full circle?

[mllrtm79]

I was looking through old pictures yesterday and found this one, probably the last time I had gone bass fishing prior to the summer of 2016.

Interestingly enough the guy who took the picture was new to bass fishing, and so I was showing him some things that I knew and hooked up on this 3 pounder. 

Just Sunday night we'd talked, and he is letting me be co-angler with him on a small pond circuit this summer... Funny how life will bring you back to things you're passionate about, and a bit of shared knowledge might come back to you as a blessing ten years down the road. 

 

[Darren.]

Life is good, ain't it!  

[lonnie g]

bet you guys will have a blast. good luck, win some! life is good even better when your fishing.

[Sam]

Great story.

 

Have a fun time fishing those ponds.

 

Good luck.

 

Post some pics of your catches.

[lo n slo]

git r done

[Bluebasser86]

I've taught some of my fishing buddies how to fish. A few of them have gone to basically knowing nothing to now being very accomplished anglers. 

["hamma"]

Good luck this year, hope you do well!

 

 It amazes me how many people I took out fishing many years ago that got "hooked" on it as well, some now tourney fish. Most all have either a coleman crawdad, kayak, tin or fiberglass bass rig. When years ago they didnt even have a clue as to what a baitcaster was. And a slug-o? Considered a fighting term.,...They all now fish with the vigor I do, baitcasting and spinning gear alike. 

  Many reasons attribute to anglers getting bit by the bass fishing bug. The challenge, the serenity, the diversity, some enjoy the competition of tourneys, we all have our reasons. Up here it seems to be the allure of the fiesty smallie and the beautiful areas their waters encompass. Even on a bad day of fishing, the shear beauty alone is breathtaking enough to calm anyone's nerves. But get a good day of fishing a decent smallie lake? anyone would be hooked.

  Also,... consider that there's backwoods waters that appear like they come straight from Texas, Florida, Michigan, and Canada, all just minutes from downtown Boston? Makes it all the more attractive to the unknowing "citified yankee!".

  Stripers, tuna, trout, and salmon have a huge following here, and always have, most of them have been the mainstays since the Plymouth Plantation,.... but to find a freshwater bass angler here? Is becoming easier every year, and I almost dare to say there "may be" as many bass anglers now here, as trout anglers. Maybe