What was your first lure caught fish?

[mangler]

What was your first lure caught fish?

My first was a eel tailed cattie (tandanus) in one of the dams on my folks farm when I was about 9, tasted good too!

[jeff f]

60lbs spanish mackeral on a chrome spoon and a chord handline off the back of the old mans trawler when i was 7 (1970)

[flatty_catcher]

After reading Jeffs post I remembered

my earliest I would have been 10 years old trawling feather lures out the back of my grandads punt for Taylor on handline in Sydney Harbour (Nice Taylor) cut your hands on 40lb.

Dan

[Mack_attack]

Not sure but one of the earliest i can remember was a fingermark on caught on the troll in Weipa.

Down here again not sure but i think it was a tailor caught on a 30g raider on my abu baitcaster while casting into the surf

[kiwifisho]

4kilo back country beautifully smoked and eaten Rainbow trout:woohoo: In Oz it was a 45cm flatty.:cheer:

Dean;)

[Dec]

I think a large mouth bass

[tomca]

64cm flathead on sp, 14cm whiting on a hb and 11cm bass on fly.

[Keechie]

it was one of the many species of snapper that inhabbit fiji.

[brisfisher]

20cm odd dirty smelly pike:blush: on a noname placcy

[olek]

rainbow trout on a mepps spinner

edited to add... the lure just like the tens of others are now part of the lake...

[STU]

Bass, in the upper nerang i got it sight casting using a slavco bug still have it too.:fishing:

[Leighton]

A Dart in the Surf off Hastings Point Rocks on a Rattlin Spot I found while snorkelling

I also still have the Lure

[Gazza]

A 3lb brown trout on a rod and reel combo my Dad bought me for my 14th birthday when we were visiting in Germany :woohoo:

and I still have the rod

:ohmy: :blush: I feal old now

Gaz

[Malcolm]

A Redfin in an irrigation channel in Victoria on a spinner of some sort

[kriso]

this flat head on a 4inch nuke chook from the pin [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/flattie_2_AFO.jpg

[jeff f]

Leighton wrote:

A Dart in the Surf off Hastings Point Rocks on a Rattlin Spot I found while snorkelling

I also still have the Lure

wow the old cotton cordell rattlin' spot;) one of the earliest lipless crank baits great jack lure in thier day

[roobs]

chopper tailor on a chrome slug randomly casted at caloundra. i still have the slug though it has no hooks any more and is just for luck!

[boz]

my uncles homemade hb about 10 years ago and a big flathead on my first SP 2 years ago and now i'm figgen hooked :woohoo:

[fishingnut]

a small flat head about 10 cm long many tears ago up up noosa, didnt even know I had it on what a suprise

[wint0nlc]

I'm still waiting for my first one... ive been using lures both HB and SP a lot more frequently lately so its only a matter of time. I need to find a few better places for a bit of land based fishing around the gold coast so i can start getting my catches up!

Had a few hits on SPs at the spit the other day but they were probs toads lol

[Leighton]

wint0nlc wrote:

I'm still waiting for my first one... ive been using lures both HB and SP a lot more frequently lately so its only a matter of time. I need to find a few better places for a bit of land based fishing around the gold coast so i can start getting my catches up!

Had a few hits on SPs at the spit the other day but they were probs toads lol

Gold Coast has some of the best land based lure fishing spots

You just have to get up early or stay out late

[Cowfish13]

On a non-trolled lure, my first was either a 20cm Estuary Cod casting off the bank in Weipa in grade 4 (9yo or so) on a Daiwa lure of some sort or a Bass of around 15cm from Borumba Dam casting a small hard body bought from Tenterfield Lures back when it still operated. I miss that shop:(

Can quite remember which was first, but I still have both lures:)

Edit: Just figured out that I got the Cod first:)

[Aaron H]

Redfin on a yellow dickson spinner in the Upper coliban reservoir near Kyneton (Vic) sadly a mere puddle these days

[planetfonz]

1990 - i had the old girl drop me off one horribly rainy day to fish the urangan pier and went thru a pack of the big ol ugly pink double tailed mister twisters catching pike and longtom .. good fun, the pier was empty..

not long after, this experience was quickly erased by my first spotted/school mackerel on a lure, all of 30-35cms long, on my brand new baitcaster, a silstar blahblah II and powertip rod and the old abu garcia toby spoons.. visual hook-up and everything.. i was in awe for weeks!!

