Now there is a name I havent heard in a coons age, Is he still around, He sure taught me alot! Another name from the old days is?
He had a machine shop in Gastonia and 2 20’ glassmasters and fished Murry or Clark Hill about 3 day a week. He was instmental in me geting out a center consold and going to a Glassmaster walkthru with a bracket and outboard. Been fishing out of it now for 33 yrs and 4 motors. What about Dick Easler from Sburg, He usta catch a lot of fish?
Dog Underwood?
Kevin Lybrand
I don’t about Gene. We got seperated in 1987 due to a boondoggle lol. I heard he started fishing tennesee xclusive. Old fishermen never die they just cut bait.
Kevin Lybrand
Woke up during the night with his name on my mind, ERIC BUMGARDNER!
He usta write a lot of articals about striper fishing for the big outdoor mags.
That’s probably it-lots of those in Gastonia region when I used to work there
After reading this I thought some of you might like to read here.
http://www.striperchaser.com/second.htm
Fishpox, thanks for posting link, havent read that article in 20 or more years!
Being nearly 47 years of age, that article was written shortly before I got into striper fishing. My first bait tank had a Rex-Air stick that beat the hell out of the bait:smiley: it would suck up scales and make a high-pitched scream that could be heard from the Towers to the North Rec boat launch:stuck_out_tongue: Most guys had agitators like the article mentions. We’ve come a long way with air pumps and venturi aeration… Still a nice blast from the past!!
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I had a kiddie pool with a comercial egg beater. Coated with rubber to keep the herring from getting beat up. I remember the silver scales mixed with blue bait saver.
Kevin Lybrand
There were several of us who fished untill 1987 88. I used to catch bait from the lake russel diversion canal. I would bring that bait to the lake in a kiddie pool I had rigged up with spray on insulation and a egg beater for a agitator. The D.N.R. pulled the plug on that in 1987. I guess there is a reason for everything. My biggest Lake Murry striper came from the Gap on a shellcracker. It was 36 lbs I was 18 years old.old fishermen never die they just cut bait:wink:
Kevin Lybrand
In the early 80’s we would leave home at 2:30 AM Sunday, drive 65mi. to Russel dam construction site, catch herring dive 70 mi to lake Murry, be there before day light, catch a cooler full of stripers and be home to clean up and attend church at 11:00 Most of the time we would have at least one fish 20 #.
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It was King fun too 
Kevin Lybrand