How many years have you been fishing?

Just out of couriosity

[ribwart]

Not Long enough yet...nor should that ever be the case I expect! :D :wink:

[IronNoggin]

44 years and counting :lol:

Cheers,
Nog

[Nice_One]

I started fishing with my Grandparents in 1980 in Alberta...thems were the days! Cheers! -Nathan in NW

[stone]

44 years and counting :lol:

Cheers,
Nog

Wow! That's gotta be one of the longest in this site...can anyone beat Nog's 44 years? :shock: :D

[professori]

44 here as well (but I probably started much earlier than Nog). Looks like the oldtimers are out numbering the rest in the poll too. No wonder there is such a wealth of knowledge to be found here.

[curmudgeon]

Caught my first fish at age 5 in the Winnipeg river system and was hooked for life. Moved to BC in 1972 at age 22 . I caught my first steelie that first winter on the coast and it has been a wonderful addiction ever since. I will hit 51 years as a fisherman in December.

I caught my 1st fish while visiting relatives in ontario....I think I was 3 or 4. began fishing the Fraser Valley when I was 5 (rod handed over/squaw fishing) and fished full time with my own big boy rod & reel since I was 7. not bad for someone who is 16 next month.

Mike <"))))))><

[coho_killer]

been fishing since the age of 5(with help) 31 now thats 26 years experience not bad!!! won a derby or 2 and no injuries fishing as of yet! (knock on wood) i guess you can say i'm addicted!!!

C.K.

[barkleyjames]

I'm turning 60 in a few months and caught my first fish at about age 5 or 6. Hardt o believe how fast the time goes but I guess i've been fishing for 54 years.

[Flyfishin Magician]

I too caught my first trout when I was five. Used a stick, line, hook and worm. I didn't set-up the rig - I let my dad's buddy do that. But I reeled the fish in (or pulled up)! I grew up in Kamloops when I was a kid and I used to go fishing in the Spring, Summer and Fall quite regularly - usually trolling flatfish with my step dad. I then moved to the Lower Mainland, went to school (UBC) and got involved with my fraternity, met my wife, got more education, began a career, and started flyfishing and tying back in 1998. I exclusively flyfished until 2 years ago when I was introduced to the sockeye fishery. Then FishFinder took me to the Vedder/Chilliwack and now I enjoy the drift fishing too! But I've always got a soft spot for the fly, and consider tying flies my fishing away from the water! I feel that I'm still learning every time I'm on the water! The obsession is quite ridiculous really... :oops:

[jiggy]

25 years ago for walleye in Manitoba!

[HOOK]

well boys

im 27 just turned 9th of august and i have been fishing my entire life even had a rod out there as a baby infant. of course that was for my dad to get more fish :? think i brought my first salmon in when i was 4 think it was a nice little Jack spring too about 4 or 5 lbs . and that was back when we bar fished :shock: :shock: reeling in that 18oz weight at age 4


man im crazy, eh?

that makes my whole life for me


tight lines

HOOK

[ribwart]

Not even close to 44 years here...I've been at it for 32 years...approx...

[Mabuhay]

All my life as well. am 44 now and hopefully will be going strong tillI drop. My Dad just turned 80 this year and has been fishing all of his life as well, so you can probably mark him down for about 75 years. He still handles a boat and trailer better than most. I'm very proud of him for doing what he does at his age.

[fishortho]

Probably been fishing for over a hundred years, including all the "dream time"....Ortho 8)

[darcycote]

caught my first fish in buntzen with a pocket fisherman.5 yrs. old.34 years ago.

[South Texas Salt]

Stone. First fish at age 4 (have a picture of me with the trophy, a 4 inch sun perch); therefore, I have been fishing for 58 years. Time flies. Will fish a week in B.C. this Oct, can't wait. Thanks. Salt.

[Fishaholic]

wow some of you guys make me feel young :lol: :lol: (still am) 27 first fish at langford lake at 4, been out pretty much every weekend and some weekdays since.
:( almost made the 25+ catagory

[Fish Finder]

I've loved to fish for as long as I can remember..Some of the best times as a boy was catching mud sharks with FishinFreak off any pier that we could fish from...Since then I've been fortunate enough to enjoy fishing at it's finest, and hope that my children will be able to have the same expeariences to look back on...I also look forward to the fact, that no matter how many years I get under my belt on the water, there'll always be something new to be learned.

Finder :wink:

[cohokid]

Been fishing from when i was young cant even remeber. but i used to only fish 1-2 times a year. But now I fish almost 2 times a week or more, and that was when i really got started was 3 years ago.

[Vern.B]

Enjoy reading the websiteand your experiences, but fellows you are a bunch juniors. Nearly every day in the early thirties and before I fished the Bow River in Calgary during the summer holidays during the depression and supplied my mother with Rocky Mtn. Whitefish and Raibow Trout. Things were tight back in those years and mom sure appreciated the daily catch . Was up to Port Hardy on Aug 11th after salmon , but thats another story, So I guess I've been a fishman for 80 years and still going strong. PS I'm 90. Vern@fergie.ca

[dinsdale piranha]

I guess I've been a fishman for 80 years and still going strong. PS I'm 90.


WOW!! All Hail King Vern!!! That is awesome. (And I thought my 47 years was a long time.)

Dinsdale.

[Fish Finder]

Hey way to go Vern! :D Boy to only experience what it would've been like to wet a fly for bows, steelhead or even salmon back in the 30's...I'm sure you have some great storys...

Finder :wink:

[Cummins]

Oh gee I think i was holding a rod in my hand before I could walk so for me it is about 27 years, 20 of them years fishing the Cap :wink: 8)

I wish i could have started hunting earlier in life :oops:

[DMW]

I have been at it for around 29 years!! Started in the small brooks and streams in Nova Scotia when I was 4 with my Dad. Loved it and haven't looked back. The types of fishing has changed a lot over the years, from Brookies in Streams to Northern Pike, Rainbow, Walleye and so on in Manitoba and Onterrible, to fishing the Bow in Calgary, and Finally the Great West Coast Salmon fishery. Still learn something new on every trip out, and I am sure that this will continue on for the rest of my life!! So much to learn, so little time!! :wink:

[nocoho]

turned 50....aaaaaaaahhhh.........last year so for sure have fished for over 40 years......started fishing with my parents and their friends on the serp and nick and can still remember when the water was clean back then and tons of salmon and trout......we also used to fish the fraser off the old wooden pier in queensborough......never forget a time when my mother threw a smoke off the pier and a very hefty salmon took it as it was just hitting the water.......bar fishing in the older days used to be very productive on the lower river

[Steelie Trav]

I started fishing on and off when I was around 8 or so but haven't really started fishing until 3 years ago. I'm 25 now, Just a rookie on this site!

[GOFISH]

Don't know how many years but I can guess ....... turned 50 and have a pic of me catching a "junk" fish on Skaha Lake by the canal when I was just a young pup. I would guess that I have fished about the same as Iron & Prof ........ approx. 44 years.

GOFISH 8)

[Britguy]

got into fishing after watching my Great Uncle fishing on a river in England

about 40 years for me :)

[kaitlyn]

none of us are really that old, are we???????

[GOFISH]

none of us are really that old, are we???????
Speak for yourself ogobogo ........... j/k :wink: :lol: :lol:

I've always believed your only as old as you feel .......... if your happy and healthy the rest is just a number.

GOFISH 8)

[kaitlyn]

hey GOFISH, you've got it all wrong. the saying goes,"you're only as old as the women you feel!" :lol: :lol: :lol:

[GOFISH]

Guess I'm safe then since my wife is 12 years younger than me ........ :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol:

GOFISH 8)