First started fishing when about 5-6 yrs. Born in Needles, Calif., along lower Colorado river. Best fishing trips were as a boy were along the lower Colorado river in the 1950's. Used to go downstream from Needles in 16' boat with 35 hp Evenrude motor. Would take trip down "Devil's Elbow" (cayon area along Colorado River, between Needles and Havasu Lake}. Havasu City was not there at the time, and Lake Havasu only had one small marina which was only accessible by dirt road or by boat. Old marina was for troops practicing in the desert in the 40's with Pattons army before WWII. The Marina was called "Site Six". My family used to always take 2 weeks around Easter and we would boat in the Havasu Lake area and camp on gravel and sand beaches near a place called Thompson's Bay (area today is near the London Bridge). We would camp for two weeks catching many,many large mouth bass and crappie. I remembered we used no plastic. but only crank baits which were trolled behind boat along shore line and points. One easter my Dad and I caught about 100 crappie and my Mom canned them in camp, over an old coleman stove using an old canning pressure cooker. Rarely did we see other campers around the lake but as time went by the word got out (great fishing and skiing paridise) and by the early 60's lake havasu City began to spring up after they paved the dirt road come in from Interstate 40(?).

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