Of late I have become quite obsessed in my pursuit of retro things. This may be somewhat related to the fact that I'm of an age that I can consider myself retro. But as I have become "older" I've been going more and more back to the stuff I recall from my youth.
This spring I've gone back to using a cane pole for fishing.
It started out as a joke. I was in Dicks sporting goods and I saw some shrink wrapped cane poles for a couple bucks. I bought one just to see how I would do. The joke was on me and my fishing buds.
We went out for an evening of fishing on the local lake. I took my regular stuff to use after the cane pole proved to be usless. I never got around to using my nice Garcia rod with the modern Shimano reel.
Using a piece of night crawler and a bobber made of cork, I ended up with a nice stringer of panfish that went into the pan that night.
Since then I've been using this nice bamboo takedown pole, a small plastic rubber maid container of hooks, split shot sinkers, and a few cork bobbers made from wine bottle corks. I feel so freed of the burdan of the rod and reel and big takle box, I'm traveling light now.
Since I've been fishing the antique way, I wanted to keep all my gear circa Maybery 1950's. I've been using my sodbuster style knives as my general use fishing knives. After using a beer bottle cap nailed to a stick for scaling, the sodbuster is a great knife for gutting and cutting off head and fins. The wide flat ground blade is very sharp, and opens up a fish belly like magic. Rinsed off under hot water, dried and a shot of 3 in 1 oil in the joint, and they do very well.
Oh, and the fish were fried up in a cast iron pan!
This spring I've gone back to using a cane pole for fishing.
It started out as a joke. I was in Dicks sporting goods and I saw some shrink wrapped cane poles for a couple bucks. I bought one just to see how I would do. The joke was on me and my fishing buds.
We went out for an evening of fishing on the local lake. I took my regular stuff to use after the cane pole proved to be usless. I never got around to using my nice Garcia rod with the modern Shimano reel.
Using a piece of night crawler and a bobber made of cork, I ended up with a nice stringer of panfish that went into the pan that night.
Since then I've been using this nice bamboo takedown pole, a small plastic rubber maid container of hooks, split shot sinkers, and a few cork bobbers made from wine bottle corks. I feel so freed of the burdan of the rod and reel and big takle box, I'm traveling light now.
Since I've been fishing the antique way, I wanted to keep all my gear circa Maybery 1950's. I've been using my sodbuster style knives as my general use fishing knives. After using a beer bottle cap nailed to a stick for scaling, the sodbuster is a great knife for gutting and cutting off head and fins. The wide flat ground blade is very sharp, and opens up a fish belly like magic. Rinsed off under hot water, dried and a shot of 3 in 1 oil in the joint, and they do very well.
Oh, and the fish were fried up in a cast iron pan!
You made me grin from ear to ear.. Sound like you and I had the same upbring'n on the same lake! I still live just south of the big "O" and can remember the best eat'in I ever did came from that lake.. Thanks Man.
