the one that hooked you!!!

[jcw1503]

We are always talking about the fish we hooked, but I want to know about the fish that hooked you....You guys know the one...The one at the beginning that turned you into a person that you are today...Mine was at a small local lake...I was fishing with my brother in law...I would go fishing every once in a while but never a lot...I have caught a few bass here and there and all under a pound....but then i was fishing a swirl what i believed one was sitting...and after about 6 or 7 casts it finally took it....It was about a 3 pounder but i felt like a six or seven...That is the fish that hooked me...There has been others after that, bigger and stroinger, but it can all be traced back to that first feeling of excitement and accomplishment...

[cassidyta]

I don't know if it was a fish that actually hooked me. For me fishing was the one time when my Dad was not distracted with earning a paycheck or any other issues. Even as I became a teenager and could not agree with him on anything, fishing was always our neutral ground. So it was more a matter of spending time with my Dad that got me hooked on it. Even when I dropped out of school and joined the Marines (against his wishes) Fishing was the one conversation that did not end in a fight.

[Bassboss]

I got hooked on a bad of fishing about 3 years back. Everyone was throwing worms, spinnerbaits, and jigs....... nothing. Than I found a crankbait in the back of my box, so I tied that on, and instantly started catching a bunch of bass, all over 1lb, than I pulled up a 4lber. And that was the fish that hooked me!

And hear I am now, a slave of the bait monkey

[brushhog]

I fished as a boy - trout fishing and pan fishing mostly - As an adult I rarely fished, then, out of the blue, my son asked if we could go fishing... That was 3 years ago and the first fish he hooked that day was the one that hooked me! I believe it was a 3 or 4 inch sunfish.

[aikenyounggun]

ummm i cant single out one fish but i started fishing when i was 3 or 4....my dad would take me out and we would go fishing just me him and my bro..... i fished in our local club since i was 5.... won 2 junior championships in that club.... my dad tried to become a pro before my bro was born and so he just couldnt wait to take his kids fihsing.... and as someone mentioned earlier as a teenager we have a lot of arguments.... but fishing is our neutral ground and we both love what we are doing..... still love the excitement of setting that hook

[jooleyen]

I've told it once or twice here.
That first bluegill at Winnebago Lake on June 29, 2006. I'll never forget.

[bamabassman]

i as well got "hooked" fishing with my father. we would go, the 3 of us, me, my brother, and ol pop. i would watch hi cast and fish mostly. it was great seeing how he would retrieve his worm in the water. creeping along the banks and dams. going ever so slowly so as not to startle the fish. then watch him set the hook...man i can see it now. this brings back alot of memories. dad worked out of town alot while we were growing up. so to get to go out, just us "guys", was a real treat for me. just being what i thought was "men" things. eating vienna sausages and porknbeans, cooking over a campfire and hearing jokes we were to PROMISE we wouldn't let mom or the sisters know was awesum to me. just seeing my pop being someone other than "father". if you know what i mean. and it instilled in me values and bonding that i will forever keep and try to up hold. i have asked my pop to try to let me take him fishing more this year. he wants to. he said he missed it alot. so maybe we can. we haven't been able to do alot of things like this together for a very long time. and i want to do it before it's too late. before he gets too old to go. he needs to go more now than ever before too. he needs to get away form the things bothering him now. and i want to spend as much time as i can with him, to REPAY HIM for all he did for us 4 kids all our lives. that is important to me. he knows it too cause i told him so. we will go , i am sure of it.

[Jim80]

I fished as a kid with my dad and brother and fell away from it for a couple years while i was busy partying , fast forward a few years and my son wants to start fishing and then i was hooked again .

Jim

[Jim80]

Originally Posted by bamabassman

i as well got "hooked" fishing with my father. we would go, the 3 of us, me, my brother, and ol pop. i would watch hi cast and fish mostly. it was great seeing how he would retrieve his worm in the water. creeping along the banks and dams. going ever so slowly so as not to startle the fish. then watch him set the hook...man i can see it now. this brings back alot of memories. dad worked out of town alot while we were growing up. so to get to go out, just us "guys", was a real treat for me. just being what i thought was "men" things. eating vienna sausages and porknbeans, cooking over a campfire and hearing jokes we were to PROMISE we wouldn't let mom or the sisters know was awesum to me. just seeing my pop being someone other than "father". if you know what i mean. and it instilled in me values and bonding that i will forever keep and try to up hold. i have asked my pop to try to let me take him fishing more this year. he wants to. he said he missed it alot. so maybe we can. we haven't been able to do alot of things like this together for a very long time. and i want to do it before it's too late. before he gets too old to go. he needs to go more now than ever before too. he needs to get away form the things bothering him now. and i want to spend as much time as i can with him, to REPAY HIM for all he did for us 4 kids all our lives. that is important to me. he knows it too cause i told him so. we will go , i am sure of it.

