Your old fishing photos

[Ken L]

Rather than take the "Fishing as a lad!" down the photo route, I thought it might be nice to share a few photo's from yesteryear.

Aleady posted but this is a pic of me aged about 7 with what was probably my first middle Severn barbel. The second one is me (on the left) fishing one of the piers on the Isle of Wight circa 1977. My first decent bass (From Branscombe in Devon), and finally, me (on the left) and my brother with a couple of Branscombe thornies in about 1979.

Edited December 21, 2007 by Ken L

[Codger]

Cica 1974 can't remember what fish it was!!!!

[Dick Dastardly]

When I came back from Germany in the 80's good old customs managed to loose 5 photo ajbums of mine.As such I have very few pics of me as a youngster.I would give anything to have those albums back again.I have one old "Polaroid" snap of me though that my Mum kept.I was around 15 and it was at a local water that I used to love.I will see if Andrew can put up a copy on here.

[Bobj]

Taken in 1976...Barramundi, 1.17 metres. Keep River, Northern Territory

The small barra weighed 14 lbs.

[Ken L]

Bob you're doing it deliberatly to get me twiching. A mate of mine had a 17kg barra in India the other week and I'm just itching to get back out there and try to beat it.

Hopefully, I'll be able to scan in a few more old photos before then.

 

Budgie. I feel for you mate. Old photos aren't something you look at often but once they're gone they can't be replaced.

One of my jobs for this year is to scan a load of the photos and slides that I, my parents and other family members have and get them stored digitally. I'll then get them secreted away on half a dozen peoples hard drives and backed up on a solid state flash drive or two.

Should a flood, a fire or something similar ever happen to destroy the paper prints, at least the memories wont be lost forever.

I already have a mates family photo's on my machine as part of his insurance policy and it's not like they take up a lot of disk space.

[coarsefish-torbay]

Whatever happened to that slim young man with a fine head of hair?

[Ken L]

The hair is still there but the head expanded with the rest of me and now you can only see the tips of a few of them.

[Dick Dastardly]

I know the feeling Ken! Your right about the photos mate gone never to be replaced.

 

Mind you the ones Ive still got taken after I returned still tell a story! Was looking through one of the carp albums quite recently to try and ID a fish for a friend.Whilst looking I turned the page and there was one of him holding his first ever carp from the water in question,"Look!" I said "Martin when he still had hair!" He smiled dryly and pointed at a photo of me "Oh and Budgie when he still had a waist!"