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....

Very cool pics!

Does anybody have an idea what the gent to the right of the biggest sturgeon (top pic) is holding? Is that bait, a lure or is it his catch of the day?

I love the way they dressed for a picture. Must of been a great time to be alive.
No downriggers , fish-finders, a jillion lures, scaighty-eight types of line, as many scents, reels, rods, fishing reports, release figures, fish counts, submersible video cams, 4 or 5 types of black boxes, chips in the lures(scilicon) which type hook(opening, shaft, wire size, color) and I'm a bait thug. We keep it simple. What color herring (down to the brand of dye) the time in the dye.....etc. etc. etc. etc.

Now it gets really involved, if you catch one......on and on and on........and on.

Give me the good old days, long lines, fish traps, explosives!

Ahhhhh the simple things.

Did I mention how relaxing and calming fishing has become?

herm

Can thouse oversized sturgeon, well there weren't oversized then, even swim?? Look at the tail, it's so small!

Jay

The bottom pic made it into National Geographic a few years ago. My grandparents had a copy of it. Story was that gramps craweled in the mouth and out the gill. he was born in '03 and he was supposedly 3 or 4 at the time. Never did hear who caught it, but it was supposed to have been 1900 lbs and dated to 1900 years old. Don't know for sure about that, although the caption in the magazine said something along the line that it was possible that it was swimming around during the time of christ.
'Course Gramps was known to have pulled a leg or too. Although I do still have the pic he had and it is a cool story.

herm

You said "I love the way they dressed for a picture. Must of been a great time to be alive."

Remember that show Fantasy Island, I would want to go back to the 30's and fish!!!!!

Maybe even a little earlier as long as I could bring my Curado

Lead thrower,
You bet! Me too!

There are still places sorta like that but I don't speak the language, and if I could I don't think my ole S-10 would make it. So I'm with you, Come on Fantasy Island.

herm

shoot! the shaker on the ground of the bottom picture would be on my wall!!!!!

Shaker
That is one twisted sense of shaker

Look at the beard on the guy in the lower left

how do you post pics on here?do you need a photo that is published on the net with a url? or can any jpg work? i am having trouble with getting anything to paste into the box. thanks

Chappy

Any Jpg will work, start off by going to the visitors upload center and get the pic loaded onto bobs server. From there you can link it inot a message.

If you want to send me the pic I can upload it for ya.

1930's

No relation just found on the web

heh,

She doesn't look old to me

Found this photo in the Parker Family Archives. Great Grandpappy "Cracker" Parker with a Skykomish River spring king salmon. Date on the photo says it's 19-Ott-Three.

hook me up with some of that youth serum that great grandpappy has cuz its funny how I just saw that picture somewhere else............Hmmmmm is that the Cow in the background? Nooooo couldnt be

Hey Parker,

That's a pretty snappy looking Vision beaver pelt hat yer gran pappys sportin' there. One thing is fer sure tho, they just don't make them polar fleece jackets like they use to. None of this synthetic stuff, no sir, we're talking real polar sheep here. Man, those were the good ol' days when two was a crowd at the barrier dam.

Vision since 19 ott 03

Or - "Vision Hooks, creating internet controversy since 19 aught 3!"