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Post by hookedup on May 26, 2021 19:51:58 GMT -5
I used to fish the Gulf Stream every summer weekend or two and catch some big tuna or mahi or both. Winter was big striper. Spring was cobia. I still fish for them, but not as often. Now I take grandkids out on a towable and TRY to get them fishing. Youngest granddaughter went out for a ride/fish today and as I suspected fishing lasted only about 15 minutes (well, it was 95 degrees air temp). However, her first spot of the year. Couldn't get her to hold it, but I did make her take a picture. I'll keep working on them.
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Post by outtadblue on May 27, 2021 11:44:12 GMT -5
Good job getting them started early.
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Post by hookedup on May 27, 2021 15:52:50 GMT -5
Thanks. You never forget your early fishing trips. I was 8 and this was my first fish. 'Hooked' me for life. Trying hard to get grandkids excited about fishing. Put one of the older granddaughters on a 3 foot shark and it was all screams and laughing, but getting her back out to fish takes a bit of effort.
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Post by fishnfool on May 27, 2021 20:45:21 GMT -5
What a great picture!
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Post by outtadblue on May 28, 2021 10:06:44 GMT -5
That’s an awesome picture. I have of me when I was 8 with a red fish. I caught several trout before that but didn’t get a photo. We need to start a thread of old photos of first fish and first boats.
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Post by hookedup on May 28, 2021 11:06:02 GMT -5
Ha ha ha.. My first boat was a plywood flat bottomed boat (painted orange and green cause my dad got some unwanted paint cheaper) with an air cooled Elgin. Luckily there is no photographic proof that boat ever existed. Our house had a dock and ramp made from railroad ties. Dad kept his boat (wooden lapstrake with 25HP Evinrude) at the dock and I pulled mine up every night onto the ramp.
The Elgin taught me mechanics (never got it to start before about the 10th wrap/pull) and pulling the boat up every night built up my muscles. Got crab pots and and sold cooked and picked crab meat for $1.25 per pound. Next year dad had a better year and he bought me an 12' aluminum boat with a 5HP Johnson. Life was VERY GOOD.
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Post by footy3 on May 28, 2021 12:16:09 GMT -5
Ha ha ha.. My first boat was a plywood flat bottomed boat (painted orange and green cause my dad got some unwanted paint cheaper) with an air cooled Elgin. Luckily there is no photographic proof that boat ever existed. Our house had a dock and ramp made from railroad ties. Dad kept his boat (wooden lapstrake with 25HP Evinrude) at the dock and I pulled mine up every night onto the ramp. The Elgin taught me mechanics (never got it to start before about the 10th wrap/pull) and pulling the boat up every night built up my muscles. Got crab pots and and sold cooked and picked crab meat for $1.25 per pound. Next year dad had a better year and he bought me an 12' aluminum boat with a 5HP Johnson. Life was VERY GOOD. Man - I remember those days, green and orange, who cares I HAVE A BOAT!!!!! My first boat with a motor was a 16 foot fibreform with an evinrude 55 hp motor, it had push buttons for shifting gears. Seats were falling apart, gel coat, well it might not of even had any, but it was mine. Before that I had a little plastic rowboat called a yak, I used to row across the bay, less than half a mile, to some lagoons of an island, and gig skates, had line with bleach bottles attached, hit 'em with the gig and they'd scoot around the lagoon pulling the bleach bottle till they wore out then i'd go collect 'em and take them to the fishery, I'd get 5 or 6 a day and make 2 bucks each. I was living! saved up 400 bucks to buy that fibreform. My parents had no idea I had $400 bucks saved. Came home one day and told them I left a deposit on a boat, can you borrow the marina owner's truck so we can go pick it up. They were flabbergasted.....
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Post by fishnfool on May 28, 2021 13:28:59 GMT -5
My first boat was a raft in a box that I bought at Kmart. Hey it came with oars. My friends an I would take that out on the lake fishin, man we thought that was great.
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Post by finatic on May 29, 2021 11:23:12 GMT -5
Thanks. You never forget your early fishing trips. I was 8 and this was my first fish. 'Hooked' me for life. Trying hard to get grandkids excited about fishing. Put one of the older granddaughters on a 3 foot shark and it was all screams and laughing, but getting her back out to fish takes a bit of effort.
I'm looking at your photo love the old wooden boats I had a 35 ft Owens what a labor of love. I was looking at the sign on top of your dad's boat that said fishing trips do you remember what it would cost for an angler for a day on the water. Great photo.
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Post by hookedup on May 29, 2021 14:13:12 GMT -5
Nah. As an 8 year old money was not a concern. You remember those good old days when you had no idea what things cost? I started understanding money when my mom sent me to the store for something like a loaf of bread (25 cents) and she'd give me an extra nickel for a bottle of coke.
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