THE GOOD OLE DAYS

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Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on November 18, 2012 at 8:09pm

OOOOH SO RIGHT DICK!!

Comment by dick tabbert on November 18, 2012 at 6:54pm

Thanks Tooty them were truly the good old days never to be duplicated but what did we know. We loved the stories and thought everyone told the truth then as we got older we may remember the stories and wonder how much was stretched out and altered to make them more exciting. But regardless the stories kept our interest and we learned a lot along the way because we were indeed curious.

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on November 18, 2012 at 6:34pm

YUP LARRY, now the kids hang out in the Mall or techno shops , and guess that's better than hanging out on a street corner somewere.  

   When we are gone Larry it will be up to the kids like Leo , SIr Jeffrey , and some of the others on here to carry on the Legacy of old timer stuff. Hope that's not too soon , but ya never know what fate will hand you tomorrow, and that's probably good in a way. 
   Wish I had opened a shop but my town is small , but I do have an old buddy that comes over 3 times a week in the winter and we sit down in the BUG MAKING CAVE and talk about the good ole days and what we did as kids.

  Don't know if a MOM AND POPS place could make it today with competition from the big box stores. You would have to create an atmosphere were the vintage talk and vintage stuff could replace the stuff made today, probably couldn't happen because there simply isn't enough of the vintage tackle left to buy up to stock shelves with, but we can dream.............

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on November 18, 2012 at 5:42pm

EVER WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WONDERMENT OF the changing of the seasons , when were kids. I used to look forward to going up to Earl Gielows gun shop on the weekends after deer season and listening to the stories from the well respected old hunters there. I can remember the smell of the pot bellied stove Earl had going constantly going then. Seemed to get lit sometime after Labor Day. The smell of the old newspapers in the corner in an old time bushel basket used for storing bundles of em and some small kindling. Warm as toast in there when the wind was howling outside. 

   Always was a big buck hanging in the rafters , some times two , and I used to Wonder at the sight of the massive brow tines were they always had a tag hanging . 

   Yup I"d walk in and Earl would say cmon in and pull up a chair. I always went to the back out of respect for the Elders of whose stories my every breath hung on. All the old gentlemen are gone now as is the old shop.
  Lots of times after spending the afternoon there I'd get home and my mom would say , were ya been all day, and I'd just say Earls . She understood, I think, it was my way of gaining knowledge with out having to go to the library . I've mostly always hung around with guys older than my self so I could pic their collective brains.........

  Down at the local bait shop , ACE HARDWARE, in La Salle was old MR. Stien . HE WAS AT THE TIME the best fisherman I knew and had endless stories of up north memories. Mr. Stien and Earl knew each other cause they both sold guns, and of course in Mr. Stiens case tackle too. OOOOOOOOh the tackle!
  TOO MUCH VINTAGE STUFF TO LIST HERE but it was all good stuff as I remember. The Fred Arbogast baits , one and  all, the old Heddons', the then new Rapalas , South Bend Bass Oreno's , Bill Plummer Frogs, Lazy Ikes, Red Eyes.......... Once in a while Mr. Stien would point out the Red Eyes were a Canada style bait as if Canada was a far away place and no one actually goes there unless they want to catch Northern Pike or Muskies!!!!

  Come to think of it there is a reason for mentioning all this : were do the kids hang out today? All the old Earls and Mr. Stiens are gone, sadly. ONce in a while when I'd go in Earls he'd offer me his hand to shake , Like he did With All the older men that frequented his shop. I"d take it and shake his hand and come to think of it he and Mr. Stien always had a smile on their old weather beaton faces and a twinkle in their eye , Like they knew something you didn't . Won't forget their hands either. Skin as soft and thin as parchment , but always firm and friendly shake. When I did have money to buy something it was if I was doing them a favor just being there and willing to spend hard earned paper route money, and made it seem like I was there best customer ever!!!!!! GEE'S WERE HAS THAT ALL GONE TODAY? Go  to most any store and there isn't a smiling face anywere to be seen on the staffs faces, seems like disgust. 
   All this was brought on today when I walked into Menards looking for something, bead chain, to make my bead chain lures with. I was walking in at shift change apparently and asked the kid walking in next to me, You happy the holidays are right around the corner? He said you kidding, I HATE THIS PLACE!!! Guess that goes down in the unhappy column for workers attitudes . Oh well they didn't have what I wanted anyway so I just left . Wish MR. STIEN was still alive....................

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on November 18, 2012 at 9:23am

IN THE SHADE!!!!!!!!!!LOL GOOD ONE LARRY!

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on November 17, 2012 at 7:56pm

Yup it was deep between the north shore and the island if the resort owners were to be believed . Never heard that one about the still but can believe it . Up north in the old days was much different than today I suppose .......

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on November 17, 2012 at 10:16am

UNBELIEVABLE LARRY!!!!! I remember that Island well and my cousin and I attempted to swim to it once and he got a cramp and nearly drowned !!!! If not for a passer by in a boat he would have .
   My son still goes to Minocqua  because of his trail riding on his motorcycle . Matter of fact he'll be up there this coming week when his kids are out of school for break and they take a short family vacation there every fall....... SMALL WORLD BUDDY!

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on November 17, 2012 at 9:30am

YA KNOW LARRY your resort stories remind me of when I was a kid. 
  We ,my family and I , went once up to northern WIsconsin to a lake called Squirrel Lake. Can't  remember the name of the resort but it was classic North Woods place. 
   My cousin Zane was with us on this trip and being youngsters we naturally were into every corner of the lake. We had a small boat that came with the cottage and it had oars and no motor of course. 
    At the end of the lake by the resort was an small passage between this lake and another small one . Of course we had to go exploring and of course were bass fisherman than, NO LOWLY PANFISH FOR US!!! 
    WE would catch small live frogs and put em on a size 4-6  weedless hook and toss em out in the lily pads in this small pond and routinely the bass would come up and hit em and of course rip the frogs off and we would always miss em . My cousin ZANE being the brighter of the two of us came up with a simple solution to the problem. He made a little slip not harness out of old black fishing line and we'd secure it to the front of the hook through the eye and put the harness over the frogs front legs and around his belly just in front of the back legs. THen we commenced to catching bass on at least every three casts or so and the frogs didn't come off easily any more after that . The highlight of the trip though was an evening meal at a place called HICKS LANDING approximately 30 miles west of were we were staying . It was a kind of supper club built on a lake there and had windows all around it so you could watch the lake as you were eating your supper . What a place and don't know if it's still there or not. I"d like to go back sometime to see the old spots and see what else I would recognize from my youth.....

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on November 17, 2012 at 9:00am

GREAT STORY LARRY and thanks for posting it. What's the name of the lake again?  I can see the kids now running up and down the dock and messing around in the water!!!!

Comment by dick tabbert on November 16, 2012 at 8:26pm

Thank you for the comeback Larry. I was trying to figure out if I knew the lake or not but after I seen your location I don't think I do I'm only familiar with some of the southern lakes.

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