Where did it all begin

[spog777 1]

I was wondering how people got into fishing in the first place and what was their earliest memory or first catch. To be fair i'll start off. My first catch was at Blanchtown 48-49 years ago where as a youngster of about 5ish i caught my first fish which was a nice callop. My Dad told me it easily weighed a coupla pounds and the joke was i was using a handline and instead of pulling the line in i kept walking to the water with it only to have my old man keep pulling me back lol. After that he built me my first rod (i have them still) and put a 3 1/2 inch alvey on it for me. We went off to live a Strathalbyn and for the 2 years we were there he always reckoned we fished the creek dry of redfin and tench

[OLD SALTY 0]

growing up in darwin, everyday after school into my local mangrove creek with the throw net, and mud crabs

[clay91 3]

well my dad hates fishing, he took me to wallaroo once where i hooked up to a big salmon from the end. then i kept bugging him to take me out again after that haha. now i just take myself

[Jack. 10]

Morgan and cobdogla around 1981, caravan holidays with my nana and grandad catching big fat Carp. And I mean big and I mean fat. Still got some of the old super 8 footage from those days.Golden

[disturbed1 0]

30 years ago (aged 3) fishing with my grandpa and dad I reckon my first fish was either a tommy or a Trumpeter- also family holidays to Tumby Bay, one year whilst there went on my first charter bagged out on KG's and hooked my mum in the butt. :silly::woohoo:

[Peelin 0]

2 or 3 years old, fishermans bay in the boat, whiting tommies and crabs, first i remember was after a day crabbing walking from the ramp back to the shack saw a bluey in the shallows, stalked him and caught him when he latched onto both of my thumbs:ohmy: so proud but had to chuck him back

[rangfish 1]

I can still remember my first fish like it was yesterday. It was a little tommy rough on a handline. Been obsessed with fishing ever since. :woohoo:

[aldingabeachfisho 1]

annual hollidays every xmas to pt neil from age of 4, walking down the jetty with my little bro and hooking into tommies and squid. also caught my first salmon there around 6 years old hooked after that.

[DR_JOSH 12]

Couldnt tell you my earliest memories of fishing as I was way too young and my dad has always had a boat in the driveway. But I certainly do remember heading out from the old glenelg boat ramp every weekend to chase whiting, Also our almost monthly Browns trips along with our christmas holidays to Coffin bay to chase big snapper.I have a photo at home somewhere of me holding a 15kg Coffin bay snapper and it is almost bigger then me

[fullysikwog 6]

when i was 3 or 4 off kingsciote jetty and it was a 18 cm tommie.

[Piranha 76]

around 5 years old, trolling lake dartmouth while it was snowing, caught a 4Lb brown trout and a bag of 3Lb macquarrie perch.

[ARTILLERY 0]

Fishing with the old man,grew up in tumby bay.ting fishing in tinny with handlines.good times:)

[Ranger 48]

Too long ago and too young to remember. For as long as I can remember, all our family holidays have always revolved around fishing and camping.I remember getting my first fishing rod for xmas one year though. Recon I was about 7 or 8 at the time.

[Savage 297]

The old boy would always take the family down to Second Valley (when there were no handrails and the gaps were as big as my shoe). Caught my first tommy at the age of 3 or 4. From then on the old boy would take me on the fishing adventure and leave my old lady and my sister at home

[Timbo45 0]

My earliest memories are from the Port River, but I cant really remember my fist fish !Probably a trumpeter on a hand line. I was lucky, Dad fished every weekend either locallyor away, I can remember being washed in at Parsons Beach and saved by my older brother,washed in at Second Vally and being smashed up against the rocks and saved by a off dutypoliceman ! ( Dad must of hated taking me fishing ! Ha Ha !)I have a photo of myself fishingon the jetty at Port Elliot, and I would've been 7 or 8 I guess !( I'm 49 now )I can alwaysremember going to Edithburgh as a young fellow with Dad and I bought a metal slice ( Halco type) lure from the general store, first cast off of the jetty, casting towards Wool Bay,I hooked a big Garfish, I think that was the moment that shaped my fishing for years tocome, I still prefer fishing with lures than bait ! AS a youngster and a teenager I fishedall over the state, thanks to my Dad.I wished I was half the fisherman that he was !Tim...

[krustykrab 0]

raking for blueys as a little bloke with my family at st kilda or port gawler.......remember my auntie getting pinched on the toe by a crab haha