When I was 13 I used to do a lot of crabbing in Barnegat Bay (NJ). From time to time, eels would attack the chicken we used as bait. I found myself a frog gig (5 pronged tip on end of a broomstick), and I waited for an eel to go for the chicken. While it was tugging at the line, I threw the gig at it from the dock. I knew I hit it, but it fell off the spear. Later that day, I caught an eel with rod and reel with two puncture holes through its midsection. It was about 24 inches long.
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Whats the first fish you shot?
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a flounder shot with a 40cm beuchat in about 2m of water. It was 'sat' there on the sand as bright as day, and didnt even move when i shot it.... turned out that it was dead in the first place and must have been that way for a few days or so!:duh i was 12 at the time, but still i was hooked for life!
Huw.
a flounder shot with a 40cm beuchat in about 2m of water. It was 'sat' there on the sand as bright as day, and didnt even move when i shot it.... turned out that it was dead in the first place and must have been that way for a few days or so!:duh i was 12 at the time, but still i was hooked for life!
Huw.
A goldfish with an air rifle!
I had just taken up fishing with rod and line and my mum had given me permission to catch and remove a few fish from her pond that were sickly looking. I decided that the permission was sufficient to allow an experiment in the effect of water on the velocity of lead pellets.
20 years later I have just started shooting fish the proper way - first catch was a just about legal pollack.
I had just taken up fishing with rod and line and my mum had given me permission to catch and remove a few fish from her pond that were sickly looking. I decided that the permission was sufficient to allow an experiment in the effect of water on the velocity of lead pellets.
20 years later I have just started shooting fish the proper way - first catch was a just about legal pollack.
Must have been a wrasse when was about 7, here's a photo of me with a flattie - I guess around the age of 9 or 10...!
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My first fish was a Mullet, 27 years ago! I came to Florida at age 17 on vacation. My "expert" friend told me that there were two principle fish to target; the Sheepshead, the Barracuda. If they couldn't be had I was instructed to go after the Mullet. The Sheepshead I was told were very difficult to come by, the cuda very dangerous. I dove in the dingiest canal in a location that was far from any clear water. The viz was about four feet! I saw a flash and with the little gun I'd purchased I scored a mullet! I ate it too! During that same "dive" I also shot and landed a Sheepshead (the ultimate prize I was told).
Two years later I moved to Florida and have enjoyed spearing ever since. I've never landed another Mullet though
Two years later I moved to Florida and have enjoyed spearing ever since. I've never landed another Mullet though
first i ever got with a polespear was a 8ish inch bar jack... went a couple times out without anything and they were always there naggin and taunting me .... finally i got one.. w00t:friday
When I was 7 I loved to line fishing at my grandad's yacht club dock; caught a lot grunt like this. One day, a friend came up with a home made pole spear, made of bamboo, discarded construction steel rod and rubbers out of an old tire chamber. I tried once and couldn't hit anything, so I kept on line fishing, while my friend kept on shooting nothing...
I was 14 (1970) when I migrated from surfing (boards were too heavy to carry myself alone) and body-surfing to spearfishing with a borrowed spring pistol from a buddy and a pole spear... Couldn't hit anything that moved :hmm I think my first fish was a soldier-fish and rays and skates were the usual victims. Fortunatelly, there were lots of crayfish and slipper lobsters then (those were the good days) , and I had good eyes for them.
I was 14 (1970) when I migrated from surfing (boards were too heavy to carry myself alone) and body-surfing to spearfishing with a borrowed spring pistol from a buddy and a pole spear... Couldn't hit anything that moved :hmm I think my first fish was a soldier-fish and rays and skates were the usual victims. Fortunatelly, there were lots of crayfish and slipper lobsters then (those were the good days) , and I had good eyes for them.
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