So how long you been fishing for big fish? Got any pics?

[Fiskadoro]

Originally Posted by WahooUSMA

I used to have a pair of 'daisy dukes' shorts like that when I worked vice!

LOL.. that was back in the day before I had vices.

Definitely the seventies though. Those were my water ski'n Swimin, tubin shorts. I must of spent half my time in the water back then.

Here's the tube I was fishing out of:

Still have it. Found it recently when I was unpacking stuff from my parents house. Posted about it a few months ago: http://www.bigwatersedge.com/bwevb/s...ead.php?t=8305

Here's the location Granbury Dam:

Back then you could legally go right up to the dam into the white water.

I was actually right in between the open gates casting back towards the North side when I hooked it. Pencil popper fish, no grippers or gaffs back then just grab em by the gills. My biggest fear was the it would hang the second treble in my leg. A handful of pencil poppers, shorts, no hat, no sunscreen, a seven foot Shakespeare "wonder rod" with a ABU, 15lb Ande, and the tube and some fins. Those were the days..

You wouldn't catch me out there now without sunscreen or in those shorts either

Jim

[fknricter]

Originally Posted by Jim Day

Still have it. Found it recently when I was unpacking stuff from my parents house. Posted about it a few months ago: http://www.bigwatersedge.com/bwevb/s...ead.php?t=8305

Jim

my first float tube wasnt much newer than this one!! fished the hell out of it and it still floats today!

[j mo]

Unfortunately Pruitt wasnt there to take this pic as it was truely a fish of lifetime. Luckily I was fishing in a PA and this trawler happened to be by.

[Fiskadoro]

Originally Posted by j mo

Unfortunately Pruitt wasnt there to take this pic as it was truely a fish of lifetime. Luckily I was fishing in a PA and this trawler happened to be by.

Lucky is right. I've owned cars smaller then that thing.