That first fish you caught!

[Mus408]

Here is a picture of my son with first fish he caught 30 yrs. ago at a Georgia pond.


and here is his daughter's first fish caught at same pond today and she is same age!


Just wonderful!

 

[dougader]

Wonderful to the max. It's beautiful.

 

[mohavesam]

Life in these United States is good.

 

[rugnelli]

Awesome! I dig her Chuck Taylors.

 

[Don Lovel]

Indigo was 4 when he caught this 4 1/2lb channel cat

 

[opos]

My Grandad and I fished in the Cedar River in Nebraska to catch my first fish...think I was about 6 or so...I can still smell the chicken guts bait he kept in a jar in his car trunk...Would have been somewhere around 1943.

I looked a bit like Opie or Howdy Doody.

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[bogus bill]

I cant say it was my first fish, but a early memory: I was born this month in 1941 so was about five when all my many uncles came home from the war. It also was one of my first memory's of my dad as he also was gone due to the war effort. Mom raised me in a old country store. Dad took me fishing in the creek behind the store. Either he or me caught a big black bass. Dad said the season on them didn't open until next week and we should throw it back. I protested and either he caved or I just scooped up the fish and scrambled up the bank for home with it. There was a stranger waiting for me at the top. He said, hey kid, I am a game warden and that fish is illegal! Your going to jail! I pointed at my dad and said, "He made me carry it!" That broke them both up. The stranger was a uncle of mine!

 

[coach]

My first fish was a bluegill too.

 

[Rick Courtright]

Hi,

First fish for me was a trout at a "pay to play" pond when I was about five. Kids got long cane poles with some kind of gooey dough bait that was probably the same "trout chow" the fish got for breakfast and dinner every day, cuz they loved the stuff. Dads were a little less in love with it when it came time to check out and pay the piper for the day, but it was a great way to get kids hooked on fishing for life.

It was out in the country then, but has been covered by a shopping mall for at least 40 years or more, surrounded by 1000s of houses and I doubt anyone around there today remembers what it was like "once upon a time." From there, I graduated to local lakes for trout and bass, a great bluegill pond 15 minutes by bicycle from a buddy's house, and surf and pier fishing along much of the SoCal coast. CA was a wonderful place to be a kid who liked to fish back then!

Rick C

 

[graygun]

cute pics

 

[WendyZXZ]

Those are some great pictures of little ones having fun out fishing and catching their first!

 

[Highhawk1948]

Brim in Bull Run, Virginia

 

[#1rugerman]

I don't remember it but there is a photo that shows me at about 2 or 3 holding up a sucker. That would be about1953 or 4.

 

[bogus bill]

I was born in 41. During the war I was raised in a country general store that sat by a mill pond with the dam a few yards out the door and the creek behind. My grandad built that store. It was a good fishing pond with lots of pan fish and I was given freedom that is unheard of at the age I was today. I cant remember my first fish. That was at Auroaville Wisconsin, a small village 20 miles west of Oshkosh, five miles north of Berlin. In 1962 I worked for the Fishery division of the state conservation department for a season. That was a fun job. Wonder what my life would have been like had I kept it. Just got off Google Earth and see that the store is a residence now.

 

[WAYNO]

Yep, these are great photos.

And they got me thinking...

I've fished my whole life. I remember many of the fish I caught as a youngster, but I cannot remember my first one.

WAYNO.

 

[bogus bill]

I just recalled a funny story. I was to check catchs on the opening day of the season on several lakes. I was walking up to the shore of a lake. I had no fishing pole and was carrying a clipboard. Two adult men and a boy of 10 or so were about 50 yards away also walking towards the lake loaded up with fishing poles and tackle. They seen me and got that deer in the headlights look and the father yelled out at me a good 50 yards off, "We aint fishing, the boy is!" A kid under twelve didn't need a license back then.

 

[exavid]

Cute pictures of the kids! My first fish was a tom cod caught of the Ilwaco, WA city dock in 1947 or '48 hand lining with liver for bait. The butcher at the town's butcher shop always had a few scraps we could use for bait. Nothing like watching that bobber twitching and then suddenly diving. I've caught a lot of big salmon, halibut and other fish since that day but it wasn't as exciting as fishing off the dock when I was a kid.