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Jan 18, 2022 16:06:37   #
ghaynes1 Loc: Strawberry Plains, TN
 
For you FS members that started fishing as a kid, what is your favorite memory of those younger years? Day, time, place, results?

I have mine but I'll post it later. I'm more interested in reading yours right now. A good distraction for me right now.

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Jan 18, 2022 16:15:59   #
Jeremy Loc: America
 
One of mine is on my uncles home built plywood and 55 gallon drum pontoon boat. We were on a Lake near the twin cities Minnesota. I was real young so I will guess 4-6 we caught a bunch of sunfish. My dad his brother and I were on the boat. It was neat. Modern fish finders. He had 3 of them.

My Dad model
The cool uncle his brother side finder
Myself the down scanner model

I was always looking down into water like any kid would figuring I should se the fish not realizing they were there to eat not look up at a kid hanging his head over the edges

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Jan 18, 2022 16:42:28   #
Barnacles Loc: Northern California
 
I remember my Dad teaching me how to fish with a bobber and salmon eggs, for bluegill. I think that I was four. I clearly remember the spot, right next to a tree on the bank of one of a series of private lakes in Southern California. I went back and found that same spot 70 years later, the tree is still there.

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Jan 18, 2022 16:44:26   #
ghaynes1 Loc: Strawberry Plains, TN
 
Barnacles wrote:
I remember my Dad teaching me how to fish with a bobber and salmon eggs, for bluegill. I think that I was four. I clearly remember the spot, right next to a tree on the bank of one of a series of private lakes in Southern California. I went back and found that same spot 70 years later, the tree is still there.


Nice story.

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Jan 18, 2022 16:46:25   #
Jeremy Loc: America
 
Barnacles wrote:
I remember my Dad teaching me how to fish with a bobber and salmon eggs, for bluegill. I think that I was four. I clearly remember the spot, right next to a tree on the bank of one of a series of private lakes in Southern California. I went back and found that same spot 70 years later, the tree is still there.



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Too bad itā€™s fresh water and above the waterline or it would have Barnacles.

I do similar things in my memory banks and sometimes live if possible. Good memories are just that.

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Jan 18, 2022 16:49:16   #
Barnacles Loc: Northern California
 
Sometimes, trying to go back and find a place from your memory is just chasing ghosts. I got lucky because the spot is still there, and the event had made such a strong and clear imprint in my memory. I wish to heck that I could remember EVERYTHING that well!

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Jan 18, 2022 17:06:53   #
J in Cleveland Loc: Cleveland, Ohio
 
When I was a kid we would go to Canada every year to some cabins on the pickerel River. The fishing was amazing and I had really crazy experience involving fishing and wildlife from ages 11-14. The one fishing experience that really sticks out with me was when I was 12. I wrecked my dirt bike a week before we left so I had stitches in my leg and I was not supposed to swim or ski. Two of the biggest reasons I loved going up there. My dad knew how disappointed I was so he sprung for a rental boat for me. It was a 12 aluminum with a 12hp Johnson. I fished from before dawn till dark everyday. Caught tons of Northerns and small mouth. Almost exclusively on a worm tipped Erie Derie. (Weight forward spinner famous on Lake Erie.)

But the one experience that I can still feel when I think about it was this; there where train tracks along one edge of the river that had a small culvert type opening that went underneath the tracks and opened up on the other side. I had to lay down in the boat a push myself through. When I got to the other side it opened up to a 100ft round 100ft deep hole. Water was clear as gin and as I looked down there where 20-30 Northerns down there about 30ft. I remember being scared! If I fall out of this boat these toothy critters may eat me?! Well I over came my fear and caught a limit of 8-10 lb Northerns in about 30 min. After I caught the first one they went into a frenzy! As soon as my lure got near one he nailed it. Plus it was sight fishing I could watch it happen. The coolest fishing experience all around I ever had. Even if they where slime dogs!šŸ˜‚

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Jan 18, 2022 17:49:49   #
bknecht Loc: Northeast pa
 
ghaynes1 wrote:
For you FS members that started fishing as a kid, what is your favorite memory of those younger years? Day, time, place, results?

I have mine but I'll post it later. I'm more interested in reading yours right now. A good distraction for me right now.


I well remember when my Pappy and Grammy took me up to a club they belonged to up in the Poconos called Lake Maskenosa for the annual ā€œsunnie contestā€. Weā€™d have to stop along the way near the lake, walk down a steep embankment near a stream and gather some moss to put on top of the worm bedding. Prizes were awarded for the most fish, biggest crappie and perch. I still have an old yellow eagle claw spinning rod and an old metal Heddon tackle box. The ride home included a box of crackerjax popcorn with a prize inside. Iā€™d be asleep in ten minutes. Fondest memories of my childhood which fueled a lifelong passion, hope I can replicate that feeling when I have grandchildren.

