Who taught you to fish?

[Set n Hooks]

Not real sure.. Pretty young. Heres my first nice walleye at age 5.

[Tyler23]

me and my dad dont go fishing much just dont seem to have the time when i was younger we still do go a couple times over the summer, he never ice fished...my uncle who is like my other dad and lives to fish and be in the outdoors really brought me into the whole deal and i am very thankful and would do anything for him. he got me started ice fishing when i was very young as well as open water fishing. mostly panfish just cuz they were more action i think and when your young you get bored easy. looking back i now realize how often we really did go fishing and hunting.. now i got my own stuff to go ice fishing and am getting my dad into it. i really hope we can keep going for awhile. dad hasnt really ice fishing but he seems to know where to go i hope we can keep going for many years as i still have alot to learn and really would like to make more memiores doing it!

[Big Dave2]

I'm not sure who to give the credit to. Not my dad, he was not a fisherman or a hunter. I never saw him do any of that stuff at all when I was growing up.

I had 2 older brother-in-laws that took me out in boats a few times a year and some neighbor kids at the farm down the road and I would ride our bikes down to the river and fish as kids.

I learned about fishing later in life when I started ice fishing with friends. Mostly I learned from reading magazines and then from the internet after Al Gore invented that! Now I keep learning from Fishing Minnesota and John Gillespe.

[Steve Foss]

I can't name one single person who "taught me to fish."

Learning starts before birth and doesn't end until death. So literally scores of people have taught me one thing or another about fishing. Or, turned back the other way, I've learned how to fish from many, many people, as well as discovering things all on my own that no doubt others already knew.

All learning is self learning. Ya gotta wanna learn to learn. All that being said, it's been a great journey so far, and I thank every single person who has put an arrow in my quiver. And I thank everyone in advance for future arrows.

[fishgutz77]

My dad a grandpa got me fishing young but we never had a boat.

I grew up on the Miss and was a little river rat and I learned real quick not to give your spots up to guides because they burned them up.

I learned to be real careful about who I took fishing later in life if I thought they were fish hawks.

My Dad never fished with me much after about age 14 until about ten years ago we go out on his pontoon boat up by the WFC.

So I guess they planted the bug in be and I took it way to far from there.

By they Way I taught Foss everything he knows about lakers.LOL

[JSK76]

My Grandpa taught me when I was young. I can remember him telling me this about walleyes, "when you feel a tap, tap, give them line and then cross their eyes" I would always picture the walleye's eyes crossing when I would set the hook.

[iafish4fun]

My grandpa and grandma would take me and my sister fishing. She never really liked it much, but I sure did.

[bogwalker]

My Grandpa taught me when I was young. I can remember him telling me this about walleyes, "when you feel a tap, tap, give them line and then cross their eyes" I would always picture the walleye's eyes crossing when I would set the hook.

Cross their eyes, that is funny!

[Gordie]

I would have to say the my dad started me out fishing then his dad took over from there and the rest is history. Now I have to figure out which one to blame for all the fish storys that I come up with. OK I should thank them

[Esox_Magnum]

I guess I would have to say my uncle, he's the one I always fished with. We only did the week in MN thing as a kid but once I got old enough to have something motorized I really started learning on my own. Dad never has been into fishing, 1 brother got the bug even though most my familys in MN few fish other than once in awhile or do the 1 week a year family/fishing getaway. I go to the extreme, trying to hit 140 days this year, getting close sitting at 132-133 I think. Next year shooting for 150-175 day out. Having the kids gone is nice, go to work then hop in the boat waiting for me at a dock and be fishing 5 minutes after I clock out.

[CDT]

Pretty much self taught but when my Dad was alive he went to Canada fishing at least once every year and always asked who wanted to go along. He would pay all expenses so you would think it would be a no brainer that I would go every year but sadly I only went with him twice in all those years because I was always too busy. What a fool I was. My son was smart enough to go with him almost every year once he was old enough to fish though. I have more time in the winter so I developed a passion for ice fishing so one day I took my Dad to Silver Lake by Lake Park Iowa. We ended up limiting out on nice perch and walleye. He had a stroke and passed away very shortly after that and I thank God for that day of ice fishing.