What Was Your Most Cherished Fishing Moment ?

[lanzbass]

My most cherished moment in fishing was fishing by the side of my Grandma , and her giving me my 1st Eagle Claw rod and Micheal reel

[Loop_Dad]

Mine was when my then 5 yrs old daughter caught 2 lbs on her brand new 4 ft Shakespeare combo on her first (or close to first) cast on a brand new cute crank bait she picked out herself at the store.

[AK-Jax86]

When my girlfriend caught her PB bass 6lbs. We stopped at a lake before our movie and it was our 2 year anniversary. She was fishing a frog and when she heard the blow up and felt the weight she got startled it was funny, I yelled set the hook babe. She was reeling it in and kept saying I don't think I can reel it in, had 30lb braid so I wasn't worried lol. She finally gets the fish to shore and her face lit up she was so excited to see her biggest bass caught to date.

I love the fact that I found a girl who loves fishing with her man lol most women would rather stay home while their man is fishing

[tomustang]

When my wife caught a 10 pounder

[bigbill]

MY first son catching his first trout.  you couldn't wipe that smile off his face.

[rvadog]

I have two.

 

First is fishing with my granddad on the blackwater river. Learning to catch bluegills and crappie.

 

The other is teaching a kid I mentored in NY how to fish. I would bait his hook with chicken liver and let him catch catfish till he was tired of it. 

[slonezp]

It wasn't a moment. It was over the period of a few months. My grandfather had fishing in his blood, and fished for whatever was biting. He taught me how to use a baitcaster in the yard and he would do a secret indian dance when the fish weren't biting to call the smallmouth bass in close enough to our lines that they would see the soft shelled crayfish and bite.   He was diagnosed with lung cancer which soon spread to his pancreas. I took him out quite a bit over those few months while he was still strong enough to walk. I took him to spots where I knew he'd catch fish and wouldn't have to work for it.. Kind of like taking a kid fishing for the first time. He held onto the passion to fish until the day he died. The last time we went out, I had to bait the hook for him and take the fish off. We were catching sunfish and small largemouth and he told me how happy he was that the smallmouth were biting.    

 

I think someone's cutting onions

[Bankbeater]

First time that I took my youngest daughter out fishing. She was jumping all over the place when she caught her first sunfish.

[deadadrift89]

All the trips with my grandfather when i was young still mean everything to me !!!!

[Todd2]

Fishing with my dad the past 4 or 5 years, before he passed last year. Taking my son and daughter is a close second. My funniest moment was a big group of partying pontooners watched me set the hook and bring in a 4 lber. They were in a festive mood and started yelling and cheering. I felt like I was on tv, lol.

[SudburyBasser]

I'd have to say when me, my brother-in-law and a friend were going for bonefish in the Turks & Caicos last August. It was just such a perfect day. Just three guys having a grand time away from work for nearly two weeks. 

[Oregon Native]

I must be old...I got a ton.

Fishing in a bucket while grandma or grandpa washed the car.

Going clamming and salmon fishing with my grandma many years ago.

Winning my first western BASS divisional

Taking my son, daughter and grandsons fishing and seeing them catch their first fish.

Taking my wife fishing and having it POUR down rain and she took it well....but I got the message that this was my sport!

Tight Lines

[keith71]

     Taking my son on his first fishing trip in a boat.It was a beautiful spring day and we loaded up and started to pull away from the dock with just the trolling motor.  When the sound of boat working its way through the water started ,my son smiling from ear to ear said "Im so excited daddy" Me too buddy.

[Hyrule Bass]

we had family fishing trips when i was a kid, but ill never forget all the bass me and my dad caught out of the potomac the one time it was just me and him fishing by ourselves.

 

another time is taking one of my nieces fishing, she loves to fish, i hooked a nice 2lb largemouth bass and gave her the rood and reel and let her fight it all the way in. she still talks about catching another big bass and how she hasnt in such a long time...

[Kevinator1]

 Taking my daughter with me to a local two man team tournament. We finished in 2nd place out of about 22 boats and won some money. She actually caught 3 of our 4 keepers. This was the very first tournament she fished with me. It was awesome. By the way, I let her have the money since she caught the majority of our keepers! 

[Catt]

Not possible to pick one

Introduced all 6 of my kids to fishing & 4 of my 8 grandkids.

Remember my first fish @ age 4 & my first bass on a Texas rig @ age 12.

During the 70s

Took a 5 day class & the instructor was Elwood "Buck" Perry.

Joined the Hemphill Bass Club whose members were Tommy Martin, Larry Nixon, Harold Allen, Villis P "Bo" Dowden, Zell Roland, & Lonnie Stanley.

Meet Gris Gresham @ Lowes Creek Marina

Meet Jerry Dean of Honey Hole Magazine several times.

Bought Rat-L-Traps from Bill Lewis

That's just a few

[ColdSVT]

My first tarpon...she was a 130lbs and angry

My other was watching my dad catch the biggest snook I have seen to date on his second ever cast into saltwater

[basshole8190]

Going fishing with my grandpa as a kid he was such a talented multispecies angler i can't remember ever getting skunked fishing with him.

And fishing with my two year old . it brings back memories of me and my grandpa.

[Ratherbfishing]

There are several but the one that comes to mind is when my nieces were preteenagers, I drove them out to the river on an August day.  On the way there, we sang along to a song on the radio.  Listening to 2 girls sing "See the young man sitting in the old man's bar, waiting for his turn to die..." is a hoot.  Anyway, we traipsed down to the river where, naturally, the fish weren't biting so I gave that up, climbed into the river with them and piled mud on an overhanging tree limb in the river.  It was a silly game but we had fun.  and I'm so glad I put down my fishing pole. I need to ask my nieces if they remember that.

[lanzbass]

After thinking about it more the time my Great Grandpa took me to the Madison River fishing and we had baloney sandwich with hot coffee sticks out as ranking as one of my better memories also Funny how little things like that stay stuck in your mind , It was sure fun

[mikeeasttn]

Taking my grandson fishing and watching him catch a 8.5# LM.  He is a dedicated bass fisherman now and goes with me everytime I go fishing.

Fishing with him and watching him catch fish is one the the greatest blessing the lord has ever given me.