By Joe Cermele

Nowadays, every tackle manufacturer under the sun makes stickers in the hopes that you'll pick one up at the tackle shop or use the one that came with your new reel to advertise on your boat or truck. I'll admit, I'm actually a sucker for stickers. So imagine how excited I was (yeah, I get excited over such things) when I found a vintage DSC Sportcal striper decal buried behind some paint cans at the little hardware store near my marina. If you were alive and fishing or hunting in the 70s and 80s, I bet you remember these over-size fish and game stick-ons.

Tell you the truth, I'm not entirely sure the company no longer produces them, but I can't remember the last time I saw them in a tackle shop and Net searches come up empty. The price tag on the one I found is dated 1985. Even though she sold it when I was three, I vaguely remember being enthralled with these in my grandmother's tackle shop. DSC made everything, and I mean everything. Catfish, crappies, trout, bluefish, deer, elk...there are about 30 species listed on the package.

They even list appropriate places to stick the decal, including my favorites, dune buggies and den walls. If I stuck this on my den wall, my wife would stick my head through the den wall a minute later. As of this writing, I'm not sure if I'll stick the attacking striper anywhere. Maybe I'll just hang onto it. So have you ever rocked one of these stickers on your dune buggy or den wall? I know some of you can picture these in the tackle shop back in the day. Which one was on your pick-up? - JC

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from Sinkingrocket wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

I remember seeing these on old timers' truck camper shells. They would have both sides covered. They were huge compared to most decals today.

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from mad_dog9999 wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

My grandfather has a walleye one on his old 20ft v-bottom

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from MPN wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

I have a northen pike on my old canoe. I guess I am the old guy who still remembers.

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from buckhunter wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

When I was in high school (late 70's) I had a largemouth bass on each side of my bass boat named the "Hawg Hunter".

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from MLH wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

Saw many on campers and in the back windows of pickups. We didn't have one on our pickup - it hid the fine lines of the long guns in the rear window gun rack.

Been a long time since I saw a camper with tens of state stickers carefully aligned on the back panel. Have they gone the way of the country port of entry stickers on luggage?

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from countitandone wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

Decals? To my way of thinking, no, they don't belong on my pickup. Too nice, too new, too sanitary and that's the way I'm akeepin' 'er!

Decals are absolutely plastered on my rolling Knack job site tool box. This home away from home tool lockup measures 6'W x 4'D x 4' H and rolls on 6" swivel casters. My most prized decal, other than my MACVNSOG sticker is a white shooter's target with red concentric bullesye rings with the image of Osama Bin Laden DEAD CENTER! Bang, you're dead...

Sure I'm old school but there's a place for stickers and it ain't on my rig!

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from jamesti wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

i only have a couple small stickers on my truck's back window, and i mean small. i would love to come across some old stickers from way back though.

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from Mac in Mo wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

I remember that Grandpa had one on the door of his pop up camper. I bought a new one about three years ago and put it on the door of my truck camper. Not long after, I sold the camper to a buddy to finance a different camper. Now he has the crappie on his door and I can't remember where I bought it to put on my new camper. Kevin

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from sihunter wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

There's an older gentleman around town who has I believe beagles and rabbits on the shell on the back of his truck. I think he may have a bluegill or crappie on there too. He has quite a few on the camper shell.

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from Long Run Fishin... wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

JC,
What I would do is go to a craft shop, get a shadow box or a frame and frame it up with a favorite fly and make it a stand alone hanging wall piece. Since it is framed it should go in the Man Cave or find a place in the den.
Capt. John

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from Sayfu wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

You sure got my interest in decals back up! I've gone for some period of time looking for the right trout decal for my driftboat, and it has been out of mind now for a few years.
I've got a paint ding, or two on the side of my boat that I could cover up well with a decal also. Now I am back looking for a trout decal representing fly fishing!

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from Sayfu wrote 1 year 27 weeks ago

Found my decals! Got them on the internet at Amazon.com...two rainbow trout decals for my boat. Thanks for causing me to revist that want of mine!

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from cosplay wrote 1 year 26 weeks ago

Found my decals! Got them on the internet at Amazon.com...two rainbow trout decals for my boat. Thanks for causing me to revist that want of mine

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from Sinkingrocket wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

I remember seeing these on old timers' truck camper shells. They would have both sides covered. They were huge compared to most decals today.

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from mad_dog9999 wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

My grandfather has a walleye one on his old 20ft v-bottom

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from MPN wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

I have a northen pike on my old canoe. I guess I am the old guy who still remembers.

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from buckhunter wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

When I was in high school (late 70's) I had a largemouth bass on each side of my bass boat named the "Hawg Hunter".

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from MLH wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

Saw many on campers and in the back windows of pickups. We didn't have one on our pickup - it hid the fine lines of the long guns in the rear window gun rack.

Been a long time since I saw a camper with tens of state stickers carefully aligned on the back panel. Have they gone the way of the country port of entry stickers on luggage?

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from countitandone wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

Decals? To my way of thinking, no, they don't belong on my pickup. Too nice, too new, too sanitary and that's the way I'm akeepin' 'er!

Decals are absolutely plastered on my rolling Knack job site tool box. This home away from home tool lockup measures 6'W x 4'D x 4' H and rolls on 6" swivel casters. My most prized decal, other than my MACVNSOG sticker is a white shooter's target with red concentric bullesye rings with the image of Osama Bin Laden DEAD CENTER! Bang, you're dead...

Sure I'm old school but there's a place for stickers and it ain't on my rig!

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from jamesti wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

i only have a couple small stickers on my truck's back window, and i mean small. i would love to come across some old stickers from way back though.

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from Mac in Mo wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

I remember that Grandpa had one on the door of his pop up camper. I bought a new one about three years ago and put it on the door of my truck camper. Not long after, I sold the camper to a buddy to finance a different camper. Now he has the crappie on his door and I can't remember where I bought it to put on my new camper. Kevin

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from sihunter wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

There's an older gentleman around town who has I believe beagles and rabbits on the shell on the back of his truck. I think he may have a bluegill or crappie on there too. He has quite a few on the camper shell.

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from Long Run Fishin... wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

JC,
What I would do is go to a craft shop, get a shadow box or a frame and frame it up with a favorite fly and make it a stand alone hanging wall piece. Since it is framed it should go in the Man Cave or find a place in the den.
Capt. John

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from Sayfu wrote 1 year 30 weeks ago

You sure got my interest in decals back up! I've gone for some period of time looking for the right trout decal for my driftboat, and it has been out of mind now for a few years.
I've got a paint ding, or two on the side of my boat that I could cover up well with a decal also. Now I am back looking for a trout decal representing fly fishing!

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from Sayfu wrote 1 year 27 weeks ago

Found my decals! Got them on the internet at Amazon.com...two rainbow trout decals for my boat. Thanks for causing me to revist that want of mine!

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from cosplay wrote 1 year 26 weeks ago

Found my decals! Got them on the internet at Amazon.com...two rainbow trout decals for my boat. Thanks for causing me to revist that want of mine

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