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For those interested! While the faces are much older now they are easily known to anyone worth there salt in rhody!!
Picture One-Is Andy Lemar,One of the top dogs in the early eighties on the Island.
Picture Three (from left too right) Is Ken Booth-Marty Wencek And Gene Spring.
The second picture is a tad old for me to know.
The other guys all still fish today!! Andy,The man in the first pic,Is 74 years young!!
The fish in the third picture came form Block island in the early eighties. Thats the only place those guys fished. Marty is more into fresh water fishing now and Gene Spring still fishes his old reliable near bonnet shores nightly in the summer.
I was at the reunion john and it was alot of fun.Im not sure you would have liked all the talk about selling bass however,Thats all those guys did in those days,every fish you see in those pics went to market
Look at those pictures and tell me, Do rhody salties Know how to catch the large ? or what!!
I wish more than anything I could turn back time and only live to fish from 1982 till 1986!! I guess those days will never come back which, is one reason why the interest isnt there for alot of those guys anymore and why the new attitudes towards fishing is slowly but surely turning me off to the sport I have done since I was 16 years old.
If those guys showed that many fish off in this day and age , they would be shot!! And thats unfortunate. Many of those fisherman simply quit When there freedom was taken away by the burecrats in politics , who dont know the difference form a striper and a squid!! When they couldent sell there catch anymore,they hung it up.The goverment has a nasty way of deciding just about everything and in the process nit picking every last freedom we have.Now a fisherman sells his catch and he gets looks that could kill.(Not from me)
All the "newbies" want to save the bass! Its a bandwagon effect,They dont know what there saving and why?? They just know some politician decided the stocks of fish were low because He couldent catch a "Keeper" on his weekend retreat in his million dollar home on the vineyard.BTW,This is the same guy who blocks access to the water and eats fish in a restaurant every chance he gets!!
Sorry,I see those pictures and it conjers up old feelings and a deep respect that I have for those "old timers" Real fisherman.So, sorry for the piss and moan session.Im just old school and alwayes will be !!
I look at that and only Drooooolllll !!!!!!!!
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