Who remembers their first fish? First kayak fish?

1# Fish clear lake pier Largemouth 1.5#
2# Fish Bay Farm Island Rubberliped Perch 2#.Thats what hooked me on Salt water. I was only 9 yrs old and I thought Pile worms were the coolist thing in the world.
  1# Kayak fish Donner Lake Makinaw 2.25# Looked like a little Musky tigerstripes and all.
 Randall

Can't remember the first one, but I am sure it was a trout caught on the troll because thats all my old man did 99% of the time.  I started going as soon as i was potty trained (he was OS and wouldn't get involved with diapers).  I was spoiled early, we used to catch a LOT of trout between 5-10 pounds were we lived in Nevada, and just like Jelly we went fishing LOT.  We have lots of pics from when I was a spud, but they are all in these WEIRD slide tray???? Can't figure out how to make them digital.

First yak was an inflatable.  It was funky, but kinda cool.  Tough as hell to paddle because it was super wide and it had ZERO tracking.  In hindsight the rigging was hilarious, but it was all new at the time, and without great forums like this to learn from other, I was driving blind.  We used to put a whole icechest on the back!  The fish were fresh though!!!  As goofy as it was, we caught a bunch of fish off of it andit changed my life forever!!! Check this baby out...



First kayak fish was a limit of lings at Albion.  We used to launch our PB there a lot so we went there on our first yak trip.  Like any newb we got a nice fish our first drop, and we've been addicted ever since.