the awkward years

[Shark Hunter]

Alright Guys,
Alan has showed us his awkward years. Its your turn!
I looked a lot Like Tim did back in the 80's. I will post my senior picture if you do.

[Alto Mare]

dom, thanks for pointing out the spelling mistake.  here's something even more awkward than "akward!!!!!"

Alan, if you had that lucky hat of yours, you could have been the singing cowboy

Don't think this qualifies, but it is a picture of me from the 1980s.  This is my 64lb wahoo caught on 16lb test.  It was caught on December 31, 1984.  I needed to catch one more good fish on light line to win junior angler of the year for the SeaHorse Anglers Club.  This was a highly contested and coveted prize, because my closest competitor/rival, who was none other then Ian Card, the son of the world renowned Captain Alan Card, F/V Challenger, caught a nice fish the day after Christmas.  The weather was terrible 20-25knots winds, but the fish won me 'fish of the month', 'fish of the year', 'junior angler of the year', and was a Bermuda and line class world record fish (at the time).  I was 10 years old.

John, that's one nice pic. You were actually handsome at one time

[Ron Jones]

1980...Need I say more  

And I thought you were ugly as the FAT BA$TARD!!:)
Love ya
Ron

[ohfishalee]

Don't think this qualifies, but it is a picture of me from the 1980s.  This is my 64lb wahoo caught on 16lb test.  It was caught on December 31, 1984.  I needed to catch one more good fish on light line to win junior angler of the year for the SeaHorse Anglers Club.  This was a highly contested and coveted prize, because my closest competitor/rival, who was none other then Ian Card, the son of the world renowned Captain Alan Card, F/V Challenger, caught a nice fish the day after Christmas.  The weather was terrible 20-25knots winds, but the fish won me 'fish of the month', 'fish of the year', 'junior angler of the year', and was a Bermuda and line class world record fish (at the time).  I was 10 years old.

I looked for this picture in FlyBridge Tackle here in Bermuda but did not see it on the wall but Mr. Eddie Cook explained that there are so many pictures that were archived over the years but a magnificent catch all the same!! Where in Bermuda is the picture taken ?

[Tightlines667]

Thanks for inquiring with Mr. Eddie Cook.  The last time my dad visited Bermuda, to do some fishing with Mr. Andrew Card, he stopped by Flybridge Tackle, and was surprised to see this photo still being displayed behind the counter.  He was curious, as was I, if it had remained there after these 30 odd years.  Our family's time in Bermuda were some of our 'best years', and its always great to take a walk down memory lane.

The photo was taken at Robinson's Marina of course.  We had our 21' Cobia moured at the first ball past the world's smallest drawbridge for the 4 1/2 years we were there in the mid 80s.  Is the marina still there?  We lived at Windsor Retreat on Knapton Hill, in Pembroke Parish.  Both myself and my sister attended Mount Saint Agnes in Hamilton.  In addition to my SeaHorse Anglers Club Jr Fishing records, I had the distiction of winning a record for the highest flying kite at Horseshoe Beach on Kite Day one year.  This was due in large part to my dad's novel idea of affixing my homemade kite to 80lb mono on a fully loaded 9/0.  Good times.

[Big Tim]

No way better to re open a thread of the awkward years....1971...I'm a stud...That's right   If you look at the right hand finishing position I most likely was throwin' a circle change