First Fish?

[urbanangler1990]

hey guys, how old were ya when you caught ur very first fishie? i was 9, and caught a panfish, cant remember exactly what kind, lol, in the severn canal, on simply a weight and worm. I use to love watching those panfish come right at ur worm. How bout u?

[setomonkey]

If you can believe it, I was in my early 30s, never fished as a kid and only started as an adult after a friend kept bugging me to join him for a couple of hours on a small lake...

 

Mike

[Rich]

I was 2, it was a 6lb sucker at Byng Conservation Area in Dunnville and my dad had to hold on to the back of my pants to keep me from falling in.

[Greencoachdog]

The first fish I can remember catching all by myself was an itty bitty little Sunfish when I was about 5 yrs old on a little cane pole with a cork and worm. My parents used to load me up into the stroller when I was a baby and take me fishin' with them on the pier... so I've been fishin' my whole life.

[ChrisK]

I must have been around 4 or 5..Dad uses to take me in behind East Park GolF Gardens in London and we caught rock bass after rock bass....on a bare hook even from what I can remember....

[Terry]

my mom said I came out of the womb with a rod in my hand and smelling like fish..........hey I didn't say that, my mom did

 

 

and when I was under 2 they found me in the bathroom with a rod in my hand and I was fishing in the toilet............

I was told they would give me a fishing rod and a bucket of water and I would sit there for hours fishing in a bucket..........they said I like to fish, they didn't say I was smart

[urbanangler1990]

my mom said I came out of the womb with a rod in my hand and smelling like fish..........hey I didn't say that, my mom did

and when I was under 2 they found me in the bathroom with a rod in my hand and I was fishing in the toilet............

I was told they would give me a fishing rod and a bucket of water and I would sit there for hours fishing in a bucket..........they said I like to fish, they didn't say I was smart

 

 

ahaha terry, u are a Fishing God, not worthy ...

Edited December 30, 2006 by urbanangler1990

[Mike the Pike]

I remember my first fish like it was yesterday.We had a camp in a place called Lancaster Park in Ontario .My Dad and I were invited out fishing with one of the local campers.A 14 ft tinny with a 9.9 Johnson I was four years old the year was 1970 .First fish was a huge perch followed by many more that morning.Back then the perch were huge on lake St.Francis you could catch alot of huge channel perch back then. there were no problems with zebra mussels.I now take my Dad fishing and I just happen to know more than he does about fishing but he was the one who started it all for me.So take your kids fishing.Great memories.Mike Great topic Urby.

[Eddyk]

I cant remember my first fish but I also cant remember not fishing. My Dad almost never went fishing without Lew and I even when we were little kids.That also included deer hunting. He would send us into a swamp or some bush and we would bark like dogs to scare the deer up while the old man would wait at the other end. Sure wish he was around today so I could take him fishing.

Edited December 30, 2006 by Eddyk

[jordan]

I think i was 5 or 6 and it was a perch on a worm.

 

 

 

jordan

[nautifish]

I was actually four yrs old fishing with my grandaddy @ the grand river by the old railway bridge in Brantford and the 1st fish i ever pulled in myself was a pike......I remember being scared to death because my grandady kept saying watch the teeth. I think my nan actually has that photo still.....But no way in hell am i posting it....

[kemper]

I have a picture of my sitting in my carseat (strapped in) at the side of a lake with a fishin rod in my hand and my dad fishin beside me. First fish was a mud cat out of the cranberry whats his name.

[Rizzo]

I lived on Lake Erie until I was 3 or 4. As soon as I could stand, the older kids put a pole in my hands and TIED a sheephead to it (mom wouldn't allow me near hooks). Apparently I'd slap the water with that thing all day (poor sheephead)

[fishdawg]

my first fish was a stocked rainbow from a local conservation area pond - i was 4 or 5

[Pigeontroller]

I sure can't remember! But i'm sure I was with either my Dad or older Brother. Likely in Bobcaygeon on one of Paul Elsner's docks!

[express168]

My dad passed away shortly after I was 4 years old , but my fathers cousin would come and take me a couple times a year fishing with him and his kids. I caught my first fish with him, a sunfish at Mountsberg. Now that I am an adult with 2 kids of my own can I truly appreciate what he did for me. He has since passed on as well but I hope i can pass on the pleasure and experience to my kids and others that he did for me.

[dobee]

my first fish was caught when i was 13. We got invited out to Sutton area, forget the name of the lake we were on, but i was reeling in my first perch ive ever caught, then i almost fell into the water as a 34' muskie grabbed onto it, my uncle grabbed the rod from me and reeled him in.

 

i have the picture at home, i have to scan it one of these days and show you guys....

[BITEME]

Mackeral when I was 4 all by my self

[007]

Caught my first fish when I was about 10. Was sea fishing from a beach on the English Channel, back home in the UK. Caught a small flounder (flat fish).

 

My first freshwater fish was probably a perch or roach (its similar to a rudd - the invasive fish you get sometimes over here) from a canal in London, UK when I was 12.

[bassmaster4]

i was 8 my parents rented a cottage out on Kashabog Lake and i caught a rock bass on a worm and bobber we caught many fish there but i wasnt hooked i got hooked at restoule when i lost a big smallie i was 11 and ive been hooked ever since

[wuchikubo]

My parents started me off early, I've been told it was when I was about 3 when I started. By 4 I had caught catfish, sunfish, small bass and a 9 lb carp from the Holland river. I still remember the carp, I recall saying "I'm snagged again", then my mom said it's moving! Thinking of which I guess I should look for that pic somewhere in the old albums.

[Carp]

WhenI was a kid, I used to fish off the docks at our rental cottage with a worm, catching panfish all day.

Once, my mom asked my dad to bring me out in the boat for a while.

I caught a 3.5 lb largemouth. I think I was 3 yrs. old. That's about all I can remember

[camillj]

Well .. I cant swear this was my first fish ... but it is certainly one of the first I have docemented proof ...

 

 

 

 

 

I was just turned three in this photo

 

 

I can remember fishing as my primary obsession since my very earliest childhood memories.... mostly around Heart Lake, Bobcaygeon and Glen Haffy and always with my Dad.

[silvio]

My first fish was when I was 4 they were small 6-8 inch rainbows and brookies then I later moved on to catching my first steelhead later on that year witch took me many years to once again catch one. my first steel was rather a fluke my grandfather set up my worm and told me to wait before casting me being the one never to listen to people I casted all I remember is my grandfather holding on to my rod while I reeled the fish it too me 7 more years to catch another steelhead maybe the fact I never actually tried targeting them would be a reason well now I am hooked on steelhead so may the moral of the story be if your gut tells u to do something do it because I did and it ended up that that decision to cast my line is what helped me find my love and passion for steelheading.

[dsn]

My first was from Grenadier Pond. Sunfish.