Posts for: Sterba43
Oct 8, 2020 21:06:21 #
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Geomike, Love the imagination and construction of the old lures. Thank you for posting the pictures.
Oct 8, 2020 08:45:55 #
Oct 7, 2020 20:48:29 #
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FourchonLa. wrote:
I’ll take it that you visited the Bear Creek Western store on occasion and ate your share of muskedine jelly.
Absolutely, the Kings who started the store drove our school bus and I went to school with their kids. I remember fishing on the Tickfaw river an coming across some loaded muskedines vines, I quit fishing and started picking. When I got home my mother showed me how to make the jelly, in other words I did everything.
Oct 7, 2020 19:34:59 #
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FourchonLa. wrote:
Caught many a redfish and specs in GM and Leeville as well as Fourchon and Grand Isle. Excellent fishing still. If you’re ever back down this way, look me up.
Will do. BTW, I was raised in the little town of Montpellier, just East of Amite on Hwy 16.
Oct 7, 2020 19:12:35 #
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FourchonLa. wrote:
Yes it is. A trip to Timbalier island one day. Couldn’t keep em off the line. But whose complaining? 😁😁😁
Nice catch for sure.
Oct 7, 2020 19:10:56 #
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Wow you guys have been hammered. Last time I was in your neighborhood I was catching Reds in Golden Meadow. That was in 72 or 73. We headed out to catch Specs but the water was to bad for the boat we were in. Came back to the landing, anchored and caught a ton of Reds.
Oct 7, 2020 19:01:47 #
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That’s really sad. When you loose the Mom & Pop places you loose the personal family style friendship touch.
By the way, is that Specs in your ice chest?
By the way, is that Specs in your ice chest?
Oct 7, 2020 18:48:15 #
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FourchonLa. wrote:
My dad used to take us to Steinberg’s years ago to buy fishing and hunting gear. Still have the brick paved streets there. It was close to the old Holmes and Barnes general mercantile where my grandfather worked.
Just noticed, FourchonLa. Man you are really South Louisiana!
Oct 7, 2020 18:45:09 #
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MJC wrote:
Next time I’m out, I’m going to take a few pictures to show you guys where & what I’m doing. We’re so far back in these little coves that there is no room to cast. Your mostly pitching into heavy thatched areas at about 24 - 18 inches of water. My motor is trimming completely up and sometimes we have to get the troller up and drift and use an oar.
Picture of fish work too!
Oct 7, 2020 18:41:02 #
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Yes Sir. I loved the glass enclosed stuffed Polar Bear they had. The old store was great, the new one on Florida Blvd wasn’t the same. The last time I was there was 1990, don’t know if it is still there.
Oct 7, 2020 18:33:57 #
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They use to have practice plugs and we would go out in the back yard and practice casting, The practice plug plug was almost as much as a new lure so we use an old empty Testor paint bottle filled with water as a practice plug. Practice at home so you can actually spend time fishing when your on the water and not undoing backlashes.
Oct 7, 2020 17:12:09 #
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Robert J Samples wrote:
Does anyone remember fishing with old metal rods? Seems like they were hexagonal, or some shape, not round or square. The ones we had took on a bend and were no longer exactly straight. During the war that was all you fished with because you couldnt buy any new stuff. Just Sayin....RJS
I remember using one a friend had, it did have flats on it hexagonal seems right. I know it was old at the time. Good Memories for sure Robert. Thanks.
Oct 7, 2020 17:05:59 #
Oct 7, 2020 16:52:13 #
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It’s really cool having memorabilia from your parents and grand parents every now and then using them.
Oct 7, 2020 16:33:15 #
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Robert, your right, those were the basic lures along with the River Runt and the Injured Minnow. I still had those original lures a Pflueger Akron reel and 6” fiberglass rod I bought at Stienberg’s in S. Baton Rouge in the Fall of 1953 until a fire we had In our storage shed 7 years ago. It was kind of heart breaking loosing them along with some of my dad’s fishing gear and other old rods, reels and lures. There were two Zebco 66 reels my mother got for two of my younger brothers with S&H Green Stamps. Got to love a mother that does that!