What/who did it for you?

[RIROCKHOUND]

It was always just in my blood; we got a boat when I was young, and grew up fishing as long as I can remember; mostly with my father and occasionally my brother (he golfs now) it's been something his father did etc.. we've always fished, sometimes commercial, sometimes charter/head boats, now just for fun....

[Notaro]

my friend, jason and cher who took me to sweetwater fishing. i climbed up to saltwater fishing on my own and found this site. thespecialist taught me how to fish. then fww is becoming more of my fishing mentor. i got two good teachers.

[justplugit]

I was about 5 when my Grandfather took me to a little pond for sunnies. It was a cloudy rainy day and i remember it like it was yesterday.

My very favorite time to fish is still a cloudy rainy day.

[Rappin Mikey]

Can't remember my first fish. Pretty sure it was a cod though. I do remember waking up every weekend morning @ 3:00 am and jumping in the truck. My brother, grandfather and I would sleep in the back of the Suburban, while my dad would tow the boat from western MA to where ever the fish were at at the time. Great memories. I am surprised that I kind of fell out of the fishing loop for about 15 years. We used to really fill that boat up. My earliest memories are more of watching people bring fish in because I was to small. I got a fish hook up the nose. I remember that. My grandfather had this weird method of keeping his gum fresh. He would stick it behind his ear. He said it saved the flavor, and saved money on not wasting gum. To make a story thats getting longer shorter, my brother, grandfather, and I would all sleep in the back of the truck on the rides home as well. Anyway, I remember all of us chewing gum, and my grandfather recommending we utilize his gum behind the ear technique for the ride home. When we woke up back in Western MA all of our heads were stuck together in the back of the Suburban. My brother, RickBomba, got me back into fishing, namely striper fishing, about five years ago. I haven't looked back since. I think I flipped on some primitive survival light switch, because striper fishing is all I really think about.

[basswipe]

My mom before she died(I was 9).But most of my memories come from my dad taking me to the Melville piers.Everything that swims in RI waters could be caught from there.But my fondest memory of fishing there was when my dad caught a 9lb doormat fluke on a head from a snapper blue that I caught.

[Vermonter]

My first time was visiting the grandparents in Ct when I was 5 or 6. Went to Crystal Lake with my grandfather and caught smalls and sunfish as I recall. Been in my blood ever since.

[hooked]

I was too young to remember the first time but I saw pictures from Baxter State Park when I was a toddler with a rod in my hand and a brookie on the other end.

Earliest fishing memories were hand lining flounder in Salem Harbor and hauling yellow perch from a dock in Ossipee. Probably 4 or 5 at the time.

I need to get my kids out more.

[MAC]

A long, long time ago my grandfather took me fishing. I was about 5 and we were catching sunnies with worms. Later in the 60's we went out of Caldara's in the rental boats and caught stripers with sea worms. Been hooked ever since.