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Post by zodiakgsps on Mar 17, 2007 23:42:19 GMT -4
How'd you get "hooked" on fishing?? My cousin started taking me when I was about 8yrs old fishing on Elk with him. That was back when the SALMON still ran in it! I still remember hooking my first big one, and my cousin nervously trying to get near enough to net it(he didn't want me to lose my first salmon!)......everyone fishing cheering me on, what a rush. I swear the 15 minutes it took to get that fish landed seemed like an hour! After that I spent hours on that creek, it was only 1/4 mile from my house, couldn't tell you how many trout (stockies, rainbows & browns) & steelies I've caught over the years, but that first salmon was my undoing! Summers were spent at the mouth, we'd catch perch, silver bass, gills & smallmouths during the day & Channel cats at night. Sometimes the occasional gar pike!
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Post by loggy on Mar 18, 2007 7:38:54 GMT -4
:)Great way to get hooked zodiakgsps!
I started very young likely as soon as i could walk. My dad & granpap took me as soon as i could hold a rod. Ole baitcasters back then (before freespool feature & magnetic anti-backlash control ;D) I do remenmber some major birdsnests!!! Of course, still get an occasional one today even with all the "bells & whistles" hangin on these reels. lol
They were both "fishin nuts" so I had no choice to enter this wonderful but insane goup! ;D
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Post by piekarskip on Mar 18, 2007 15:06:59 GMT -4
Loggy I remember those reels Remember plug casting tournaments that penalized you for the time it took you to correct your backlash. My father set the hook in me on the Allegheny fishing for cats with of all things shrimp for bait
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Post by gitrdone07 on Mar 18, 2007 15:37:04 GMT -4
i think i was about 8 years old and have been fishing since iam 37 now
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Post by The Invisible Man on Mar 18, 2007 18:56:27 GMT -4
My Dad started taking me when I was about 4 or 5 years old. Started out with a cane pole with a piece of black fishin' line and a hook tied on it. Been fishin' ever since.
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Post by piekarskip on Mar 18, 2007 19:26:50 GMT -4
Seems like family sets the " HOOK" God bless them
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Post by skwirl on Mar 26, 2007 21:29:03 GMT -4
I had never fished for trout , one day my son came up to me and said dad can we go fishing. Not wanting to disappoint him I called my b i l an avid fisherman and asked if we could tag along. He said sure and the next Saturday we went to one of his favorite spots. I watched him and my son catch fish all day. Long story short the next weekend I had my license and some new fishing gear and I haven't stopped since that was 35 years ago
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Post by zippyduck on Mar 31, 2007 13:42:07 GMT -4
My father, grandfather, and most of the best fisherlady I ever met my grandma. She could run a boat and catch fish like no one I have ever met. Pymo was her second home, i spent many a summer with her there. I miss those days alot. I can catch fish but nothing like she could. I would put myself in the 90% range she was in the 99% catch rate.
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Post by bob1961 on Apr 6, 2007 20:20:10 GMT -4
the hook...lol....sorry couldn't resist....just doing it as a kid since i was bout 8....with my mom.....................bob
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Post by rifleman on Apr 7, 2007 7:53:30 GMT -4
This one got hooked up with me: ;D
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Post by loggy on Apr 7, 2007 17:31:32 GMT -4
This one got hooked up with me: ;D Is that one hooked on the wall now?? ;D
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Post by rifleman on Apr 7, 2007 18:54:10 GMT -4
No not on the wall with that little dinker, here is my wallflower.
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Post by loggy on Apr 8, 2007 7:29:48 GMT -4
WOW!!! Im hooked & didnt even catch that trophy!!!!! ;D
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Post by zodiakgsps on Apr 8, 2007 12:14:33 GMT -4
Sweet! How about some details on it!
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Post by fergie10 on Apr 13, 2007 20:22:37 GMT -4
got hooked when me and my cousin went on in a little 12 foot aluminum boat with trolling motor on the back and caught 34 bass in one day i pretty much have been pumped for fishing ever since
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