How did you get your start???

my grandfather is the reason i like to fish he took me almost every time he went. i was around seven yrs old we fished farm ponds and pay lakes. and i can still remember those bulls walking in the pond on a hot summer day to cool off would scare me to death. but it wasnt untill i met my wife before i found my true love for being on the water my mother and father n law had a lake house on lake of the ozarks in missouri and we went there every weekend one year and i found i could not get enough of it. ive been hooked every since. i hope to retire at a little place on the lake like that. i also feel the people around any lake are so layed back it makes you feel welcome. like your rite at home.

Okay I may be a little bit more fresh on this as I'm only 16, but here goes my tale. When I was about 4 as a gift my mom bought me one of those little plastic poles with the fake big hook to catch those pretend plastic fish, it came to be that it was the only thing i would play with, and luckily my dad being thw wonderful man he is took me fishing with him and his friend. His friend worked for the Columbia gas company and he had found a farm pond that was loaded with fish. So we go and my dad puts a bobber and a real hook on my little pole and us 3 proceed to fill up an entire cooler with bluegill. I only caught 13 but my dad told me they were all the biggest. After that I began my obsession, watching in fisherman on Saturday mornings after cartoons and American Gladiators, and the bassmasters on Espn. Now me and my dad fish about evey weekend in the summer for bass, but we're just starting to get the real hang of lake fishing lol.

My mom! took me and my brother on a city bus to a lake that was in the city limits of chicago. 50 years later she said she made a big mistake doing that.When I got my first bycyle, I fished that lake a lot, and since we lived near lake michigan, fished that also.In the years that have gone by, fihed in least 40 states, and three counties.On my fifth boat. Guess I'll never get to alaska, but who knows maybe one day one of those lottery tickets will come in!

nick, how was last weekend. I see you managed to snag a decent largemouth. I am heading to KY Lake this friday for a weekend of fishing. I will tell the bass you say hi.

I'm not like the rest, my mom and dad were hunters and didn't like fishing much...I didn't started till I was 30 (now I'm 35). Friend of mine from church asked me to go trout fishing down on the Cumberland. I bought a parntership is his boat the next summer and I haven't stopped fishing since. I started pond fishing pretty heavy 3 yrs. ago. Better late than never! The best part is my dad who used to hate fishing now goes with me regularly...our next trip is down the Dix for the whitebass run! Can't wait!

Farm Pond and a cane pole, I guess about 4-5 years old. Can't say it was my first fish but I remember my first bass. It hit my line and got off but I could tell by the splash it was a goodin so I put my line back in the same spot and he hit the line again. 10" of largemouth and I thought it was the greatest thing in the world.

[QUOTE=johnking82;291014]nick, how was last weekend. I see you managed to snag a decent largemouth. I am heading to KY Lake this friday for a weekend of fishing. I will tell the bass you say hi.[/QUOTE]

John,
All I can say is it was COLD!!! And of course I became the guide again. My partner who is from In. fished for the first time in Ky. and took big fish and 3rd. Boy is hurts to be a good guide. I hope you have a great time on the twin lakes. I know they will be jumping into the boat this weekend with the weather being in the 70's.

Nick

I don't know Mhall, I believe fisherman are born with it in their blood. I started fishing when I was small don't remember the age but do remember sitting on the creekbanks of the Dix river catching smallies. From there it was wading creeks to farm ponds and finally the big lakes for the past 7 years. I don't believe that there is anything greater, there is just something about it that sooths the soul. I spend time with my children fishing in hopes that maybe they will get as much pleasure out of the sport as I have but with video games and computers seems that it is hard to pull them away. I hope to continue fishing as long as I am on this Earth and hope that when I meet my creater that he has a nice big lake where I can spend eternity enjoy what I love best with all of you other hardcore fisherman.

[QUOTE=dcbasser;291080]I don't know Mhall, I believe fisherman are born with it in their blood. [/QUOTE]

I agree with that completely. No one in my family fished or hunted, but I'd always wanted to do them from a young age. Can't explain it other than I was born with it.

My dad taught me how to fish and started taking me with him at a early age. We would mainly fish for crappie or stripe under the light at Cookeville boat dock on their fishing dock with minnows till after midnight on saturday nights. We would wrap up when it started turning colder down in the fall, and about 9 o'clock or so he would tell me a good cup of coffee and a hamburger from the restaurant's dock sure would taste good, wouldn't it, and I would gladly go and pack us something back to drink and eat. When my brother got his boat we would all go down to cordell hull and fish up in martins creek for hours during the day time. I can still hear him say today "boys we need to be at the house doing some work" and my brother would tell him that he's ready to go when ever he is. And dad would say "let me catch another one or two and we'll go". We usually stayed aleast another hour or more. The good lord seems like only takes the best home with him sometimes and did so in the blink of a eye 22 years ago one sunday evening this coming september three months before he was ready to retire from public work. What I wouldn't give for one more day with him.


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[QUOTE=fishcatcher;291078]John,
All I can say is it was COLD!!! And of course I became the guide again. My partner who is from In. fished for the first time in Ky. and took big fish and 3rd. Boy is hurts to be a good guide. I hope you have a great time on the twin lakes. I know they will be jumping into the boat this weekend with the weather being in the 70's.

Nick[/QUOTE]

So, so far you've taken and Illinois boy and an Indiana boy and led them to fish in KY. Yea I could be in flip-flops and shorts this weekend on KY Lake. It should be a heck of a weekend.

Amen Dcbasser!!!!!