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• micci_man Posts: 15,027 AG

  July 2018 #2

  ARS are eating all of them.

  
  

  Cool old pics.

  Common Sense can't be bought, taught or gifted, yet it is one of the few things in life that is free, and most refuse to even attempt to possess it. - Miguel Cervantes

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• mplspug Posts: 16,016 AG

  July 2018 #3

  People were a lot shorter back then.

  Just dropping grenades in OT

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• surfman Posts: 6,017 Admiral

  July 2018 #4

  Did they go to the middle grounds? I bet they didn't need to go that far.

  Tight Lines, Steve
  My posts are my opinion only.
  
  Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.  Will Rogers

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• BryanC Posts: 644 Officer

  July 2018 #5

  There are still keeper gags in the bay.  Smallest one in this pic was 26".  Biggest was 34".  Last fall inside Tampa Bay.
  

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• mustang190 Posts: 10,104 AG

  July 2018 edited July 2018 #6

   Now wait a cotton pickin minuet!!
   There were no GPS, color bottom machines and triple motor center console boats back then. No way you could catch fish!!!😏

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• Reel Teal Posts: 3,963 Captain

  July 2018 edited July 2018 #7

  And they didnt need to go on the internet to ask where the fish were.

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• Enyar Posts: 101 Deckhand

  July 2018 #8

  I was looking at some old pictures from when my inlaws first moved to Tierra Verde back in the early 80's. The grouper/redfish/trout they would catch in their back yard was unbelievable. I've fished the same dock with the kids and now we're lucky if we catch a catfish?

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• AC Man Posts: 7,455 Admiral

  July 2018 #9

  I have a picture of my Grandfather and his much younger son than my Dad on the dock of a Daytona head boat in the late 50's.with the catch. If you came in with this haul today it would make headlines. I've never caught a thing on those same type of boats in the same area.

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• Top Contender Posts: 619 Officer

  July 2018 #10

  It ain’t all bad now a days, it just isn’t as good as it once was.
  
  https://forums.floridasportsman.com/discussion/261035/big-gags
  

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• AC Man Posts: 7,455 Admiral

  July 2018 #11

  Conchy Critter said:

  Top Contender said:

  7It ain’t all bad now a days, it just isn’t as good as it once was.
  
  https://forums.floridasportsman.com/discussion/261035/big-gags
  

  It's not if you want to run 50+ miles to get them. :-( You used to be able to do that within site of land.

  That was my point. I know you can run to 200 ft in the gulf and catch some nice fish. I'm talking Daytona head boat in sight of land. Nothing more than a boat ride today.

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• Top Contender Posts: 619 Officer

  July 2018 #12

  AC Man said:

  Conchy Critter said:

  Top Contender said:

  7It ain’t all bad now a days, it just isn’t as good as it once was.
  
  https://forums.floridasportsman.com/discussion/261035/big-gags
  

  It's not if you want to run 50+ miles to get them. :-( You used to be able to do that within site of land.

  That was my point. I know you can run to 200 ft in the gulf and catch some nice fish. I'm talking Daytona head boat in sight of land. Nothing more than a boat ride today.

  I hate to tell you but used to died, you used to be able to buy gas for $0.69 a gallon. A ford truck Used to cost $2500 brand new. And you Used To be able kill a limit of quail within walking distance of the house.
  
  Short of closing all fishing both recreational and commercial down for 10+ years, and I mean closing it all down, you can kiss those days goodbye. 

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• mustang190 Posts: 10,104 AG

  July 2018 #13

  Fishing has been made to easy now. 
   I have said before, modern electronics and reliable boats/outboards have a huge pressure on fish stocks, especially inshore. 

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• surfman Posts: 6,017 Admiral

  July 2018 #14

  Yep and people still complain about regulations too.

  Tight Lines, Steve
  My posts are my opinion only.
  
  Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.  Will Rogers

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• Duckster Posts: 545 Officer

  August 2018 #15

  My grandpas fish story was he drove from Homosassa to St. Pete in the 50's to go out on a headboat don't know which one. When the Capt. got close to the area they wanted to fish the deckhand would drop a window weight with a ball of wax on the the end to find the structure.
  

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• surfman Posts: 6,017 Admiral

  August 2018 #16

  If the wax comes up with sand they move if it comes up with gravel they fish, something like that.

  Tight Lines, Steve
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  Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.  Will Rogers

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• Look Out Below Posts: 3,827 Moderator

  August 2018 #17

  It's still the same out of Sebastian you just need to know the small ledges.
  

  

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• mustang190 Posts: 10,104 AG

  August 2018 #18

  surfman said:

  If the wax comes up with sand they move if it comes up with gravel they fish, something like that.

  We use to use Octagon soap. 

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• AC Man Posts: 7,455 Admiral

  August 2018 #19

  I've heard the dragging wax method from the old timers as well. Electronics has come a long way. In 1966 my Dad bought a 30ft Chris-Craft constellation. It had a compass and an Antiquated depth finder. We lived in Fort Lauderdale then I just moved down from Tennessee  and my dad was a  Lake boat  guy .My mom was always trying to get him to go to Bimini but he wouldn't do it. Back then most people only went to Bimini in a group out of Fort Lauderdale.

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