First time fishing story. 2024
Shanexd9 reply :
I was thinking about the very first time I went fishing as a kid. I was with my dad sitting on the side of a farm pond throwing worms and catching blue gills. I don't remember how old I was. I know that I was young though. Probably somewhere around 5 or 6. I thought this would be a good discussion here on the forums. What is the story of your first time fishing? Or what happened that sparked your interest in fishing?
Doelman reply :
This wasn't my first time fishing, but it's my first fishing memory. I was 3, fishing in a brackish water canal in south Florida with my dad, I had a tiny little kid rod. I don't remember what I was fishing with, but I do remember what I caught. It was a baby tarpon, about 5 lbs, and it jumped like crazy while my dad helped me reel it in. Been hooked on fishing ever since.
Shanexd9 reply :
That's awesome. If I had a chance at a tarpon when I was kid I probably would have lost my mind.
scaleface reply :
I can remember catching my first fish and where . It was a chute off the Mississippi river . I caught a sunfish with a bobber and worm . I remember how brightly colored it was and when Dad said it was a sunfish I actually thought it was from the sun . Its one of my earliest memories , maybe three or four years old . I was just at that spot a few minutes ago , looking things over .
Sam reply :
Around 8 years old.
Went to a "camp" on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain to visit friends with my aunt and cousins.
I was given a baitcaster and a red and white spoon and I threw it into the marsh behind the house.
Had not idea what to do so I just started to reel in the lure.
Caught my first largemouth bass that day.
Have never looked back!
Yeajray231 reply :
Probably 14 or so years ago ... Me and my best friend would troll jointed rapala minnows off the back of a paddle boat... We caught bass, and this is where I developed a love for using artificial.
Still a huge fan of rapala.
RPreeb reply :
On 8/19/2017 at 2:15 AM, Shanexd9 said:I was thinking about the very first time I went fishing as a kid. I was with my dad sitting on the side of a farm pond throwing worms and catching blue gills. I don't remember how old I was. I know that I was young though. Probably somewhere around 5 or 6. I thought this would be a good discussion here on the forums. What is the story of your first time fishing? Or what happened that sparked your interest in fishing?
I can't say that I actually remember anything about the first time (it was 60 odd years ago), aside from the fact that it would have been with a 10 foot bamboo "cane" pole with a length of line the same length rigged with bobber, splitshot, and hook with worm impaled on it. I'd have been after any of the several species of sunfish (bluegill, punkinseed, sunfish) that inhabited Balsam Lake (WI). I'd have been fishing from the end of the dock, and catching a few rock bass, perch and bullheads along with the sunnies.
That's pretty much how all the kids I knew started out.
Shanexd9 reply :
Some good ones so far. I got one of those telescopic poles a while back to try and experience the cane pole style. I've yet to take it out though.
XpressJeff reply :
I was about 6 years old in 1962 and my Dad took on what's called a "Party" boat out of BelMar NJ. That's where about 30 - 50 people go out in the Atlantic ocean about 6am and motor out for a couple hours. We would drift fish with short stiff rods using cut bait and 3 -4 ounce sinkers until 2 or 3 when you head back to the pier. It was a tangled mess when several people hook up at the same time. Mostly Bluefish, a few sharks, rays too. I remember Bluefish as tall as I was when Dad held 'em up.
Was a long day for a 6 year old!
Bassin' Brad reply :
One of my 1st memories was also of catching a sunfish, and being in awe of its colors....
Bluebasser86 reply :
I wasn't quite a year old yet the first time my parents took me fishing, so I don't exactly remember it. Some of my first memories are fishing my grandparents pond and catching what I thought were huge catfish at the time, but were probably only 4-8 pounds in reality.
My first experience with a bass was also in their pond catching bass on my trusty 1/8oz rootbeer colored roadrunner.
SuperCorona reply :
My first memory of fishing was at a pond close to Carthage MO where my great grandparents lived. We were sitting on a dock fishing with worms and cane poles catching bluegills. I had to be 4 or 5. My first fish casting was a big bluegill on a Hula Popper/Zebco combination when I was 11. I was with my dad and grandpa on Beaver Lake. I remember another fishing trip to Northern WI close to Spooner when I was 7 or 8 with my parents and grandparents. The 2 things I remember about that trip were eating frog legs for the first time and my grandpa reeling in a yellow perch and a big northern pike clobbered it at the boat.
N Florida Mike reply :
I was 4 or so and we were near Ft Fisher NC .My dad and me had waded out in the marsh and I caught this small purple fish on shrimp. He thought it was some kind of perch.I remember begging him to keep it but he made me throw it back. The fish must have been really small because his idea of catch and release was catch and release into the ice chest!!!
