At what age did you start fishing ?

I'm 58 and have been fishing since I was 5. My dad did not fish but my grandpa did. He was a farmer and lived on the bank of Bayou Bartholomew. Thats where I spent my summers driving tractors and chopping cotton. During the summer we would set trotline's in the bayou for catfish using crawfish we got out of the road ditches with his home made drag (still have the drag). Also caught good crappie in the bayou on minnows.

Then when the crops was laid by we pulled out the flat bottom Duracraft and 3 horse Johnson (later he bought a 6 horse, we were moving up) cane poles, minnows and rod and reels and put it in the bed of his truck and headed to the lakes. Look out crappie here we come and we did catch good crappie back then and came home and scrape them with a spoon. The ones we did not eat then grandma would put them in a milk cartoon and freeze them for later. This was in the mid 60's to early 70's and grandpa smoked a pipe with Prince Albert from the red can. He's no longer with us and I really miss them days and wish I could go back one more time.

I’m 55 and best i can remember is about 12. I went with my dad and uncle. Don’t remember fishing anymore to about 45 after my dad die and i got his old pole’s.


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I'm 63. Probably started at 3 or so. Lived within 1/2 mile of the Atchafalaya River in south Louisiana until I left for the USAF at 18. Of course fishing included trot lines for catfish and crabs,crawfishing,shrimping, frogging and cane poles. We pretty much always had a shrimp boat of some kind, except when a log came through the bottom and sunk it.(sad time) And when I was stationed at Eglin Florida I had a 12 ft jon with a 9.9 Johnson. I carried it on top a Chevy Vega with the 9.9 in the back.Wish I had a picture. Could get to a lot of small lakes. In fact I don't remember many times in my life spent without fishing for very long. Now if I could just figure out the area I moved to last year:dono.

I’’’m 60 and fished Reelfoot a few times when I was probably 6-7 with my grandparents and I remember one trip to Bass Bay. Aside from catching catfish from a farm pond during my teen years and a trip to Mansard Island with a fraternity brother who’se parents owned it I really didn’t fish until I retired from being a school superintendent. Figured 1 hobby was enough and playing golf was enough while working and helping raise 3 kids. My son-in-law kinda got me started fishing; until our daughter met him I had no clue universities had bass fishing teams! I’ve made lots of crappie fishing trips in the last 5-6 years so I’’’m not sure if I started when I was young or old??


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I have proof I was about 1 yr old
My mom still has a pic of me at that age in the boat with my sister and Dad
He’s 86 now. I take him every chance I get.
Been fishing ever since.


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I was about 3-4. My first fish was a tiny longear out of The Little Maumelle River near Pinnacle Mountain. I have been hooked ever since. Mom and Dad have a picture of me somewhere. If I remember right, I had on Jams (for all of y’all that remember those from the early 80’s).


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I think I was 4. Dad had me catching bream off a dock on Norfork Lake. I've got a picture of me with my first fish somewhere. If I run across it i'll post it. I've been fishing every since!

78 years ago. I was 4. Dad had a millpond stocked with green carp and they were trained to follow you around the bank. Tie a grasshopper on a string and the water boiled. That all stopped a few years later when it was discovered a neighborly lady was long poling and feeding her friends!

4 years old

Right at 3 years old. Fishing on a regular basis and pretty much self sufficient after rods rigged at 4.