"Where did you go to high school?"...............

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

An inside joke at the shop has been the fact that I usually will ask people "Where did you go to high school?"

I think this tells you a lot about someone.


I went to Christian Brothers(9-10) and Bishop Armstrong (11-12) (now called Christian Brothers High School) in Sacramento.

Class of 1963......

Our 50 year reunion was really great this year.


Where did you go?

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[DLJeff]

I think we had this conversation one day in the shop. I went to

Cristobal Jr-Sr High School, Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone, 7th through graduation, 1966 - 1972. The Zone was the best place in the world for kids like me and it always saddens me to know it is gone forever. I'll restrain meself from giving my opinion of Jimmy Carter.

[TonyMuljat]

John F Kennedy High School, Sacramento, Graduated 1983. Some real good fishermen went to Kennedy.

[Baja Fly Fisher]

I went to Roosevelt High School in Honolulu, Hawaii

[strick]

Class of 1963......Where did you go?

Bill I was born in '63 :)

Pittsburg High class of 81

strick

[coltss]

Napa High, class of "78"

[joshfish]

Will C Wood high school in Vacaville. Class if 97

[jbird]

Newport Harbor High. Newport Beach, CA. 86

[hwchubb]

Central Catholic HS, Norwalk, CT. Class of 81.

[Smitty Fish]

Killeen high , Killeen Texas . Home of the fighting kangaroo's .class of 84.

[El Rey]

Mt. Diablo High in Concord. Class of '59.

Harlan

[Jet]

Lodi High class of 81

Jet

[Mike O]

Morro Bay High School, 1988. Go Pirates!!,

[Bob G]

UKIAH HIGH SCHOOL, Mendocino County, 1968...I roamed the coast from the Ten Mile River south to the Russian River.

Bob

[Fly Guy Dave]

Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, class of 1984.

[CHT]

MT Diablo High, class of 1961

[donkeyhunter007]

Monterey High school, Monterey CA class of 1995................

[Mark Kranhold]

El Camino high... '88' The Eagles! Just a mile and a half from the American river where I spent my summers getting into trouble!

[BobVP]

Tomales High, class of '71...43 students graduated that year.

[BillB]

Mt. Whitney HS, Visalia, 1966, across the street from Buz Buszek's shop/house.

[jayclarkflyfishing]

Loyalton High School Grizzlies. Class of '88

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Mt. Diablo High in Concord. Class of '59.

Harlan

Hi El Rey......you might be the oldest member?

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Morro Bay High School, 1988. Go Pirates!!,

Cool Mike...what a nice place to grow up.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

MT Diablo High, class of 1961

Hello CHT.......70 is getting younger all the time.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Tomales High, class of '71...43 students graduated that year.

Great Bob....we love it over at Lawson's Landing.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Mt. Whitney HS, Visalia, 1966, across the street from Buz Buszek's shop/house.

Very cool Bill

Never met Buz but met his wife once down there in the 'garage'. I knew Mikey Powell pretty well though.

Buz's was a big part of the history of fly fishing in CA.

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[Mike McKenzie]

Oakland Tech... Graduated January 1958...(Things were different back then!)

Mike

[Troutstalker55B]

Paradise High School, Class of 84.

[tcorfey]

Newtown High School - Class of 78 - In Connecticut home of the Indians and Bruce Jenner stadium.

[RomieRome51]

Sacramento born and raised...El Camino class of 95...go EAGLES!!!!

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Oakland Tech... Graduated January 1958...(Things were different back then!)

Mike

Mike.....you might be our most senior member?


Our life growing up around the end of WWII was way different than the life our grand kids are experiencing today.

We didn't even have TV....we played with rocks and sticks.

.

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[Jimmie]

Vacaville Union High School, Class of 1965

[ladalske]

Sutter union high school, class of 97. Sutter, ca.
At the base of the Sutter Buttes

[Ted S.]

Cupertino High School - class of 1973. Used to go to Len Bearden's shop for FF supplies...

[betty]

Pasadena High School, class of 1964
Betty

[ssy]

C.K. McClatchy Class of 81'
Steve

[Dick]

Bell High, LA County. Class of Winter '57
Dick

[njbeast]

Paramus Catholic Boys Regional High School, Paramus, New Jersey

[Dinky Jr]

Whitewater High School, Class of '96... southeastern Wisconsin.

[Scott V]

Went to 3 different high schools, I was a bad kid. But ended up graduating 3 months early in 1986 from a school for really bad kids. I was pretty much the only non gang banger in the school I graduated from. Horizon High.

[WadeK]

Live Oak High, Morgan Hill, Class of '90, Go Nuts!

[Mike McKenzie]

Mike.....you might be our most senior member?


Our life growing up around the end of WWII was way different than the life our grand kids are experiencing today.

We didn't even have TV....we played with rocks and sticks.

.

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Also dug "Foxholes" all over the place for fighting imaginary enemies... We'd fight across a small canyon, a little less than a 100 yards wide and using "mud dobbers" (5' Willow sticks) to lob gobs of clay at each other...our substitute for hand-grenades.
It's amazing how far we could throw them with the leverage from those sticks. The clay would land with a resounding splat that garnered a lot of satisfaction and sometimes tears when the "splat" came from our bodies...

