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Pros Tackle in '71 Classic
Does anyone know or know how to find out exactly what rods-reels-lures-line the pros in the first classic were really using. I would love to know and i doubt i'm the only one. The boats and motor are common knowledge but the personal choices they made about all the rest must be kept in some kind of record or archive or something. Just curious...but i'm willing to bet that 5 out of 10 beginners today are using higher quality stuff.
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GREAT question! Looking forward to seeing what folks know.
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You can betcha, that it was on 5 1/2' pistol gripped rods with ABU Garcia 5000C, 20 # Mono, 5/0 and 6/0 Eagle Claw Worm hooks, 1/2 oz Bullet sinkers and 9" to 10" Creme Fliptail worms. H & H Spinner Baits, Shyster In-line Spinners, Devil Horse top water and Torpedos, Big O Crankbaits, Bucktail Hair jigs and Uncle Josh Eels or #1 Pork Frog. For Schooling fish they were probably throwing the Pico Perch in the White with black dot pattern. Tom Mann baits and Lonnie Stanley Baits were just coming on the scene and getting ready to blow the whole bait scene into a new dimension.
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now bob........that was a WONDERFUL video. funny how much it has changed form those times ain't it? seems it should go back to a lot of what they did then. thanks for the video bob.
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Hey Bob Thanks for that video....lots of fun......BTW used to fish Allatoona back in the 70's Straight up I-75......born and raised Valdosta
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I have Porko's Tournaments www.porkostournaments.info and see quite a few good fish brought to the scales, several this summer aleady. take a look when you get a minute.
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Loved watching the video Bob! Thanks a million. It really brought back many memories. They even used Anchor Mates, haha. I didn't know that. That was so much fun to watch.
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one thing i liked about the OLD way they did things is......EVERYONE used the SAME type of boat, same rods and reels same choices of baits. (at least it appears that way.) in other words...no one had something the others didn't have. and even slate. no prefishing, jsut go out and FISH. not knowing what lake oyu are on, what the weather conditions were gonna be........A TRUE TEST in my opion.
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I've got a couple Bassmaster magazines from the early 70's. I like looking at the adds for baits every once in a while. Pretty cool stuff. Articles are still good to read with a lot less product placement....
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How did they ever find their way back to the ramp without a GPS?
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winning tackle in '71
As I recall, the first Classic contenders were limited to 10 pounds of tackle of their choice. My buddy Bill Rice was one of the writers at the first Classic and he said winner Bobby Murray used a 1/4-ounce Zorro Aggravator tandem-blade spinnerbait and ran from cove to cove in the lower basin of Lake Mead throwing the lure "as far as he could heave it" and cranked it back through "any cover lodged or sprouting in the narrow cuts."
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