When did you fall in love with fishing?

[procraft68]

I first fell in love with bass fishing when I first broke out of my egg and swan off the bed...... Oh wait, sorry. First time I hooked one. I was so excited, had no clue a fish could put up a fight like that. I got him in, un hooked him (that was a trip), threw it back in the water and didn't want to fish for anything else after that. It was love at first bite.. Hook em hard, Snag

[bigbill]

My older brother always took me fishing when i was just 6yo. We hunted and fished always together. We also took our kids fishing and hunting too.

His favorite quote was; You have to stay going and sooner or later they will turn on. We always fished from shore too. My brother was an awesome saltwater fisherman too he caught big stripers and blues too. Like anything else you just have to find that honey hole...

I lost my brother about 10 years ago but there is still his cigarette smell at my camp after all these years so he is still with us. Even after i wash the place the smell is still there. We had a lot of fun fishing and hunting all these many years...

As my health got worse(disabled) I started buy up all the fishing stuff on sales and clearances so i'm stocked up just incase $$ got tight. I can fish for the rest of my life now.

We were always out in the spring trout fishing mainly.  We caught bass but i never caught on.  I was out one night about two hours before the front hit(rain).  We were using livebait(worms) and while reeling it in i had a strike.  I figured right away to go to lures.  I put on a mepps inline and started nailing bass after bass.  I thew one to my son and we had doubles after doubles.  I was hooked, line and sinker on bass fishing ever since that night in the spring.  Then the weeds came...I went insearch of weedless stuff and purchased everything i could find.  I found out all this stuff really works when we present it correctly.  Using livebait didn't last for long I was spending up to $50 a week on livebait.  I started using nothing but lures and used my livebait $$ to support my lure habit.  Of course if i had a lure work i purchased many of them just incase they stopped making them. My tackle storage room is more like a tackle shop now.  I have rods & reels for just about every kind of fishing there is from trout fishing to Pike fishing plus the lures and fly's to go with it too.  I even buy up older plastics that still work too.  I tried bass fishing many years ago on a local lake here and we were using a black creme worm that was split shot rigged back in the eary 70's.  This setup still works today too.

[Ky_Lake_Dude]

I got hooked on fishing when I was like 1 1/2yr or 2 old. But I got hooked on bass fishing when I was 4 and caught 5lber

[eastkybass]

Been fishing for as long as I can remember.  There are pictures of me fishing going back to the earliest ones.  I grew up in a family that loved it.  My Grandparents owned a houseboat on Cave Run lake in NE Kentucky and with it being only a hour away it made it real easy to go on the weekends and most of the summer.

[Jake P]

Its been about 9 months i believe, i remember i was throwin cranks and got a bite but had no clue until it jumped out of the water. I reeled it in and released it and then casted out again and boom another bite, once again i had no clue i had it until it jumped and splashed a little bit. I remember thinking wow this is easy! Now months and months later without a fish i realize it isnt as easy as i once thought. Whether im catching or not i still love everything about bass fishing, being out in nature on the lake where its quiet and peaceful, theres nothing like it.

[Tokyo Tony]

I think I was 8-10 years old at the time. The first time I ever went fishing was with my dad, his friend, and my brother. We rented a boat out of Key Largo, and we had no idea what to do. My dad bought some squid and we just trolled around. We ended up catching a couple grunts, but that's it. When we got back to the dock, I put a little piece of squid on a hook and fished from the dock. Cast after cast I kept catching little (I mean really little   ) mangrove snappers. I was really young, so it seems kind of like a dream to me, but I'll never forget the inexplicable feeling of catching those first few fish.

Although now fishing is much different for me - it's more of a sport, or a challenge, and a quest for good bass - I know that the root of my love of fishing is still that magical feeling you get when you hook into, and land, a fish. The feeling isn't as exposed as it was when I was younger (it's more buried within me now), but I still catch myself smiling and feeling giddy when I hook a bass  ;D

[roadwarrior]

Although I grew up fishing, I was not passionate about it for a long stretch of time. Moving from Colorado to Tennessee in 1997 rekindled my interest, but it wasn't until I discovered the Senko that I became obsessed.

The Senko changed my entire outlook on "fishing". For the first time I was able to consistantly catch BIG bass. Initially I began catching 3-4 pound bass and a occasional 5, which I considered a milestone. Suddenly, it seemed, there was the opportunity to take my game to the next level.

About the time I caught my first 10, I also met a guy that has turned into my best friend and fishing partner. In July 2001, almost seven years ago, I caught my first 20 lb striper. That fall, I learned a thing or two about smallmouth. I've been after them critters ever since!