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Jan 18, 2022 18:14:28   #
ghaynes1 Loc: Strawberry Plains, TN
 
J in Cleveland wrote:
When I was a kid we would go to Canada every year to some cabins on the pickerel River. The fishing was amazing and I had really crazy experience involving fishing and wildlife from ages 11-14. The one fishing experience that really sticks out with me was when I was 12. I wrecked my dirt bike a week before we left so I had stitches in my leg and I was not supposed to swim or ski. Two of the biggest reasons I loved going up there. My dad knew how disappointed I was so he sprung for a rental boat for me. It was a 12 aluminum with a 12hp Johnson. I fished from before dawn till dark everyday. Caught tons of Northerns and small mouth. Almost exclusively on a worm tipped Erie Derie. (Weight forward spinner famous on Lake Erie.)

But the one experience that I can still feel when I think about it was this; there where train tracks along one edge of the river that had a small culvert type opening that went underneath the tracks and opened up on the other side. I had to lay down in the boat a push myself through. When I got to the other side it opened up to a 100ft round 100ft deep hole. Water was clear as gin and as I looked down there where 20-30 Northerns down there about 30ft. I remember being scared! If I fall out of this boat these toothy critters may eat me?! Well I over came my fear and caught a limit of 8-10 lb Northerns in about 30 min. After I caught the first one they went into a frenzy! As soon as my lure got near one he nailed it. Plus it was sight fishing I could watch it happen. The coolest fishing experience all around I ever had. Even if they where slime dogs!šŸ˜‚
When I was a kid we would go to Canada every year ... (show quote)


Great story J. Caught quite a few northerns on a red and white daredevil as a kid. They give you battle. What a day you had.

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Jan 18, 2022 18:30:15   #
J in Cleveland Loc: Cleveland, Ohio
 
ghaynes1 wrote:
Great story J. Caught quite a few northerns on a red and white daredevil as a kid. They give you battle. What a day you had.


It was 35 years ago and I can still see and feel it clear as day!

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Jan 18, 2022 18:32:38   #
J in Cleveland Loc: Cleveland, Ohio
 
J in Cleveland wrote:
It was 35 years ago and I can still see and feel it clear as day!



Erie Derie, Rooster tail (Black), and a ted and white dare devil are the only lures I ever used till I was in my 20ā€™s. Excluding trolling for walleye. That was always hot n tots? I think was the name.

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Jan 18, 2022 19:24:41   #
HosChap Loc: Deland, FL
 
When I was 16, I took a younger guy out bass fishing. We were casting around this pond. Off in a distance I saw a beaver house. We walked through the woods to the hut. I walked up to cast around the structure. I noticed two feet from me, it seemed the beaver house was moving. As I focused in I realized the beaver house was covered with brown snakes, probably 100. I looked down to see movement by our feet. Almost simultaneously a snake rose up 1 ft away. My friend and I ran as fast as we could. Neither one of us wanted to fish any longer that day!

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Jan 18, 2022 19:51:06   #
Danger25 Loc: Philly/ Cape may New Jersey
 
That one timeā€¦.when i caught a fishā€¦that was great! Hope to catch more.

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Jan 18, 2022 19:55:16   #
Jeremy Loc: America
 
HosChap wrote:
When I was 16, I took a younger guy out bass fishing. We were casting around this pond. Off in a distance I saw a beaver house. We walked through the woods to the hut. I walked up to cast around the structure. I noticed two feet from me, it seemed the beaver house was moving. As I focused in I realized the beaver house was covered with brown snakes, probably 100. I looked down to see movement by our feet. Almost simultaneously a snake rose up 1 ft away. My friend and I ran as fast as we could. Neither one of us wanted to fish any longer that day!
When I was 16, I took a younger guy out bass fishi... (show quote)



Spooky most may never consider fishing again. Wow. Brown snakes?

Water Moccasins?

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Jan 18, 2022 20:11:19   #
Gordon Loc: Charleston South Carolina
 
4 years old and fishing with my dad,sister and brother. My first fishing trip. We were in the intracoastal water way behind Sullivan Island where it enters the Charleston Harbor. Fishing straight down , I was the only one not catching fish. So I tossed (not cast) it out and hooked a monster. Everybody watched as I reeled in the boat next to us anchor rope. Everybody got a laugh and I felt stupid and quit fishing. I laugh about it now.

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