When did your fishing addiction begin?

[wiseguy67]

For me it must have been when I spoke my first word: Fish
Mum says we were in the middle of the western sahara desert africa and one day i said fish.
Yes very odd place to say such a thing. We were traveling in a fried out combi, mum was a bit of a adventurist. Wish I was a bit older to have experienced the travels as it was 1969.
By the time i was five or so i was catching fish out of puddles, creeks etc with any sort of fishing gear i could find.
By seven i was down to the http://www.rmef.org/bugle/pages/05JA...t_details.html
30 minutes walk from our farm every chance i had to chase trout especialy during the sockeye salmon spawing run in the autumn.
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Tight Lines
Gerard

[choppa]

growing up on a farm in gippsland vic,,, i had access to creeks,, rivers and all the brothers were mad fishermen,,,,, then i went off fishing for a while,,, didnt want to leave the house when i had girlfriends to keep company,,,,,

then i got married,,,,,,started fishing full time again,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[scotty]

in yuleba creek at yuleba on my first rod i got fro my birthday caught a yella and a catti

scotty

[philip_thomson]

we used to always have a land based fish or hire a boat at noosa every trip there since i was about 6yrs old. we used to fish at woody point, nudgee and hornibrook highway every few weeks/months generally failed miserably. In 1999 over in new zealand my dad promised me a trip on a charter june 2001 i made my first trip. since then i have been addicted. i have made 30 trips offshore. you'd think my seasickness would be well and truely under contol by now????

[tiges]

My dad got me into it when I was a young tacker. Our holidays always revolved around fishing destinations and he had many different boats over the yrs. He's gettin' on a bit now and he hasn't been fishing for ages. I've just recently got my 1st boat and I rang him earlier today and asked if he wanted to go out in the morning. He was absolutely frothing for it. It's weird how things go full circle and the roles get reversed. He reminded me of when I was a kid and so excited knowing we were going fishing.

[spuderico]

The year was 1972, and I was 9 when Dad was transferred to Weipa on the Cape, from Melbourne. Things changed for the better after that. Fish! I never even seen a fish until we arrived in NQ. My first fish was a huge thread fin which was full of worms when I gut it...Yetch The second fish was a Very large Trevally...it had a sea snake inside . I remember going out on the Mission river at night in a 6' tinny with a 1.5hp OB with two mates at the age of 10, and keeping me hand line inside the boat because I though the sea snakes would climb up the line . It got better over the next 5 years.

[dorado]

Land based when I was 24 back in 1985! I had fished much earlier than that but had a bad experience with eggbeater reels as a kid which really put me off. TG for Alvey reels First started getting into boat-fishing from '86 onwards hiring crank-up deisal powered T-Boats up on the Noosa River, which well and truly fired up my fishin' addiction and eventually I bought my own rig to sustain my addiction

[Reefmaster]

Started fishing when i could stand up and wind a reel- Spent alot of time off the beach and rocks at Evans Head catching bait for the oldman to take offshore unitl i was big enough to head out with them. Also spent heaps of time at Double Island Point beach fishing until once again i was big enough to fish offshore. I admit i was lucky to get offshore when i was so little and my older brothers still haven't stopped winging about it.

Heres a pic from around 1983 at Double Island Point and me on the left happy as larry.

[serene_lady]

I got the bug when I was 8 years old when my father and uncles started taking me to there hut on one of the creeks on the mainland side of sandy straights, this was 53 years ago and the fishing was unbelievable. A sack full of crabs and a bag of fish was the required catch to feed four familys every 2-3 weeks and they never failed. Bought a 12 ft tinny when I was 15 years old . When i was 17 and I could tow my boat myself, I had to find a girl who also liked fishing in a 12 tinny. Best catch i have ever made. She past the test by never complaining about having to roll up in a raincoat and lay in the water on the floor to sleep as we used to fish late into the night. We had concerns from both our parents about being so young and staying out so late at night, so we got married, that fixed them, Iwas 19 she 16 and a lot of water has flowed under the hulls of the boats that we have owened since. She is at this moment laying on a 14 inch pillow top mattress in the main bedroom of our house-boat that we will have been living on for 10 years on the 23 of march.( better than a raincoat and a tinny ) and hope to spend another 10 years .I recon if you have a fishing bug you got to keep close to them. Bob. Gee that bed looks good. See yah.

[farticus]

i was at babysittes plac and see some roads against wall and i would bin about 8 my mamma took me there and i meet this mamma she says i have ssun who fish and from then on i go to this mamas place and use gear.

[Angla]

Born with the affliction I think. Every Easter was spent at Glenaire on the Victorian coast, not far from the Twelve Apostles, and used to walk to the beach from the camp ground. Caught mainly Gummy sharks and salmon. We caught over 100 Mullet from the river there 1 year. They were so thick you only had to throw in a bare hook. Ahh What great memories.

Smoking up in the sand dunes

Motor bike was use 1 year to ride to the beach and drag back the Gummies

Would light a fire on the beach and fish till late, Mum, Dad and five of us brats

Angla

[el_carpo]

I was four. Nearly got dragged into a lake by a big carp.

[catchy_fishy]

from inside the womb, I'm sure.

Flyfishing however, only when I turned 21 (1991)

[finga64]

I think it's in the genes with my family.
Everybody always has and always will go fishing.
My first memory was when I was about 4 in Tewantin.
My granparents cultured the love for fishing at Evans Head fishing along the north wall and my dad took us whenever possible in the boat in the Richmond river. I still remember the cold winters morning sitting up the front of the boat with the salt spray and -10 degree winds blowing through the old woolly jumper. Froze the shrivelled apricots off that wind chill factor but we were going fishing so the world is good
P.S. My grandma could go fishing on Evans north wall all night but if she was at home she'd fall asleep before the 6 o'clock news. So I made her a little rod to hold (about 18" long) and she stayed awake. I was only 12. My nana has passed but the rod is still around next to her chair. That was nearly 30 years ago.
Aahh memories
Scott

[wetaline]

I agree with "finga", it is for the most part, in the genes.

There is nothing much more wonderful in this troubled world of ours than seeing a father (or mother) teaching his (or her) son (or daughter) to fish.

I taught my 3 eldest (25, 23 & 22yo) to fish but only one, my daughter, really got into it. She can feel a jacket sucking a prawn off the hook at twenty paces. The two boys, well let's just say, they know how to get the bait on the hook. Can't win 'em all.

Now I have two more boys learning to fish and they look like champions in the making. (see pics)
The oldest (4 at the time) caught 3 from 3 at Bribie on his first ever attempt at saltwater fishing! Mother's dying oath! The pic shows his first, a fingermark. That was just about one of my proudest days ever. Even the people on the pontoon were rapt.
The other pic shows my little bloke, then 3, with his first fish a bream caught on the Hawkesbury.

As I pen this response, I wonder wether the moderators might consider the addittion of a board for proud parents say "My kid's first fish" or the like.