said,"Well son, you might as well laugh as cry....".......
I don't know why that memory came back to the forefront tonight....but it did.
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Aaaand ... it's isn't about the fish when you're with
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Jan 31, 2024, 6:33 AM
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Dad. Glad you have the memory. My biggest fishing memory with my dad, we never stopped a hook. Spent all day riding around the countryside in a 1948 Wyllis jeep looking for the fishing hole he spent time at as a teen.
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Re: When I was a young boy fishing with my dad, we had had a great day. We
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Jan 31, 2024, 6:34 AM
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Been there done that...your dad was right..the only thing you can do is laugh that one away.
Was out trout fishing by myself in my first boat as a young man. 14ft monark with an old 35hp rude. I had caught three 20"ish specs on the Stono and had them on a stringer. When sun went down I boogied back to the island I was camping on to clean and cook my catch over the fire. Halfway back it hit me like a rock...the stringer!!!....when I came off a plane I knew they were gone and just sat in the middle of the river idling laughing at my folly.
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I share my crappie with friends....take them to my neighbor....have a fish
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Jan 31, 2024, 6:52 AM
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fry,etc. But, trout out of the Wando....they are kept close to home....
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Re: When I was a young boy fishing with my dad, we had had a great day. We
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Jan 31, 2024, 7:14 AM
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That's a great memory Spud. They are funny afterwards, but they suck at that moment. A group of guys and I were fishing for big Warmouth Bream down in Florida on the St Johns river about 5 years ago. We caught a ton that day and had just gotten back to clean them at the fish camp we were staying at. One of my buddies put a bunch of them in one of those round barrel shaped de-scalers (you know the kind that spin) while we were getting stuff off the boat. He forgot to lock the door, and when he turned it on everyone of the fish were dumped back into the river. We laughed about it off and on for the rest of the trip. Things like that happen, but they make for the best memories.
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Re: When I was a young boy fishing with my dad, we had had a great day. We
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Jan 31, 2024, 7:38 AM
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man them FL bream in Lake Okeechobee are fat and delicious
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Re: When I was a young boy fishing with my dad, we had had a great day. We
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Jan 31, 2024, 8:06 AM
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We've been there there and Lake George fishing for bass and bream. Watch out for the alligators!!!
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Re: When I was a young boy fishing with my dad, we had had a great day. We
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Jan 29, 2023, 12:43 PM
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I was a little guy and dad left me at the dock holding the rope for the boat. He had to park a long way away. I noticed once he left the transom plugs were out. As it sank lower and lower I yelled for him. He got back just in time and we got the boat up on plane and ran around till the water drained out.
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Re: When I was a young boy fishing with my dad, we had had a great day. We
Jan 31, 2024, 11:17 AM
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We never have found the plugs for our pontoon boat...
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Re: When I was a young boy fishing with my dad, we had had a great day. We
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Jan 31, 2024, 8:49 AM
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That is a great memory. I grew up fishing with Dad on Hartwell. More often than not the live well was empty at the end of the day but I wouldn't trade any of those days.
One in particular is that we had just launched the boat and as we started out we were turning right back to the landing. I was little and crying my eyes out that we weren't going fishing and didn't understand why. I found out why as I looked into my parents bedroom and my father was laid out across the bed while my mother was trying to cut the barbs off the hooks that he had in his behind. As we got out of the car to go fishing, Dad stuffed a pack of Eagle Claw hooks in back pocket. Didn't remember that he had done that until he sat down in the boat.
That's the good stuff. That's the ones we remember.
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Re: When I was a young boy fishing with my dad, we had had a great day. We
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Jan 31, 2024, 10:37 AM
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Thanks Spud. Some years ago I was fishing Fishing Creek and hung something that took me forever to drag in. When I got it up to the boat I could see it was a rusty fish basket. I swear it had some of the biggest crappie I had ever seen. Some of them must have weighed 7 pounds or more and they were outstanding fried up.
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Sheeeeeooooottt!! That's hard to believe...but knowing your character I will
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Jan 31, 2024, 10:40 AM
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have to take you at your word.....about to head to Russell. Haven't been in a month...
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Re: Sheeeeeooooottt!! That's hard to believe...but knowing your character I will
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Jan 31, 2024, 10:49 AM
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Never fished Russel but one time. The water was so high the bass were grazing along with the cows. Caught two on a Fescue #3.
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Just got home a little while ago...I'm gonna have to run back out to the garage
Jan 31, 2024, 8:26 PM
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and get my waders....................
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Re: Just got home a little while ago...I'm gonna have to run back out to the garage
Jan 31, 2024, 10:02 PM
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Speaking of waders reminds me of the time daddy and me went duck hunting on the Combahee out of Sugar Hill landing. It was miserable with light rain and sleet. we made it out to the #### where the blind was. The wind was blowing so hard we had to put extra weight on the decoys to keep them in one place.
