Your best fishing stories 31 Articles

by Wacasassa

As a child my family and I accidentally learned how to make jewelry from Alligator Gar scales.We lived just outside of the small town named Waldo,in Florida.Very well known as a speed trap town at the intersections of High...read more

by Pat Lunsford

My best fishing story was when my son came home on leave from the army. His father had rented a boat and was going to take him and two of his cousins out on the lake for a day of fishing. But the day before we were suppose...read more

by Marie Upmann

I was 9 months pregnant and was scheduled to have labor induced Monday, August 22, 1994. I scheduled it on a Monday so I would have one more weekend to spend on the lake, for I knew once the baby arrived it would be along...read more

by Michael Mccormick

Every year I would make my annual bus trip on the Greyhound, first to baseball camp in Missouri, then to my Auntie Carolyn's fishing cottage in Walkerton, Virginia. I could do this on Greyhounds Ameripass. It allowed me to...read more

by Donna Mccay

ICE FISHING IN COLORADO was a favorite of my dad and he knew the best spots to go. We would get up in the wee hours of the morning to get to our destination. We would get warm in the truck before we headed out hiking throu...read more

by Stewart Rigby

The Life of Brian. It has been a long time since I have had the time or inclination to sit down and write. My mother finally succumbed to the cancer she had been fighting for the last 2 years and began to decline rapi...read more

by Carmen Colin

Fishing is a sport that both relaxes, and energizes. Imagine a sunny day. You pull out your fishing rods and your best bait. You put on your fishing gear, and you head out towards the lake. You throw out you line and the b...read more

by Sharon Parsons

Fishing, in my family when I was growing up, was a family tradition; therefore, I spent a great deal of time on or near the water. So, when I married, I guess it was "prewritten" that I would marry someone who enjoyed the...read more

by Bishop Taylor

The swordfish caught in the waters off Cape Cod, Massachusetts may be the only mercury free swordfish in the world. You may ask why you haven't heard about this before. The reason is, until now, the old Cape fishermen have...read more

by Curtis Clontz

Many fishing stories will be comprised of laughs, lies, and cries. If my story was a movie it would be a comedy. A hilarious motion picture that would keep you in tears as you laughed out loud from beginning to end. One...read more

by Simon Wright

When I was seventeen I joined a sea angling club at the seaside town of Bangor in Northern Ireland. I was by far the youngest member of the club, with most of the others being gnarled old veterans, some of whom had fought ...read more

by E. V. SHAW

I married a man from St. Louis. I met him while on vacation in Florida and when he was discharged from the Navy, we went to my home town in Mississippi to live around my family and find jobs. With his experience of repai...read more

by Eugene Kuzmenko

Early on Christmas Day, we leave to go ice fishing; it's an eight hour drive to Moses Lake. The sky is dark, and white as the day begins to come to life, the snowflakes create a stunning vision as we pass the peaks of Snoq...read more

by C Morton

As I left the city and drove south toward the Albemarle Sound I thought how wonderful it would be to get out of the city for a few days and relax. My sister and her family were having a Fourth of July party with all the b...read more

by WarHammer

After a spirited shindig on Friday night, with all the guitars booming and a huge bonfire burning I had marked the stage of the moon as first crescent, and we approached the Lake Clear boat launch at early the next morning...read more

by Susie Turk

Boy, have I got a fish tale to tell. I've an Aunt whom owns a time share condo in Ventura, CA. It happily sits aside the ocean, looking out toward the jetty where boats of all sizes enter and exit the harbor both day, ...read more

by Laura Leigh Fields

I have always been an avid fisher-woman. When summer comes, I can usually be located near a stream of water with a pole in my hand. I am not a record fisher. I do not try to catch the biggest or most unique fish. In fact, ...read more

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by Ty Folmar

I had just been released from school for spring break, and decided to go to the lake to fish. I loaded my gear into the back of the truck, and headed to the cabin that I had built. When I arrived I unloaded my gear, and ...read more

by Stephen Ellison

Oh it was a day to remember,that first day we went mackerel fishing with Mel, the sights and sounds of the boat all new to us and the feel of the ocean very exciting as we pushed out of Conway marina and headed for the dis...read more

by Emily Adams

My most memorable fishing trip involved an 18' Boston Whaler, thirteen fish, and the Pacific ocean. It all began when a friend of my father's cancelled his fishing date with Dad. Dad, a native of San Diego, could not bear ...read more