Suwanee Pops reply :
The first fishing that I remember doing was with my dad and brother in the Mobile River delta using seed shrimp on a cane pole in a rented wooden boat and catching bluegill ... probably 6 years old ... and had the best time! And it certainly wasn't catch and release.
Shanexd9 reply :
On 8/20/2017 at 12:39 AM, N Florida Mike said:I was 4 or so and we were near Ft Fisher NC .My dad and me had waded out in the marsh and I caught this small purple fish on shrimp. He thought it was some kind of perch.I remember begging him to keep it but he made me throw it back. The fish must have been really small because his idea of catch and release was catch and release into the ice chest!!!
I know Ft. Fisher. Im from right down the road about an hour.
N Florida Mike reply :
Yeah Ive got family all over SE NC.
We used to surf fish a lot at Ft Fisher and at Ocean Isle beach.
the reel ess reply :
I started so young I can't remember it. But my earliest memories are from a weekend place we had at a nearby lake. I would bug the crap out of my Dad to get me a can of worms on the way to the lake so I could fish first thing in the morning. I would get up with the sun and sneak out the sliding door and walk the banks and our dock with my cane pole and the worms. I considered it my duty to stick a hook in every little fish within my reach. I remember talking to all the bass fishermen that came trolling by while I was fishing. I would go up for breakfast when my parents got up.
Another time I remember going crappie fishing with my dad and his buddy in the boat. They were using minnows and poles and all I had was my Zebco 33. My dad's buddy had some early Mister Twister white curly tail grubs and gave me one. I wore them both out that day and we stopped by the store on the way home and bought the store out of them. I was hooked for life, pun intended.
Shanexd9 reply :
On 8/20/2017 at 4:03 AM, N Florida Mike said:Yeah Ive got family all over SE NC.
We used to surf fish a lot at Ft Fisher and at Ocean Isle beach.
My Parents live in Calabash. I lived there most of my life until I moved to florida.
the reel ess reply :
On 8/20/2017 at 8:50 PM, Shanexd9 said:My Parents live in Calabash. I lived there most of my life until I moved to florida.
Love that area, Oak Island and Southport.
Shanexd9 reply :
There's some great bass fishing up that way. The ponds in Sea Trail in Sunset beach. I've caught some giants out of there.
the reel ess reply :
On 8/20/2017 at 8:59 PM, Shanexd9 said:There's some great bass fishing up that way. The ponds in Sea Trail in Sunset beach. I've caught some giants out of there.
We used to pass Oyster Bay Golf Club on the way into Sunset Beach and it looked incredibly "bassy". But I could never tell if the public could fish there.
Catt reply :
People who know me find it amusing that when I was 4-6 yrs old I was deathly afraid of boats. My dad had to whip me to get me in a boat but by 7 yrs old he had to whip me to get me out.
My first fish (age3-4) was a bluegill on a cane pole with a cork & worm. My uncle had a camp on the Calcasieu river, the bank had 20-25 steps going down to a wharf. I seen my cork go under, don't remember setting hook, just remember running up the steps with fish bouncing off each step.
Shanexd9 reply :
On 8/20/2017 at 9:34 PM, the reel ess said:We used to pass Oyster Bay Golf Club on the way into Sunset Beach and it looked incredibly "bassy". But I could never tell if the public could fish there.
I don't know about oyster bay but in sea trail if you stay out of the golfers way nobody will say anything to you.
Gundog reply :
My first memory was when I was about 8 or 9. Me and my brother and friends from the neighborhood would walk down to the end of town to a little pond. We caught tons of sunfish but the bass in that pond wouldn't bite. You could see them swim around but no matter how hard I tried with nightcrawlers, I couldn't catch one. I think not catching those bass is really what kept me fishing. I would spend hours stalking those fish from the high bank around the pond. I used all sorts of live bait. Crickets, worms, crawfish, nothing worked. But I kept coming back to try.
Shanexd9 reply :
Ive never caught a bass on a nightcrawler. Panfish will tear them up but bass don't seem to want any part of them for me. I have caught bass on plastic worms so that one is a mystery.
N Florida Mike reply :
On 8/20/2017 at 8:50 PM, Shanexd9 said:My Parents live in Calabash. I lived there most of my life until I moved to florida.
I love Calabash. We went there several times and got seafood when I was a kid. There were only a couple restaurants there then. The one We went to was right across the street from the docks where they brought it in. I think the name might have been Thomas seafood.( This was app. 50 years ago.) Calabash is special to me because it was my parents favorite place to get seafood.I can still picture us there in my mind.
My Granma and uncles family lived at Shallote NC for many years and Id go there for 2 weeks every summer, hang out with my cousins, and fish. Caught a 3 pound or so black drum at Ocean Isle when I was 8. That fish is the one that really got ME hooked on fishing!!
