Flathead Fishing Film Footage - c1970

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Re: Flathead Fishing Film Footage - c1970

Post by ratbag » Tue Jul 18, 2017 9:30 am

6-8lb would be a great average to get these days! thanks for sharing
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Re: Flathead Fishing Film Footage - c1970

Post by mingle » Tue Jul 18, 2017 9:55 am

Great stuff... Seemed older than 1970 though - early/mid 1960s?

Make sure to watch the other Alvey vids about fishing Fraser Island and Morton Island...

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Post by Fish-Hunter » Tue Jul 18, 2017 11:55 am

mingle wrote:Great stuff... Seemed older than 1970 though - early/mid 1960s?

Make sure to watch the other Alvey vids about fishing Fraser Island and Morton Island...
Posted the Morton Island film footage, yeah possibly the 1960's to early 1970's.

Link below for the Fraser Island post -

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Re: Flathead Fishing Film Footage - c1970

Post by Trumpeter » Tue Jul 18, 2017 12:35 pm

Thanks for sharing, I love this old stuff and watched a lot of it on tv as a kid. There's some beaut 70's Ron Calcutt movies on youtube spinning for Spanish Macks in flares and Pelaco shirts from the rocks.

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Re: Flathead Fishing Film Footage - c1970

Post by rb85 » Tue Jul 18, 2017 7:54 pm

Great Video some of the tips are still relevant.
As for Alvey reels they are still manufactured in Australia.

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Re: Flathead Fishing Film Footage - c1970

Post by mingle » Tue Jul 18, 2017 8:08 pm

I might have to look that up!

I still love looking through my 1982 issue of "The Anglers Omnibus" at some of the old photos.

Lots of flares and bad haircuts. Plenty of shots with old fishos holding up their catch with a dirty old fag dangling from their mouth!

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Trumpeter wrote:Thanks for sharing, I love this old stuff and watched a lot of it on tv as a kid. There's some beaut 70's Ron Calcutt movies on youtube spinning for Spanish Macks in flares and Pelaco shirts from the rocks.

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Re: Flathead Fishing Film Footage - c1970

Post by Trumpeter » Tue Jul 18, 2017 8:36 pm

I have the same book but the 1979 edition and few others of the era, read them all religiously when I was young.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNNmU6-69Vc

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