1979 Bassmaster Classic

[@JessieGresham-rr3nb]

My dad loved to bass fish. And so do I

[@jth8051]

Love it! and cars launching the boats at the ramp!!

[@jasonsmith2439]

Yeah now it’s 100 grand boats and 100 grand trucks. Went from blue collar to rich cry babies

[@danluther1741]

I LOVE these old tourneys!!

[@purewaterswva.5409]

this is incredible, I was only 7 when this was filmed.

[@donaldscearce5687]

Ray was a genius he knew that bass would take off

[@thomashall4501]

changed it all...made a lot of wealthy entrepreneur.

[@Stu650Zuk]

How cool is it to see full sized sedans hauling bass boats?

[@lannyseals2084]

And some of the angler's have smokes hanging out of their lip's lol.. I love watching the old classics

[@liamchristian2661]

A trick : watch series on kaldrostream. I've been using it for watching all kinds of movies these days.

[@zacharyemanuel9777]

@Liam Christian Yea, been using KaldroStream for since december myself =)

[@slabbusterrtr7690]

I still pull mine with a 2004 Nissan Xterra lol

[@sterlHAsilva]

So cool that bass outfitted everyone’s boat so the playing field was even. Maybe they should look into doing the same again for non ffs tournaments.

[@scottmeier7567]

love these old shows

[@jasonsmith2439]

The Godfathers of bass fishing Bill , Hank , Roland, Jimmy and Ray

[@djoptimojoe]

Love these !!!

[@codym8897]

1979 was Bill Dance's final season in the Bassmaster Classic, before his retirement from tournament angling in 1980.

[@toyman81]

Ranger Boats owned the rivers, lakes and streams back in the 1970's and 1980's. Sad you don't see many as we used to.

[@jth8051]

Kind of like the IROC series for race car drivers. Same boat and basic fishing tackle, best man wins. Would love to see this now but probably would cut out too many sponsor dollars to ever happen.

[@stevelumpkin2119]

apparently in 1979 Texas was north of Oklahoma

[@myboyfriend95]

Ronald Reagan moved the state of texas in '82

[@StFidjnr]

Hank Parker's weight for the 1st 2 days of the 1979 bassmaster classic has enough to at least lapped the field

[@theamerican7131]

Belly Dancer or Mel Tillis? Just to lighten the mood. Gotta love those old school flashers.

[@slabbusterrtr7690]

Man how the boats and electronics and gear have changed over the years but still after that same green fish

[@CBGRTR]

You wanna hesr something funny ?? those mercury tower of power motors there running in this im still running same motor a 90 hp 1986 model been running it for 13 years now solid as a rock

[@StFidjnr]

6:09 the night before bassmaster classic IX

[@karlkolshak9989]

This looks like one of the first where they all used modern boats but without the metal flake paint yer their all using uniform boats I wonder if they got free boats just for qualifying.

[@CapeBass508]

They explain all of that in the video...

[@ralphmitchell3435]

They were metal flake then. Just didn't show up in the film very good.

[@jeffreyrodgers5835]

Wow. And we talk about how many pounds it takes to win a classic today. They all got their tail handed to em gives me hope

[@charlesdriggers199]

All my life, I have never seen any boat being launched by a car. Everyone either had a truck, or maybe a van.

[@Snookchaser007]

Charles Driggers my dad launched his bass boat from a captive classic my entire childhood it was just as powerful and had a full frame

[@troyallison2860]

I launched a boat with a 79 country squire stationwagon

[@slabbusterrtr7690]

This very day I know a guy pulls his boat with a station wagon

[@chrisangier2816]

1:46 error....... Texas is to the south, and Oklahoma is to the north

[@nathanhornaday3114]

Started using merc's motors.

[@StFidjnr]

Basil bacon's 1st day skunking would loom large by day 3

[@davefransen5096]

Texas to the North and Oklahoma to the south?

[@budzilla4053]

Texas to the north, and Oklahoma to the south? Duhhhhhh

[@benniebarrow348]

Oh the “Woke” crowd would have a heart attack over the Arab theme at the party. “Cancel “ everyone!