8-)

[Rob.Atl]

I have fished when i was young but it wasnt anything really, i had gone deep sea fishing for a little bit when i went on trips. And i went to Alaska for it to and it was amazing. I caught like 10 salmon and a 75lbs halibut .Really it has been just recently i have fished on and off for bass for a bout a year but this spring i have had a new outlook i cant stop thinking about fishing and new techniques and skills i can learn to get good at this sport. Im setting goals for my self such as learning new lures and getting good with them (the jig at the moment) I just caught my first fish ever on a jig and first over 5 pounds and it was a nice 6 lb bed fish and that is a great accomplishment in my mind. Im young so i have a great sport to improve at for a long long time.  

[ntrojack]

6 years old on vacation with my dad right after he got back from Vietnam. Caught a small trout - Swallowed the hook, as most fish do with the attention span of a 6 year old. Wanted to keep it alive, and my Dad let me take it back to the cabin in a bucket. Of course he knew it was going to die, but he knew he had to let me try to save it.

He passed 7 years ago from Agent Orange related Cancer, but instilled in me the passion of fishing. Started my boy when he was 5 pond fishing. At 8 years old he decided he wanted to fish with "fake baits" like me. I'm on my 2nd boat now, and he's my favorite partner. He can work a fluke, jerkbait, shakeyhead with the best of 'em. He took 7th in my club tourney last month at 11 years old from the back of my boat, and he bought his own Senko's in the color he wanted and fished with nothing else all day. You should see me smiling about it right now. Couldn't be more proud. Thank goodness I caught 'em late in the day cause he had me beat at noon. I didn't have the same color, and he wasn't sharing. Well maybe he would have, but I wasn't going to ask.    

Take your kids fishing. The memories last forever.....

[AMSFishing]

12:43pm Today!  Landed my first one!

[Frank19]

Two years ago for me.  I always enjoyed fishing but never really knew what I was doing.  Then two years ago I decided I finally had some more free time to really dedicate myself to a new hobby.  I jumped on this and some other forums and learned as much as I could.  Then last year I joined a bass club and fished my first tournament.  I've been hooked ever since.  Although its frustrating at times being a newbie angler and seeing other guys catching so much while I still have a tough time I realize that I'm just in the beginning of the learning curve and I enjoy the challenge and the constant learning process.  

[ZEN BASSIN]

7 years old, always trout fishing or salt water with my dad. it wasn't until last year that I got serious about bass fishing thanks to my 7 yr. old daughter.

[thetr20one]

Very early 4 or 5 watching the sun go down catfishing with my dad. Been fishing ever since. Started focusing on bass at about 14. Its scary to remember some of the trips of the past so vividly and realize how fast time flies!! I still fish for other species with my wife and daughter but bass are my thing! It's the challenge that has me hooked. What did  Skeete Reese say "who needs crack when there is bass fishing"?

[SouthMiamiBassMan]

I came from a long line of fishermen from Cuba, and my grandfather use to take Hemmingway out deep sea fishing all the time when he lived down there. My dad took me out  (to the sea) for the first time when I was 3 and I loved it. As for bass, I began fishing them by accident. I had just moved in to my Condo (about 2 years ago) that has a lake behind it and I was just fishing for Tilapia with night crawlers on a float. The float was there and then it was gone. I thought it was a Tilapia until I set the hook and the fish took off! I remember saying holy S$!@, about 8 times, as that hawg splashed around trying get away, and then she jumped clear out of the water. That's when I saw what looked like a football with fins and a big ol' mouth, flying through the air and it was like she was in slow motion. While she was in mid flight, she shook off the hook and belly flopped back in the water like brick. I was kind shell shocked for a few seconds that it got away but that was all it took. That week at work I went online to find out more and found this site and I have been on that mission ever since. Like my tags says "I'm always wishing I was fishing."

[GobbleDog]

I hated fishing with my dad.  He stunk at it.  And my grandpa stunk too.

If an old friend hadn't showed me how to catch monster snook many years ago, I'd probably be collecting stamps or something.  

[simplejoe]

I grew up fishing with my dad and Grandpa on Lake Aurthor but we fished with worms and we didn't catch many fish back then. 2 yrs ago I became addicted when I bought my first lure ( Heddon torpedo) and I was catching fish off of it. since then I have 2 tackleboxs full of lures  everychance I get I go out on crooked creek lake and fish, along with many other spots

[low_pro]

February 20, 1994

My second bass ever was this guy....

I was 11 visiting my dad... been fishing ever since!

[tntitans21399]

I grew up going to the lake, but our boat's motor blew and we couldn't get it fixed (money).  We mainly skied and hung out, but I always liked to casual fish.  So now that I finally have my own boat I can go out their more now and I love it.  Before I had to wait until a friend was going, but now I can go whenever I want to.