thats a killa fish ...all i rember is catching herring lol ...nice work

thats awesome! as i kid i also only caught herring and garfish haha

 I was lucky enough to have a dad that loved fishing too, and just about every weekend we drove from Stockport (Manchester) to Rhyll in Wales to stay at our caravan and go fishing in our little tub.

That's me on the front of the boat aged about 6 or 7 I guess. (To put that in perspective I am a genuine old fart now).

Caught my first fish aged 4 hanging over the side of that boat with my old man grabbing me by my pants to stop me falling in. So you could say I have salt water in the veins.

When we got to Australia I kept fishing on occaission mainly from the beach and whilst plenty of other passions (soccer etc) got in the way and took preference I still had the bug. One of my best memories was doing allnighters with a bunch of mates out at the Belmont Racecourse (Rivervale), catching Bream and mulloway and getting up to all sorts of shinnanigans.

Then home on the train stinking of fish with a bucket full of mulloway. (Before anyone starts.... we didn't know any better in those days).

We didn't take many photos in those days and certainly would never have taken the camera fishing with us. I know my folks have a few pics of red raw father and son (no sunscreen) with a big feed of something taken in the back garden after we got home.

Other memories of the old days include fishing with lugworms and ragworms in Wales and casting shoulder to shoulder with a hundred anglers to huge schools of bonito off the North Mole using coffin lures (big lumps of metal) back in the early 70's.

Took Jeff [Deepwater] down to South Conto when he was about 5 on his first over nighter on the beach. There was a 5 ton school of salmon  travelling up and down the beach in those days you can only dream about. I hooked in to one on the beach rod and held it so he could wind it in, next fish I jammed the butt of the rod deep in the sand and watched as he got it in. The using his own rod, an 8 foot solid glass with a Mitchell 303 reel he cast out and hooked one by himself, after his first two efforts he was on his own, you hooked it, you land it.

He finished up catching 9 that afternoon, all released out of about 30+ caught between three of us, with some coming in off el cheapo whiting rods on 4-5 lb line.

Now that he's got two sons of his own He's giving them the same exposure to catching good fish as he received as a child with some top results as some of young Alex'pics that have been put on the site show, one being a state record 13kg wahoo on 10 kg line as a 7 year old at last years Gamex.

That's a cracker Ealzee!! Looking at you then & knowing you now it's clear you havn't lost your enthusiasm for fishing. My best capture as a kid was a 17lb Murray Cod from Lake Mulwala when I was 13. Sorry I don't have any photos, I was mostly fishing on my own by then & my parents wouldn't let me borrow thier expensive camera to carry around while I was fishing. There have been plenty of bigger, more exotic & more dangerous fish as an adult but that cod sticks in my mind as the standout.

leaving on friday going to jurien i was stoked to be part of the hawthorn angling club XD fish all saturday then come home sunday was actually a good charter and they let you stay in the house they rent up there all for 280.keeping in mind i was like 7 or 8 on the way up i would read this book like it was the bible

i was stoked to cath fish of this size haha

Your story sounds very familiar mate, I grew up in paraburdoo and my fist big fish was also a golden, taken at pilgramana exmouth one school holidays. Think I was about 9 or 10. My parents still have the pic.