Who introduced you to fishing?
Texas Fishing
Oct 8, 2023 23:46:04 #
Just curious and at what age? I remember being 4 year old and my dad taking me to a farm pond near the house. We had to make sure the cows and bulls weren't loose. Great fishing we caught a ton of bass out of that little pond.
Who got you into it?
Who got you into it?
Oct 9, 2023 00:06:07 #
First time I went fishing was with my brother. He was 11 years older than me. Then 6years later i started fishing by my self. He was married then and had moved away from home. I took my money from chopping Johnson grass from the Cotton plants that summer and bought a Zebco 33 reel and a 6 foot rod. 10 hours a day for all of 70 Cents and hour. LOL
Prayed for short 1/4 miles rows. LOL
The 1/2 miles rows were so much longer in the Arizona summer sun. The water was back at the truck.
That setup killed a lot of fish during the next 3 years.
Prayed for short 1/4 miles rows. LOL
The 1/2 miles rows were so much longer in the Arizona summer sun. The water was back at the truck.
That setup killed a lot of fish during the next 3 years.
Oct 9, 2023 00:19:12 #
audigger53 wrote:
First time I went fishing was with my brother. He ... (show quote)
My Dad. He loved to fish but work kept him too busy to go very often.
I was probably bout 3 years old when I started.
I was just gettin old enough to really appreciate the time with my Dad, I was 11, and he died at age 39.
I still loved to hunt and fish and went whenever somebody would take me, which wasn't very often.
I got my driver's license at age 14 and have been takin myself for over 56 years.
I'm. On the water bout ever chance I get.🤠👍
Oct 9, 2023 01:07:52 #
More than 70 years ago my father and I would walk to the nearest pond where I used fatback on a hook at the end of black thread on a sapling. Didn’t catch much.
Oct 9, 2023 01:19:38 #
NJ219bands wrote:
More than 70 years ago my father and I would walk to the nearest pond where I used fatback on a hook at the end of black thread on a sapling. Didn’t catch much.
We use to tie bacon fat on a string, no hook, tied to a pole and catch BIG crawdads out of the tank/pond back in Texas.
Oct 9, 2023 08:39:59 #
If I remember correctly it was my Dad while on vacation about 58 years ago and I caught an 11” bluegill. My Brothers freaked out as it was huge on my little Zebco 202 and about a 4’ rod. I was hooked as well!
Oct 9, 2023 08:46:04 #
dbed
Loc: POMME DE TERRE LAKE MISSOURI
Nobody I was 16 and my brother 17 when we moved from Nebraska to a farm on the Jack's Fork River in Southern Missouri. With money made from selling cordwood to the charcoal plant we bought 2 cheap rods and reels and some hooks started fishing
Oct 9, 2023 09:24:33 #
Joe Beaderman
Loc: Adams Nebraska
My Dad, he was a very good fisherman. And I have carried on the tradition, taught all my daughters how to fish, and several other young people including my grandchildren. What a joy it realy is. Feel sorry for those who don't understand fishing and it's rewards!!!!
Oct 9, 2023 09:47:58 #
cruzfishing wrote:
Just curious and at what age? I remember being 4 year old and my dad taking me to a farm pond near the house. We had to make sure the cows and bulls weren't loose. Great fishing we caught a ton of bass out of that little pond.
Who got you into it?
Who got you into it?
My father did, when I was maybe 3-4 yrs old. Started out fishing for Bullheads, after dark, with Nightcrawlers. The following summer I started fishing during the day, and caught Panfish and Bass. At about 5-6 we started going to the shore, and renting boats. We fished for Flounder off the beach, and Blackfish off the breakwaters. He bought our first boat when I was 9, a 26ft Dodge Cabin Cruiser. Been fishing ever since.
Oct 9, 2023 09:50:32 #
My father taught me, and we fished regularly in Red River (Texas). I caught my first catfish in the river with my own willow pole, line and worm for bait on Mother's Day, 1945. Just Sayin...RJS
Oct 9, 2023 10:47:51 #
It would be my dad that taught me about fishing. I was born in January and that August my family was camping and fishing in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Obviously I didn't go fishing for a few years, but that was dad's annual vacation with the family.
Oct 9, 2023 12:28:10 #
My first memory of fishing was when I was six years old, with my dad. It was at Wyandotte Co. Lake on opening weekend, in early March. We were fishing off the bank, and I was freezing!
To warm up, my dad had me walk up and down the hill behind us. That was the first of hundreds of great memories I have of fishing with my dad. I look forward to the day we can fish together again- in Heaven… 🙏🏻
To warm up, my dad had me walk up and down the hill behind us. That was the first of hundreds of great memories I have of fishing with my dad. I look forward to the day we can fish together again- in Heaven… 🙏🏻
Oct 9, 2023 13:14:01 #
Oct 9, 2023 14:33:06 #
My dad off the seawall boulders at Edgewater Park in Cleveland. I was about five. Yellow perch on a minnow with dad's old (South Bend?) spincaster. I'll never forget how odd I thought it was that the minnows we picked up at the bait shop were in blue colored water.
Oct 9, 2023 17:13:08 #
A couple of years ago, I was on the freeway and saw a sign for 'Fisherman's retreat', a place where Dad used to take us from time to time. I decided to stop to see what I could remember. I found the same tree at the waters' edge where Dad showed me how to fish for bluegill with a bobber and a worm. That opened the tap, and I was lost in memories for awhile.
Thanks, Dad!
Thanks, Dad!
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