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Old 02-22-10, 05:49 PM   #26
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My stepdad was a real stick in the mud, and would'nt give you fifty cents for a semi load of fishing equipment. But my grandad was different, and every summer my brother and I would spend a couple of weeks on their farm in Osage Oklahoma. They always had ponds on their land, and every evening when he'd come in from working the fields, he'd take us for a ride on his tractor down to one of the ponds, for a bit of fishing with cane poles....assuming little brother and I had filled our Prince Albert cans with grasshoppers caught earlier in the day...and done all our chores of course...lol. Those early bream fishing experiences stuck with me much more so then my brother, even though some of my favorite memories are of him catching fish, not me.

Jump forward to pre-teen years, and we find ourselves fishing on Baron Fork creek in NW Oklahoma during a family reunion weekend camping trip. My brother and I are now fishin high tech Zebco 202's with Fiberglass rods, and wading up and down the creek, always staying within earshod of the campgrounds, when suddenly someone musta dropped a car battery into the water near my brother....Well, it seemed that way at the time...lol, but it was actually about 2.5lb largemouth that blew up on the Creme worms we were fishin, but it might as well been a twelve pounder to me...lol The way it was fighting and jumping outta the water was stuff i'd only seen on Wide World of Sports....lol. With big brothers help we managed to land the fish and run back to camp without dropping it, too show off our trophy. From that moment forward I was hooked on the Largemouth bass, and 40 someodd years later I still get that same feeling inside everytime I hook into onna them rascals. I can't explain why it affected me for life, but not my brother and it was his catch that got me hooked....Go figure.
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Old 02-22-10, 06:06 PM   #27
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That's a heck of a story 66. Sounds like some great memories
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Old 02-22-10, 06:28 PM   #28
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No real life changing moments for me. Dad would take us up to a lil lake and we would bank fish for anything that would bite. Small lake in NE Ohio, occasionally I would sneak off and do some farm ponds. Moved to Florida and my buddies all fished the intracoastal. So I got accustomed to snook and sheepshead, trout, channel cat, etc. Early one summer fishing the brackish canal behind the house I got bit hard. At first I thought it was a gar, then I was thinking a small tarpon or snook had wandered up a little farther then normal. After a few minutes, pulled in a 10# bass. It was great, they killed off all the hyacinths shortly after that and you couldn't buy a bass. Lost interest in HS due to beer, cars and girls, mixed with a bunch of surfing. Left for the Marines and the fishing equipment stayed home, the surfboard came with me. Fast forward a few years and was out playing in the 4x4 when I came across two small clear water lakes. Made a mental note, went and bought a spinning reel and some worms, was back out there the next day. Started slaying all kinds of small bass. Then the addiction and the bait monkey took hold. Now with 20 rod/reels in my garage, a tackle box heavy enough to anchor the Queen Mary and a 20 thousand dollar payment in my garage, I can officially say Im in deep. My joy is taking the kids out with me, the look on their faces can never be replaced. I fish some tourneys here and there, going to try and fish a state tour this year(9 events) and see how I do. But honestly, being out on the water is just a serene feeling. I thank God everytime Im able to go out and just enjoy everything he has given to us. Been skunked many a time, but the calming and serentity that comes over you after a day on the water can never be replaced.
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Old 02-27-10, 10:06 PM   #29
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No amazing story here, Only a few people in my family fished, so I was never raised as a fisherman or anything of that nature. I simply picked it up on my own during a trip too Colorado for my cousin's wedding we went out and fished for trout which was roughly 3-4 years ago. I've been fishing on my own ever since. I recently moved to Florida from California, and I picked up bass fishing when I moved here. Too my advantage I have a nice sized lake behind my house full of Large mouth,crappie,bluegill, even freshwater eels... So I rigged up a texas rig on my ugly stick and 12 dollar shimano reel(which im still using) with some 12 pound test and about 5 casts out I got my first bass, and here I am 3 months later fishing just about everyday
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Old 02-28-10, 01:53 AM   #30
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I really don't have a story. I don't even know how I found out about fishing. From my earliest memory the three things I wanted to do more than anything in the world was Fish, Play guitar, and play football. When I turned 5 years old I got my first Zebco 202 with a yellow casting weight for my birthday(in Dec.), I didn't get to use it untill the warm weather came and ruined the casting weight within a month when I finally could use it. I lived in a suburban neighborhood and no where to fish. I just went across the street and cast constantly. I got the rod and reel because all I ever talked about was going fishing, or playing guitar, or playing football. I was hooked before I had even ever gone fishing. I was lucky enough that my folks moved to a small lake community when I was 7. Wasn't long until I found out about Bass Fishing.
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Old 03-10-10, 06:57 PM   #31
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I can’t really explain why I love to fish…directly that is. I’m almost obsessed with it to be honest. I think because there was a long lapse from the time my dad used to take me fishing until the time I became an adult and was able to go whenever I wanted. I’m talking almost 30 years. Now I can jump in the car and hit the water whenever I please. Well, with the wife’s approval, but I digress.

As far as fishing itself I think it’s the challenge of getting a fish to bite. Then there’s the mystery of the size of the fish when reeling it in and wondering how big it will be when it surfaces. It’s like having a scratch-off game ticket that you know is a winner but you don’t know what you’ve won until you scratch off all the gray coating.

Another factor is that when I started fishing again I happened to have started a new job that is like 4 blocks from Cabelas. Talk about candy store…I visit so much another customer ask me where he could find certain lures as if I was an employee. On top of that I jumped into the world of Spinning and Baitcast reels. Up from the days of the Zebco 33s we used when we were kids.

