KY Lake - Good Old Days

[rsimms]

A friend of mine shared this picture with me. It is from 1974 out of Paris Landing on Kentucky Lake. (l-r) John D. Graham (former TWRA Commissioner) and Billy Phillips with 17 bass. The only reason there aren't 20 is John miscounted (limit was 10 per person). I am told "Billy still lets John D. have it every time we talk about that trip for counting wrong!"

Of course if anybody took a picture like this these days ... even 5 fish per person, they would probably be tarred & feathered.

 

[Guest]

"Of course if anybody took a picture like this these days ... even 5 fish per person, they would probably be tarred & feathered."

Burned at the stake,hung by the neck untill dead, given a lethal injection and talked bad about for the rest of time.

 

[BackOnTheWater]

"and that's the way it was..."</p>

Good thing the "ecology craze" took off!</p>

 

[jbh3]

On a positive note, those fish were probably not wasted. No doubt, they were eaten. A LOT of folks in those days were fishing for food as much as for the sport.

 

[Guest]

That looks like some of the stringers I have been catching here lately.

 

[harbuck handyman]

Hey doc;Do any of those stringers ever have a fish on them?

 

[BackOnTheWater]

harbuck handyman - 12/18/2007 11:31 AM Hey doc;Do any of those stringers ever have a fish on them?

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[BigFishGuide]

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Of course if anybody took a picture like this these days ... even 5 fish per person, they would probably be tarred & feathered.[/QUOTE]

Tarred and feathered, would be putting it lightly......Your fishing liscense would be re-voked, your boat burned, rods broken and you would loose your boat ramp parking privilages.