I am sure I have posted this but hey, it's a campfire right? 
Back when I was growing up my best friend that lived close to me and his parents would take me camping with them.
They would always go to Piney Campground at LBL.
Back then I am pretty sure, going off of memory and my knowledge of the campground now, there was one loop completed.
The rest were under construction or in the planning stages and all of them had gravel roads, except for the one that was complete.
Pretty sure they stayed in what is Blackoak now.
I am also sure my friend and I stayed (in a tent) where Persimmon is now.
They would pull in, get the camper set up and then carry Barry and I over to the edge of the lake, right off the main channel of the river and drop us and our stuff off.
We would put the tent up and take our share of the firewood and we were good to go.
His dad would come get us the next morning and take us crappie fishing.
Anyway we had us a fire built and were fishing off the bank.
I had a rapala j9 and would just cast it out and reel it in. Same spot on the bank, never moving over and over and over.
I caught a big bream and decided to keep it.
Later that night a barge came by and woke me up. I would shine my flashlight at them and they would hit me with their BIG spotlight. Coolest thing I had ever seen in my life. I bet the captain was having fun too.
Anyway I was up so I thought I would fish some more. I caught something else. It was BIG too. LOL probably weighed 1 1/2 pounds maybe?
Finally got it in and I was like :shock: I started screaming for Barry to get up.
Picture the two of us huddled near the fire, in our underwear, trying to figure out what kind of prehistoric monster I had caught.
We were convinced it had to be some kind of unknown species never seen by man before.
I mean I was a seasoned fisherman in my 12 years on earth. I had seen it all. Bream, bass, crappie, catfish, you name it.
We were forever getting that thing off that rapala and I threw it in our cooler and kept fishing.
Barry went back to bed. He was always different.
Anyway, I didn't know what was going on at the time but later right before the sun started coming up there was a feeding frenzy on shad happening.
I would throw that zebco 33 as far as I could and would get a bite on literally every cast.
I don't remember how many largemouth and smallmouth I caught that morning in the hour and a half it was happening until the sun hit the water but I do remember they called Barry's brother, aunt and somebody else to come for a fish fry that afternoon.
7 adults and 3 kids ate till nobody could eat any more and we still had a bunch of fish left.
I will never forget the look on Barry's dad's face when he got there that morning and I told him I had caught a bunch of fish and he laughed and said let's see them and I opened that cooler. LOL
I wonder what the limit was back then and how much over I was
Back when I was growing up my best friend that lived close to me and his parents would take me camping with them.
They would always go to Piney Campground at LBL.
Back then I am pretty sure, going off of memory and my knowledge of the campground now, there was one loop completed.
The rest were under construction or in the planning stages and all of them had gravel roads, except for the one that was complete.
Pretty sure they stayed in what is Blackoak now.
I am also sure my friend and I stayed (in a tent) where Persimmon is now.
They would pull in, get the camper set up and then carry Barry and I over to the edge of the lake, right off the main channel of the river and drop us and our stuff off.
We would put the tent up and take our share of the firewood and we were good to go.
His dad would come get us the next morning and take us crappie fishing.
Anyway we had us a fire built and were fishing off the bank.
I had a rapala j9 and would just cast it out and reel it in. Same spot on the bank, never moving over and over and over.
I caught a big bream and decided to keep it.
Later that night a barge came by and woke me up. I would shine my flashlight at them and they would hit me with their BIG spotlight. Coolest thing I had ever seen in my life. I bet the captain was having fun too.
Anyway I was up so I thought I would fish some more. I caught something else. It was BIG too. LOL probably weighed 1 1/2 pounds maybe?
Finally got it in and I was like :shock: I started screaming for Barry to get up.
Picture the two of us huddled near the fire, in our underwear, trying to figure out what kind of prehistoric monster I had caught.
We were convinced it had to be some kind of unknown species never seen by man before.
I mean I was a seasoned fisherman in my 12 years on earth. I had seen it all. Bream, bass, crappie, catfish, you name it.
We were forever getting that thing off that rapala and I threw it in our cooler and kept fishing.
Barry went back to bed. He was always different.
Anyway, I didn't know what was going on at the time but later right before the sun started coming up there was a feeding frenzy on shad happening.
I would throw that zebco 33 as far as I could and would get a bite on literally every cast.
I don't remember how many largemouth and smallmouth I caught that morning in the hour and a half it was happening until the sun hit the water but I do remember they called Barry's brother, aunt and somebody else to come for a fish fry that afternoon.
7 adults and 3 kids ate till nobody could eat any more and we still had a bunch of fish left.
I will never forget the look on Barry's dad's face when he got there that morning and I told him I had caught a bunch of fish and he laughed and said let's see them and I opened that cooler. LOL
I wonder what the limit was back then and how much over I was
