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Offline AL WORRELLS KID

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Can you remember your First Fish?
« on: April 21, 2018, 03:08:19 AM »
It's been a while since that day but I remember both my eyes and my Dad's lighting up with the excitement of catching my "First Fish".

Thanks to his Mom this proud little fellows moment was captured on film and has been shared with others for years now.
 
How long has it been since you made some kid's day by taking them out fishing for the first time?

 If you don't forget to throw the camera in, you may capture a memory that will be relived each time they look at the picture of their first fish. :tup:

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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2018, 07:48:55 AM »
Been a very long time since the very first, the first bonefish sure is firmly planted

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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2018, 08:27:30 AM »
Not certain of my first - but fishing with a cane pole in a CA river and catching catfish is the earliest memory.  :tup:
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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2018, 09:40:09 AM »
Bluegill on a cane pole from a small farm pond outside of Dixon Missouri.  I was probably 4.  Right before I caught the blugill, I had caught a sizeable crawdad. 
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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2018, 09:56:08 AM »
Bluegill...  must be why I still like fishing for them occasionally.

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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2018, 11:37:22 AM »
Nope.  I remember the story though.  I was 2 or 3 and everytime I showed how big it was it got bigger.

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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2018, 01:16:56 PM »
5yrs old catfish from the bank of greenlake in Seattle
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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2018, 01:52:42 PM »
Bluegill and bass,wading a pond edge,that place is a drive last time I was there,filled the whole area in and built it up

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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2018, 01:58:10 PM »
Trout. Circa 1960

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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2018, 02:49:02 PM »
Either a rainbow or largemouth out of my grandpa's pond near Slinger, WI.  Good times.
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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2018, 04:11:22 PM »
I don’t remember my first but I sure do remember my kid’s first. Man, time flies...
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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2018, 04:18:18 PM »
Yup, I wasn't long out of diapers, camping on a lake I had my pole tossed down on the rocks like any small boy would and I was ignoring it, running around throwing rocks and making a ton of racket....all the sudden my pole goes ripping off the shore line and *kerplunk* right into the water it goes.   Pops got on the small 12 aluminium boat and tried to retrieve the pole, he had a good idea where it was but couldn't hook it.   

We continue fishing...


next morning Dad has a big fish on!  He reels it in and it's got another line out of it's mouth, he pulls in the line and there's my pole!   It was a 20lb ish carp.





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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2018, 04:23:02 PM »
Some of my boldest memories as a kid was carp fishing the Milwaukee River in my home town, West Bend, WI.  That was pure fun in the summer time.  A dough ball or a hook full of corn and game on.
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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2018, 11:50:25 AM »
Cutthroat Trout on Lake Sylvia with my grandpa

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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2018, 12:01:41 PM »
I still remember it..  Have put many kids and even adults on their first as well...  It's almost as fun seeing a grown man catch his first as it is a kid.

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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2018, 12:18:56 PM »
Tanwax Lake.  Yellow Perch with very sharp spines.  Probably 3 years old.

Been blessed to help my nephews get on their first fish and it's sure special watching them light up.
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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #16 on: May 23, 2018, 12:42:15 PM »
Relived the story with my wife just yesterday.   :tup:   She didnt catch her first until just last year.   They dont have to be little kids to bring the excitement to the table

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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #17 on: May 23, 2018, 01:08:28 PM »
Relived the story with my wife just yesterday.   :tup:   She didnt catch her first until just last year.   They dont have to be little kids to bring the excitement to the table

Absolutely.  My wife's first fish was about a year after we met, didn't know it was her first fish until later.  Love these memories.  Easier to recall than hunting firsts because lower adrenaline.
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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #18 on: May 23, 2018, 01:17:04 PM »
I vaguely remember it. Mainly bits and pieces. I was 3 or 4 years old. It was a perch from our local lake, and we put it in a 5 gallon bucket and brought it home and put it in the fish tank. I do remember feeding him worms in the fish tank, that one sticks with me really well!
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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #19 on: May 23, 2018, 02:09:44 PM »
Dont remember. But guessing this was probably my first. With the ol mans help. Circa 88 or 89 Im guessing.

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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #20 on: May 23, 2018, 02:36:10 PM »
Probably a brookie in one of the mountain creeks around Thompson Falls, MT around 65/66ish? 
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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #21 on: May 23, 2018, 03:48:13 PM »
Piesner creek bald hills.  Trout and it was bigger than the old mans.  Also caught his ear that day! :yike:
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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #22 on: May 23, 2018, 04:01:24 PM »
No clue.  I don't remember my kids' first fish either, seems like we just have always gone fishing with the family since before I can remember through today.

