In a continuation of the last post, Bobby emailed some photos of some fish that his father caught on Lake Ferguson. One of the strings is amazing. The first one is of Jack Burke, Bruce Hitt and Rhodes Wasson.  Jack Burke and Rhodes Wasson caught the fish and Bruce Hitt just happened to be there when the photo was taken.

The pictures were in the Democrat and the caption says the 26 bass weighed over 100 pounds and there were 11 over 5 pounds. A terrific string of fish. The next photos are of Jack Burke and Rhodes Wasson with another great string of fish.

I believe both photos are of the same string of fish. The next one is of Jack Burke with a 6 1/4 pound bass that the caption says was caught on a plug that “came from Arkansas that looks like a number 13”. They wouldn’t tell you exactly what they caught them on even back then.

They kept all they caught back then because there were only a few bass fishermen. I guarantee none of the fish went to waste. People used to love to see you coming with a big string of fish when they were going to get some. If people kept fish today like they did then we wouldn’t have any to catch. If they had the good equipment like we have today they would sink the boat with fish.