Warden
01-09-2004, 08:27 AM
OK, let set the stage, here is some names of things and places, from 25 to 30 years ago, and how things have changed, and how we have changed.
Popular beer : Shclitz, Pearl, Lonestar,Texas Pride, Ballentine,
(every now and then you might still hook one of the cans when fishing)
Popular Radio Stations: KIKK, KENR,KNUZ,KILT,KULF
(remember the "kikk-up truck" bumper stickers?
NO BPS back then: we had three malls, Almeda, Northwest and Town&Country, Globe Shopping City, Woolco, K-Mart, TG&Y, Wooloworths, Gibsons, Wackers, even the Kroger's in Conroe sold socks and underwear and jeans. Remember the Sears mini boating and camping catalog?
My dream boat I had was a 12' flatbottom Gamefisher with a 7.5 Wards Sea King. Tackle of choice was a "Diawa Mini Cast" a floating styro foam 12v 40watt crappie light, (High tech), I was up-town when I got a mushroom anchor and an anchor mate. I had to carry extra shear pins in my tackle box, The hydrilla was so thick it looked like you could walk on it. Jug fishing, it was either a bleach bottle or an anti-freeze bottle.
Fishing Reports: I was lucky i guess, I had an AM clock radio (without a snooze button). That radio was responsilbe for alot of absenteism. I would lay there in bed in the mornings and listen to the early morning fishing reports on KULF 7900 AM,and try to think of an excuse why not to call in sick from work!! (Man those were the days)
Computers, internet: no such thing. Only people like NASA, and places like that had that kind of stuff.
TODAY: The fishermen of today, spend countless hours on a computer, within seconds, you can see how the fish are biting on Lake Mead on Lake Erie. Lake Conroe, Lake Houston. You can meet fishermen and fisherladies from across the country.Catch up on gossip, start gossip, even exchange fishing information . Picture taking cell phones, instant gratification, you can send a picture of your fish right from the boat, still dripping with water. You can call your wife from the boat, to prove you are really fishing. There is green lights, black lights, red hooks, circle hooks. The crappie even have condos nowadays. Depth finders with high resolution graphics, underwater cameras.
When you think about it though, the fish taste the same, we haven't changed we just adapted. Remeber the CBs, we all had one, and our catchy CB handles, Maybe we just upgraded, we exchanged our handles for what is now called a "user name", we all carry a cell phone, Instead of 10-4s, 10-9s, 10-8s and 10-100s, it is IPs, "whats your url", upload, spell check, avatar, thread, html, BBcode, e-mail, instant message, reboot, and viruses.
Just think, the next generation of fisherpeople, migh have sattelite imagery to find fish. taser operated fishing poles, laptop/tackle box combos. night-vision fishing googles, solarpowered remote control spinner baits, who knows.
All of this in the name of fishing!!!!!!!!! You gotta love it!!!!!!!!
Popular beer : Shclitz, Pearl, Lonestar,Texas Pride, Ballentine,
(every now and then you might still hook one of the cans when fishing)
Popular Radio Stations: KIKK, KENR,KNUZ,KILT,KULF
(remember the "kikk-up truck" bumper stickers?
NO BPS back then: we had three malls, Almeda, Northwest and Town&Country, Globe Shopping City, Woolco, K-Mart, TG&Y, Wooloworths, Gibsons, Wackers, even the Kroger's in Conroe sold socks and underwear and jeans. Remember the Sears mini boating and camping catalog?
My dream boat I had was a 12' flatbottom Gamefisher with a 7.5 Wards Sea King. Tackle of choice was a "Diawa Mini Cast" a floating styro foam 12v 40watt crappie light, (High tech), I was up-town when I got a mushroom anchor and an anchor mate. I had to carry extra shear pins in my tackle box, The hydrilla was so thick it looked like you could walk on it. Jug fishing, it was either a bleach bottle or an anti-freeze bottle.
Fishing Reports: I was lucky i guess, I had an AM clock radio (without a snooze button). That radio was responsilbe for alot of absenteism. I would lay there in bed in the mornings and listen to the early morning fishing reports on KULF 7900 AM,and try to think of an excuse why not to call in sick from work!! (Man those were the days)
Computers, internet: no such thing. Only people like NASA, and places like that had that kind of stuff.
TODAY: The fishermen of today, spend countless hours on a computer, within seconds, you can see how the fish are biting on Lake Mead on Lake Erie. Lake Conroe, Lake Houston. You can meet fishermen and fisherladies from across the country.Catch up on gossip, start gossip, even exchange fishing information . Picture taking cell phones, instant gratification, you can send a picture of your fish right from the boat, still dripping with water. You can call your wife from the boat, to prove you are really fishing. There is green lights, black lights, red hooks, circle hooks. The crappie even have condos nowadays. Depth finders with high resolution graphics, underwater cameras.
When you think about it though, the fish taste the same, we haven't changed we just adapted. Remeber the CBs, we all had one, and our catchy CB handles, Maybe we just upgraded, we exchanged our handles for what is now called a "user name", we all carry a cell phone, Instead of 10-4s, 10-9s, 10-8s and 10-100s, it is IPs, "whats your url", upload, spell check, avatar, thread, html, BBcode, e-mail, instant message, reboot, and viruses.
Just think, the next generation of fisherpeople, migh have sattelite imagery to find fish. taser operated fishing poles, laptop/tackle box combos. night-vision fishing googles, solarpowered remote control spinner baits, who knows.
All of this in the name of fishing!!!!!!!!! You gotta love it!!!!!!!!