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Old Bass Boat Ads

Posted By: Huckleberry

Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/16/16 06:16 PM

I would love to have see the landing

Posted By: Huckleberry

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/16/16 06:17 PM

Posted By: Huckleberry

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/16/16 06:18 PM

Posted By: Huckleberry

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/16/16 06:19 PM

Posted By: Huckleberry

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/16/16 06:23 PM

Brand New Skeeter .... $6,495.00

Posted By: KingwoodCat

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/16/16 06:26 PM

I loved the advertisement for Hydra Sports with the Kevlar Hull. So strong you could shoot a 45 at it. Until someone did.....Then called up Earl Benz to make good on the warranty.
Posted By: Huckleberry

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/16/16 06:34 PM

Posted By: Huckleberry

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/16/16 06:36 PM

Posted By: 1442

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/17/16 03:13 AM

That's cool advertisements.
The good old days.
Posted By: Frank the Tank

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/17/16 03:33 AM

Originally Posted By: 1442
That's cool advertisements.
The good old days.
Posted By: DKennimer

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/17/16 03:40 AM

Thanks for sharing! I love seeing these. Too cool.
Posted By: hogbus

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/17/16 04:49 AM

Thanks. Pretty cool stuff
Looks like champ got the wedge from skeeter?
JD
Posted By: nate king

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/17/16 07:16 AM

Originally Posted By: Huckleberry


his spine just got shattered!
Posted By: nate king

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/17/16 07:17 AM

Originally Posted By: Huckleberry
I would love to have see the landing

Originally Posted By: Huckleberry


these two guys would have to see a chiropractor after that smack back down
Posted By: slim1

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/17/16 12:19 PM

My first Bass Boat was a Glastron just like the one in the ad. Loved that boat.
Posted By: its a toad

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/17/16 12:22 PM

eeks
Posted By: Bass&More

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/17/16 12:39 PM

Originally Posted By: its a toad
eeks


welcome to the TFF its a Toad cheers peep
Posted By: elcoyote, esq.

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/17/16 12:39 PM

Originally Posted By: Huckleberry


I saw one of these on a boat lift on McQueeney a couple of years ago.
Posted By: beartrap

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/17/16 12:49 PM

my fishing buddy had one of the early 70's models Arrow Glass with 65 hp Johnson....great fishing/duck hunting boat.....
Posted By: Nutman

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/17/16 06:39 PM

do you think the guy & gal in the VIP ad were actually a couple ?
how come she is looking at the camera & he is looking at his fishing line ?
Posted By: eggs'isled

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/17/16 07:21 PM

what cracks me up is the marketing for these boats...who in their right mind would want a boat that couldn't stay in the water and was alway flying up in the air ?...just don't seem safe...LOL
Posted By: HappyHooker

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/18/16 06:08 PM

Originally Posted By: Huckleberry


My Dad had the UMC tacklebox in this picture. He passed in 2003 and it's been sitting in moms garage since then. I haven't touched it or taken anything out of it. It's filled with lures from the 1940's thru the 1990's. I gasp at what it might be worth today.
Posted By: reelswift

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/18/16 06:15 PM

They sure love to get some air on them props in those old advertisements
Posted By: FSWITX

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/18/16 06:25 PM

Those ads are really cool, thanks for sharing Huck. thumb
Posted By: Tick...

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/18/16 07:38 PM

If I remember correctly some of the Hydra Sports Kevlar hulls were called Armour Hyde BASS mag had adds for them in the 80s and yes said they were bullet proof and passed the 45 test, Ranger also made and sold many boats with I/O s ( Mercruiser, stern drives, great post Huck..
Posted By: Tick...

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/18/16 07:48 PM

Thought that Skeeter Wrangler was a Champion at first looking at the transom , those hulls were very fast and squirrely and scared many tourney non boaters I drew hot rod johnson once it was a wild ride specaly at blast off.
Posted By: fwfisher

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/19/16 12:26 AM

Awesome pictures, thanks for sharing those!
Posted By: Ken A.

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/19/16 12:38 AM

Originally Posted By: KingwoodCat
I loved the advertisement for Hydra Sports with the Kevlar Hull. So strong you could shoot a 45 at it. Until someone did.....Then called up Earl Benz to make good on the warranty.


I recall seeing a Hydra-Sports ad pic that showed the boat upside down on the ground with a bulldozer driving over the top of it demonstrating the toughness of the Kevlar hull.
Posted By: Devil Horse

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/19/16 01:00 AM

Old pro Stan Sloan in a '74 Hydra Sports. Man these were hot boats when they came out.

Posted By: Devil Horse

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/19/16 01:10 AM

this boat didnt even need water to run evidently eeks its an old Quachita boat



The first BassMasters classic boat, a Rebel inboard/outboard.
Posted By: bush hog

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 05/19/16 01:17 AM

My first bass boat was an Arrow Glass like the one in the first pic. Bought it from my brother in law...kept it a couple years and sold it back to him. My first brand new Skeeter was the Wrangler 120 with a 115 Yamaha. Yamaha had just entered the American market. That boat would haul bass. My wife called it "The Monster".
Posted By: BigDozer66

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 07/03/18 01:49 AM

Originally Posted By: Huckleberry
Brand New Skeeter .... $6,495.00



That is very similar to the first bass boat my dad bought.

It was a 1976 Grand Prix of Fishing Tournament on Toledo Bend model Skeeter Wrangler!

There were only 45 built and IIRC there were 40 pros who qualified for the tournament.

It was equipped with a 140 hp Evinrude, Garcia paper graph, Humminbird flasher, trolling motor, Cobra? CB Radio, 6' antenna, 2 or 3 tackle boxes full of the best bass baits made, a couple rods and reels, 2 PFD's, and several other things that I can't remember at the moment. banana

I was only 10 at the time but remember going to Toledo Bend to pick it up and bring it home. balloons

We have some pics somewhere (if they have survived) and maybe one day I'll find them and will share them if I do.
Posted By: Ken A.

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 07/03/18 02:07 AM

This thread brings back a LOT of memories - some of me almost dying...

In 1978 I sold my Ranger TR-10 with a Johnson 135 on back (rated for 85 hp) and bought a brand new 17' Stryker rated for 115 HP. It was popped off the Hydra Sport 168Vee. I put a brand new Evinrude 235 on it. The dealer thought I was crazy but a friend of mine in Wylie had a 15' Baja ski-boat with a Johnson 235 on it. He had a jackplate & a foot throttle (before Hotfoot) and taught me how to drive a fast vee bottom. He and I rigged my boat the same way as his Baja. That boat would run 85 mph in 1978.

I have some pix of it but they're in the attic and it's 135 degrees up there so I ain't going. grin Looked just like this one.


Posted By: Ken A.

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 07/03/18 02:21 AM

Crazy I found an old ad from a dealer that sold both brands I had.

Posted By: Ken A.

Re: Old Bass Boat Ads - 07/03/18 02:36 AM

Me & a buddy were at Toledo Bend way back when and ran into Virgil Ward in one of these. I was star-struck at seeing a real live TV fishing celebrity in person. We talked to him at the dock and he was an awesome person.

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