Can you remember when

[WOBBLE HEAD]

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Can you remember when you caught your very first Bass (orspecies that youspecializein), did it get you hooked for life.

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I was about 6 or 7 years old (almost 54 now) fishing in CFP on a old dock that is know longer there now. Back in the corner where the tunnel goes from the park to the main channel. Bill Dance had been advertising the do nothing worms with the beads and spinners on them (remember them. I think that's what they were called then) So I bought a red one (after all worms were suppose to be red so I thought) from Stone Brothers Hardware in East Ride. Myparents took us out for a picnic and for me to fish on a Sunday afternoon.I threw my new worm over in some cat tails growing by the corner of the tunnel (Bill Dance always fished around cat tails andLillypads so I thought I would). I let it lay in the cat tails for long long time. I guess I thought that was what you were suppose to do. When I picked up my rod and reeled it in a Bassprobably10 or 12 inches long, came out of the water dancing on it's tail 2 or 3 times, It gave me a good show and I WAS HOOKED from then on. That all I every wanted to fish for was Bass, I couldn't wait to see another one dancing and would dream about catching a 5 pounder.

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Before that time the very first fish I ever caught in my life by myself was off of the same dock. Two bream and a perch all about 4 inches long. I put them in a bucket, took them home to make pets out of. When they died the next day, I swore up and down to my mother that someone had came in our back yard and killed them.

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[elwestb]

I remember the first one that got away! It was the first Bass that I remember hooking up with. I was about 10 years old when my Dad and a friend that he worked with planned a fishing trip out on Sand Mountain to a little private lake to catch some big Bream. We stopped at a little local hardware store for them to buy a fishing license and some red worms. I got over to the side where they had some plastic worms {hard as auto tire rubber} by Nick Creame in a jar for sale. Now this was even before the "pre rigged, beads, spinners and three hooks" deal that Creame came out with later. Three worms for a quarter. What a buy! So I begged for Dad to buy me three and after a bit he gave in to the silly idea of "rubber worms" and gave me a quarter. So I bought my worms. Not so much as to fish with, if they worked, great! But if not, I already had visions of taking them to school and scaring the girls with them. That would be great too! Well, we were fishing and not doing much catching. So after a while I put one of the purple worms on a hook with a split shot weigh up in front sort of like a mini C-rig would be. I cast the silly thing out beside a big log and some standing grass, laid down my spinning rod {that's all we used then} and turned around to relieve myself and answer the call of nature. After taking a whiz I picked up my rod and started winding it in, picking up slack line because I didn't know anything else to do. All of a sudden the line tighten up. Then it started moving out across the water!? All I could do was hold on as the line was stripping off my poor little spinning rod. Then this monster came out of the water. End over end in a beautiful full gainer. then back down into the water. Another surge and my line broke. It was so fast I had really no idea what had just happened. I swear that it was over 8 lbs still today. Dad and Jerry both came running over to me and quickly confiscated my remanding two worms. We cut the tough things in half and continued fishing. We didn't catch any more Bass. Dad and Jerry both got broke off a couple of times but that was it. I went home that night shell shocked with night visions and dreams of that big 'ol pig that got away. I've been hooked ever since. That's also how the first fish tails start too!