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<blockquote data-quote="tellico4x4" data-source="post: 5649134" data-attributes="member: 2474"><p>I haven't fresh water fished to amount to anything since 1994. Used to live on Wilson for 25 years & now live 1/4 mile off it. Tournament fished hard from 1979 til 1991 and got burnt out. Sold 3 boats & got serious about western hunting. Have a 12 year old grandson that likes to fish but sports is a big interference. Nearly two years ago I bought an old Bass tracker from [USER=11819]@dmonty[/USER] with intentions of fishing with him. Like I said, sports got in the way and haven't even put boat in water. Couple weeks ago I told him that we were going to fish or I was selling it. That did the trick! He's got All-stars tournament this week & basketball camp next then it's on. I've spent last two weeks getting boat in order & going thru my old fishing tackle. I'm talking about thousands of baits. Have chunked a bunch of stuff, set aside some to give away and condense what's left. Of course spinner baits were a mess with melted skirts and such. Stripped the skirts, cleaned up what I could & chunked the rest. Looked on Amz for new skirts & what few they had were too pricey.</p><p></p><p>Today was wading thru 3 old weigh-in bags of plastics and in them I found a gallon bag of skirts in original packaging so 90% were good! Even found a few partially built spinner baits that I made in mid 80's and a whole box of unopened Pop Top Buzz Baits!!! They were made in Lawrenceburg and one of my sponsors. Doubt that there is a better buzz bait built today. Of course I'd already cleaned up 50-75 of them from an old tackle box.</p><p></p><p>Below pic is some of the treasures including skirts for 15 cents, Fred Arbogast Snagless Sally skirt ( young fishing hot shots will have to Google that), a card of hand tied jigs for 50 cents each, unfinished spinner baits & one of the Pop Tops. The skirts with orange dot are from the old Color Celector gadget that caught a bunch of us fisherman. You lowered a probe to whatever depth you wanted to fish & it told you what color. Don't remember it ever paying off for me but the dial looked cool mounted on my console <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]182333[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]182334[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tellico4x4, post: 5649134, member: 2474"] I haven't fresh water fished to amount to anything since 1994. Used to live on Wilson for 25 years & now live 1/4 mile off it. Tournament fished hard from 1979 til 1991 and got burnt out. Sold 3 boats & got serious about western hunting. Have a 12 year old grandson that likes to fish but sports is a big interference. Nearly two years ago I bought an old Bass tracker from [USER=11819]@dmonty[/USER] with intentions of fishing with him. Like I said, sports got in the way and haven't even put boat in water. Couple weeks ago I told him that we were going to fish or I was selling it. That did the trick! He's got All-stars tournament this week & basketball camp next then it's on. I've spent last two weeks getting boat in order & going thru my old fishing tackle. I'm talking about thousands of baits. Have chunked a bunch of stuff, set aside some to give away and condense what's left. Of course spinner baits were a mess with melted skirts and such. Stripped the skirts, cleaned up what I could & chunked the rest. Looked on Amz for new skirts & what few they had were too pricey. Today was wading thru 3 old weigh-in bags of plastics and in them I found a gallon bag of skirts in original packaging so 90% were good! Even found a few partially built spinner baits that I made in mid 80's and a whole box of unopened Pop Top Buzz Baits!!! They were made in Lawrenceburg and one of my sponsors. Doubt that there is a better buzz bait built today. Of course I'd already cleaned up 50-75 of them from an old tackle box. Below pic is some of the treasures including skirts for 15 cents, Fred Arbogast Snagless Sally skirt ( young fishing hot shots will have to Google that), a card of hand tied jigs for 50 cents each, unfinished spinner baits & one of the Pop Tops. The skirts with orange dot are from the old Color Celector gadget that caught a bunch of us fisherman. You lowered a probe to whatever depth you wanted to fish & it told you what color. Don't remember it ever paying off for me but the dial looked cool mounted on my console 🤣 [ATTACH type="full"]182333[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]182334[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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