We settled down in the blind waiting on sunrise. Daddy always carried a small kerosene heater just in case somebody got wet. Like I said it was miserable so daddy lit the little heater off. We huddled over it trying to stay warm. Just about first light I saw a flight of ducks kiting on the wind. Daddy hailed them and they turned but never dropped in the decoys. This went on for several hours. Finally daddy said we might as well go. I eased out of the blind to go get the decoys and lo and behold there must have been two dozen ducks sitting on top of the blind huddled around the vent hole for the heater warming.
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Re: When I was a young boy fishing with my dad, we had had a great day. We
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Dad took me fishing with him every Sat. morning on Lake Wylie, and my job was to pull the stringer in when we started to move. I cherish every memory I can conjure up from those times, and I appreciate that time spent with him now a lot more than I did then. Still though, favorite part of the morning was stopping at the bait shop and getting a chocolate milk and nekot cookies.
Thanks for stirring this up!
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In all seriousness...if every boy had a dad to take him fishing, hunting, to
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Jan 31, 2024, 8:28 PM
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play golf, tennis, etc.etc.......there would be a lot less crime in the world....
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Re: When I was a young boy fishing with my dad, we had had a great day. We
Jan 31, 2024, 5:30 PM
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That sounds just like your dad!
You mother told me one time that your dad was a "crappie lover". Right after she said it I was laughing and said "Linda, would you like to rephrase that?". Of course I knew what she meant, but wasn't sure the others at the table knew!
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He would have rather seen a cork go under and catch a 1 pound crappie, than to
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Jan 31, 2024, 8:30 PM
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see an 8 pound largemouth blow up a spook!
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But I will say, it was a neat thing to come home and try to go to sleep after
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Jan 31, 2024, 8:32 PM
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you had been at Clarks Hill all day and seen your yellow cork go under about 30 times. When you shut your eyes to go to sleep,all you would see was that cork going under...
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Re: When I was a young boy fishing with my dad, we had had a great day. We
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Jan 31, 2024, 8:35 PM
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One time I put my string of fish over the side to keep them wet and a gator š chomped them up. With me still in the boat. True story
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Re: When I was a young boy fishing with my dad, we had had a great day. We
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Many a time we have had a string of bass or bream chomped up by a snapping turtle.
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Re: When I was a young boy fishing with my dad, we had had a great day. We
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The first time I went fishing with my father-in-law, it was a dream. He and his friends had been fishing one of the va naval bases for 40+ years. They always went trolling for crappie. I didn't say much about it, but I put on my jerk bait for bass. They all started in on me... You can't catch fish with that, the kids dock is over there, etc. well, they all stopped when I got a bass on the first cast. My father-in-law then starts in on " beginners luck" . He rolled his eyes when I pulled out a nice 6er. We would spend a week on those ponds, catching more fish than anyone had a right to do, sharing fellowship and making memories.
Really miss those days. We had several years of talking smack. He was a prince and a fisherman. Dementia is a horrible disease
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Re: When I was a young boy fishing with my dad, we had had a great day. We
Jan 31, 2024, 9:22 PM
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Money could not buy the good times and memories I have from fishing and bird hunting with daddy.
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I remember me and my dad had loaded up on pan sized bream
Feb 1, 2024, 7:57 AM
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camping one night. We left them on a stringer tied to a dock as we slept, only to wake up and find turtles had eaten our meal.
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Great story, Spud. I also went fishing with my dad, but it was a different kind
Feb 1, 2024, 9:23 AM
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of fishing altogether. I was a tall kid, tall enough to see over the steering wheel of a truck or car by the time I was ~10 years old. And, from that time, on nearly every Saturday, it seemed, there would be a farm equipment auction somewhere within easy driving distance of our house in Providence Community, SC.
This was around 1964, and a lot of farmers were either dying out, or just getting out of farming. My dad was still farming away, and very rarely bought NEW farm equipment. Since he was a genuine "DIY" guy, he could buy a relic for next to nothing, and resurrect it into a useful piece of machinery for pennies on the dollar. Or if not, he would add it to the growing pile of junk trucks and tractors in our back lot, which amounted to a huge captive spare parts inventory. Farmall tractors of the time were NOTORIOUS for snapping rear axles in half. All we had to do was go back there, jack up a junk one, and unbolt the whole axle housing and do transplant surgery.
Now, it seemed that at nearly every one of these sales, he would buy an old junk farm truck, or tractor, or implement, or just some off the wall something or other. And if it had wheels, and a steering wheel, guess who got to steer these things home behind a tow bar? Yep,, my 10-13 year old self. He would most likely get arrested for that these days, but hey, it was 1964-66!
My favorite cringeworthy story about auction sale acquisitions did NOT include me driving, thank goodness. Dad bought a nice used combine off a sale one time. Only problem was, the sale was in Bishopville, which was a good hour+ drive from home. In a CAR. On a combine, with a road speed of less than 10 mph, it took him almost a whole 8 hour day to drive that thing home. Yes, you heard me, he drove a farm combine home on the road from Bishopville to Providence. The reason it took so long, other than the slow speed, is, he kept having to pull over whenever possible to let angry lines of cars pass him on the back roads he had to take. Ah, the good old days.
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