I can't ever remember not bushwacking.........when we were kids we would always look on the map for some lake back in the woods with no roads going to it......... we would ride our bikes until we were old enough to drive. In those days we fished out of truck tire tubes with a home made wood seat before the nice ones came around. There always was some stinking oozing mud to wade through before you got out there but we sure caught the heck out of the fish.

Some places were posted but we would slip in anyway. We got caught once.......the guy was so mad he was spitting......"where's those fish"!!!.......then he said he was taking us to the police station......."OK, lets go" I said............that threw him for a loop as I expected he probably thought we would start crying or something. He told us not to come back and we didn't........at least not in the daytime (I know, we were bad.....but not REAL bad).

good days........yes, bushwacking can be fun. Just ask any long haired, pimply faced teenager that is toting a truck tire bigger than he is through hells half acre with a busted rod and no bug dope.... ;D........yup, those were the days.