Remember your first bass?

[striprman]

Seal Harbor Maine, I was 5 years old, fishin' for flounders from the pier with my mom. It was about 30 inches.

[Mike P]

Man, do I ever. Her name was Debbie, back seat of a 64 Sedan de Ville at the Rustic Drive-In back in 1970, and...

Oh, shoot, I just re-read this, you said Bass

[redcrbbr]

debbie have red hair and a small tatoo on her left breast?? just wondering if????

[Nebe]

Yeah and it was a nice one.... 29 lbs on a pogie chunk off of my secret newport honeyhole. After that I was hooked for life.

[chris L]

mine was lynette and man could she say hello .

[Mike P]

Originally posted by redcrbbr
debbie have red hair and a small tatoo on her left breast?? just wondering if????

In 1970? Anything with a tat on "her" boob back then was born a him

[wjm]

I had Debbies daughter....And she has the tatoo
Any relation mike?

[OX]

Originally posted by Mike P
Man, do I ever. Her name was Debbie, back seat of a 64 Sedan de Ville at the Rustic Drive-In back in 1970, and...

Oh, shoot, I just re-read this, you said Bass

Were they showing Disney movies? Now there's a Woonsocket memory!

[nor-easter]

Five years old, 12 ft cedar skiff my father built in the cellar. Outside New Bedford/Fairhaven Harbor, to the East of Fort Pheonix, the Eeg Island Sandbar. Ran out of gas at the North end of the sand bar, both handlines sank to the bottom. filled the gas tank and got the engine going again. Pulled in one line and cleaned the seaweed off the red and white feather with a piece of pork strip and tossed it back out. Started to pull second line and felt a fish pulling on the line. Got the fish in and it was a weird striped thing, I had never seen before. About twenty inches long. Fought good, looked edible so I tossed it in to my basket with the five or six blue fish I had caught.
When father came home from work I had the bluefish already cleaned ready for supper but the weird striped fish I had kept whole so he could identify it for me.
I was so proud that I made the mistake of telling him I caught the fish over at the Egg Island Sandbar, which was off limits for me.
I got grounded for two days but father said "It is a Striped Bass and we will have it for dinner." It was much better than Blue Fish and after that I tried to catch more. I am still catching more, 60 years later. I love to catch them and like to eat them as well.

Oh, the other thing happened when I was twelve, at a beach near the Old Harbor at Block Island. She was a couple years older than me, experienced, from Barrington, R.I. Never can remember her name! Never forget the darn sand fleas!

[beachwalker]

thats more like it man

20 something pounds at the mouth of the Housy

[Mr. Sandman]

young sandman (age 8) fishing Orient Point (LI). According to my mom I spent the entire summer on this rock. (this photo is 40 years old)

[Mr. Sandman]

I had caught a few schoolies with my dad on boats before but this was my first "big" bass from the shore (all by myself)
(a little over 20#) ( I tipped the scales at 50). This secured my surfcasting bug for life. By the time I was 20 I was a bassaholic in constant need for my next fix.

[bassmaster]

[striprman]

Originally posted by Mr. Sandman
I had caught a few schoolies with my dad on boats before but this was my first "big" bass from the shore (all by myself)
(a little over 20#) ( I tipped the scales at 50)

You still have that rod and reel?

[Mr. Sandman]

Originally posted by striprman
You still have that rod and reel?

YES! It hangs in my garage today. The reel is in the original box. I don't use it anymore...But it is fun to look at now and again

[Slipknot]

Mr. Sandman

WOW

[macojoe]

Thats a great story sandman!!

I don't rember my first but I went years before ever getting my first keeper!! (36")
I was so mad that I had been fishing for 4 years and never got a keeper and all my friends had.
Well in 1994 I bought my first boat a 1962 17' Hawkline, had a 1972 60hp Johnson A friend of mine who is a great bass fisherman had no boat but had been out with others who did and they fished Chatam.
One day in July 1995 off Monomy we were fishing some rips (first time for me) and were getting some nice fish, but no keepers Well there was this sand bar with some wave crashing on it and my buddy said lets try that over there? So we were off.
I was using eels for the first time and we started a drift and bam my friend got a 39" bass I got a 30" again I was mad here my buddy was getting a keeper and I another short. Well he said were there is one there are two so again we started a drift and bam I got a hit and after a nice fight I had my First Keeper a 37" nice bass.
I was so excited that I wanted another try so I drove full steam ahead stright thur ths school!! And as the wave was curling I was on top of it ans I saw the whole school swiming with us right on to the sand bar!!! Must have been 30 fish down there it was great site to see i can still see it today in my mind!!
But I learned that day never to run thur the school go around as they were the last fish we would catch that day!! But what a day it was.