Speaking of kids, that may be the biggest reason. Taking my sons out fishing and watching their eyes when they’re reeling in a fish is satisfaction enough for me even if I don’t get a bite all day. The oldest tries to act all cool like it wasn’t nothing, but his body language speaks volumes for how intense he is when trying to haul it in. My youngest actually asked me if we could go fishing in the dead of winter. I don’t ice-fish but he informed me that we can drill a hole in the water to reach the fish. He must have seen that on one of the many fishing shows I record when they were ice-fishing. Gotta love it!
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Old 03-13-10, 06:44 PM   #32
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3 years ago when i was 10 me and a friend were fishing at my pond. We were fishing with live worms for bluegill.after like 25 gills i got bored and tied on a purple mister twister pre rigged worm. on the very first cast i let it sit....and sit....and sit and i feel "thump" my heart JUMPED. i had seen bass before and wanted to catch them SO badly. i pulled back knowing it wasnt a bluegill and the drag was set low and i heard ZZZZZZZZZZZ. I see this behemoth of a bass jump out of the water and i about crapped myself. after a long fight i drag a HUGE bass up onto shore and call over my friend. he looks over and says I HATE YOU. I put that bass back and cast out again. I see my precious worm go flying and land with a ploop into the water. the rest of that year i was hellbent on catching another bass...and i did....9 as a matter of fact. and i was hooked. 3 of the 9 being 3-4 pounds. the next year i re-met ryan and we started fishing together. he taught me almost all of what i know now. i went from catchin 9 bass in 2008 to catchin almost 200 in 2009. thats how o got to where i am now and that is how i became "hooked"
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Old 03-13-10, 10:13 PM   #33
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Born and raised in North Houston and Humble, Tx. I was an only kid to two parents who loved to do two things: Go flying and Go fishing! So life in Texas back in the 50s, 60s and early 70s was very good!! About a year before they opened Sam Rayburn we would go to Martin Dies State Park, also known as Dam B. We had an aluminum V-Bottom boat with a 20 horse Mercury and we would fish for every thing!! Then Dad started talking about the "Log Jam" on Dam B (basically just flooded timber that had started to fall and had no where to go on that little lake). WE started going up there and dad would throw jitterbugs and devil horses. It quickly became addictive watching those fish blow up on those baits, and I quickly developed an interest in it.
About two weeks after Sam Rayburn opened we went over there one weekend to check it out! Holy Moly did we catch a mess of crappie!!! That place was unbelievable and it was big!! We put in down by the dam and I swear it looked like an ocean! Two weeks later we loaded the tent and the boat and went to the north end of the lake and stayed at Jackson Hill Park and Marina. The flooded timber still had leaves and pine needles and it was full of bass, crappie, gar and grinnel. I remember they had a lighted fishing pier. But what impressed us more was some fellers put in with some stick steering Skeeter bass boats with 25 hp Evinrudes on them, they had electric trolling motors and lowrance flashers in a green box. It was unreal how fast they went and talk about maneuvable going through the trees! Then they came back with these special chain stringers loaded with bass so much that they were dragging the ground with the guy holding the stringer over his shoulder. I was in a state of AWE!
It wasn't long before Dad decided to make his own bass boat out of Yearling trihull boat that looked a lot like the old Boston Whaler. He put a 20 hp Chrysler and rigged a hand held Shakespeare Trolling motor and built him a pedestal and put one of the fiberglass swivel seats on it. With a little horse trading he managed to get me a 10' flatt bottom and 5 hp Eska outboard motor that we would turn upside down and put in the yearling for what became our weekly trip to Big Sam. Wasn' t long before we outgrew the Yearling and the Tent.
Dad got a F100 Ford pick up with a 300 6 cyl three on the column and a cab over camper. Soon after we also got a real bass boat. It was 15 1/2' Duck Hawk with a motor guide trolling motor, three swivel seats, and a 55 hp Chrysler. Dad replaced the short aluminum stick with a custom built stick that was about a 1' longer made out of an old truck gear shifter. We had an Apelco flasher and rod racks. WE were in high cotton!! Both of my parents are still living in Texas at the young age of 80 and while they can't get out like they used to we still talk about how good those times were. I consider myself blessed for the experiences I had with my folks. Growing up in Texas was a natural precursor for my life now!
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Old 03-14-10, 11:11 AM   #34
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where to begin. from the time i was 4 or 5 my grandparents lived on wolverine lake in michigan. with my mom working 2 jobs that is where i spent most of my time. myself and the neighbor would go back and forth from our dock to her dock. we used everything you could imagine for baits. from your basic crawlers, insects, minnows to any sort of food that would stay on a hook long enough to take a bite. in time my grandparents moved to florida and i really had nowhere to fish except when i went to visit them. i endured sun poisoning a number of times because i just didn't want to leave the river. i didn't even have to catching a lot, i just didn't want to leave.

a number of years past since those fun days, and i became an avid bowler, high average, big money tourneys. during that time, about 6 or 7 years ago i found out that my best friend used to enjoy fishing. we decided to go out one day to his sisters private lake, 10 foot aluminum boat with a 3 hp troller. well, 3 years ago i retired from bowling and have not missed it one bit. this was the best decision our both of our lives. fishing keeps us out of the casinos and out of trouble. last year was our first year in NBAA tourneys and we did ok. not exactly as good as we hoped for. we are headed to the championship at the end of april so i guess we are on the right path.
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