When Did You Start?

[clayton86]

When did you start fishing? I see more and more guys saying they are just getting into fishing. So I'm curious at what age or point did you start fishing.

Me my father said he had me at the river at 6months locked in the stroller with snoopy rod wedged in with me lol. I however don't remember that but I have seen pics of me and him fishing around 3 years and I remember fishing every other weekend with him during warm weather months. So iv been fishing pretty much my entire life and I'm 26.

My boys Noah and Jack started young also Noah went for the first time shortly after his 2nd birthday and he will be 4 in May. Jack is starting this year Noah is excited to teach his little brother as am I an Jack nods and gets excited when asked but idk if he quite knows what it is yet though he reads my magazines well looks at the pics he's only 19months this month.

[J Francho]

I can't remember not fishing.

[lmbfisherman]

I've been fishing in general since I was a kid (5).  I was accustomed to fishing Saltwater more than Freshwater.  I just started getting serious into LMB/SMB fishing last year.  Overall been fishing a lot over my life, just now that I'm land locked (Freshwater) is really my only option and now I love it!  I never thought catching such small fish would be this fun.  (Comparable to the Pacific/Atlantic)

[rippin-lips]

My dad worked on a barge and drove the pylons for piers all over the Chesapeake Bay. So I've been around water my whole life. I've seen pictures of me in a diaper fishing and crabbing. I'd say the first memories that I have are around 5yrs old. Wish I actually would of got to fish with my dad as I was older.

[MCS]

I was probably 6 or 7. My dad took me and my brother to a golf course pond, we used cheese to catch bluegill. We would go a hand full of times during the summer, camping in western Md. nothing really serious floating rapalas, grubs on a jig head where staples. My uncle took us a few times, he would dip minnows and that is when I caught my first bass. I fished here and there through out higschool maybe a couple times a year, then I started striper fishing with a buddy one summer the year I graduated. Once I went to college and work, then marriage and kids, I didn't pick a rod up again until I took my oldest boy fishing a couple years ago and I was hooked and I have my kids hooked too. Good clean fun, keeps us out of trouble. lol

[mrmacwvu1]

As long as I can remember.

[clayton86]

I can't remember not fishing.

Yeah as far back as I can remember like serious conscious thoughts it's fishing or working on my dads drag car.

I'm known by everyone for my love for fishing I fished every day as a kid my mom some could say bad parenting but I don't think so but she didn't have a sitter for me the river runs right next to the school I was like 8 seriously 8years old and would fish after school till she got home from work and picked me up or I'd walk home I had a little collapasable pole and would catch my own crawfish and use them for bait it was the life.

[BassinLou]

Started when I was kid, my dad was/is not a fisherman,  took me out to a local canal and I was hooked ever since. Serious LMB fishing I started in the summer 1999, an old timer friend of mine took me under his wing and showed me the ropes.

[slonezp]

maybe 3 or 4 years old

[Felix77]

I started in October of 2011 which up north is like saying I started in May of 2012.  :-)

 

Just needed something to do and decided to try it.  I only wish I had discovered it a long, long time ago!

[flyfisher]

Pretty much my whole life. Started out wading cricks for smallies, then the river for the same. Went to college and got hooked on fly fishing for trout, bass and carp. About 2-3 years ago got into largemouth fishing and bought a kayak and haven't been the same since

[*Hootie]

1959 at 8:15 am.

Hootie

[Teal]

3 or 4 years old. Ive been fishing for something my whole life and thought I focus on bass fishing, i really just like to fish and it doesnt matter what species.

[bonzai22]

I started when i was about 3 years old fishing for bluegills while my dad fished for bass at a small pond and ive been hooked ever since. I never wanted to leave so he pretty much had to drag me to the car.

[A-Jay]

August 8, 1963 about 10 o'clock in the morning. 

 

A-Jay

[TNBassin']

I started fishing when I was 5, I'm 35 now. Got away from it for awhile when my dad passed, as it was OUR thing. Now I'm slowly getting back into, but it's tough. I'm used to fishing the waters of Florida, and now I have to adapt to a huge rocky, deep, murky reservoir.

[jhoffman]

When your group of friends refer to you as "the fisherman" you have a disease.

 

I remember during my hay day of fly fishing walking out to the creek and people knowing who I was that I had never met. A total stranger stopped my mother in her driveway one day to tell her that he heard her son was the best fisherman on the creek and wanted to know if I was around to give him some tips. Im telling you I fished so much in my younger years it litterally hurt, tennis elbow multiple times. When you grow up creekside that happens in the summer when you cant get to friends.

 

I remember my grandfather pulling a jon up the side of a creekbank then falling down the bank with the boat and my grandmother laughing at him. So like many of you, my whole life...

[BrettD]

My entire life or atleast as long as I can remember. My started tournement bass fishing when I was around 5 and I remember spending every weekend bass fishing with him and falling to sleep under the console. Dad quit bass fishing when I was about 10 and we started off shore fishing and scuba diving. I was padi certified to dive when I was 12. Then around 16 or 17 we go into motocross until we both had injuries that wouldnt allow us to ride any longer. Around 22 I started snook fishing pretty heavy on my own then around 2 years ago dad went bass fishing with an old tournement buddy and the next week he had a new bass boat and we started bass fishing full time. I have spent alot of time on the water with my dad and wouldnt trade for it anything in the world Im blessed to have a great dad/fishing partner.

[PABASS]

I have fished all my life but I remember my first bass, caught on spinning gear and a "trout" lure, inline spinner, I still use them to allure bass now as well as I did that day, small Bass maybe 8"..  I was about 7-8, maybe younger..  I think my first fish was a warmouth..

[South FLA]

Was fishing at 4 with my brother.

[SudburyBasser]

I guess about 14 or 15. My father and grandfather were avid anglers but after my grandfather sold his camp and boat and moved across the country my father stopped fishing (I was a wee lad at the time). I only started fishing after a friend invited me up to his camp for a week. I found some of my grandfather's tackle, rod and reel and started on my financially ruinous journey to today over 25 years later.

[Mike L]

Growing up on the south side of Chicago, believe me when I tell you there were no waters to fish, and was thinking about other things!

After I got my first car ['62 Pont Catalina 4 door] a few friends and I went to what we called the Forrest Preserve on the far south side

and tried to fish but that didn't amount to anything.

 

When I moved to Florida in '79 I did the requisite salt water thing that you allmost had to do.

I did all the Tarpon, trout, snook, red, sheep head etc. fishing to last a life time. 

 

I started fishing some of the fresh water lakes and was hooked. I still fish salt water and enjoy it.

But the bucket mouth is now my passion.

 

Mike

[OkobojiEagle]

I've seen pictures of me in a diaper fishing and crabbing.

 

I'm hoping we can count on plenty of discretion concerning where and with whom you will share those pictures.

 

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[flippin and pitchin]

I caught my first fish at age six. I don't recall the date or time.

[dumfish]

For me, I always loved being out in nature and trying to catch anything that swims as a child. So I guess that's why I love to fish to this day.But this put me in a high risk position to catch an incurable disease. It happen one day when a friend introduced me to an Ambassador 4600 reel / Berkley Lightning rod / and a strike King slow rolling spinner bait.