My first driving experience was in a 1949 Bathtub Nash with a
cracked block that overheated if driven more than 45 miles. My first Fly
rod was a made in Japan post WW11 production, 7 ft, two tip, with reel
line, flies, hooks, sinkers and bobbers, that I found on a back shelf
covered with dust and no price tag in a Wards store in 1953. The clerk
sold it to me for $5. I learned to cast from a book from the public
library and created my own poppers out of thermos cork and chicken
feathers that worked in the farm ponds of central Kansas for bass and
bluegill.
I still love to fish warm water with a popper and nymph dropper
system hear in Northern California; even though I have some of the
finest trout, and steelhead streams available and love to fish salt
water as well. I would like to invite y'all to our Festival of Fly
Fishing in Redding, California October 19 through the 21st with great
tying demonstrations and classes, travel and technique seminars, raffles
and on water experiences including drifts of the SAcramento River where
5 lb rainbows are often produced, Its within an Hours drive of the famed
5 rivers (Fall river, Pitt River, McCloud River, Upper Sacramento River
and Hat Creek all lying in the shadows of Mount Lassen and Mount Shasta.
It is also less than a hour to the famed steelhead of the Trinity river.
You can get all the info about the Festival by googling NCCFFF.
Bob Laubengayer
Member Delta Fly Fishers Stockton, Ca.
Vice Pres. for Education, Northern California & Nevada Council of the
Federation of Fly Fishers
Joseph Fusco, Sr. wrote:
Speaking of first fishing cars, mine was a 1955 Plymouth Suburban that
I got in 1962. It was a HUGE car. I removed the rear seats and that
gave me over 6' of load space with the tail gate closed. Unless I was
carrying my 8' pram, that was more than enough space for every bit of
equipment that I owned. I don't know what I got for mileage either,
but at 25 cents a gallon, who cared.
--
Joe Fusco, Sr.
Member of The Missouri Trout Fishermen's Association and The Virtual
Fly Box
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On 8/17/07, Jimmy D. Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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My first fishing vehicle was a 1938 GMC pickup. Chevrolet has a retro
pickup and little SUV that look very much like my little GMC,
especially
the grille. This old truck had an in-line 6 cylinder engine and was
about as simple as a pickup could be. I don't remember what kind of
mileage I got, but back then 1953, gas was only 25 cents a gallon,
and I
got it free at Dad's service station. In fact, I didn't have to
buy gas
until I went off to college in 1955. My little pickup, (it was
small by
today's standards), would go just about anywhere and I could haul my
little flat bottom Jon Boat in the back, along with my casting rods,
lures, and fly fishing stuff. I didn't have a motor on the little
boat,
and didn't need one. My 3 foot sculling paddle took me just about
anywhere I wanted to go, and I could scull about as fast as a
modern day
trolling motor will go on low speed. Loved that old truck and my
little boat.
JIMMY D
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JIMMY D. MOORE
North Zone Fishing Editor - Texas Fish & Game Mag,
Author - Moon Holler Misfits Fishing & Hunting Club,
Humorist, Past VP Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited,
Member TOWA, Retired Scout Exec. BSA.
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