What is the first fish you remember catching

[izzysfishin]

My dad and brother took me to a place called Suson Park and set me up, I was about 6 or 7. They had a Catfish lake, a Bass-n-Bluegill lake and this one with Carp that were big as I was. It was the first time I set the hook on a runaway train. Pop and my brother were rollin on the ground laughing, and people around me were telling me how to play him. After 10 mins, dad got to thinking I might accidently land this cow and started coaching me. Took all of 45 mins. to get it in with absolutly no help. 42lbs. and I was done for the day. I think my pop was more proud me that day than any other time in his whole life, had to drag that butt ugly thing all over st. louis to show everyone he knew. Don't think that was my first but is the one I remember the best...izzy---Ever have Carp on a pine board?

[tioga183]

That would have to be a saltwater eel that I caught behind the house I grew up in.Used garden worms and a boat pole with a conventional reel left out over night to see what I would catch from the creek.Than after that it was killie fish on a pin with white bread for bait.The salt marshes of NY City were a great learning time for me.
tioga

[Wrenchbender]

Well the first fish I remember catching was about a 4 pound large mouth bass.I was about five years old useing an old Zebco 202 and a very short rod.Mama kept telling me to sit down and be quite just watch the cork boy.Finaly that old cork went down and I couldn't reel in what was on the other end so I took off running up the bank of the small pond we were at.I drug that Giant bass all the way up on the bank and this was before catch and release was invented.I remember this so well because mama use to tell verybody she saw this story.

[belizaire]

don't remember first fish but remeber first real sac-a-lait trip or like ya'll call them crappie. I was 12 years old went to a place called bayou benoit. We stayed on a house boat of an old crawfisherman and man then crawfisherman know where to fish. There was about 6 of us started fishing friday afternoon just our boat had 70 to 80 bream. Went back to house boat for the night and frie then patasas up which is french for bream. started early saturday morning our boat limited out in three hours and the same sunday. when we came home sunday we had over 600 sac-a-lait fillets and 200 bream. Man wish the fishing was still that good.

[crappiencali]

I remembered when I was growing up my father and I would go to Lawton, Ok to visit my grandparents. I remember going to grampas boat house on Lake Latonka. We would catch bluegill, crappie and small bass. At night grandpa, dad and I would get the homemade stink bait out and catch hugh carp and catfish. I remember most of the time I could stay awake all night and I would go and fall asleep. One day dad told me that I had to stay up and give it a try. I stayed up all night and finally got the bite from the largest fish that I have caught in my life. It was a 25# catfish. I remember that I couldn't reel the fish in I wasn't strong enough. My dad insisted that I kept up the fight and finally MOBY DICK got tired and let me land it. I really miss those days fishing with my dad and grandpa. Grandpa has passed but my father and I fish together as much as possible. I can't wait when I can take my daughter out with us and let her fight her first fish.

[StressBuster]

Interesting thread and very interesting that all the posts talk about begining to fish at a young age. I was about 6 or 7 and we had a Ski boat. My Dad would take us out bream fishing with these stiff metal rods, level wind reels with string for line ( I still have 2 of them). He sold the boat and we took up camping. I fished every chance I got. After that I fished in spurts with gaps of several years but for the last 20+ years I have been an avid fisherman.

[sccamper]

I remember hearing stories about ME being cought by a fish. I was still in diapers on a dock while dad and grandad were catfishing. Some how I fell off and probally bounced my backside on a rock. I started screaming and crying about the fish that bit my butt.

[fishboy]

Mine was a 2 oz bream at lake greenwood I think, I was 4 perhaps.

[fishn_ia]

I am very lucky, I can remember fishing with both of my grandpas and my dad many times from a young age, but the one that always comes to mind, is fishing new years day on the miss. river around the lock and dam north of Prarie Du Chein Wi. I was 12. We had been fishing the dam and wing dams, hadn't caught a thing, dad decided we should go try some back waters, so we ventured out, breaking through some thine ice. Got to "the spot" and started jigging, it wasn't to long and dang I was hung up, or so I thought. The snag I drug up was a 7.5 lb. Walleye !! The funny part of the story is a few days later, we where eating those fish, and I asked dad what he had done with my fish, he said we where eating it. Well I was a little diapointed, I wanted to mount that fish ! Guess what I got for christmas that next year. Yup my walleye. I have caught quite a few larger ones since, but have never kept them. I have mine on the wall. My grandparents are all gone now, but I still fish with my dad often, and take my wife and kids as often as possible.

[Slab-Daddy]

My first fishing trip was when I was five years old across the bean field from my house in a catfish pay pond. The man that owned it did'nt mind if we came to catch Green Sunfish out of it. I remember my dad and my sister bringing me. My dad rigged me up first with a dab of redworm with a split shot under a small float and then turned his attention to rigging up my sister. After he got her rigged up he asked me where my float was and I told him it went under the water and I didn't know why. It had been down there for a few seconds. I remember my dad franticly telling me to "set the hook, set the hook" so I did and caught the first of many small Green Sunfish. That was the only time dad had to tell me what to do, I thought I was Bill Dance after that. Well, long story short I think I drove dad and Mr. Northcutt (the owner) crazy the rest of the summer as I could'nt get enough.