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LETS TALK ABOUT THE GOOD OLE DAYS WHEN LIFE WAS SIMPLER AND ALOT LESS COMPLICATED AND GET BACK TO ESSENTIALS, FUN!!!

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Does anyone remember renting fishing boats? 9 Replies

When I was a kid growing up in the ‘50s and ‘60s very few people that I knew owned a boat. Being raised in one of the thousands of subdivisions that sprang up after WWII I don’t remember one person…Continue

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FRIENDS REMEMBERED , WHILE I STILL CAN REMEMBER EM..... 2 Replies

BACK when I was a young married man I came to Troy Grove, the birthplace of my wife of 42 years now.. I was at the post office one day getting my mail , no home delivery , then or now. There was an…Continue

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" MUSINGS ON GETTING OLDER " 2 Replies

AS I sit here pondering how to start this I"m listening to " WALTZING MATILDA" by the Seekers. I associate the song with my time spent in Austrailia as a young man ..... They have a different…Continue

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THE BUCKET LIST OF 10 THINGS OR LESS FROM THE GOOD OLE DAYS! 19 Replies

AFTER READING JANS COMMENT ABOUT A BUCKET LIST LETS START ONE IN MY GROUP: 10 ITEMS ONLY OR LESS ABOUT THE GOOD OLE DAYS ON FAMILY , TACKLE , FISHING OR ANYTHING PERTAINING TO THAT STUFF. HERE'S…Continue

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Comment by dick tabbert on February 27, 2012 at 6:29pm: Nice story Leo. They do have bluegills in Vietnam. When I was based in Na Trang back in the hills there was a small lake and I amazed myself when I saw them.

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on February 27, 2012 at 6:24pm: YEP DICK they were the good ole days! The cats were actually good eating specially since we did'nt have much else. I'll keep this group going to BRUCE REPLACES US ALL with younger dudes! Don't think that's going to happen cause Bruce , even tho he does'nt comment on all the posts on this site, I believe he reads most of em. I think he may even enjoy some of the Ole Geisers like me putting up these little novelettes to read and have a few chuckles about .
By the way DIck I"m going to make every effort to come to OHIO this year to see you and maybe catch a gill or two. I could probably learn a thing or two from the OHIO MASTER!!!!!!

TOOTY

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on February 27, 2012 at 6:16pm: GREAT ONE LEO !!!!!! that's the kind of story I"m talkin about! YOu were right about the adult supervision in those days. We didn't need any cause we were kids brought up the right way. Now adays can you imagine letting your kids loose for a week on their own, no cell phones or other modern devices, just kids haveing fun on their own. Traveling by bicycle 10+ miles from home and no one bothered us. No police swat teams watching us to see what we were up to .
TADPOLES IN THE SHORTS HUH LEO!!!! GOOD ONE "LOL" I CAN IMAGINE IT NOW!

Comment by dick tabbert on February 27, 2012 at 6:15pm: Wow I guess that was really fresh fish and even tho they were catfish I know they were good going down. Keep the old day a rollin David. Nothing like them old memories. I'm saving all mine so If the boy's want to see what dad done growing up they will be there. But if not my little fisherman who love's to fish with Grandpa (Cheyenne) my side kick loves to read. Maybe some good reading material for her.

Comment by Leo Nguyen on February 27, 2012 at 6:06pm: Nice one David. Similar story to when I was back in Vietnam. No adult supervision, a group of kids doing martial arts training in the woods all day, and hungry. No luxury of bologna sandwiches of course. We went tadpole hunting for baits, as well as large fighter ants on trees and around the barren areas near the jack fruit trees.

I had the luxury with the 5 kids in hunting the tadpoles down, while the other 10 kids hunt down the ants. Not fun when bitten by those major pincers. We wallowed in the shallow muddy pond areas to get those tadpoles, and surely enough, plenty of fish, what I could recall in appearance were tilapia like bodies (similar bones amount and all), catfish, carps, and possibly bluegill of some type. Not certain. We had the idea of having tadpoles being chased by these fish into our pants (tied off on the legs' sides), and trapped them, after discovering that a few tadpoles got into my pockets and down my shorts, with fish decided to chased after them as I stood still in the water. Tadpoles and my little man down below suffered the faith of being swallowed alive.

Those with ants, and tons of bite marks, returned, scattered the ants just above the large banana leaves weaved together like a net, and once they were eating over the leaves (4'x4' in dimension), we got ourselves the lunch/dinner.

