What got you hooked?

[McCallister]

I can't say I have much bass fishing experience yet, but like many others here it seems, I got started on fishing panfish when I was young.

Dad would take me and sis out to fish bluegill a lot.  Take them home, watch dad filllet 'em up and have an awesome dinner.   I then didn't get the chance to fish much during my teen years & early 20's, but a buddy has gotten me re-hooked and now go up to northern WI each year for a week to long lake.  I'm so glad I have gotten back into fishing!  

[Ky_Lake_Dude]

I caught a 5lber when I was 4 years old

[FishTank]

My dad use to take me fishing almost every weekend when I was a kid.  He worked the night shift for awhile and as soon as we got home he would pick us up and head to the lake with no sleep.  I guess he loved to fish.   He was not the best bass fisherman but he was always entertaining to watch.  He was sort of like a Bill Dance accident waiting to happen.  I sure do miss him.  I would like to think he is still fishing somewhere.

[bassfanatick]

Hi guys I am new here so take it easy on the Newbie Mine would be that I was fishing for crappie last year and hooked a 10 inch bass and sufficient to say I was hooked too ;D

[Jake P]

I got bored one day and decided to go fishin with a buddy and caught 2 dinks back to back on a crank. I came home googled bass forums and poof bassresource.com came up. Then i started looking at BPS.com and was joined by a little monkey then i REALLY became hooked on all the baits and rods and reels. Now im hooked on learning every possible technique there is and will never stop learning. I wonder what i would be doing sometimes if i never found this site. I wonder if i would still be fishing?

[nboucher]

Mom. When I was a boy and summer school vacation started, she said, "I don't want you in the house all summer. Get the hell out of here!" I talked her into giving me money for a Zebco rod-and-reel combo at Bradlees, the local department store, and spent the summer at the small pond across the street from our house. One day at Bradlees, I used my allowance to buy a bass plugI forget which oneand on this topwater I caught my first bass ever. I cooked up the fish for my mother. After that, she would say, "You're not hanging around the house all day. Go fishing!"

[Ifish4keeps]

the fact that all of my friends fished and they were good at it

i would go fishing with them and usually get shunked so i spent a whole bunch of money at bass pro one winter and have become a pretty good fisherman

but i will never forget the 5 pounder I caught in a pond that i had only caught little dinks in for days

[FR0G]

My dad started me in fishing, and I have been hooked ever since.

[bassin95]

fished with my pops and dad when i was a kid. we always caught bass but never appreciated it until a was about 25. for the past three years i have been obsessed. my wife calls it my addiction. i talk fishing to my dad almost everyday. I have to thank my pops for being so patient with me while fishing when i was a kid.