What/who did it for you?

[Saltheart]

My father took me to Scott's Pond in Central falls and we caught sunnies which we called roaches at the time. I remember we had a green and yellow bobber that I watches closely and had a hard time not yanking the line if that bobbers twitched even a hair!

[Raven]

grew up as a tricycle riding little dude on the charles river in Newton....
so i was introduced to fishin at a very young age....but what did it was fishing out of a row boat in Mattapoiset where we rented (late 50"s) @ Crecent beach. We would dig clams at low tide and then using a RED drop line fish just off the Local beach. My first fish nearly pulled me over the side and pulled the boat around. Thats all it took. After that i was a little fisherman.

[pmueller]

Dad taking me to Mashpee/Wakebe, DW field park in Brockton, and my friends to the reservoir in Randolph, along with the cemetary on North street.
Man, we caught some decent fish in the resy and cemetary.

[Backbeach Jake]

Way,way back in the 1900's, the 1950's my Grandfather took me fishing at Pilgrim Pond in North Truro. The pond is at the bottom of a hill on top of which he lived. I must have been 4 or 5 years old. We caught horned pout. I learned my first real swears when a 'pout stabbed him! When he and my Grandmother passed and the house sold I missed my chance to get one of those old cane poles.Tarred line, cork bobber... I'm still kicking myself for that.

[CAL]

In the late 60's my grandfather would take me to fish for flounder from the pier in Hull, I was probably 4 or 5. Back then you could toss over a spreader and catch 2 at a time and fill and old laundry basket in no time. One time I caught a lobster that refused to let go.

A couple times a year we'd go out in my great uncles boat and handline for flounder and maybe fish for bass for a bit. I got my first striper around '71 and I remember thinking it was a monster, at least compared to a flounder. My dad says it was only around 26" or so

[Bass Babe]

First time fishing was with my sister. I must have been 4 or 5. We took worms down to the river across the street from my house, and I don't know how she did it, but somehow we both caught fish, the hand-dug worms didn't crawl away, and I didn't nosedive into the water. Good old sister Ray. Then I got into fish at school, and now I have a degree in fisheries conservation from Umass Amherst. My first striper was thanks to Rob Rockcrawler, and it was only last season. He's a wicked awesome teacher, because I've gotten a couple keepers this year already. And I am SO hooked.

[pmueller]

Oh yeh, I forgot about the times Dad took me down to the Canal as a kid, along with trolling worms in Plymouth Harbor. Never really hooked up too much, but it did the trick.

[CANAL RAT]

when my mother was carrying me she was fishing with my father off the plymouth harbor jetty.my first striper was a schoolie and i caught it using clams. then my mothers frend bob when i was 6 fishing in his 25ft boat in boston harbor we were throwing sluggos at dock pilings and thats when i saw my first big striper 25lbs if i remember right.bob also introduced me to hunting and i have never looked back.bob also taught me catch and release and i still get a wierd feeling when i catch keeper i just have to release it

[thefishingfreak]

grandfather.
zebco 33.
the rest is history.