Amen bama

Jim

[abu4600]

Floating the tangipahoa river in a pirogue down in pike co. mississippi w/ a guy named Mr.Jack when i was only 12 catching spotted bass is what did it for me.

[goearlystalate]

My hooked on fishin started with my Dad too.I would spend hours in the backyard practicing casting with a lead weight on an Ambassadeur 5000.When I was 7-8 we woulld go to Beaver Lake,Ark (Lost Bridge area).I always saw the guys pounding the banks and thats what I wanted to do.My Dad liked to troll.Although he was known to cast the banks a little.So I talked him into taking me bank fishin one evening.I was throwing a purple 9 inch Manns fliptail worm.I would ask,how do you know when you are getting a bite and he said you will know it when you get one.Then I felt it, tic-tic bam,I set the hook with my new Ambassadeur 5000.After a ferocious battle I landed a 3 lber.I will never forgive my Dad for taking me fishin.I Love Him.

[fishin spro]

the one that hooked me, was the first bass i ever caught when trying to catch bass....i had caught a few while fishin for bream with crickets or fishin for anything that would bite with a mepps spinner.
but one afternoon my sisters boyfriend asked me if i wanted to go bassfishin the next mornin. we fished topwater all the way up untill about 10 am....i saw him miss a fish on a pop r, so i decided i wanted to try a pop r too....so he rigged me up and after fishin it for about an hour, i threw it straight out from a pier...on about the third twitch a 2lber exploded on it...a minute later he was in the boat and i was hooked...i havent been the same since.

[MrPhotographer06]

Fishin as a kid..

[Buzz Wing]

Well, it was probably fishing for 'eyes on the Detroit River, or catching that first perch of the dock at Bird Lake. Grandpa and dad were getting the boat ready to launch while I casted off the dock, and caught my first ever fish, a good sized yellow perch. We threw him in the livewell, then in the bathtub for a few days, and I eventually ate him. Not too shabby for a first fish. Good times, good times.

-Buzz

[Nitro 640]

I got hooked when I was arond 7 or 8. My uncles and my dad rented a house on a lake for the weekend. All of us guys and boys took turns going out fishing on the one boat we had. Just seeing my dad doing something besides working made my get hooked on fishing. Fast forward a year from that they built their own cottage and had that for 15 years or so then sold it cause us kids stop using it as much. ( Working, partying, and starting a family) Fast forward another two years I go out fishing with my bro, and was hooked again. Just love getting away from the daily grind and enjoy the time out on the water and ya catching fish makes it even better.

[Love of the Sport]

Some of you guys might have a hard time believing this but i'm 33 and caught my first fish ever last may. I was doing some work for my mom in a house she bought that had a small pond on the property. The guy helping me was real big into fishing and brought his pole along 1 day. During lunch on one of the days we went out to the pond and he handed me the pole with a small yum lizzard attached. The water was super clear and I got to see the whole thing take place. I had cast the lizzard out and slowly retrieved it and as I was reeling in the last few feet he said "look, theres a bass" and it was. As a matter of fact it was less than 2 feet away from us. Just as we saw the bass my bait was coming into the basses range . The fish turned towards the lizzard and my friend yelled "STOP!" so I did and that little 1 1/2 lb'er nailed it. I never even got a chance to reel, I just picked it straight up out of the water. It took me over a month to catch another fish in that pond and to this day it is the hardest place to fish that i've ever been. 8 to 9 ft of visability with super heavy cover on the sides and SUPER spooky fish. Must have been fate that day for that fish to be there.

[Captmikestarrett]

The first fish that got me hooked was a big trout in Yosimite National Park on a cane pole and a salmon egg. My dad kept singing that song all thru our trout dinner at the campsite.

Mikie caught it on a hook
Mommy fried it in a pan
and Mikie ate it like a man

On and on... till a bear showed up..I am grateful for that bear still.

Capt Mike

[JB]

On and on... till a bear showed up..I am grateful for that bear still.

LOL

[bamabassman]

hahahahahahaha capt.

[Joel]

I grew up in NY city till I was 13 years old, so fishing wasn't even a thought in my mind. Once we moved out to Long Island, you needed a parent to take you literally everywhere, so I stuck with the traditional ball and bat sports.

