Fishing Quotes

[Tin-Can]

My earliest memory of fishing, I was living in a small community outside of the very small (at that time) town of Rescue, Calif. with my older sister and my mom. Just before starting Kindergarten in the fall of 1960, a couple of the community men took several of us boys ages 5 to 12 on a 3 day camping and fishing trip. I don't remember exactly the area we went to but I believe it was somewhere close to the American River, or maybe the Sacramento River.  We caught and ate so many trout those 3 days, I got forever turned off of trout but forever hooked on fishing. Since that first exposure to fishing, I've fished from east coast N. Carolina, Georgia, Florida back to the intermountain west thru Alabama, Texas, Arizona, and here in Utah. I've fished in England and Panama. I've deep sea fished off the coast of California, and in the Gulf of Mexico off the Yucatán Peninsula. 
I fished as a co-fisherman in a couple small local Bass Tournaments with a coworker while stationed (USAF) in south Georgia.

Most of these fishing experiences have been enjoyable even when no fish were caught.  Being in the military until 1993, and moving every few years, I followed my Dad's old adage "a boat is just a hole in the water you throw money into" so I never invested in one. It wasn't until moving here to Utah in 1999 that I decided I wasn't making anymore moves and I learned that the best way to improve my chances of catching fish, was to get out on the water in a boat. For a few years I satisfied that with renting a small boat from the recreation center on Hill AFB.  Then one long weekend we had rented a 16' and were planning to spend the weekend going to 2 or 3 different bodies of water. Our first day launch was planned for the north marina of Willard Bay. But the motor would not start. We returned to our home and I unhooked the rented boat and went boat shopping.  I finally settled on a new 2004 Lund 17' ProSport.  I kept that boat for just over 2 years and circumstances forced me to sell it.



 In July of 2007 I knew I couldn't survive without being able to get out on the water, so I purchased a new 2007 Lund 14'. I've had that boat now over 15 years and though it isn't the biggest, fastest, or fanciest boat on the water, it floats, runs well, and gets me where I want to fish. Been lots of fish brought to net in that "Tin-Can". And because of the low water conditions that seem to happen in Utah every few years, I can still get on the water when other larger boats can't. 



I like to catch fish as much as the next angler, but just being outside, on the water, even with no fish caught is a very large part of my reason for going.