Do you remember your first fish?

[Raven]

My first big noteworthy striper
caught in Mattapoisett i'd say in 65

i was very much a green horn when it came to
cleaning fish because i was basically a catch and release guy

i'd say this fish was 32-34 inches and fairly fat
i was absolutely clueless on how to clean it
and thought at the time you had to de-scale them first
and in trying to do so i accidentically flipped a bass scale
right into my eye like a contact lens.

i couldn't get it out because it was so slimey and ran for the bathroom sink
to flush it out. it took forever because it was like glued to my eyeball and would not budge.

my eye got seriously messed up from that ...so much so
that i had a fish cutter professional give me lessons.