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Grizzly · **Posted:** Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:20 am

im thinking "Grumpy old men" lol ....... years ago i talked to an old timmer at myers pier who told me pretty much the same story......... sounded like a whole lotta fun to me for sure......... funny how times change........ now they drag out portables, and drag them back in every night . no room for beer lol. plus the laws dont allow......... on the road to being communists...... gotta love it! ......(NOT)

walleyed assassin · **Posted:** Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:29 pm

Back then you'd drive across the old swing bridge, look towards the Goverment dock (Meyer's Pier now..haha) and thats where the bulk of the "village" was between the dock and Cow Island...Plywood and chipboard icehuts everywhere...wood smoke and kerosene smells...the limit was 6 walleye each...I'm sure there are some guys on here with better memories than mine...lets hear them..haha Gary

Red · **Posted:** Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:57 pm

I remember when you would drive all the way down the reach between Deseronto and Thompsons .......not every year...... but some of the years the ice was very thick ........It was like there were little villages in diffrent area's.......the Bay or Thompson's point or Deseronto it was very cool ....but with declining walleye population's and milder winter's thing's have changed alot ......not to mention the portable hut explosion ......now you can drag one around and .......move a lot easier......lot's of people move around more now ......I think back then it was as much a social thing as a fishing trip.....that's why the hut's used to be all in the same area's ......now everyone want's to be off the beaten path ....away from the group's.

Red

Grizzly · **Posted:** Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:15 pm

I have to agree we seem to be the victoms of our own demize now we tell people to spred out not to bunch up back in them days im sure it was the more the better, expessally when you ran out of beer lol ......... this bay bash should be fun would be nice to see 200 guys all come out so they would know whats its like to do that. maybe it will swing back the other way someday........ funny how memmories get jogged a lil bit and it contrdicts what we now believe to be gospel. back then it was common place

chasineyes/everywher · **Posted:** Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:34 pm

hell, the operators used to set up village rental towns,plowed roads,hot lunchs brought out to the huts,i believe this is where dial a jug got its start!!lol,had exterior lights on some,numbers for the streets,hell i think some were even sleep-over type units with benchbeds in em,and a head in the middle of the village!!!haha old days for sure,i think the old algan hotel was the biggest operator then,in trenton,they were crazy days,more drunks than huts or fish!!!

Cadeuses · **Posted:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 4:03 pm

A "head" in the middle of the Battle of the Bay competion might be a good idea... given that there will be lots of folks actively engaged, or assisting the event. Anyone know if that could be a possibility?

Dave

Grizzly · **Posted:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 4:22 pm

I supose we could always devide sheldons hut he has a two holer lmao knowin him he will charge a quorter per visit!!!

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