99 year old fish bonker

[Maxed Out]

 Got this from my dad's estate 20+ years ago. He got it from an estate sale back in the 80's. I've thought it would make a good fish bonker, but I have a mini baseball bat on the boat that works great, so this one stays home.

 It's a knight stick from long ago. Maybe called a billy club back then, or a baton nowadays. It's about 22" long. There's a stamp in the wood just under the handle that says SPD26. Which would be "Seattle Police Dept 1926". Even still has the original leather hand strap. It resides in my reel display, cause it could be a fish bonker too !!

[Midway Tommy]

My dad gave me this old gavel as a funny Christmas present years ago. He designated it a Whopper Whapper.  I keep it in the cabinet right above the kitchen sink on the cabin. I use it every time I clean fish. 

[Grim_joe]

One of my favorite fishing stories involves my middle son saying "Dad get the bat!!!"   

[Bill B]

Can't beat an old piece of hickory to make someone behave.  When I started in the prison we still had 4' riot batons. Later we transitioned to side handle batons and then expandable batons.  Bill

[Hardy Boy]

I was going to say it must make Bill miss the good old days !!

Todd

[foakes]

This is the one we take on our early morning walks.  There are some loose large dogs across the road where we walk in Meadow Lakes.

Best, Fred

[day0ne]

Here's what I use (the 18 inchers). No real history, but add a cord handle and they are very efficient.

https://beaver-tooth.com/collections/pick-handles

[Gfish]

Makes me wonder, how many times was Ted's club used on a person? The "roaring twenties". Bootlegging was a thing in the Seattle area, right?

[Maxed Out]

Makes me wonder, how many times was Ted's club used on a person? The "roaring twenties". Bootlegging was a thing in the Seattle area, right?

Yes it was Gregg. Seattle was also where every person went to find things to go off into the wilderness. Like guns,tents,horse saddles, fishing equipment, cooking utensils, clothing, bedding, gold digging equipment, etc. Lotta loggers and lotta saloons too. I imagine it was a pretty rowdy town, and far less civilized than the eastern U.S. was during the roaring 20's. Seattle was a huge logging town during that time. Some of the largest Douglas firs in the world were found in Seattle, and also a lot of western cedar that rivaled some of the largest redwoods

[Hardy Boy]

Looks like our trees ....

Todd

[Maxed Out]

Looks like our trees ....

Todd

....and you know you're in western British Columbia when you come across a log truck with way too many logs on it

[Hardy Boy]

Lol Ted.... you still see some of those even today. You better hope the road has a wide shoulder.

Todd

[Donnyboat]

The last 2 or 3 years they have stopped loging Karri trees here in the South West, of WA, some of the Karri`s, here the first branch, was about 170 feet from the ground, cheers Don.

[Gfish]

Scariest sound I know-of in the woods; you're driving up a Forest Service road and then you hear that Jake-brake sound of a fast moving logging truck coming around the bend towards you.

The port Orford Cedars down in the drainages were the biggest trees I used to see. Praised by the Japanese market for roofing materials.

"Skid Row" came from the Seattle docks where the logs were "skidded" down on to the ships and the drunkards use to hang-out.
Great pictures, Ted!