When did your fishing addiction begin?

[wetaline]

Can't seem to get pics to post, any clues?

[SCOTTYGC]

my first fishing experiance would have been on the tambo river in east gippsland chasing bream and surf fishing from woodside beach catching gummy sharks

we would also go to merimbula every year for xmas (5 people in the datsun 180B) and fish off the old jetty there ,We would fish down old holes in the jetty . My dad never caught a fish he was that busy unhooking and rebaiting my sisters and my handlines

cheers
scotty

[wetaline]

Try again

[wetaline]

The last one was my eldest and his first fish, now I will try for my other little bloke.

[bo_sawyer]

on a holiday down at byron bay... apparently i could practically bait a prawn at the age of 3!!!

[seatime]

We had a holiday house at Amity on Nth Straddie from when I was 1 year old.
Our parents would send us down to the jetty in the arvo to hold our spots for the night. There could be up to a hundred people on the jetty in bream season. We'd pump buckets of yabbies for the night. We spent nearly every holiday and weekend there. In the late 60's and early 70's you would always catch fish, there would be something seriously wrong to come home empty handed. Got my own gear at 10, a 6' Alvey and a 10' Butterworth, before that I got what was left. Coming back to Bris on a Sunday arvo on one of Hayles' ferries, there would be sugar bags full of fish being taken home. We did everything back then, hooking muddies, jagging black bream and mullet, gill netting. We'd be stoned in the town square these days, but back then nobody thought about sustainability. whoops getting off the track there, cheers Steve.

[longtail]

i don't remember my first fishing experience , i'm told by dad that i was 2 at the time
family holiday in hervey bay in the mid 70's , we went out on the pier with my first fishing rod and i cleaned up on whiting . dad was forever taking fish off the hook for me

fishing has been in my blood ever since , these days i don't even care if i get anything it's just being out on the water that matters .

worked out good i love fishing and my wife doesn't

cheers
jason

[roz]

I caught my first fish at about six years of age, have been a fishing tragic ever since......and I have the photo.

Still not game enough to post it, maybe one day.

Roz

[timbacutta]

Got the fishing bug from the old man. Fondest early memories, catching whiting at Hervey Bay on annual holidays.

Repay the favour by taking him fishing whenever I can get back home. Am taking him fishing in the Noosa River in a couple of weeks time and hopefully fit in a trip to Borumba.

Jeff.

[DICER]

Caught a bream with the handline off the old wooden pier (that doesn't exist anymore) at stradbroke in 1976.

First cast prior to that, from the beach or really the coral ruble pile, was an "unstopable"

[2rods]

First got into it at Bribie on the jetty,, I would walk down with granddad at 0430hrs and fish all day until about 7pm when nanna would make me come home. We use to get a lot of fish there then.. not sure about now??

They could leave me there for hours and not worry about who was around...how times change.

Not long after that we started going to Fraser and rainbow. Just after the cheery adventure got washed up (the last time, not the first).

That was fun fishing for tailor and bream even some nice whiting

[Shooter]

Caught the bug off my grandfather. In the school holidays used to say with my grandparents and grandfather would take me fishing. Cant stop fishing now!!!

[griz066]

Must have been about 6yo or so first time in a boat was about 12yo and said I will own a boat some day well it took 28 yrs but I now own one and I don't get enough time to go fishing as much as I want

[shaman]

Deadset cannot remember not fishing. I remember the old man taking me fishing at Lake Illawarra almost everynight he wasn't working, with a cork with line wrapped around it as a handline. Then my first rod with centrepin reel (still use one for Luderick). Then mum&dad bought me a split cane rod and egg beater, I was King Fisho until it snapped on a snag. Dad shortened it but it wasn't as flash. used to catch a lot of toadfish back then. Prawning in season, Beach fishing (sleeping while Dad chased Jew) Dad teaching me and my brothers the constellations, Yep great stuff. Thanks wise good thread.

[17footer]

I was around 5 or 6 living in nsw, my father was a mad keen angler and arranged to take me out with an uncle on his boat.
destination hawksbery river. my first and last fish for the day was a nice bream of around 2.5 kilo..
was happy as for weeks, 30 years later still have the pic of me and my first fish.
dave