The first sambo I ever jigged up caught me hook line and sinker. It changed the way I would think about fishing all together. 

 First marlin landed in ex mouth 3 years ago have become addicted since then. Spend every decent day from mid December last year to late may this year trolling the Rottnest trench 5 solid hook ups on some large fish but unfortunately didn't stay connected, can't wait for the warm currents to return again 

my wife got hooked on her fist trip out with me years ago, were fishing in our dingy on the pipe line out of Dampier she is fishing with an old hand line and shouts to me I think I have something, grumpy me says well pull the bloody thing up over the side comes a 8kg coral trout, I rebait for her and 5 minutes later another one the same size comes over the side, she now has to bait her own lines that will teach her to out fish me

the only fish that ever "hooked" me was when I fishing with my mate and he pulls in a very green 10kg trevally into the boat that proceeded to go mad one of the gang hooks went through my upper thigh its amazing how far human flesh stretches when it has 10kg of flapping trevally attached to it and yes I still fish with him still

Giant Trevally hook line and sinker..love these fish.
First one the Montes where I was shore based and popping with some light gear and this Big G came up from Behind the lure amazing visuals.

 Barramundi in darwin doing helifish omg so fun and frustdrating when they just follow your lure and dont hit until u pull it out of the water

 a spangled spangled perch in Tennant creek, used to have to ride my bike out to the local mine dams for they had water in them year round 

 when I was seven, not a huge fish but the bugger has cost me thousands and  he hooked me for life.

Iv always loved fishing, used to fish when I was a kid for herring and whiting, spent most of my time targeting mullas and pinkies landbased in my late teens (unsuccessful due to more focus on drinkin then checkin baits) and Im sure if I had of been successfull, that would have been my fish to post but the turning point (start of success) was when I caught my first tailor trolling on my mates tinny with my bream stick a few years back, Dec 07....Still my pb today, only to be out done by my 3yo boy in the same fashion recently.

The same mate took me to exxy in 07 and I had a ball, the first day there, down the bottom of the gulf outdid my entire life of fishing. But the obsession truely set in when I joined this forum a few years back to gain more knowledge and help a fellow worker get into some decent fish landbased like the mullas and pinks I used to try for. Fishing was a random outing for me leading up to that moment, but now it's an active lifestyle for me amongst other things and I am only too keen learn more and get my boy on fish, truly satisfying.
Thats a sweet mackie from the tinny Vin, but when is it cold enough to be wearing a jumper and beanie but warm enough (water) to get a mack???

 Was always a trout fisherman from nz till oneday I was fishing for herring about 700m off mindarie beach.

2nd trip out on my first boat a huge sambo took a mulie I had on a float, the penn 950 my mum brought be for Christmas had smoke comming off it. 

The sambo got away but I havnt been trout fishing since. Was one hell of a battle in 3m of water

Was still in high school and used to go for trips out on shark boats working off Bunbury on weekends. Hooked a southern bluefin tuna about 40lb on a bit of red rag tie to the hook on cord fishing line while on the way back in. The boat only did about 8 knots flat and wouldn't slow down [or so Skinny ,the skipper said, because they used to time the trip in on a compass bearing and reverse the course next day to find the gear, so it was pull the tuna in by hand, took ages but the line burns were well and truly worth it to finally get in on board.

Was where I got the saying, "you hooked it, you land it"

First decent fish for me when I was about 8 fishing for snapper up at shark bay that got me hooked and now 35 years later I have moved away from the hand lines and on to the more advanced tackle

 Here's my first semi-decent catch that I can remember. I may cop some shit for this haha.

I was about 4-5 years old and pretty damn impressed with my couple of hezzas and skipjacks from cottesloe groyne.

I've been hooked ever since. 20 years later, basically my whole life is fish and fisheries.

Start freshwater fishing about 2 years ago~~

hooked my PB peacock bass about 50cm in malaysia, then started to get bored on lure casting~

after that, moved on to jigging about 1 years ago~~

hooked my PB 16kg GT~~ 

and then got all my tackle changed to jigging outfit~~

sold all my freshwater lures and start buying metal jigs like there are no tommorrow~~~ 

are they any good to eat (the fist fish) looks a bit carpish 4 me

 Used to go with my grandad from a very young age getting herring etc but wasn't hooked til I caught my first Redfin perch on a spinner at 12yo after not even being sure if anything was in the river near my house. Started going everyday after school from then on. 2 years later I discovered WA salmon and I've been chasing them for the past 17 years or so putting in 20+ nights on southern beaches a season and going to some ridiculous lengths to get em such as swimming out 150+ metres and treading water close to schools and pick em off :)

My first addiction was mulloway.... then Barra... then Sailfish

 A good friend and his bother in law introduced me to Quobba in the 90's. 

December trips for spinning lead head jigs at Garths, and evenings bait castng for the large spanglies that come into the bay on the south side of the rock.

