At what age did you start fishing ?

I am 60 and started sitting on the boat seat with dad soon as I could hold a fishing pole .:Rofl

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I'm 70 and best I can remember I was probably around 6yrs old before I actually held a pole and fished ... but I was probably "along for the ride" at an earlier age. My Dad wasn't all that much of a fisherman, but my Mom & her parents were avid Crappie anglers. I've been fishing every year since, except for the 2yrs ('68-'70) I was in the Army.

I caught a 3# catfish at 4, remember it like yesterday.

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Jackie that is one cool pic man!!!

Somewhere there is a pic of me in a play pen on the dam of a farm pond before I was 1, so I been fishing that pond for almost 55 years!!

Very nice Jackie, that’s a cool photo!


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Before memories of school. What ever that age was. Before the days of daycare and kindergarten. Then daycare was a hoe and the cotton field and soybean field. kindergarten was again a hoe in the garden.

About 6 years old. Used a safety pin, cotton string, cork out of a snuff bottle, and any branch I could find for a pole. Any of
the stock ponds around the house were full of sun fish and Poly Wog cats. Earth worms and grass hoppers were my baits of
choice.

Wow wish I could remember at what age, I remember being a hellofa spooner scraping scales back in the day. A lot of fond memories of fishing with my dad, wish he was still here to go again with me. :(

My earliest memories were probably around 4 or 5 years old for about anything. But I distinctly remember night fishing on Greers Ferry with my family in our old Arrowglass ski boat. When we would get tired and ready for bed and my parents would make my sister and me a pallet under the bow of the boat. I can still remember what that unfinished fiberglass looked like. I thought it was spider webs, a little freaky for a 4 or 5 year old. I also remember hanging Coleman lanterns on the cedar tree limbs to fish under and a couple of times the limbs would burn in two and drop the lanterns into the lake. And of course I remember my dad being pissed off about losing a new lantern. But man we caught the crappie in those days.