first ever fish

[cheapskate]

just read sigsy reporting his first ever fish, takes me back an lot of years to 1969 my first time fishing ,a handline off south shields groyne 4 sprats took them home to show me mam and dad, mam had to cook them for my tea. how she managed to gey owt off them i will never know,bloody things have led to a life of chasing anything with fins. i still get the same feeling now as i did then. anyone want to give details of first fish?

[Lowrider]

Tiny perch out of Newsham pond.
Took it home in a cycle punture repair kit box,yeah it was that big.
Never forgot that feeling of it kicking on my "junior" outfit.

[RONVIK]

First fish ever was the "lambton worm" (eel) at fatfield, caught on my first "whipper-snapper" rod! went home all covered in slime. great!

[paulthespark]

i was 10 and trying to catch macky i had one of those silver twirley spinners and a hand line with bight orange 100lbs line a 4 oz sinker and every thing tied to gether with granny knots it was on the middleton pier h,pool and when that fish took the spinner it was a fantastic feeling and after 30 years sea fishing the feeling when i hook a fish is just the same. happy days

[Kentish Bassman]

My Dad took me fishing on Hastings pier in 1971. All we had for bait was earthworms dug from the garden that morning. I caught a Dab of around 12 ozs first cast. I have been a keen angler ever since and I still haven`t caught a bigger Dab.

[Sheepy]

Pair of eyes out of the Grand Union Canal in my hometown near Leicester. It was a roach that I caught using bread punch on a three metre whip. First sea fish were mackerel off some big rocks on holiday in Anglesey about fourteen years ago. Didn't get to go sea fishing again until I moved up here last year.