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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #23 on: May 23, 2018, 08:46:43 PM »
Not my first fish, but certainly my first REAL fish. Klamath river, 10#er. Caught it on a dime store kid’s fiberglass pole and woven line. Well actually dad had to reel it in before the dang fish pulled me overboard.

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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #24 on: May 29, 2018, 02:44:28 PM »
1964 I was 5 years old and got a new fishing pole foe Christmas, Dad and I went over to my Uncle Less,s house for breakfast I remember we had french toast then we went to the green river down by neely bridge Stealhead Fishing, after getting hung up many times my dad told me to just let it sit there and when i finally reeled in I had about a 4 inch bullhead, Proud Boy took it home and kept it in a jar of water.
 

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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #25 on: May 29, 2018, 04:18:22 PM »
I can just barely remember my last fish and that was yesterday. Mom started us fishing around the age of two or three at the reservoir in Brookline, MA. Cheap entertainment and it kept us busy until one of us fell and broke teeth or something. That seemed to happen a lot.

I do remember my first big fish. I was probably 7 or so. This was back when Mom kicked you out in the morning and you didn't come home until either lunch or getting dark. I was fishing at Wellesley College at Lake Waban. My dad was the manager of the Wellesley College Club, so us kids were all over the campus. I'd caught a small sunfish/bluegill. Casted it out to watch it drag the bobber around. I got distracted (as I still do), and after a bit, looked for the bobber and it was gone. I went to pull in the line and it pulled back. When I got the fish to shore, I'd just gotten it into a little pool, separated from the lake with a ring of rocks, and the line broke. I grabbed the fish and threw it up on shore. It was a 28" pickerel and I thought I'd caught a world record. I'll never forget that fish and I can still see me searching the water off Tupelo Point for that bobber. I won't soon forget the college girls sunbathing in the buff, either. Great place for a young boy to grow up!
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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #26 on: May 29, 2018, 04:31:31 PM »
Parents took me fishing and hunting before I could talk, they say I mostly cried, lol, not sure when I actually reeled in a fish? Farthest I can remember back is eating watermelon with my grandpa when I was 3 or 4. I can also remember falling in Kootenay Lake when I was 5 and almost drowned, I will never forget that! I can remember creek fishing and catching fish with my dad at 5 or 6.
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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #27 on: May 30, 2018, 04:18:57 PM »
I'm not 100% but I want to say it was probably early 90's up in skate creek above Ashford. My older brothers birthday is July 7th and growing up every year all he wanted for his birthday was to go fishing in skate creek. Rainbow trout. Don't remember how big it was but I do remember to me it was BIG LOL!

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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #28 on: May 30, 2018, 04:28:49 PM »
I don't remember the first fish, but most likely it was a crappie on Owyhee Reservoir or a trout somewhere trolling with dad in his 12' aluminum boat and a 5hp Johnson outboard, did a fair bit of both as a kid. Life was sure better back in those days.
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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #29 on: May 31, 2018, 12:40:56 PM »
I don't remember my first fish, but I bet it was a sunfish and I was with my uncle Mike, who took me fishing since before I can remember (my parents didn't fish).  I vividly remember my son's first, he was 4 and we were fishing Mr. Sauer's pond in Anderson Canyon near Dryden.  It was a 17" rainbow and Mr. Sauer was holding him on the dock for support and he managed to reel in that fish by himself.  The next one was a 21" rainbow and was too much for him, he handed off the rod to Mr. Sauer and was done :) .  Precious memory.
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Re: Can you remember your First Fish?
« Reply #30 on: May 31, 2018, 07:24:07 PM »
We grew up on hood canal, so fishing was like teething. Perch, flounder, trout too young to remember my first one. My first king was out in front of the cave and Seqiu. I was 8 years old and it took me 40 minutes to bring it in. At one point it took a run right across three lines of another boat. My Dad yelled “it is his first salmon!” And the man on the boat cut all three lines  divers and all so I could have a chance at my fish. By the time we netted it I could hardy lift my arms they were so tired. Beautiful 25 lb white meat king. It was on my moms birthday August 13th 1970. Mom was in the cabin at Olson’s Resort because she was not feeling to great. I carried (dragged mostly) that king all the way from the cleaning dock to the cabin, to show my mom!
In the pictures my arms were to tired to lift whole fish off the ground.
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