My first boat--in my mid 20's--was a 10 ft Sears jon boat. Carried it on the top of my car. Like the poster above, a 5lb coffee can and role knotted at one ft. intervals was both my anchor and depth finder. Thought I was on top of the technological world when I bought a Ray Jefferson flasher for that boat.

By the way I knocked the snot out of the bass in the small lakes in Northern Indiana where I was living at the time.

first bass boat my dad bought was a '67 skeeter hawk then in '68 we went to toledo bend where there were still houses standing out in the middle of the lake and the trees were so thick you couldnt hardly see thru them.

We had a 14� Ouachita bass boat with a 25hp electric start Johnson. Stick up front steering and an old motor guided trolling motor. We were in hog heaven with that

When I was in high school, we built our river boat from two old car hoods welded together. Worked great. Course back then cars had real hoods.

First boat was a 12' flatbottom with a 1.5 horse Sea King. Upgraded later to a 7.5 hp Scott Attwater.

First boat was a 14ft aluminum boat my grandmother bought brand new in 1964 had a 6hp Johnson the would fog for mosquitos on the way to your fishing spot. It had a old tm that had forward or reverse no speeds and a big plastic weed guard around the prop. The boat is very shallow similar to the one pictured. I need to f8nd the title to see what brand it is. It was give to me when I was 8 and I would spend everyday after school on the lake. Had to mow the neighbors yards for gas money. 5 gallons of gas would go along way I think I filled it up once a month. There is no telling how many fish I have caught out of it over the years. Even cashed a few checks in tournaments.

Here is my old tin boat hauling them into weigh in, using my ice chest live Well.

It should, that's Buster Keeton in the backseat ..........not many on here know who that is, but, he was alive and well when that pic was made...

Here's a related tidbit. Motorguide brand trolling motors came to be when the Herschel (spelling?) Clock Company started building them as an alternative to the falling-popularity grandfather clocks they historically built. When I knew of Herschel, they occupied a building in the "industrial park" surrounding the Starkville, MS airport in the 1970s. I remember when the Motorguide logo appeared on the side of the building.

Ive got some of those same whopper stopper mini catalogs.The ole boy in front must have felt super confident his rig wouldnt tip because his tackle box is wide open.The catalog has such vibrant colors maybe they used kodachrome film.

Yep. Learned to scull with a paddle from my granddad.

Billy, how did you know that was Buster Crabbe ? I remember him in Flash Gordon and Tarzan movies.

My grandfather would take me fishing on Lewisville & Grapevine Lakes back in the 1950's in a small aluminum boat. People do not believe me, but he would put a quart of motor oil in the 6 gallon gas can with the white gas & away we would go. I do not know if they sold 2 cycle oil back then. The exhaust was very heavy smoke. Fishing and boating has made quite a few advancements since then.
As an afterthought, seems like a couple of life vests would have been a good idea for those two old guys.

for years we would add a quart of 20 weight motor oil to 6 gallons of gas..then the outboard manufactors got smart and started buying 20 weight motor oil,putting dye in it,jacking the price up and intimidating people into buying it...dealers privately call it "liquid gold".....

And 50 pound braid to 20lb mono to 12lb fluro pegged, dipped tail in garlic with a #2 gamakatsu offset circle hook! LOL!