[Rocket75]

a grinner on SP at Bribie:P

[rexy]

on moreton island i used a metal wonder wobbier it caught a heap of flathead

[pinkey]

Pike from Bribie jetty on a little no name pink grubby plastic, followed by 3 small bigeyes later that arvo. First fish on hardbody was a 31cm flathead from the maroochy river on a sprog. First fish on popper was also a pike . Never caught a fish on slug o.O

[Gad]

Long tom caught in Burnett River,near Bingera Weir,Bundy,early 1960`s.

Caught on a long shanked hook,with 3 split shots placed along the shank,wrapped with alfoil from a milk bottle top.

I was about 9/10years old,and the old man wasn`t going to risk one of his u beaut lures(think of small fish profiles),on the end of a kids line.

[Mack_attack]

Pinkey Just walk along the beach for a few km's casting a slug as far as you can and retrieve at a medium pace bound to get a few tailor. Gutters are obviously better but tailor also like the white water created on plain looking sections of beach. They're normally around 35-45cm and give a great hit which wakes you up and fight all the way in often doing mini marlin jumps as they get close to the shore

Also it goes without saying early morning and late arvo are the best.

[silver_rex]

40cm flathead on a no name $5 bargain barrel deep diver in tin can bay while waiting to board spirit of rainbow charter for the weekend, was a good start to a crazy weekend of fishing out on the reefs of fraser :fishing:

[badboygibbo]

37cm bass at somerset dam.

[James W]

my first fish on a lure was a flathead(maybe 30cm) on a hardbody..walking the banks of the canals up the coast..i just thought i was cool fishing near great kennys house back then:P

after that i started fishing with them alot..think the first lure i went ou and bought was a halco slice and scoed a bonito on that in the bay..was hooked for life after that:)

[sax]

a 27cm cod in boggy creek on a sx40

only 2 weeks ago...

[maxi]

mine musnt have been anything of note, as i cant recall it but probably a flathead ... definately started the lure addiction though ... :lol:

Maxi

[noname]

ahh yes, it was another flathead, 3 flathead in 4 casts while drifting the sandbank directly across from good ol 99. it was late in the arvo 15 years ago, i doubt you could do that these days around there, and again, some no name brand of lure did the damage. probably the last time i had any real success with lures too. lol, apart from offshore. it's weird as i can remember it very distinctively for some reason..:ohmy:

[Beefa]

another flathead here too about 50cm, on a fluro green metal slug down at the mouth of schultz's walking the sand banks back in the early 90's

[Oztrav]

a 56cm yellowbelly or their abouts on the gold kokoda g vibe at came after about 6hrs of casting without a tap

and saltwater a 52cm flathead caught at louisa creek in mackay on the same lure anyway i havent had much sucess on hardbodies but im getting some sx40 soon so we will see how they go

[Live2Fish]

Flathead on a 3#Bass Minnow.

[wesfish]

a small bass on a bender HB timber lure out at mt crosby weir , when you were allowed , i was 10 y/o and it was my first bass , my first lure caught fish and my first recaptured tagged fish , if you look at the picture the poor little thing had a massive spear tag hanging out of him. Oh and it was on my first cast of a lure, so thats why i ended up so addicted to fishing with lures.. [img size=332]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/first_lure_caught_fish.jpg

[bretto]

1.5kg rainbow trout on a pink tassie devil. At lake purrumbete.....maybe