Early Ike
Right about the time he was getting his first taste of Bassmaster tournament trail competition, and nearly a decade before he’d score his infamous Classic title
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Month: December 2021
Cochran Takes ’87 Classic
George Cochran (Right) of North Little Rock, Ark., watches as his fish are weighed Saturday during the final day of the BASSMasters Classic fishing tournament in Louisville, Ky.
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The Writers – Stan Fagerstrom Part 1
Fagerstrom started writing about bass fishing in the mid-1940s. He was published in just about every magazine associated with bass fishing since that time and conducted casting clinics or exhibitions over a good bit of the world since the ‘50s
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1984 Tide Craft
What we’re looking at is a 1984 Model Year catalog from Minden, Louisiana boat manufacturer Tide Craft. Tide Craft was a maker of boats of all kinds including bass boats in the 70s through the 80s.
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Bass Caster’s Association – BCA
Back in the day, if you were going to start a bass organization, a magazine wasn’t far behind. As far as we can determine, BCA got its start in late 1968 early 1969 holding regional events in the Illinois/Indiana region.
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1968 Burke Flex-O Catalog
But read the description and there’s no mention of Texas or rig. Instead, the rig is called the “self weedless worm with special Slide Sinker.” The Texas rig would not receive its name until just after the start of the 70s. Below that they were even selling the EK102 “Professional Series New ‘Slide Sinker’ Method Erthword Kit.”
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Elias Wins Gaston
Here’s a quick look back at Paul Elias’ first Bassmaster win taken from a news clipping out of a local Louisiana newspaper.
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Getting a Line on Lines
As you can see in the old photo from 1984, he took his research of line visibility seriously, going into the water to photograph and test lines.
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Smallmouth Magazine
By the 1980s, some smallmouth aficionados decided that their needs weren’t being fully met and out of that need came Smallmouth, Inc.
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1970s Tuner Gear Kits
This week I’m going to discuss what today would be called 1970s Tuner Gear Kits. These high-speed conversion gear kits allowed an angler to change out the old 3.75:1 gears in the ABU 5000 and 6000 reels and improve the ratio to near 5.0:1.
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