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Basspro69
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quote GoSpursGo: "quote Basspro69: " Awesome picture."
Thank you both - I caught this one the next day. My first two fish in the BWCA spoiled me
 " Very nice, my favorite fish and its not even close :-)
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SaganagaJoe
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My first BWCA fish: Sw of American Point on Sag, on a leech as best as I can remember, think I got it on the 2nd cast. Great memory.
1st northern
Haven't caught a walleye yet!
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ozarkpaddler
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My first fish as a kid here in MO were sunfish, which we called all of them "Bluegills." In fact, that term included Redears, longears, shortears, etc.
My first BWCAW fish was a little smallie caught above Little Rock Falls on the Granite River on August 13, 1984. Easy to remember because we left the next day, on my birthday. My first fish in the BWCAW that I photographed, though, was my first northern. That would have been mid August on Gift Lake, which is in a PMA now. I'll also show you a pic of the devil that got a chunk out of it when it was on the stringer.
 
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wetcanoedog
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I don't post here because I just don't fish that much anymore.but going thru my 1985 first trip photos I found a shot of my first fish.
using a rig from my kid days in the late 50's I got this pike at Lady Boot Bay.
most of my gear on that trip was old scout and Army stuff.the rod and reel are from Western Auto and I fished the Niagara River about seven miles downstream from the Falls. 
this was a "OH WOW" moment and after that for about the next ten years I took along big pike rods and triple jointed lures the size of broom sticks!
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Mickeal
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My first trip in 87 was an eye opener. I had a zebco 404. I caught my first pike which was about 28 inches long. My first thought was, wow that is one toothy critter.
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Basspro69
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Smallmouth on Tin Can Mike Lake late 80s 
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Jeriatric
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The first first fish on my first trip was a smallmouth....no big deal since I was 60 and had already been catching smallmouth where I live in Calif. for decades.
When they came, the first walleye and first pike were big deals, though.
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shock
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nice finding old photos and great story. i honestly cant remember my 1st BW fish or 1st fish ever , i do remember some special ones thats for sure , and special trips. :)
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DeanL
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My first trip was with a buddy who had been to the BW but I had no idea what to expect. I do remember catching a bass on my first ever cast in the BW. It was a smallmouth on a yellow hair jig that I caught from a small island where we stopped for lunch. Oh the memories I have created up there!
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Basspro69
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quote shock: "nice finding old photos and great story. i honestly cant remember my 1st BW fish or 1st fish ever , i do remember some special ones thats for sure , and special trips. :)" You know whats funny Shock, I have a photographic memory for fishing. The picture back from my first trip the big smallie was released and came on a crimson lead head jig 32nd ounce and a medium leech in 22 ft of water a little ways off an island. The other smallies came on a crayfish colored shad rap in various locations around the lake. Now ask me where I left my keys at :-)
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GoSpursGo
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Mine was a brook trout caught on a #3 yellow with red panther martin spinner on Neglige
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yogi59weedr
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While it was not my 1st fish,it was my 1st fish of that spieces. I was fishing Sag for the 1st time. I was jigging deep for walleye. I hooked what I thought was a nice one. Fought really hard all the way up to the canoe.after netting it , I couldn't figure out what it was. Not a wally.
My buddy had never seen one either. It was about 15 inches. I just tossed it back in the water, and wrote it off as a big minnow of some sort. The fight was impressive.
Now as years go by and I gain more experience, I now know it was a whitefish.
Wonder how that would have tasted if I filleted and fried.
I remember my 1st and 2nd laker. Also on Sag. Was trolling down from American point going west. Had on a silver Canadian wiggler. Hooked and landed a nice 20 incher. Having never caught one before I said " That was pretty fun"big fish clear water fighting hard with long runs. Got back in the water and boom,hooked another little bigger. Got him up to the canoe just about to net and one last run and snap ,there went my Canadian wiggler.no more wigglers and no more Lakers...
Moral of story......buy more silver Canadian wigglers.
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QueticoMike
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I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure my first one in Quetico was a smallmouth bass. No pictures from the 1988 trip. I didn't even take a camera. The one guy who did take pictures lost them all in a fire at his place of business.
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overthehill
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1973 ? Frirst trip- first pike. Hammer handles caught on a rubber minnow mepps comet? Drifting off shore by camp somewhere on basswood.
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missmolly
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Whitefish are tasty, Yogi, but I prefer walleye. I hope to catch at least one whitefish next June on my quest to catch as many species as possible, my own 39 hours.
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Savage Voyageur
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quote GoSpursGo: "
Mine was a brook trout caught on a #3 yellow with red panther martin spinner on Neglige "
For some strange reason they seem to like that color on that lake. Nice fish By the way.
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Basspro69
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quote GoSpursGo: "
Mine was a brook trout caught on a #3 yellow with red panther martin spinner on Neglige " Awesome picture.
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GoSpursGo
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quote Basspro69: " Awesome picture."
Thank you both - I caught this one the next day. My first two fish in the BWCA spoiled me
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missmolly
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quote GoSpursGo: "quote Basspro69: " Awesome picture."
Thank you both - I caught this one the next day. My first two fish in the BWCA spoiled me
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Another beauty!
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shock
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quote Basspro69: "quote shock: "nice finding old photos and great story. i honestly cant remember my 1st BW fish or 1st fish ever , i do remember some special ones thats for sure , and special trips. :)" You know whats funny Shock, I have a photographic memory for fishing. The picture back from my first trip the big smallie was released and came on a crimson lead head jig 32nd ounce and a medium leech in 22 ft of water a little ways off an island. The other smallies came on a crayfish colored shad rap in various locations around the lake. Now ask me where I left my keys at :-)" LOL then your wife say's there right in front of you :)
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ozarkpaddler
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quote GoSpursGo: "
Mine was a brook trout caught on a #3 yellow with red panther martin spinner on Neglige "
Wow, NICE Brookie. My first Brook trout could have almost fit in a Sardine tin (LOL)!
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