Remember when.......... ?

Remember when ........the Erie limit on Steelhead was 8 fish !             (  Add more old memories )    good or bad !
 
........when you were allowed to clean fish on Erie shorelines and creeks !
........when you caught only Coho Salmon and Trout were a rare catch  !
........when people payed to fished in the Pig Pen ( Trout Run Marina )   !
........when you had to pay to park or enter Elk Creek access  (east side only) !

Mitchel 300's, Conolon rods, 14 pound test, and watching people dragging big orange KO wobblers on the shale flats not knowing that the water was only 4 inches deep.

Doberman patrol on Manchester pool. Posted from Manchester to Rt5.
 

..........you could drive down to Follies Campground Rd. in Nov. and see only 2-3 cars parked !
.......... when Velveeta cheese was a top bait for Trout !
.......... the Banjo Minnow !
 

CAPTAIN HOOK
Remember when ........the Erie limit on Steelhead was 8 fish !             (  Add more old memories )    good or bad !
 
........when you were allowed to clean fish on Erie shorelines and creeks !
........when you caught only Coho Salmon and Trout were a rare catch  !
........when people payed to fished in the Pig Pen ( Trout Run Marina )   !
........when you had to pay to park or enter Elk Creek access  (east side only) !

 
I don't go back that far.
Don't think i crossed the Pa boarder til somewhere in the mid/late '80s .
I "think"  Whittman's bridge area just below  the railroad trestle was where i caught my first Pa steelie
 
it's funny, i had caught plenty Coho over the years..but never knew they were coho.
I just thought they were odd skin color/complexion  steelies with gingivitis....fo-reel 
 
It wasn't til years latter I was fishing Da'Nut and landed a pretty decent  sized  fish (for Pa average size at the time)
maybe 7 pounds or more
the duud next to me said, "Wow, that's a nice Coho"
 
"Oh, so that's a Coho?"
 
seen more than a few Browns over the years too (before they started stocking)
never new what they were either til i actually caught one of those 2 or 3  "reddish looking steelies" in a run with a dozen fish  .
Didn't know what kind of trout it was  when i landed it, but knew it sure wuddn't a steelie  ...not so with the Coho..
 
..L.T.A.

CAPTAIN HOOK
 
.......... the Banjo Minnow !
 

 
I watched a guy absolutely  SLAY  'em in a gin clear, no flow, large  pool on Connie years ago.
he'd cast, slow retrieve a couple/few  feet and let it sink...then kind of "hop it" a few feet at a time  across the bottom .
Didn't matter where he casted it...fish were coming from 40-50  feet away  to crush it
 
It was cool watching him work that Banjo
 
 
..L.T.A.
 
 

I could get out of the sack and be on the water before sun-up
 
https://youtu.be/m7QwteLR4fs?t=4   This guy kinda reminds me of somebody I've seen fishing around here............  nahhhhh, must just be the mustache. 

wanderer
When there were so many fish even I could catch them

Yes it was unreal.....I named it Steelhead fantasyland back then...many fish and few people.

Got another one.....
Anyone remember the hunting and fishing store just up from the CYS club on Holland ? 1950's ??? I used to know the lady who owned it after her husband died. She would let me and my buddies in there when ever we wanted anything. A bag full of hooks, bobbers and sinkers for 5 cents. I remember buying a couple of bamboo crappie rods for 50 cents. My own private little store. Then one day it was all gone. She had a sale where everything had to go. My dad bought a shotgun shell vest. I still have that thing today.
Yep, memories.
sniff, sniff

Those are some oldies but goodies ! I remember when people use to drink water out of the spigot with a glass, all bottles now !
 
How about buying crawlers now days you get 10 in the container instead of 12 !

python73
Walcat, buddy.  The war is over.  We... well, we didn't exactly "win" but... never mind.  Charlie, on your six!
 
Captain, remember when:
 
- you had to use rotary phones?  phone booths?  PHONE BOOKS?!
- when google maps was called "triple A" (with a bunch of printed maps and a sharpie)
- when craigslist was called "newspaper want ads"
- when your fish pictures had to be developed?
 
Just sayin.  The good old days weren't ALL good.  

 
Here now!!!!  What do these young punks know about the "Good Old Days"??

Phew I got 9 years till I'm old then.

OK... how about the gate at Walnut Access being a cable that you had to wait to be unlocked?
 

   The pond between Kelso Beach & the campground back in the 60's.
 
crappy

You never saw a bobber on a fly rod.
You had to put a deposit on beer bottles. The bottles had grind marks where they rubbed together while being washed.
Returning soda bottles to Catrabone's (Cats) for a dime, and three bottles would equal half a bag of candy.
GE traffic.
Mooneye at Hammermill's discharge pipe.
Bait shop at 6th and East Ave.

Too old for me but, ... blue pike.

How about when we collected (60's )Topps baseball cards....10 cents a pack, stale hard gum included ! Now there's a hundred varieties of cards. 
How about metal eyes on fishing rods ! Had to file the grooves out after so long so your line didn't ruin .