I know pictures of pictures suck but these are from yesteryear! Lol
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Lil Shady there is my best friend growing up, he had never touched a rod in his life, turned the open faced upside down on his first cast. This private pond I used to have was such fire... I used to use a Bass Pro lure called a "top knocker" nothing better than un fished waters where pretty much anything works. I'm teaching him how to cast, literally lure hits the water and that stubby pig destroyed it. Luckily hooked itself because it was a solid minute to get him to understand how to reel! Lol yup first cast ever was about a 3 pounder!
My favorite fishing pics here, spent a ton of time fishing in my younger days but hardly ever took pics. My name is Benjamin 3rd... this one is 3 generations including my long past Pop Pop, he went by Lee, my pops goes by Benji and I am Benjamin within the fam.
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They are old school live baiters with Shinners, mine were tubes only. Like my life of poker story I have shared many times on the forum... nothing I wouldn't give for just one of these days again with my drunk pop pop... (tearing up, I don't look at these often, we all move on and they same time heals all... but not always true!) Man that old picnic table has layers of fish scales in the wood grains... table is still around BTW, we built that too!
Pops and I with a couple nice Crappie, obviously rednecks don't practice much catch n release. I don't eat bass but otherwise they are destin for the frying pan! Lol
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