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Livtoday2 · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 9:17 pm Post subject:

I also taught myself to fish and enjoy nature with my best friend-
Duke( My Beagle) . We stood on the bank watching the bobber, casted plastic worms for hours and chased a few rabbits.
My so called father never had time for anything but work.

Bless every young person who has a guiding person to learn and share life!
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Gib · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 9:40 pm Post subject: good days

My memories are of dad, granddad, and uncles fishing Rio Grande for catfish (can't disclose how) and white bass. I still remember on the Mexico side all ages fishing for white bass with a coke can, some line, and a lure.

Being in Laredo, I spoke more Spainish than English so I served as translator for many trips to Lake Guerero(?) catching so many black bass till I would almost faint.

Perhaps my favorite as a kid, stock tank fishing at the deer lease and offshore trips - what a variance.

I am thankful for the opportunities. I know my kids will not be on the Rio Grande or in Mexico fishing or stock tanks, and I sometimes regret not being able to provide those opportunities, but we are adjusting very well to coastal and offshore fishing mixed in with a duck hunt every now and then.

Wonderful thread!!!

texmike · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:28 am Post subject:

I stated putting a line in the water very early, don’t remember when. My mom was the fishing person and with my parents we went every chance we got. I still put a line in the water but I can’t say I’ve learned much because I still have more empty days comeing back to the dock then I do with fish. So I’m still on a steep learning curve. Like some of you I watch, listen and try to learn. But weather I catch anything or not it’s still the best way to spend your time that I know of. Bad days fishing sure beat a stick in the eye. Oh, as a point of interst while cleaning out some storage I found my first cane pole this week. Sure brought back some memories. Very Happy

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DFoley · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:59 am Post subject:

I fished alot, starting when I was 2, all of our family grew up in AP and Port A, alot of my family still has shrimp boats in port a and my dad had a boat business. My mom still lives in our original house just a block from Conn Brown harbor. It really was just somthing for me to do, I didnt really appreciate fishing till I was 14 or so. I shrimped from about 97 to 02 so after 24 days straight on the water, fishing was the last thing on my mind. My pops gave me a 13 foot whaler with a tiller when I was 9, still wish I had it haha.
Nowadays, I get out as much as I can, offshore, inshore and surf. Even if its just for 30 minutes after work. I wish I had more interest in it when pops was alive but growing up doing somthing all the time it wears off. Now though I can officially say I got the fever.

ccbobber · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:37 am Post subject: memories

i don't remember being too young to fish. early memories were about fishing for food. my dad worked in auto related supply factory and quite often was laid off for several months every summer. no unemployment back then, so, we would go fishing 2-3 days a week all summer. in winter, we would go weekends, to various frozen lakes to spud holes and wait and wait.
thank god my dad was very talented and he designed a foldup shanty that we hauled on a sled, setup took several minutes, light the fuel oil space heater, wait a few minutes, take off coat & gloves, and await the fish in comfort. i remember one day in particular, with holes spudded in three corners(door in fourth), we started catching yellow perch one after another and had to throw some out the door as they were falling back in the holes.
after cleaning several hundred that day, we had "meat " for the rest of the winter.
THE GOOD OLD DAYS, now we're just old every day.
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Capt Mike Singleterry · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 2728

This is one of the early pictures I have . I started commercial fishing the bay with my grandfather. Here is a pic of his boat and my grandmother.
It all went down hill from there

I think I was about five years old in this picture.....so I guess I been fishing around this area about fifty-six years.

Mike

Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

It began when I caught my first "silver trout" aka Kokanee on Lake Whatcom in Bellingham, Washington when I was four. I was using salmon eggs and remember seeing it flash between the boards of the dock. Later I upgraded when I was 8 and went fishing with my family and aunt and uncle on the "Margarita" in Acapulco on New Year's Day 1968. Dad got the smaller sail his was 8'7" and 110lbs. Mine was 8"11" and weighed 115lbs. I caught it all by myself in about 15 minutes and I slept on the way back.

ltorna1 · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 3240

Tyler that is awesome!
I was hooked from the first fish. Doesn't matter how big or how many...its all about the fellowship Wink

First fish, held by big brother. a yellow perch in a lake at our cottage in Ontario.

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First saltwater fish, made pops take me out in the ocean to catch big bluefish "pwease dad, I promise i wont get seasick and frowup!"

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hambone · Finger Mullet Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 39

my late, great father-in-law. started hanging around him and learned how to fish live shrimp/popping cork off of Catalina Motel pier. i was hooked. 16 yrs old then and i'm now 55. Not a fishing trip goes by that i don't turned to the heavens and thank him for turning me on to saltwater fishing. i wish we could fish together one more time

landlocked beachbum · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:00 am Post subject:

Lot's a of great stories here y'all, very enjoyable reading and it brings back many good memories!

I was short and sweet with mine because I've told it on here before.............. more than once I think. In hindsight, that may not have been the good call, but hey..........
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diefishin · Pony Mullet Joined: 01 Mar 2011 Posts: 76

learnd from my dad since wen I could barely remember.....two foot pole catching anything that bites. I cant thank my dad more for teaching me. since then ive move to a penn big game rod and penn 6/0 reel. shark and big red are my game. and now im 24 teaching my 3year old how to fish.gota love it wen I see him handle live shrimp and picking up pin perch in his handles I cant help but smile and god for fishin. diefishin everybody and tightlines.