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I've been fishing saltwater for I dunno, quite a few years. I've been fishing for about 16 years. You know it started out with little stuff. Mostly worms under the red over white floats. Trout, bluegill, bass, anything would bite. It was mostly a weekend thing then.
Soon I was riding my bike down to the local pond or up to the lake. By then I was mostly for trout. Sometimes big bluegill. I'm talking the kind you want to pull out the fillet knife. I got the usual by-catch. Carp, chainpickeral, catfish, yellow perch, white bass, largemouths, smallmouths, and eels. Big eels, like 2 and half feet.
Then I got my break through to saltwater fishing. My Great Uncle and Aunt made a trip up to Maine. They came back with two books. "Saltwaterfisherman's Bible" by Erwin A. Bauer and some guide to fishing. I begged my mom to bring me saltwater fishing. I was maybe 8 or 10 at the time. I didn't know much about it. I was trying to use freshwater tactics.
Anyways, I got into snapper fishing. That friendly couple showed me what to do. They eventually turned me on to Striper fishing. I did the "catch anything" thing for a while but now I'm primarily a striper fisherman. A couple days out of the year I'll go after fluke for the table. And when shad and herring are around, those are my targets.
So around 8 to 10 years I've been fishing saltwater now. I go back to the sweetwater every so often. It's good just to lay back on a spring day and watch your bobber float down with the current and disappear.
In short, 8 to 10 years.
Patrick
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