About 10 years ago ( I was just turning 50), my 14 year old son went fishing with one of his friends and his father. When he came home all he talked about was fishing, so I thought it would be a good way of spending quality time together. Not knowing a thing I purchased two Shimano starter setups, a tackle box, hooks, tackele, etc., and hit a local pier at Captree boat basin, and we started Fluke fishing. It progressed to party boats, and I was hooked on saltwater fishing, but never even gave a thought to sweetwater.

I made some friends from a local internet fishing site and one in particular who became my regular fishing partner along with my son. As for my son, well, he started to discover girls and cars, and had less and less time to fish with his old man.

Party boat fishing started to get expensive as I fished out of the best and usually the most expensive boats. So one day Ernie and I decided to try our hand at some local sweetwater fishing with the idea of a every other week deal to help keep the costs down. My 1st bass came from the shore thanks to a 5 inch Senko. Then another, and another. Of course it was the spawn, but we didn't even know that.

We found NY BASS.com and I quickly made friends there. I was invited to fish some Westchester lakes including the NYC Reservoir system. 1st trip out and I was hooked. What a massive fishery that was. I've been making my weekly 1 1/2 hour trip from April to Dec since then. I've gone from 1 boat to 3 boats, which are on different reservoirs.

We often joke about taking up Bass fishing as a way to offset the costs of party boat fishing. Naturally, we hadn't met the Bait Monkey yet.

[rogator74]

Well when I was younger I was raised in south western Arizona we didnt have much fishing waters around us but every summer iI used to stay with my grandparents they lived in Red River New Mexico and I fished all summer long in the river that ran thru it then on the weekends my Grandfather would take me to Eagle Nest lake and that was it for me all I ever thought about after that was fishin of some sort i've never seen any kind of fishin that I dont like so far

[66KingFisher]

I was fishing on Baron fork creek in NE Oklahoma with my little brother when we were just kids on a camping trip with the family and some relatives. We had waded down stream about as far as the folks would let us, just casting a little red Creme worm that had a couple of beads and a prop on the nose and two small hooks already rigged. We'd been catchin a few punkinseeds and some goggle eye when a 3lb bass blew up on my brothers bait in a grassy patch, it scared the crap outta both of us.....we'd never seen a fish like this....I musta been no more'n bout 9-10 yrs old. He went to yellin fer help, and I couldn't get across the creek fast enough....lol....big brother had to take over this beast cause little brother was freakin out...hehehe...so I took his Zebco 202 setup away from him and landed that sucker myself....I have no idea how...it put up a whale of a fight, and all the jumpin and carryin on was unlike anything I'd ever seen before, but as luck would have it I managed to land that sucker. I wouldn't let little brother touch it till we hit dry land back at the campground....Everyone could hear us yelling and screamin during the whole ordeal and had been watching so they all knew my little brother hooked the fish.....I was soooo proud for him....and proud I landed it....my uncle cooked it for us that nite....Boy howdy what a meal.....I was hooked from that day forward.....funny thing is, my brother has never had much of an interest in fishing as an adult.....go figure....but it was his catch that day that hooked me on bass fishin.

[The Doc]

My grandfather used to take me fishing when I was barely old enough to walk. We would go fishing for striper on some of the bridges in Maine and New Hampshire, or large and smallmouth on the local lakes and rivers. I went with him all the way from 2 years till I moved to Panama when I was 12 with my stepdad who was in the army. Then, I went fishing in the Gatun Lake that's attached to the Panama canal for Peacock bass. We would rent a jon boat from the MWR and go really early. By noon we would catch so many fish we were exhausted. Literally 100 fish apiece. Both my grandfather and step father have passed away, and I feel a little closer to them every time I pick up a rod. My first tournament is in about 4 hours, and I'm catchin a little case of nostalgia just thinking about it.

[rangerryan]

and folks thats what fishing is all about. Memories and Big fish stories, the one that got away and the one that didnt. i dont remember the fish that got me hooked. i guess it was ingrained in to me from the day i came out of the womb my whole family is nuts about bass fishing and my dad was the craziest about it. my first rod was a zebco rhino with a zebco 33 when i was about 4 yrs old. by the time i was six i had to have a baitcaster just like dad... it was an abu garcia bait caster on a quantum rod. so i guess some time during that period i must have caught the one that hooked me.

[3dkicker]

I did have a 14" smallie that I caught on a popper end up sticking me just inside the belly button. So there I was in a canoe with a fish flopping around in one hand, rod in the other, and a treble ready to give me a piercing......

Sorry. First I can remember was a small catfish caught in a stream when I was around 4 years old. Been fishing since.