First fish you ever caught do you rember what it was.

[barra71]

Mine was a dirty old catfish, there i was smile from ear to ear like i was the king....

[Richo1]

I'm told mine was a Butter Bream age 3 off the old Amity Pt jetty, apparently I wet my pants with excitment :)

[TimiBoy]

I don't remember. It would have been a Tommy or a Garfish, somewhere around Adelaide. I suspect my Mum hooked it and I reeled it in with her help, at age maybe 2 or 3...

[Apollo]

Mine - a tailor
1st daughter - a bream
2nd daughter - a spotty mackeral
Wife - rainbow trout

[kingcray]

first i can remember was a little bream from woody pt jetty - caught on a hand line and prawn
would have been about 5 or 6 then

[finga]

The first thing caught in my fishing career was my elder brother when I was about 2 1/2-3 so mum says.
We were fishing in the front drain for tadpoles using some cotton for line, a bit of the Mulberry tree for a rod and a bent safety pin for a hook.

From there I could only work my way up I reckon :)

First fish I can remember whilst fishing proper like was a little toad fish but it's a bit hard to remember. There's been so many caught between then and now.
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[Da-Jew-Man]

Jewie of course,but a soapie from the old Jacobs Well jetty.

[freefish]

Good Keeper whiting. Fishing next to my Mum with an old bamboo rod & plastic reel with cord line. Tangled with old (to me) bloke who told mum off about kids fishing amongst serious fishers & if he lost this fish etc; etc; He packed up & went home when the fish was on my line.

[Lancair]

Bit of later starter, but first fish was a decent bream from the wharf, fishing harbour, Brunswick Heads, age 9. The local newspaper photographer took a pic and it ran 2nd page. LOL

[Noelm]

I was lucky enough to grow up with water at my back fence (well we did not actually have a fence) , and most of my youg life was spent fishing and crabbbing and just generally messing around in/on the water, probably first fish would have been Mullet or Flathead, we have owned all sorts of rowboats (wooden) and so on since I can remember, I do however remember my very first outboat, it was an old Victa mower engine adapted to some sort of leg setup, that motor would start first time, but bugger me dead, it would never start a second time that day, I learnt to row at a very early age, that motor would take you anywhere, but it was always a very long row home! as I got older my mate and I used to take it out in the ocean, clamped to an old timber row boat, we would happily motor up to the Islands near home, fish for a couple of hours and one of us would start rowing while the other pulled his guts out trying to start the old Victa, those where the days, now we would never go out without a 6m boat, 10 life jackets, a radio, mobile phone, EPIRB, GPS two motors, $3,000 worth of fishing gear, study the weather on line for 2 days and christ knows what else.

[Si]

Yellow Eye Mullet I think from the Forster Keys when I was 2-3. I still remember it.

[Mrs Ronnie H]

Hi
First fish was redfin out of the irrigation channel next to our house. Fishing rod-- a six foot piece of bamboo with about 4 foot of line, hook and sinker on bottom.

Ronnie

[Goodoo haven]

My first fish was a solid redfin of about just under 2 kgs. Caught it on a blank and red Ondex spinner.

[MangroveZac]

Tommy off the Elliston jetty, SA. aged 2. Hooked ever since!;D

[propdinger]

age 4 my first i remember was a bream about 40cm from oyster leases at soldiers point on a old cork handline with my dad then a few flatties from the front lawn (king tides often came to our front door )we were also taught at that age if you keep it you have to eat it

[nigelr]

bream, beach end of narrabeen lagoon, cork handline, pudding bait. big enough to take home and eat, aged 6.
yep, hooked from that point on, and still loving it!

[Camhawk88]

Black Bream from the Hutt River on handline. 1 of about a dozen I caught that day. About 5yo.That was it- damage was done.

[softplasticsdude79]

a bream at Moruya in NSW,1983 i was 4 at the time,my dad said i caught it without any help and its still one of his fav photos.

[Moonlighter]

Big fat whiting with my Dad and Grandad, fishing out of a wooden row boat in the Noosa River, out the back of Grandads house, which was in HKastings St, Noosa. Aged Aout 2. Can vaguely remember crabbing there too, big mud crabs chasing me around the boat.....

Apparently I got bored after catching about half a dozen big ting :oops::oops::oops::oops:and had a sleep while the old guys kept catching them.

His block of land went right thru to the river from Hastings St.

Grandad, why did you sell the house at Hastings st before Noosa boomed? I could be driving a 7m Surtees instead of the 5.5.....:-[

ML

[onerabbit]

I was like Noelm,
I grew up with the water at our back boundary, (Caroline bay, Gosford).
I cant remember what fish was my first, but to hazzard a guess,
probably a bream.

What was my first fishing memory???
Mum setting me up with a bucket of water & a stick with a safety pin on a bit of cotton,
didnt catch anything but I remember it was fun trying.

Muzz

[martib]

yep,cracker bream in the brisbane waters,gosford...been hooked ever since,that was 30 yrs ago.
now up north now,just cracker jacks.............

[chris69]

Under size whiteing at 5yrs at bribie island in 1968 first rod combo for xmass you think it would have been a good legal one back then.

[Scalem]

Can't remember - I think it was this trip, was the upper reaches of the Brissy River (when you could walk along with bare feet and not risk being sliced open by a beer bottle) and most likely silver perch on handline with garden worms. Around 1970 I think. Used to get a few too! Dad used to cut my hair, what a shocker!

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Scalem

[Midnight]

I don't remember the first, but the most significant was a monster Flatty on a handline, my Late Mum taught me how to live bait for. I still remember her showing me how to pin the poddy mullet through the lips, and the utmost importance of letting it swim away with it, and trying to count to 10 before striking. Haha it was agonizing as a kid waiting those 10 seconds haha

Still fish the same way now sometimes, only for fish with big sticks on their noses! :)

Cheers,
Myles

P.s my brother and I often used live garden worms with great success on the flatties and cod in Cabbage Tree creek. Couldnt afford to buy "proper" worms :)

[Smithy]

Another one for the old original Woody Pt Jetty. About 5ish I got a pretty good summer whiting on what would have been a little Alvey from my grand father's holiday house on Drake St Woody Pt.

[Crunchy]

Eels, with piecees of meat bound with cotton on the end of a string.....dozens of them, from the drain at great uncle Reg's farm.

[wayno60]

A little bream caught in the river/lake at Tabourie Lake, south coast, nsw. Would have been 4 or 5yo

[Still_Dreamin]

Flathead while on holidays on sunny coast as 4 year old from Canberra in 1980 . Parents had such a good time we moved to Qld in 1981.

[krusey]

36cm yellowbelly nogoa river in emerald, old man reckons i was 2 it was on worms on a handline under a cork from mums bottle of wine

[sottydog]

Silver perch from leslie dam near warwick. I remember dad cooking it up and pretending it was delicious...though now looking back I realise why he covered it in tomato sauce (with the dam around 8% full and blue green algae).

Cheers SCott

[HeadBanger]

35cm bream when I was 6 years old on a piece of sweet and sour steak haha. Took me 10 years to beat that PB!

[finga]

Loved the picture Brian. You haven't changed much.

Anybody else with pictures of their early (if not first) catches??
I rang my mum this morning and she said there's one of me at about age 4 or 5 fishing. I'll have to get it and bung it up.

Bring on the pictures :)