Shanexd9 reply :
I miss home sometimes. There are a few good places down there now. Captain Nance's is good. Good clam chowder. I've never fished on Ocean Isle Beach. I like the cherry grove pier just across the state line. I used to fish there every Saturday for several years.
fishwizzard reply :
I fished for the first time when I was like 35.
I do event setup work and often my bigger shows end up with a day or two at the very end where I do is stand around and watch other people work. The official name is "subcontractor management", but mostly I am there to wave to the client and fill out forms if a forklift hits a truck or vice versa. It's a pretty sweet gig, but it can be super super dull if you are stuck somewhere with no/poor internet and hours in the sun to keep yourself entertained. We don't (usually) sub out to idiots so rarely is there ever an issue and as no one ever likes working with their client looking over their shoulder, I keep my distance and just poke my head in every 30 min to look around.
So I am in Florida watching some guys take down a huge double decker tent. This will take three days. After a day and a half one of the groundskeepers, noticing that I was just doing slow circles around the park in a golfcart, asked me if I fished and told me about his "secret" dock in the park next door. Having n nothing better to do I walked through about 300-500 yards of mangrove to a little lagoon. There was a crude dock made from plywood and 4x4 posts. I could see like 12' down and saw these huge fish swimming around. I remember thinking "I wonder if I could catch one?".
So I rooted around in my jobox and found some nasty old mono, a tiny safety pin, and a 3/8" hex nut. The next morning I took a bit of chicken from dinner and headed to the lagoon. I somehow tied up a dropshot like rig and tossed it into the water. And a fish (a mangrove snapper I later learned) bit the hook and I yanked the SOB right out of the water! The hook wasn't set, I literally jerked like a 1lb fish right onto the bank. I picked that fish up and I instantly knew that every second of my life before this moment had been wasted. Fishing was all I wanted to do. It was all I had ever wanted to do, but I didn't know it before.
I flew home and immediately googled up the nearest tackle shop and drove over. I told the clerk that I was hot to get fishing. He began to ask questions, but I butted in and explained my sudden revelation. When he stopped laughing he sold me a cheap bottom-fishing combo for perch and catfish and said to go out, catch a few fish, then come back once I had an idea what I wanted to do and we would sell me a some proper gear.
I went out and caught the smallest white perch in the world and I have never looked back.
Shanexd9 reply :
That's awesome. Did you keep the mangrove and eat it? Those are tasty.
barrycam reply :
My first catch was about 4 years old, Jackson Lake kinda SE of Atlanta, Ga. Dad, Mother and I had been driving around parts of the lake. Think Dad was gonna lease some Ga. Power land, as he worked for Ga. Power at the time. Dad had brought some cane poles, we stopped at a steep(too me anyway) rocky bank. Dad baited my hook and before he could put his in the water I had caught a small sun fish. I remember I was extremely happy, Dad had a nice grin on his face, but was not impressed with the fish size. That was my first of many fishing trips to Jackson Lake, Ga.
Barry
Bankbeater reply :
First time I can remember catching a fish I was about 8 years old. I got a worm, put it on my cane pole, and my Dad sent me over to some rip rap to catch sunnies for bait. My hook was in the water for about a minute and the bobber went under. I ended up catching a 2 pound channel cat.
fishwizzard reply :
On 8/21/2017 at 9:06 PM, Shanexd9 said:That's awesome. Did you keep the mangrove and eat it? Those are tasty.
Hah, nope, I tossed him right back in.
Shanexd9 reply :
On 8/22/2017 at 5:16 AM, Bankbeater said:First time I can remember catching a fish I was about 8 years old. I got a worm, put it on my cane pole, and my Dad sent me over to some rip rap to catch sunnies for bait. My hook was in the water for about a minute and the bobber went under. I ended up catching a 2 pound channel cat.
Nice. It was a long time before I caught my first catfish.
Jtrout reply :
When me and my twin brother were around 4 or 5 until i was 14 dad would wake us up at like 3 or 4 in the morning to get to a small creek before the crowds got there to catch stocked rainbow trout. We had so much fun usually me and my bro would out catch dad or he would be busy untangling our lines lol. I didnt do much fishing from then til about 23 i went to a pond with a zebco and a telescopic rod with no bait and caught tiny frogs off the bank and used them and caught bass after bass. Been hooked ever since.
Shanexd9 reply :
Id like to try trout fishing one day. I've heard that it's very challenging.
caclunker reply :
deedfirst time was on a bass tracker with my dad and papaw (both winning local tournament fishers) tied me on a buzzbait that I ended up hooking my grandfather in the cheek with...my grandfather has since passed but my dad will remind most days on the boat...
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