What got you hooked??

[DJD]

I always went fishing with my Dad since I was old enough to hold a rod and reel. I started fishing in Keywest for sharks in the 60's and then we moved to South Carolina in the 70's so we started fishing for Stripers and big cats in Lake Marion and Moultrie in addition to fishing the Cooper River and jettys in Charlston.
We moved back to Florida and the saltwater flats fishing bug got me real good so I didn't bass fish much.
Oneday a friend who I had taken flats fishing was going to show me the bass fishing ropes. My first trip out I caught a 9lb bass in the lily pads and I was hooked! Two months later I had an 18ft Skeeter with a 150hp Yamaha! Yep I was hooked for sure....hook, line and sinker.

[kc]

Mine goes way back. It was the late 60s and I was 6 years old on a family camping trip at Lake Barkley. Dad and grandma got up at daylight to fish surface baits for bass and they couldn't wake me up for nothing to go out with them. A few hours later they come in with the darnest string of bass and I was really tore up that I didn't get to partake in the fun. So dad tried to console me by tying on
the bait that they used (a Dalton Twist) on my Johnson Century baitcaster and while he was cleaning the morning catch I was slinging it around the docks. After about a dozen casts or so one about 2 lbs blasted it and I still remember that picture dad took with my buzz hair cut, cut-off jean shorts, ratty T-shirt, shoe strings untied on my Keds, and a grin that you couldn't beat off of me holding that bass. I didn't have any trouble getting up subsequent mornings! A few million bass later (and many other species in between) I am definitely hooked for life! I just wish I could get away more often these days.

kc

[goosecreekguy]

Awesome thread...Glad to hear you're doing better Elnut. As usual, you've managed to give us some good stuff to read and inspired some great stories.
I fished some for fun when I was younger, but only in the past couple years have I become "hooked" on fishing. Bucketmouths and smallies are what I enjoy catching the most.
Keep the stories coming...good stuff.