JCM 8,649 #26 Posted January 21, 2020 @WHX24 In your first pic with your better half holding that minnow is that boat an Alumacraft ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZXT 2,394 #27 Posted January 21, 2020 10 minutes ago, JCM said: @ZXT Now its your turn young man, these dates are from memory but should be close. Pic #1, 2004 2, 1999 3 , 2000 4, 2002 5, 2013 6, 2013 7, 2016 8, 2016 . I was mainly going off of picture 2 and 3. I wasn't very far off! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stevasaurus 22,229 #28 Posted January 21, 2020 If you don't mind, thought I'd put a few memories up here. This is Winter Harbor, also, part of the harbor is a ritzy subdivision called Grindstone. Someone from there had this 3 masted schooner. The 2nd picture is Mr. Dixon's yacht...of Dixon pencils. Check out the life boats. 3rd picture is of the harbor and a few lobster boats. Speaking of Lobster, this is what a Lobster Festival looks like. My wife and friend Tony in the picture. More fish with my 60' Chevy in the background. Scenery shots...Arcadia National Park. This is the stove/ water heater/ heat for our apartment. I just had to add this picture. You can see the stringer had to be tied up in the tree to be able to hold them up. After the Navy, some of us got together for some Channel Cat fishing on Kentucky's Reel Foot Lake. Now, that was a fish fry!! 1 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 63,133 #29 Posted January 21, 2020 Lovin' all these pics folks... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Oldskool 6,582 #30 Posted January 21, 2020 Great pics guys! Looking at all those pics make me wish for open water and warmer weather myself. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 46,771 #31 Posted January 22, 2020 You sayin you like to fish Skool? Pics??? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 46,771 #32 Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) On 1/20/2020 at 8:02 PM, JCM said: @WHX24 In your first pic with your better half holding that minnow is that boat an Alumacraft ? Naw it's an 80's vintage 16ft Sylvan Jimbo ... I call it the garbage skow Heavier than a lead filled turd and the same vintage 50 hp Mariner she can't get out of her own way not to mention 5 gallons of smoke infested gas just to get a couple hundred yards but real comfortable to fish out of. I do have an light older 14 ft Aluma to get into honey holes tho. I'd like to update to something a little more modern but for what little we use it these days hard to justify the $$ .... maybe on retirement?? Speaking of boats ... you gottem ....let's see um... fishing ones or otherwise. JCM ain't gonna care we walk with his thread and if he does we'll have EB take care of our light work! Really like those vintage pics Dino but you lost me on the Dixon pencils thing..... is that really Cris in the lobsta pic?? She sure does have the same facial expressions she has today! Cindy says she resembles Dan's wife in her younger days... I told her she's on crack! Edited January 22, 2020 by WHX24 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 63,133 #33 Posted January 22, 2020 25 minutes ago, WHX24 said: . JCM ain't gonna care we walk with his thread and if he does we'll have EB take care of our light work Don't need me bro.... I got a BBT. 'membah this scene?? 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JCM 8,649 #34 Posted January 22, 2020 Well @WHX24 Jimbo looks like your ole lady an my ole lady are makin us look bad with those 2 monsters your wife is showin off compared to those Bass of ours that I thought were pretty respectable until your post so I thought I would post a few more, always gotta save the best for last. Patti and her brother in Alaska showin off a Halibut that she caught. Will find a few boat pics when I have a minute and post them as well. 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 46,771 #35 Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) Sawweet Jim... Nice pics just for the hallibut! Hope yer happy now fellas ....I'm jonesing now to hook up! Edited January 22, 2020 by WHX24 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 63,133 #36 Posted January 22, 2020 @JCM That's a "helliba" fish!! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JCM 8,649 #37 Posted January 26, 2020 (edited) Ok, time for a few boat pics, have some more of the Lund but I think they are in Mass, will have to get them next week and try to add them when I get time. First pic is my daughter and I fishing out of a Old Town 16' Katahdin equipped with an electric trolling motor, nice to have when the sky gets dark from the west and you need to get to shore quickly. Second pic is a Alumacraft T-14-S , Third is a Alumacraft V -14 and fourth is my favorite a Lund Pro Sport 1600 with a Suzuki 4 stroke. The pics of the Glasstron on the rocks happened in 1999 when I was at camp taking a nice Saturday nap on the Camp porch when I heard a loud noise, ran to the boat and went to the scene and lo and behold the occupants were gone. It took the Sheriffs Dept 25 minutes to show up to investigate. Story has it that the sun was in the operators eye,I think it could have been Happy Hour on the boat? @WHX24 I was going to start another topic for boats but you beat me to it . Also to @stevasaurus For the great boat pics you posted Also to note that the V-14 was an open Aluminum boat that I bought new and turned it into a Bass fishing boat complete with Marine grade plywood and Marine grade carpeting, do it right once or don't do it at all, so the saying goes. The picture of my daughter fishing is hooked up to a Smallmouth in the 16' Alumacraft. Edited January 26, 2020 by JCM 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 46,771 #38 Posted January 26, 2020 Choice Jim! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 63,133 #39 Posted January 26, 2020 @JCM Good stuff there.... Tell your kid the twisted weirdo in Maine said "salutations" ... Got to get the lot o' you up here sometime. Love to see these types of memories being saved/documented. I'd share a boat pic but most of you know what an old canoe 🛶 looks like already... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stevasaurus 22,229 #40 Posted January 26, 2020 Boats...gees, this family has had a few. Some are gone now, but we still have a small fleet. 1. 14' Fisher I inherited this from my Grandfather. It came with a 20 hsp Merc and I upgraded to a 25 hsp Merc. I bought this Rinkerbuilt in 1986. I gave it to my son 4 years ago. He still has it and goes out on the Lake in front of Chicago now. It's 15' 6" with a 70hsp Merc. This is my 16' 6" Alumacraft with a 60 hsp Merc. This was my first boat...Coleman Scanoe 16' and I could put a 5hsp Evinrude on the back. Also have a 14' fiberglass canoe. Dad had the 24' Tracker pontoon boat. Queen Mary. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 63,133 #41 Posted January 26, 2020 20 minutes ago, stevasaurus said: Rinkerbuilt I'm not much of a water guy but if I wanted a boat that'd be it. I like trihulls for their stability and the general looks. And it's orange. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1995 520H+96+97 935 #42 Posted January 28, 2020 https://bangordailynews.com/2020/01/27/outdoors/an-angler-stuck-his-whole-arm-into-water-to-haul-in-this-26-pound-muskie/ 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 63,133 #43 Posted January 28, 2020 2 hours ago, 1995 520H+96+97 said: https://bangordailynews.com/2020/01/27/outdoors/an-angler-stuck-his-whole-arm-into-water-to-haul-in-this-26-pound-muskie/ Ain't that about a fish and a half.... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 59,716 #44 Posted January 29, 2020 On 1/26/2020 at 12:41 PM, stevasaurus said: Boats...gees, this family has had a few. Also have a 14' fiberglass canoe. Dad had the 24' Tracker pontoon boat. Queen Mary. Maybe we need to start a boats thread... unless this counts already! Growing up on a lake, and vacationing on a Lake Michigan often, boating has been pretty commonplace for me too. @stevasaurus must be Queen Mary was a popular little boat name no matter what side of the lake you’re on! Our little Queen Mary had a 2.9 Merc... big enough to be the captain of the lake for me, small enough I could operate it before boater’s safety! My Grandparents lived closer by water than by land so I would take daily or multiple trips per day rides to see them. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 59,716 #45 Posted January 30, 2020 I thought this was fitting. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JCM 8,649 #46 Posted February 1, 2020 One of my favorite fishing holes just south of Moosehead lake near the Appalachian Trail with my daughter. When you hear it coming you tend to put the rods down and watch and listen, not something you see, hear and feel in our normal work week. Gotta love the great state of Maine. 1 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 46,771 #47 Posted February 2, 2020 Real nice day on the hard water today fellas... I caught this nice 30 in pike and not even Dan @Achto got skunked! He got a fighter of a 28 and lost one. Sorry about the short notice Dino @stevasaurus but this was a sperm of the moment thing. Ten flags all day and five fish C&R. Plus one dink perch! 1 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 26,551 #48 Posted February 2, 2020 Had a great time on the lake today with Jim. There was 12" of ice, which some thought was safe enough to drive their trucks on. Jim & I took a safer route and took an ATV with a light trailer in tow to get out on the lake. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stevasaurus 22,229 #49 Posted February 2, 2020 Nice northern... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 59,716 #50 Posted March 25, 2020 (edited) On 1/29/2020 at 2:38 PM, pullstart said: Maybe we need to start a boats thread... unless this counts already! Growing up on a lake, and vacationing on a Lake Michigan often, boating has been pretty commonplace for me too. @stevasaurus must be Queen Mary was a popular little boat name no matter what side of the lake you’re on! Our little Queen Mary had a 2.9 Merc... big enough to be the captain of the lake for me, small enough I could operate it before boater’s safety! My Grandparents lived closer by water than by land so I would take daily or multiple trips per day rides to see them. *Edit* that’s me on the sun deck of the pontoon! I could probably double check, but the first picture above was probably 20 years ago? Note the “shore station” made out of 2x4’s to dock our Queen Mary right next to that pink paddle boat. Side note, ever tried to sink a paddle boat? We used to get about 6 or 8 people on it, then stand on the front of it to get the foot wells filling. It would eventually topple and flip and send us scurrying to climb back on. I spent countless hours cruising the lake, bringing Grandpa a meal, taking the dog for a lap or 20... it leaked so much, you had to bail it out before leaving and keep a coffee can handy to scoop it out as you never really had the power to get on plane. That 2.9 Merc never did let me down! My Grandpa Frank is captain of the pontoon in the second picture. He was my father figure growing up and was quite the character. He’d read the paper in our driveway every day and then go home, learned how to email via AOL when he was ‘bout 90, called just to see if the phones were working today, and “always kept a blonde in the closet”. My sister in law posted this on her Facebook at some point recently. The house on the hill that my brother bought from ma has since burnt, been rebuilt and recently sold... now they own a nice big yard but not the best view, along with the lake’s island directly behind the “new” pontoon by the boat house. It’s pretty cool. The Queen Mary somehow ended up at my cousin’s house for quite some time. He has a pond out back that is very stocked with fish but the boat mainly sat on shore. It’s now back at the lake, halfway between where I grew up and Grandpa’s house. How’da’ya like my paint job? I’m pretty sure that was a product of masking tape and exterior house paint... obviously not for marine use! Edited March 25, 2020 by pullstart 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