Oh..stories to tell the my kids. Now, my boys cover their little guys when I show them the ice cooler full of fish that stared at them from beneath their shorts *LOL*

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on February 27, 2012 at 5:53pm: HEY LEO,
HERE'S ANOTHER ONE FOR YA:

WHEN I was a kid back in the early 60's I had a grandmother that lived in a little town called Seatonville, Illinios. I grew up in La Salle Illinois with my family.
My Older brother who was the family fisherman fished for everything from bass to catfish and everything inbetween.
My town was located on US Route 6 and went west all the way to the west coast and all the way east to other ocean.

   For something to do in the summer time when school was out we finally got permission from my Mom to take a little trip out to see grandma . We of course only had one mode of transportation and that was out trusty Schwinns. We loaded all our gear on those bikes and headed out one morning. We had fishing poles , jugs for catfishing at night, food , sleeping bags, canteens, and clothes. My brother and I and two cousins were on our way to our big adventure. It was 13 or so miles to get to grandmas place and we rode aaaaaaaaaaaall day long to get there. Just 4 kids no adult supervision and llllllllots of gear.
The lake in question was called Lake Adelpha and was a small city lake at the base of a big slag heap and was originally made as a small flood control lake.
   Grandma lived two blocks from the lake so we checked in with her  and went up and set up camp at the lake.
   First thing we did was make a camp fire that ran for a week solid. Lots of logs laying around there in the woods . We set up camp got gear squared away and commenced our adventure.

We put out Linco bottles with drop lines on em for the catfish and baited em with chicken parts that had been rotting for a week back home of course. By the way you probably don't know what a linco bottle is but back in the day they were a bleach bottle.
   We borrowed one of the boats layed up on the shore and kept it up by the open sided shelter were our base camp was and used it for the whole week . Back in those days you could borrow almost anything as long as you didn't damage someone elses gear.

We'd take the jugs out early evening let em float around all night and check em about 3 am. Rebate em if we had too and take the cats to shore , clean em , and eat em in the morning.

No life jackets of course on the boat , we were kids and did'nt need em!

It went this way for a week . LLLLLLLLLLLOts of bolongna sandwiches and fish to eat. Dead tired ever night and never slept so good in my life. That next week end we left for home fulfilled with lasting lifetime memories . Got home and our folks were actually amazed we had no trouble or anything happened that no one was not prepared for . Few minor scrapes and bruised up some from swinging on the rafters at the shelter , but really a great trip.
   By the way Leo , that lake also had llllllots of crappies in it and some big gills, but that's another story.

TOOTSTER

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on February 27, 2012 at 4:58pm: WELL LEO, you are right about the info and stories on this site or my group THE GOOD OLE DAYS. I had to think awhile about your responce . LEO YOU COULDN'T BE MORE RIGHT about handing off the notes to future generations . I"ve been keeping a set of spiral notebooks for years and have em in my safe to keep for my kids. Don't know why they haven't requested to read em yet , maybe cause they know they'll get to someday.
I had lots of entries in these books about my trapping and trap line adventures, hunting trips , fishing trips, and all the rest.
I'm sure Dick and I and some of the other guys will keep you guys dreaming and laughing about the old days! We didn't make this stuff up, just lived it is all.

Thanks to young folks like you and a few others we now have someone who will listen to us.

TOOTY

Comment by Leo Nguyen on February 27, 2012 at 4:51pm: Amen to that David. Amen that. Bruce didn't know what he started when he established this website. This website is GOLD! You see this Bruce?! GOLD!

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on February 27, 2012 at 4:48pm: DICK HOW RIGHT YOU ARE ABOUT BRUCE AND THE GENIOUS OF HIS IDEA!!!!! NOT just you and me Dick, Leo, and all other buddies on this site EVERY ONE ON THIS SITE OWES HIM, BRUCE, A GREAT BIG THANK YOU. Maybe our kids some day will be as fortunate as we have been ,DICK , to be on this site or one like it.
HEY BRUCE THANKS FOR MAKEING THE SITE HAPPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE and everyone on it owes you.

TOOTY

Comment by dick tabbert on February 27, 2012 at 4:07pm: Leo/Fish Professer I guess really they are a novels, true stories which if it were not for this post may have never seen the light of day. This site really has a way of letting yourself loose and being laid back. I think I have many fishing friends hopefully I will meat some personally that would be a good thing. I think we owe Bruce a big thank you for making it happen. So thank you from the bottom of my heart Bruce. Thank you for coming up with this site and having the fortitude to make it happen. I'm thinking you came up with a home run.