June / July north wall at wistling rock ballooning.

The bank account has never been the same  .....the laughs and ribbings have been great.

Ive been hooked way before this, but this is the earliest fish that i can remember catching, we went out sambo jigging for the second or third time, this time we actually hooked heaps and i caught my first one on jig! my very first on a jig and definately had me hooked! then we went in closer, not far from garden island. First drop with a shitty searock jig it hit the bottom and i start jigging quickly like you would for sambos and bang! im on and because we caught some sambos that day we were calling it for a sambo, to everyones suprise up pops my first dhuy! i remember it weighed around 8 killos. That day i had my first sambo and first dhuy both on jigs! and from there the gear got a massive upgrade and sounders got upgraded and soon had some good spots alotttttt further out and ever since then we have been killing it. will always be hooked now.

Definately my first Sambo jigging trip with blue juice 5 or 6 years ago. I can remember using a Okuma epix 90 and lemax rod which i snapped on my first fish but still managed to land on the remaining 3 feet of rod i had left. I met a few serious anglers that day who had saltiga's and stella's and that was it.The seeds had been sewn and it led me down a slippery slope of tackle whoredom from that day forth.

Shallow water Baldchin grouper around the back of Bernier and Dorre Islands!!!

Those things pull harder than a 13 year old watching blue movies!!!!

 Shoulder to shoulder as a teenager on North Mole catching huge bonito on coffin and assassin lures. That session hooked me good and proper. 

Many catches since then have ramped up the fishing bug to new levels.

17kg Dhuie and 17kg Spaniard on successive drops out from Mindarie certainly re-invigorated the fishing bug.

But more recently my first Marlin was another milestone that re-energised the batteries.

But by far the one thing that keeps me going is seeing the smiles I have managed to put on so many of my mate's faces when I take them fishing and get them hooked onto something substantial.

Top of that list would be my two girls who have both developed a love of fishing.

 I was in year 6 and my mum got me a ticket on naturliste fishing charters out of canal rocks down south, around 12 blokes on the boat, only 6 fish caught and I caught three of them, a nice red snapper and queen snapper double header from memory 66cm and 75cm (+\- few cms), I was one very happy chap amongst some very disgruntled men, that's defiantly when I started my addiction.....officially anyway :)

22 years ago as a teenager fishing on the first platform of the Busso jetty shoulder to shoulder with fisho's hooking up on my first ever Tailor that took me for a run across everyone elses lines. Was a corker of a Tailor too. 

hmmm.......quite easy. Was 6 years old fishing with dad out the front of Busselton Broadwater resort. Hooked a gar fish, had it jumping around like a mine marlin ( that's what I thought)...eventually got it with screaming for joy that I had caught a babey marlin. Till my Dad informed me that it was a garfish.

Still have photo framed on my dressing table, next to my first Blue Marlin, and my PB yellowfin of 96KG.

Will try and scan it in.

 Was always interested, fishing with dad as early as 6 months old. Fish that really got me hooked was the humble Bream. spent just about every weekend and public holiday off school. chasing them around the river. Oh, those were the days. My first sambo was also enough to get me hooked on jigging, and then first dhuie on artificial got me really into demersal jigging/plastics. 

For me i have always fished as a kid etc, it became better for me when i had to learn to tie my rigs etc myself so a little more rewarding but it was always for the purpose of food, moved north and nothing really changed it was for food and we where land based. oldies finally brought a boat and that's when it really started especially back in those days we'd troll mulies on a gang of hooks to a 200lb handline and catch spanish mac's just off West Lewis Island where they park the drill rigs no more than 500m from the shack we used to stay at. Once i then got introduced into sport fishing it has never stopped, catching a 12kg queenfish on 8kg line from a homemade popper was unreal. landing a 1m plus threadie from the back beach on 8kg line landbased and my first sailfish on a charter off Broome has sealed my fate. I always love giving the fish a fighting chance, i'm not a 80lb braid fisher for bottom fish i use 30lb which makes the solid reds and rankin cods a real reward from 50m, still love the buzz of hooking a billfish i'll never tire of that, fishign the shallows for trout and trevally and especially using artificial means of catching fish - no bait is awesome. Demersal jigging is the latest for me but a little hard with the tides but when it's all good there is nothing better than a massive trout on PE2 and a 4000 twinpower.

For me being only 13 am already hooked, a i still remember catching my first herring and squid of the boat at only two years old then got hooked into catching the elusive mulla in the swan then some bigger stuff of the beach like gummies, rays and sharks but i still love catchong the few herring and squid  for fun.

BUt  would not of caught many of these fish if it wasn't for all you fishers on fishwrecked who have helped to go bigger and bigger through my years and all the great peple that i have met. So thankyou very much.

Cheer fish-on

Nice one and good to hear about the help on fw. I was the same i basically stopped diving and fishing until i got onto fw a few yrs ago !