I have been a lurker on here for 3 years, ever since the pandemic started.
I enjoy reading every night.
So to introduce myself, my dad loved to fish and so my family fished, as a child I loved the rods the reels and especially the lures, I was 5 years old and I would take the reels apart, don’t know if I ever got them back together the right way and when mom said I could have a toy I went straight to the fishing lures, I played with them like they were toys.
Never could fish, they would teach me I would try to cast and the hook would get caught in my pants,
I would cast and the bait would go one way and the hook the other way,
Someone would cast for me with some nasty stinky stuff on the hook and I’d wait there.....
And wait there......
Then someone would reel it in for me to check it, and nothing is on the hook.
We went traveling once to another state to visit an uncle and my grandfather and my mom and the uncle and myself went fishing, I was 5 or 6 maybe,
I caught a fish that my uncle helped me reel in, it was too small to keep, we named the fish Joe, and somehow he marked it and let it go, when I was about 16 my grandpa got a letter from him saying he caught old Joe and was big enough to keep, I thought that was really cool.
Anyway because of my lousy experience catching fish when I was a child, I never cared for fishing, didn’t want anything to do with it, when I was about 50, 51 years old my wife was stressed out from work, some friends invited us to go fishing on their boat, my wife caught 2 crappie I caught 1, we went another time with them and I caught a 4 lb largemouth.
I was hooked and now all I want to do is fish, it’s almost all I can think about , I’m still not very good but I enjoy trying,
Thank you for having me here