Back in the day I..............

[myemmy]

I bet most of us still have that 1 st Coleman lamp also!

[fishnmachine]

I bet most of us still have that 1 st Coleman lamp also!

LOL.  I still do. It still holds pressure and every once in a great while I'll oil the pump seal.
I'll be dating myself, but I can remember bullheading with kerosene lanterns. 

[rgfixit]

Ha! I remember the old red kerosene lanterns too

And, I still use the Coleman lantern I bought when my Bride and I first went camping together in 1970. It's in its original metal storage case and still has the original globe. I have the stove too.

Love stuff that lasts.

Rg

[Unclegillhunter]

Started out around 58 years ago with a Zebco 77. Still have it.
Keep it safe! JDL

[BLACK ICE]

             Back in the day.......My first fishing pole was just that a Bamboo pole with 12' of line a hook and bobber! I'm not kidding!

[ssbob]

when I was a kid I could not afford a zebco.  odd jobs and cashing in bottles finally bought a spinning combo from the local hardware store  nothing fancy but to me it was the best

[Spider1]

Black ice, me too... except I don't know if it was 12' long cuz I was only 3' tall and everything seemed 12' long to me, lol!!!!

[jibbs]

that I should buy every color of a plastic that I liked and take them out of the package and place them in a plano box...that I should change out all my treble hooks at the beginning of the season not realizing by mid summer they could get rusty in their boxes and finally spool up an entire baitcasting or spinning reel with expensive fluorocarbon or braid without putting any backing on

[legend1]

....watched an old man fly fish one late afternoon. i bought a flyrod the next saturday and tried to flyfish the battenkill river.....and secret service would not let me...president eisenhower was fishing it, so i had to ride my bike back home...20 something miles, lol

[rgfixit]

....watched an old man fly fish one late afternoon. i bought a flyrod the next saturday and tried to flyfish the battenkill river.....and secret service would not let me...president eisenhower was fishing it, so i had to ride my bike back home...20 something miles, lol

Uphill.......both ways

Rg

[Raquettedacker]

You guys are silly, I cant remember that far back..  Heck my bride says I cant remember yesterday...        

[fishnmachine]

LOL.  My bride tries to tell me I remember things that never happened!  

[Spider1]

LOL!! I , uh... what was the question?

[JerryofWNY]

Some 60 years later, I feel exactly the same when I fire up my current outboard and head out on the water. Still a 7 year old at heart when it comes to fishing. Not much better than watching a bobber

Rg

Exactly. The magic of fishing.

[geo315]

The year 1957.  I was 12yoa.  Helped my father build a rock wall around our patio.  Late summer the job was done.  He wanted to buy me something for helping.  I said I would like my own fishing pole.  So, he took me down to the general store and I picked the only pole left.  It happened to be a fiberglass fly rod.  It had a medalist 1494  reel, which I still have and use, on it.  I guess thats the reason I got into fly fishing.    The fly rod has been beating around the family teaching the kids  and now the grand kids how to fly fish.  It has taught 4 of mine and 2 of the grand kids so far.  Needless to say, they are  stepped up  to better rods.  Geo.