Do you remember your first fish?

[Clogston29]

first one I remember was a largemouth bass. caught it on a pinkish rubber worm, one of the old ones that came rigged with two gold hooks, off a docked party boat. it was at my parent's friend's house when they were still together, so I must have been about 4. remember seeing the fish come out from under the boat to grab the worm. probably got some sun fish before that, but that was my first bass.

first striper was up in maine. i was probably about 10 or 12. throwing a very old (with very rusty hooks) rebel popper. bass had bait pushed up against a sandbar and I managed to snag (hooked in the back) one fish, about 24". damn i was proud of myself. that's the day that really got me into striper fishing, especially with plugs. a couple years later I hooked and lost a "big" (i thought at the time, probably 20 lbs or something thinking back) fish up there. That fish lead me to buy Frank D's "Trophy Striper" to try to figure out what I was doing wrong - that's when I really got hooked. I think I read all of Frank's books that winter.