Considering some of the things we did as kids growing up in the hills.. (think of mud dobbers chuckin' a 1/2lb gob of clay, ridin' homemade "coasters" whose only brakes were our tennis shoes down fairly steep hills or better yet, sliding down a snot slick grassy hillsides for a couple a' 100 feet and crashin' in to brush to stop our selves...

Mike

[wineslob]

Mira Loma, class of '77

[Fly Guy Dave]

mira loma, class of '77

Go Matadors!

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Out in the Fruitridge area on the sotheast side of Sacramento in the 1950s we would take our bikes south to Elder Creek where we made a log raft that we floated on like Huck Fin.

The Stieners had a little ranch out there too.

We dug a lot of tunnels and fox holes too.

In south Sac we had a huge tree that someone made a platform on up about 100 feet with wooden slats nailed on to get up there. When we got up there we could see forever.

One summer night when our folks were out of town I took my two younger brothers and some lights and frog gigs on my trail bike down to a slough in the Pocket area. We waded down the middle of this ditch and got a bunch of bull frogs.

Another night when our grand parents were taking care of us at our house in South Sac, it rained big time and filled the drainage ditch by our house to the top. We called our uncle who drove over at around mid-night with his '37 Ford pickup. We loaded up our wooden dingy with an old Elgin outboard motor we had been rebuilding and took it to the ditch for testing. We were running it down through the neighborhood behind people houses. Some fathers came out with flash lights to see what the noise was.

We road our bikes everywhere, but kids today are not allowed to.
.

[Nor*Cal]

Williams High School, Class of 2000!

I'm so glad high school is long gone! lol

[beachjumper1]

central union high school El Centro Ca 1965

[Chapulin5151]

Grant Union High, Class of 2003

[Frank Alessio]

Hogan Senior High School in Vallejo Class of 63....

[BillB]

Gotcha by three Frank. Middle School/Math Trainer 38 years.

[Frank Alessio]

Middle School??? You are a Saint.....

[trouterfan1]

Bret Harte union high school Angels Camp, CA. Class of 96

[TonyMuljat]

Out in the Fruitridge area on the sotheast side of Sacramento in the 1950s we would take our bikes south to Elder Creek where we made a log raft that we floated on like Huck Fin.

The Stieners had a little ranch out there too.

We dug a lot of tunnels and fox holes too.

In south Sac we had a huge tree that someone made a platform on up about 100 feet with wooden slats nailed on to get up there. When we got up there we could see forever.

One summer night when our folks were out of town I took my two younger brothers and some lights and frog gigs on my trail bike down to a slough in the Pocket area. We waded down the middle of this ditch and got a bunch of bull frogs.

Another night when our grand parents were taking care of us at our house in South Sac, it rained big time and filled the drainage ditch by our house to the top. We called our uncle who drove over at around mid-night with his '37 Ford pickup. We loaded up our wooden dingy with an old Elgin outboard motor we had been rebuilding and took it to the ditch for testing. We were running it down through the neighborhood behind people houses. Some fathers came out with flash lights to see what the noise was.

We road our bikes everywhere, but kids today are not allowed to.
.

That's a great story.... The Pocket Area sure has changed!

[Bob Loblaw]

St. Columb's College, Derry N. Ireland. Graduated in 1989. The 80s were a great time to grow up in Northern Ireland :-) to keep out of trouble we fished a LOT. Very long bike rides to off limits private waters, sneaking over fences and through hedges, running from water bailiffs and game keepers. I was back there over the holidays and visited some of my old haunts....everything looked a lot smaller.

[Rich Morrison]

Davis High class of 1990

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

My wife went to Davis High School, class of 1960.........she came to Davis from South Dakota at 7 years old.

[East Bay Ed]

Richmond High School, Richmond, Ca
Class of 64

[Darian]

Geez!!! This thing looks like it's going to go on forever.... I went to Inglewood High, L.A. County. Class of '58. :cool:

[rhilliard]

CYA class of 69' - you gotta problem wid dat?

[k9mark]

CYA class of 69' - you gotta problem wid dat?

Lol, well I hope you got your life straightened out!

[Lance Gray]

Chico High the home of the mighty Panthers - Class of 1988.

There you go boys and girls!!!

[mems]

New Trier East, Winnetka Illinois, class of 1977. We beat Evanston in Soccer that year to claim the hydrant. Mems.

[Baja Fly Fisher]

Roosevelt High School - Honolulu, Hawaii The rough riders but graduated from a mainland school in Monterey, CA.

[JAM]

What??!!! I'm older than Lance and Rich? No way! Man, thanks for making
me feel ancient. I running out of time. I guess I should buy more Powell
rods and finance more guided trips!! Who would have guessed!

Newark/Memorial 1978(please don't remind me). I bet I can still out run these
guys though. Out fish them, that might be a different story.

JM

[DAVID95670]

Dennis Morris High School St Catherines Ontario Canada 1983

[EricO]

"Chico High the home of the mighty Panthers - Class of 1988."

Mighty Panthers Lance? I think not. :)

Pleasant Valley High School Vikings....Class of 83, Chico, CA

Lance, you ever make it to the Almond Bowl in Chico? I haven't been in years
but need to go again.......great rivalry.

Eric