Some pictures are in color, some are black & white, and some are so grainy I almost didn't want to post them. But it's all about the passion I have had since I was a small boy, passed to me from my Father, fueled by my best friend Pat, and with me until the day I die.
No matter if we were fishing for shark and sailfish off Miami Beach, or braving the rugged waters of Lake Michigan for trout and salmon, or exploring the muddy winding Fox River for catfish, or searching The Chip in Northern Wisconsin for muskie - all those memories have a special place in the hearts of those who were there.
Memory Lane is special in that all of the photos were taken before digital technology - some WAY before. You know... take the film to the drug store and wait a week for them to be developed. How did we live that way? These shots were taken long before everyone had a digital camera. That fact doesn't make them any less special. In fact, some ways it makes them even more powerful.
I know I won't be alone when I view them and think about how young we all were at the time. That hammerhead shark (pictured in Pt. II) was the biggest fish of my entire life (to date) and it was caught one month before my sixteenth birthday.
So it goes that we have all aged some since then. That's why I didn't try too hard to make them pretty - just a digital version of the photo I pulled out of the shoe box.
I should make this a "spot the Zilla" exercise, as I am just a kid in some of these. About a hundred pounds ago too.
