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When I was just a kid, my dad took me fishing several times each summer. The fishing trips were the highlight of my summer and I looked forward to the end of the school year. Strange, I don’t remember my first time fishing but I do recall practicing casting in my backyard on the days that my dad didn’t take me. The end of the summer, when talks of going back to school began, were always really depressing for me. If I recall, it was my only real passion. For some reason, we just didn’t go fishing through the school year, which now seems strange to me.

I was taught one fishing technique only, which I later called “still fishing”. We would simply sit in one spot on a lawn chair and cast our line and wait for the fish to bait. It’s seriously all we ever did. I think it’s all my dad knew. Our lines were equipped with spreaders or pickerel rigs with a couple of hooks and a sinker. We always fished with live bait, which were usually worms that we caught the night before which was part of the fun. Occasionally we used minnows but not too often. Those days are unforgettable. It was always a crap shoot what we would catch which made it exciting. It wa always morning fishing that we did and we always used the same exact methods. It’s all I knew.

Well, eventually we stopped fishing together and I started fishing with my cousin who shared the passion. I got my own tacklebox and fishing rod and we even started making our own rigs which we called KayBee Rigs. My first initial is K and his is B so that was our clever name. We learned of other ways to fish but figured we could only try them from a boat or in a pond (yeah very naive) so we continued to “still fish” and had a blast.

When we weren’t fishing we watched lots of fishing shows. We took advantage of a lot of the free offers and got several free magazines and fishing lures. We really had no clue how to use lures really but we were excited to get them and not have to pay anything for them, not even shipping!

Over the course of a summer I ended up with a huge collection of surface bass baits, worth hundreds. I ended up having to buy a bigger box to handle all the lures that were being shipped to my house. These lures stayed dry in the box for many years. I wasn’t confident fishing them, I really didn’t know how. Years later I finally started fishing them and what a whole different experience for me!

To be continued…

When I was just a kid, my dad took me fishing several times each summer. I don’t recall my first time going but I do know that I loved it and it was what I looked forward to at the end of each school year. The end of the summer, when talks of going back to school began, were always really depressing for me. If I recall, it was my only real passion. Strangely, we never went fishing any time of the year but the summer. Ice fishing was foreign to me.

I was taught one fishing technique only, which I later called “still fishing”. Basically you pick a spot at the river and cast in your line and wait for a bite. The line had either a pickerel rig or a spreader with a couple of hooks and a sinker. We used worms usually but occasionally we would go get minnows as well. Those days are unforgettable. We didn’t specifically target any particular type of fish, but in a way, that was the exciting part. We never knew what we were pulling up. It could’ve been any of almost a dozen different species of fish. It wa always morning fishing that we did and we always used the same exact methods. It’s all I was taught, and all I knew existed.

Well, eventually we stopped fishing together and I started fishing with my cousin who shared the passion. That’s when I bought my own fishing rod and tacklebox. My cousin and I even designed our own rigs which we called KayBee Rigs, which were just some sort of spreader. We got the name from taking our initials. Mine is K and his is B. We learned of other ways to fish but figured we could only try them from a boat or in a pond (yeah very naive) so we continued to “still fish” and had a blast.

Anyway, we watched lots of fishing shows and mailed away for all the free offers where we got magazines and free lures. We really had no clue how to use lures really but we were excited to get them and not have to pay anything for them, not even shipping!

Over the course of a summer I ended up with a huge collection of surface bass baits, worth hundreds. For some reason, topwater lures just appealed to me. It wouldn’t be until years later that they even seen the water!

To be continued…

My dad and I went fishing together a lot in the summers when I was a kid, as I’m sure is the case for lots of fishermen. I don’t recall my first time going but I do know that I loved it and it was what I looked forward to at the end of each school year. I actually became quite depressed when I started seeing “back to school” ads on TV because I knew my fishing days were almost over. Strangely, we never went fishing any time of the year but the summer. Ice fishing was foreign to me.

At any rate, my dad taught me what I call “still fishing”. Basically you pick a spot at the river and cast in your line and wait for a bite. The line had either a pickerel rig or a spreader with a couple of hooks and a sinker. We always fished with live bait, which were usually worms that we caught the night before which was part of the fun. Occasionally we used minnows but not too often. I had such a great time. It was always a crap shoot what we would catch which made it exciting. We always fished in the early mornings and used the exact same methods. It’s all I knew.

As I got older I started fishing with a cousin of mine who had the same passion of fishing as I did. We fished constantly. That’s when I bought my own fishing rod and tacklebox. My cousin and I even designed our own rigs which we called KayBee Rigs, which were just some sort of spreader. My first initial is K and his is B so that was our clever name. We continued to “still fish” because we assumed we could only fish other ways from a boat or in a pond.

Anyway, we watched lots of fishing shows and mailed away for all the free offers where we got magazines and free lures. We really had no clue how to use lures really but we were excited to get them and not have to pay anything for them, not even shipping!

Over the course of a summer I ended up with a huge collection of top water bass lures, worth hundreds. I ended up having to buy a bigger box to handle all the lures that were being shipped to my house. These lures stayed dry in the box for many years. I wasn’t confident fishing them, I really didn’t know how. Years later I finally started fishing them and what a whole different experience for me!

To be continued…

When I was just a kid, my dad took me fishing several times each summer. I don’t recall my first time going but I do know that I loved it and it was what I looked forward to at the end of each school year. The end of the summer, when talks of going back to school began, were always really depressing for me. If I recall, it was my only real passion. For some reason, we just didn’t go fishing through the school year, which now seems strange to me.

At any rate, my dad taught me what I call “still fishing”. We would simply sit in one spot on a lawn chair and cast our line and wait for the fish to bait. It’s seriously all we ever did. I think it’s all my dad knew. The line had either a pickerel rig or a spreader with a couple of hooks and a sinker. We always fished with live bait, which were usually worms that we caught the night before which was part of the fun. Occasionally we used minnows but not too often. I had such a great time. We didn’t specifically target any particular type of fish, but in a way, that was the exciting part. We never knew what we were pulling up. It could’ve been any of almost a dozen different species of fish. It wa always morning fishing that we did and we always used the same exact methods. It’s all I knew.

Well, eventually we stopped fishing together and I started fishing with my cousin who shared the passion. That’s when I bought my own fishing rod and tacklebox. My cousin and I even designed our own rigs which we called KayBee Rigs, which were just some sort of spreader. We got the name from taking our initials. Mine is K and his is B. We continued to “still fish” because we assumed we could only fish other ways from a boat or in a pond.

When we weren’t fishing we watched lots of fishing shows. We took advantage of a lot of the free offers and got several free magazines and fishing lures. We weren’t exactly sure how to use these lures at all, but it was exciting to see all the different things that people used to catch fish other than the rigs, hookers and sinkers that we were used to.

My collection of lures, mostly topwater bass lures, grew quickly from the free offers and I ended up with a collection worth probably 2-300 dollars. I ended up having to buy a bigger box to handle all the lures that were being shipped to my house. These lures stayed dry in the box for many years. I wasn’t confident fishing them, I really didn’t know how. Years later I finally started fishing them and what a whole different experience for me!

To be continued…