What is the first fish you remember catching

[izzysfishin]

My dad and brother took me to a place called Suson Park and set me up, I was about 6 or 7. They had a Catfish lake, a Bass-n-Bluegill lake and this one with Carp that were big as I was. It was the first time I set the hook on a runaway train. Pop and my brother were rollin on the ground laughing, and people around me were telling me how to play him. After 10 mins, dad got to thinking I might accidently land this cow and started coaching me. Took all of 45 mins. to get it in with absolutly no help. 42lbs. and I was done for the day. I think my pop was more proud me that day than any other time in his whole life, had to drag that butt ugly thing all over st. louis to show everyone he knew. Don't think that was my first but is the one I remember the best...izzy---Ever have Carp on a pine board?

[crappiejack fisher mikey]

I was about six years old, fishing the Deschutes River in Tumwater, Washington, just outside of Olympia. I was using the age old method of a stick and line with a nightcrawler and caught a cutthroat trout about 12" long. I remember catching lots of yellow perch from my uncle's dock as well as small trout and bass.

Down here in Alabama my first fish was a small bluegill. My first crappie however came from Lake Guntersville and it was a whopping 2.5lbs and hit a big yellow Bass Buster beetle spin lure I was just dragging through the water playing around. I was about 10 or so. My biggest fish to date is a gar that was about five feet long and around 45 pounds.

EDIT: Here's a pic of the me and the crappie. If you look close you'll see the yellow Bass Buster I stuck to it's mouth.

[cadd1951]

I was about 7 and my uncle from Hueytown AL was visiting us in Orlando, well he took me to a small shallow creek/canal that runs between 2 of the lake Conways. He showed me how to cast (throw) kinda, using a dull red plastic worm (maybe some of you can relate, it had a propeller, a couple plastic beads on the front and two hooks connected with a short length of mono) by about the third or fourth cast I was getting pretty good distance (20-30 feet) and I chunked it towards the bridge. He says good cast, now reel it slow. I was a teeny bit bored and reeled it in pretty quick actually when wham! Right at the bank some damn LMB nailed it! I had caught my first lunker! 10 inches of prime LMB! Needless to say, I was the one who got hooked. When he visited us again the next summer he gave me my first ever fishin pole, a beautiful split bamboo fly rod that I only caught gills on but I sure could give a fly a bad case of whiplash!:D