Ouachita’s 1974 Boat Catalog
Ouachita’s 1974 Boat Catalog takes us back to what bass boats looked like and how they were outfitted in the early 1970s.
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Old Bass Boats – 1975 Part 3
In Old Bass Boats – 1975 Part 1 and Part 2 we covered the bass boat manufacturers of 1975 and what...
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Old Bass Boats – 1975 Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we covered bass boat manufacturers from Airgator to Hydra-Sports. In that piece we saw a drastic change in the technology of bass boats, where they were moving from tub-style fishing boats to pad-style high-performance machines.
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Old Bass Boat Ads – 1974
when one looks at the ads, we see some companies didn’t seem to pay attention that prices were on the rise, while it’s obvious that other companies were going to wait it out before they made a move to embrace new technology. Then there were the companies who were sitting in a perfect position for an energy crisis.
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Old Bass Boat Ads – 1973
By 1973, bass boats and bass boat companies were coming out of every one-stop town in the U.S. In 1972, 11 manufacturers put ads in the top bass fishing magazines and 1973 would feature 15 boat manufacturers and I’m sure there were a number of other companies who hadn’t yet made the leap to advertise.
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Old Boat Ads – 1972
The second ad makes my back hurt. I’m reminded daily what it’s like to be in a boat of this hull configuration when they got air like this.
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Old Boat Ads – 1970
Although the boat manufacturers came up with a lot of advances, it was the anglers themselves that developed improvements in the boats. For example, the Flipping Deck was a result of someone wanting to be higher in the boat in order to better position themselves for the cast. The outlawing of bladder tanks (extra fuel tanks stored on the deck between the rod lockers that would collapse as the fuel was consumed) gave rise to larger stock fuel tanks.
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