How did you get into Bass Fishing?

[jasonfish320]

I was very young, around 4-5 when I started fishing. My parents would take a trip once a year with friends up to the allagash (look that up on a map=middle of nowhere) where we would do a lot of cold water stream/river fishing. Once I was 9 we moved to a lake and I fished as much as I could, but eventually got bored and moved onto girls and all the teenage garb.(Photographer knows what I'm talking about) I really got back into fishing about 6 years ago, I went trout fishing up north with some friends who had never been and they had a blast. But the only thing they kept comparing the fight of these trout to were bass. I never fished strictly for bass and so a few weekends later we set out to the Penobscot, which is just filthy with smallmouth. After landing my first 3lb smallie I was hooked..I bought a bassboat the following year and have been chasing the lunkers ever since.