troutguy
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Glory Day Pics
So anyone have any pics they want to share of the epic coho salmon and steelie runs years ago? I never got to fish them, but thought it would be cool to see what it was like. Pix or it didn't happen  lol
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troutguy
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/28 19:31:17
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/28 21:59:47
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This is from a few years back. I remember lower walnut looking like this most of october. 
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/29 06:21:05
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Prime example of good tandem rig water.
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/29 07:28:58
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rippinlip
Prime example of good tandem rig water.
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/29 07:38:41
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No wonder the snaggers liked the old days. That hole isn't even fishable with out foulhooking fish.
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/29 10:37:34
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+1 ^ Heres a couple...  
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/29 10:53:55
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i'd have a field day with a bugger!
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/29 11:34:32
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freshwaterdrumR
This is from a few years back. I remember lower walnut looking like this most of october.
I would give anything to wreck that w/ a jig.
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/29 11:43:23
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That looks like everywhere the Queen fishes!  ...WF
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/29 17:12:53
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skinny hen caught on June 3rd late '80s from Connie  early 90s winter steelin' There's something magical about fishing while snow is falling   ..l.T.A.
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/29 18:49:44
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that first pic is snagr city! 
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/29 20:30:47
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☄ Helpfulby Spinners 2014/11/12 20:33:04
Ok, posting some Ektachrome pics from the slide projector ain't easy, but thought I'd try to get a few for us oldtimers: Trout Run, around 1977, cars would park on both sides of road, as well as the beach:  Note car parked on beach on right side:  Pig Pen and beach fishing at its finest:  Another beach fishing shot taken around 1978:  Trout Run at pigpen area, stacked with coho/chinook around 1977:  Casting Little Cleo spoons on October day into the surf  2 coho off the beach at Trout Run  Chinook caught trolling off Trout Run in 1980  2 coho, 1978:  Elk Creek above the tubes; this was early October, about 1986 - note lack of other fishermen, truly the "glory days":  
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/29 20:49:09
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This is the coolest fishing thread I've seen on here since I joined! Thank you guys, so much, for posting these pictures. Please post more if you have them. This is really a special thread.
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mike55
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/29 21:16:19
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Awesome pics guys, please keep posting them. No one fishing and salmon runs. Talk about a punch in the face to the people who get all offended when people say "things used to be better"
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troutguy
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/29 21:20:23
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Sweet pics everyone! Keep em coming
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/29 22:01:56
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Found a few more (sorry about quality, taken many years ago with an old Canon AE-1, converted from slides) Elk Creek, 1986, south of the "tubes":  Elk Creek, 1986, north of tubes:  Anyone remember the old 'falls' south of tubes, north of the "old" Whitemans's Bridge?:  Another shot of falls:  Another falls shot:  Chinook taken from falls area, about 1987:  Anyone have any footage or pics of when the tubes collapsed around 1985 or 1986? It was on national news - created a dam - I'll never forget seeing a small travel trailer floating down and through the tubes when it was shown on ABC News that evening.....!!
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/30 08:39:43
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This is a great thread!!! Thanks for sharing those photos....
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/30 10:05:53
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 I think this is the same place as where FreshwaterdrumR took a pick.
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2012/10/30 10:12:33
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Yep Albion...those photos bring back some cool memories thanks!
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troutguy
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2014/09/07 21:23:30
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Bringing this thread back from the dead...
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2014/09/08 06:21:05
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Thanks troutguy for bringing this back up. Cool pics that bring back memories. Glory days for me fishing steelbows were from about '82 through mid 90's. Lots of fish & all kinds of room. Big difference today. Still plenty of fish but can be a real struggle to find space. Started fishing the Erie tribs in 1981. Knew there were good coho runs in late 70's but had zero interest. Too busy casting for muskies at Chautauqua. Still fish the 'bows a lot but now it's just an excuse to get out & hang around with friends, but still enjoy catching them.
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2014/09/08 09:30:11
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Here's a few more...........Mostly mid 80's   Ontario Kings 85.......  70's Trout Run  Black with Salmon no Steelhead in this crowd............ 
post edited by CAPTAIN HOOK - 2014/09/08 23:31:26
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CAPTAIN HOOK
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2014/09/08 09:34:37
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Nice pics guys ..........Albion those are great ! 1982 Erie catch..... 
post edited by CAPTAIN HOOK - 2014/09/08 23:44:04
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2014/09/08 09:44:06
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Great pics thanks for sharing them.
I never fished the creeks in the glory days so it is nice to see the pig pen being fished and the falls on lower Elk for the 1st time...WCW
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2014/09/08 12:18:00
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My Uncle Zeke on the left - with hat backwards...ha ha...with my dad. In Olcot - I'm guessing 1988 - Luckily I got to join them on a trip after this. They both are the reason for my love of Great Lakes fishing...Spent many hours on the water fishing with these 2 clowns...Miss them both... 
post edited by wilbur_83 - 2014/09/08 12:32:36
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Re:Glory Day Pics
2014/09/08 18:12:04
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Thanks for those pictures from the past.I caught the tail end of the glory days for Steel around late 1999 early 2000's.I live in eastern Penna. and when my daughter married and moved to Mars Penna. I finally took a drive up to Erie while visiting one Halloween and wound up in the chutes on Walnut,caught a slew of fish and that was when I was "HOOKED".Had many good trips until recently and remember those previous years as the Steelhead fanastyland years!
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Re: Glory Day Pics
2014/10/07 22:56:31
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Fishing the beach off Trout Run in late October; was such a blast catching coho in these conditions - and seeing them porpoise and roll in between the waves.....  Elk Creek by railroad tubes....again, lack of fishing pressure was pick and choose a spot back then (around 1985)....  Chinook caught trolling off Trout Run  Walnut Creek around 1982  Garcia 6' Conolon 5 star rod - $35; Johnson Century reel - $12; K Mart rubber hip boots - $35; KO Wobbler - $2.50; Fighting a coho - well, you know the rest,,,,,  Coho late 70's:  Mid 80's - again, we could pick and choose spots all day back then......  Trout Run beach fishing for salmon 
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Re: Glory Day Pics
2014/10/07 23:30:56
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Thanks again for the view into the past...WCW
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Re: Glory Day Pics
2014/11/06 13:40:12
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I have to find my pics from my moms house, but I was 11 years old with some nice kings taken out of Walnut back in 81"
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