Anyone have any cool old photos. Maybe some black and white fishing photos could be scanned in. I love to look at the old ones. Does not have to be you, could be your Dad or Grandpa.

P.S. If it is a black and white photo it is ok to post pictures of them Nates, that is before anyone new better

I forget where I got this!

There are some real slabs in there!

Holly Sh!p, that is a few slabs. Cool pic Crabin, right in the back yard to boot

Those are the real "KINGS"
before the selection of smaller fish by harvest and hatcheries.
Can you imagine: those fishermen thought that the runs were indestructable, sorry to say "NOT"
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Crabin Fev,

That photo is also in Lichatowich's fine book, Salmon Without Rivers.

This is a photo of a Puget Sound cannery at its finest....sadly, most of these fish were either canned rotten or chucked...you can only can so much fish in a day before they all start to rot.

Where was this photo taken? Could be any river in CA, OR, WA, or BC. By 1890 ANY western coastal stream large enough to support a cannery had one in operation, mining natures wealth.

Spark, you wanna know why Columbia Chinook are an Endangered Species?...it's not from catch & release mortality I can assure you. The number of canneries peaked on the Columbia at a whoppin' 39 in 1887, and then they began a slow, steady decline because they had wiped them out.....there were no more fish to harvest. This happened on nearly every majory river system in the NW, not just the Columbia.

The really sad thing is that these canneries migrated from the East Coast, where they had already brought the Atlantic Salmon to near extinction. They knew damn well that salmon were NOT an inexhaustible resource and were more than aware of the consequences of overharvest and habitat destruction.....and nobody stopped them.

When you look at the run sizes of salmon before and after the canneries were done raping, pillaging, and plundering it's a miracle they survived at all....

Ike

Thats a revelation!

I have some pics of my Dad when he was like 10 and 12 with steelhead and rockfish. I need to do a digital pic and post.

But here's a pic (from left to right) of me, my brother, and my Dad floating down the Kalama in 1973. Fished, but can't remember if we caught anything. LOL We never took many fish pics growing up. Mostly either rowing or fish on tables. Never glory shots back then. Will see what I can find.

This is my contribution to this thread...



These coho were caught motor mooching off the Oil Docks and the Trees in the fall of '91. I was all of 10 years old at the time and this is the oldest fish picture I have of myself.

Note: The hat I am wearing in that photo is surely a collectors item...if only I could find it. It is an orginal 'Long Live the Kings' hate given to me by my grandmother who was (along with her husband...my step-grandfather)intrumental in introducing me to fishing!

Cool pics, keep um coming.

On the bottom of the first picture, does that say 1910?

This is a great thread....there has to be
a lot of memorable pictures out there.

Cool pictures!

Here ya go leadthrower....

These old photos are of my grandfather, who unfortunately passed away before I became a steelheader. Have quite a collection of Ray, Cherry, and Hoh bobbers though.

Not sure where the Kings came from, but I would guess the Sky. The steelhead came from up in your neck of the woods leadthrower, the Elwell drift on the Sky.



Ike

Nice photos

Would have liked to do battle with that Steelhead

It amazes me to see how little gear they carried back in the day compared to what we have now. Granted he may have been at home already and geared down but you know what I am saying, fishing was more simple back then, or so it seems.

I'm too young for any black and whites

But we can go back over a quarter century for this one ... a Clackamas River springer:



And while not a fishing pic, it's an outdoor pic that I found around the house (one of these days, I'll raid Mom & Dad's for some more ).

Bob, the Great White Rattlesnake Hunter ... not sure when this was taken, but again, over 25 years ago Yikes, I'm getting old!

....and so am I!!!! ...oh wait...I am going to be only 22 in a little over a month!

Here is one of my Grandpa in 1962

Not really sure what the fish are it is hard to tell from the photo, anyone have a guess. I am assuming Trout




Bob
The Darth Vadar shirt is groovy

Hey Bob. All dolled up in the Darth Vadar T Shirt an dht eSears Toughskins. Been there done that. Best dam times of your life.

I think I wore that Darth Vader T-shirt about 4 days a week for bit. Those might be some of those Britannica jeans though

Best of all though are those Bauer Tennis Shoes ... always thought they were the coolest because they were the same brand as my hockey skates!

Always been stylin'

Surecatch sent these pics to me to download... enjoy!...
uh captian, I think were going to need a bigger boat!

Oh ya those are cool

Don't suppose you have any idea the approximate year they were taken....