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mtgoat666
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| Quote: | Originally posted by baitcast
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caught my first fishes bare-handed, he-man style. no sissy fishing poles for me.
tidepooling on beach.
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Mexitron
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I think it was an baby opaleye from a large tidepool in Three Arch Bay, Laguna...8 or 9 yrs old...first fish in Baja was a triggerfish at Gonzaga,
around 1975.
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BMG
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First fish that I can remember catching.
36" catfish from Lake Cachuma above Santa Barbara, CA.
I think the world is run by C- students.
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Bob H
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| Quote: | Originally posted by baitcast
Just what is a Florabama?......What does one do at such an event,Mullet toss? does sound like fun I think
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It's an old bar (now rebuilt since the hurricanes) that is situated on the Florida/Alabama State line. Half of the building is in Florida and the
other half is in Alabama. (or so it used to be before rebuilding, maybe it still is).
Here is the link to this year's mullet toss (was in April)
http://www.florabama.com/Special%20Events/Mullet%20Toss/mull...
Bob H
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Cypress
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Mullet, AKA "Biloxi Bacon"! Call 'em "Lisa" south of the border.
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Sunman
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Trout, Lake Casitas, 1970, 5yrs old.
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comitan
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The whole story, a little creek in Capitoa Ca. behind a nunnery 2 -6" trout took them home to cook, was told you have to cook and eat them with their
heads, so I did and guts too, sure were sandy.
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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Skipjack Joe
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My first fish was a queenfish on a handline from the far end of Santa Monica pier. Like Mexicans, Dad looked down on guys fishing with rods. "Can't
feel the bite real well that way", he used to say. And he was right. There's nothing like that rat-tat-tat feeling on your index finger telling you
something's on the other end of the line.
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bajabass
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I was probably 7 or 8. It was either a bluegill or a rockbass out of the Grand River in Lansing, Michigan. No poop, a piece of line with a hook, on a
broken old rod, with a twig for a float. Nightcrawlers were under the nearest tree or rock. Not Huck Finn, but close. Hell, we used to smoke
grapevine!
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estebanis
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Growing up in Oregon I caught my first fish when I was still in Diapers. Later on Grandma even trusted me to hold the rod all on my own. Nowadays I
just use a rodholder and a bell... JK
Esteban
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Bob H
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob H
Was back in the mid 50's, in Miami, along a canal near my house, with a cane pole, using biscuit doe, on a hair hook strung from a red and white cork
bobber, catching Brim and sometimes a Mullet or two.
We'd bring'm home and my Dad would bury them around our fruit trees (key lime, avocado, grapefruit and mango). Fantastic fertilizer!
Only later on in life did I learn that mullett fish can be pretty tasty.
Ever heard of the annual Mullett Toss at the Florabama Bar on the Florida/Alabama State line? Quite an event.
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Wow, just found out that a Brim fish is a Bluegill fish. Never knew that.
Bob H
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Pompano
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It was a WALLEYE...
..that started my career as a fishing bum..those Waldos are so much fun to catch..AND EAT!
My Dad was the cuprit who started it all..
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Natalie Ann
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First fish when I was 9... bluegill and crappie at Lake LeAquaNa in Illinois. Each time out my mom would freeze 'em in a black garbage bag, then
when we had a whole lotta fish.... barbecued little fishies for the entire extended family. Makes me drool just to remember those feasts.
nena
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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Timo1
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I was about 4 years old and we fished in old bomb holes that the Japanese
left behind after WWII
There was a stream connecting them and we caught bull-heads from them
I think thats what they were anyway
fishing and swimming in bomb holes....we just took it for granted
Forgot to mention this was in Dutch New Guinea
[Edited on 5-8-2010 by Timo1]
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baitcast
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Fishing and swimming in bomb holes,my god tell us more
Rob
I have fished the Kamloops Vernon area,Lived in Okanogan Wash. at the time.
[Edited on 5-8-2010 by baitcast]
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woody with a view
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sorry Rob!
i remember my first Spotfin......
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bajabass
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What is that beast?? From the surf? Nice dinner!
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Timo1
I was about 4 years old and we fished in old bomb holes that the Japanese
left behind after WWII
There was a stream connecting them and we caught bull-heads from them
I think thats what they were anyway
fishing and swimming in bomb holes....we just took it for granted
Forgot to mention this was in Dutch New Guinea
[Edited on 5-8-2010 by Timo1] |
Hey Timo 1,
Mi amigo, Randy, and I also get a treat fishing near Japanese bombholes ...on Christmas Island....but we don't fish those..instead we go wading in
the lagoons for some remarkable snook fishing. Quite the sights, eh? Amazing the things that happen to mankind.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Timo1
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If only I knew then what I know now.....
We lived in 2 seperate places in DNG
One place was deep in the Baliem Valley jungles...rivers eveywhere
The fishing would have been fantastic
We didn't have the knowledge or the gear to pursue it
The other place was a missionary kids' home in Hollandia
This is where we learned how to fish the bomb craters
I was born over there and we returned to Canada when
I was 7.....long story
The fishing just got better and as far as I can remember has been a big
part of my life
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wessongroup
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Green Lake up above South Lake out of Bishop... had hiked in with my Dad for the day.. Rye crisp and cheese, with a snicker bar for energy... was 8...
caught a 16" rainbow native (1950) on a "hotshot wobbler"
Did not see a single person until we got back to camp that evening... used to be a different place, really glad my Dad took us kids so many places
when young.. he didn't hunt, just fished and dug clams when we were down in Mexico.
He started taking us kids down to Mexico in 1952, deep sea fishing out of Ensenada.. again.. it was a different place... we used to shoot off
fireworks in downtown Ensenada with the Police... once again the Mexican people were just super, to a couple of Gringo kids from the States having fun
like we never had before... they enjoyed seeing a couple of kids having fun... plus we after a while had a bunch of Mexican kids playing with us... we
had more money that we knew what to do with... think firecrackers were only a 10 cents a pack.. we had money from our page routes so we had like 10
dollars... we were giving quarters to other kids so they could have firecrackers as we were throwing them at each other... as you can see, it stuck in
my mind.. ... after the firecracker war, we all had cokes and sat on the curbs which at the time seemed four feet high.... was always a blast down
there when kids..... and still is ..... even as an old man...
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