WHO REMEMBERS THERE FIRST BASS CATCH WITH A LURE...

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hastings on December 18, 2009 at 12:53pm

A Largie, throwing a black rooster tail fishing for trout in a pond local to my home town. I think thats called bycatch....:o) Didn't know what it was at first...Dad identified it, took it home and ate it...LOL. Maybe 1.5-2lbs... was a to long ago.

Permalink Reply by David Parnicky on December 18, 2009 at 1:24pm

I caught my first bass on a lure when I was 15. I had just moved to Walla Walla and there was a pond just down the road from my house. I was eager to find out if there were fish in it so I asked the owner and he told me there were lots of bass, crappie and sunfish. I had never fished for bass before so I went to a local tackle shop and asked. They hooked me up with a few jigheads and Jerry's grubs. I went back to the pond that day and caught my first largemouth on a grub. It wasn't a huge fish but I was hooked and it changed my life forever!

Permalink Reply by Joel Alinen on December 18, 2009 at 2:02pm

Sure do, I was 16 and spending summer vacation at Rainbow Beach Resort on Twin Lakes. The trout fishing was very slow that year, but I saw this kid catching fish after fish from under the docks. I had no idea what kinda fish he was catching so I went over and introduced myself. He told me he was catching bass. The next day I dug into my tackle box and pulled out the only bass lure I had. A storm rattlin Chug Bug. On my first cast that morning I caught a 5lb largemouth and have been hooked ever since.

Permalink Reply by Tom Edwards on December 18, 2009 at 2:04pm

I do I do. I even remember the first one I lost. It was on a Hula Popper fishing from shore. I'm not going to say what I caught my first bass on as it is still my secret lure. But I did catch the fish in a small creek, and those bass didn't want anything unless it moved.

Permalink Reply by Chris Blandi on December 18, 2009 at 2:33pm

Nope don't remember my first.

Permalink Reply by Gary Millard on December 18, 2009 at 3:27pm

Hey Dez
My first bass came a very long time go at the mouth of the Grande Ronde, where it enters the Snake River. I was fishing for summer run steelhead with my Dad just below the Grande Ronde River next to our camp site on the snake. A truck towing an aluminum boat pulled up and the driver got out to see how fishing was. We had caught some nice steelhead earlier in the day. During our conversation he said he was here to catch bass. “Bass” I said, there’s bass in this river! He said, you bet. Lots of smallmouth up to 4 pounds. I asked him what he used to catch bass and he said why don’t you come with me and I will show you how. Wow, I had never caught a bass and that sounds like fun.
We launched his boat in the snake and I was a little concerned about a boat with no freeboard. He punched the throttle and away we went, fast......I mean real fast for some one that was a shore fisherman. We ended up just above the mouth of the Grange Ronde which forms a nice spot to fish. He hooked me up with a lead head jig and a black worm. Now fish this just like you were fishing for steelhead and give it a little hop now and then. I made my cast up stream and while tightening up my line, I asked him how do you tell when you get a bit. Before he could answer a fish almost tore my rod out of my hand. I set the hook and the fish started peeling line out into the current of the snake. Looking his direction I said, I think I have a steelhead. He was just smiling and then a three pound smallie came flying out of the water.
That was my first bass and I will never forget it.
See ya on the water~~~~~~~~~><)))))’>~~~~~~~~~~Gary

Permalink Reply by cody hampton on December 18, 2009 at 4:04pm

My first bass was when i was uh i think 14 or 15. It was at teh rock island ponds. Im pretty sure it came off a grub and i learned that if i would cast it out and reel it over the weeds they would come out and grab it. After that i pretty much loved it and wanted to learn more. the funny thing is when i was alot younger,like 6 or 7 i used to hate bass and only like to trout fish, funny how things change over time.

Permalink Reply by Richard Shaff on December 18, 2009 at 5:25pm

Joel
I have been fishing Twin Lakes since 1974 and caught thousands of bass out of that lake, its awsome. Our family still has a summer place at Rainbow Beach Resort right on the water, we try to get up there at least a couple of weeks every year. How long has it been since you have been up there?

Richard

Joel Alinen said:

Sure do, I was 16 and spending summer vacation at Rainbow Beach Resort on Twin Lakes. The trout fishing was very slow that year, but I saw this kid catching fish after fish from under the docks. I had no idea what kinda fish he was catching so I went over and introduced myself. He told me he was catching bass. The next day I dug into my tackle box and pulled out the only bass lure I had. A storm rattlin Chug Bug. On my first cast that morning I caught a 5lb largemouth and have been hooked ever since.

Permalink Reply by Jim MacDonald on December 18, 2009 at 5:35pm

my first bass was on a #70 hot shot trolling in a private lake in the sultan basin. the fish weighed just over 7 lbs. Ive never disclosed the exact location of that lake but if someone asked , I would give you a name of the people that live on that lake to find out for yourselves that their are much bigger fish than that living in that lake. any takers?

Permalink Reply by Rodney Heupel on December 18, 2009 at 7:38pm

I do, remember it like it was yesterday. I was going on my 3rd year stationed at Fort Lewis, was fishing for cutthroat trout on Johnsons Marsh with a silver w/black back Rapala. Had four on the stinger and made a cast when suddenly there was a big explosion on the lure just after it touched down on the water. It was my first ever bass, a large mouth that probably would have weighted in at over 5 pounds. What a fight it was!!! It wasn't long after that I picked up my first issue of "Bassin" and became a bass fisherman.

Permalink Reply by P.J. Koshi on December 18, 2009 at 8:07pm

It was on a small private lake outside of Beverly WA. It was about a 1lb Smallie on a smoke color single tail grub rigged Texas style. That was the first way I learned how to fish plastics and I caught her while fishing off a dock. I believe this is a pic of that first Bass. It's amazing looking back over the past 6yrs I have learned so much and had so much fun Bass fishing! Dez thanks for taking us down memory lane.

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Permalink Reply by Buck Brunner on December 18, 2009 at 9:00pm

First bass ever was a largemouth on Whitestone in May 2007, caught on a white Terminator spinnerbait with zoom chunk. Silly putting a jig chunk on there but the bass slammed it.
My wife took a great action shot of the fish blowing up out of the water!

I still have that same bait, with chunk, and piece of line tied to it, saved in my special lure collection!

Whitestone is awesome!

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