Dave_W wrote:
troutbert wrote:
I've done a lot of fishing in remote areas, driving rough roads on state forests and gamelands, bumping along rr access roads, etc.
In a Honda Civic.
It's nice to have a 4wd high clearance vehicle for some of the roughest forest roads.
But most of the state forest roads you can drive in a regular car and many people do.
I read a journal of a flyfishermen from NC PA from the 1940s and he talked about his car and the other cars that fellow flyfishers drove and they were all just regular cars.
I don't think 4wd vehicles were available much at all until after WWII ended, when army surplus jeeps became available.
And the forest roads were probably much worse back then than now.
No doubt - this is a good point about anglers in the past getting around with older cars which were rear wheel drive, on belted bias ply tires, and driving roads that were likely pretty rough. I recall an old article from the 1950s reminding anglers that if they head up to fish the streams in some parts of wild PA that they needed to pay special attention to tire condition and NEVER fish without a good spare tire.
As I mentioned before I drove all over PA in the 80s and 90s with rear drive, low clearance vehicles.
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