What was your first lure caught fish?

[reef_raider]

brown trout from lake mckenzie in tassie on a tassie devil

little moses on sp

and a new one 33cm bream on popper

[MOC]

A flounder on a green double tail mister twister at inskip point followed by many flathead on the same day. To this day i have never caught another flounder on a lure.

[cpetrie]

mine was a 23cm flatty on a 70mm squdgy flickbait about 2 months ago or so.

[Oztrav]

funny when u catch those little flatties hey?

[cpetrie]

Oztrav wrote:

funny when u catch those little flatties hey?

yep

[rayke1938]

Dunno if this counts.

About 55 years ago we used to fish last hour of run in tide in what is now Jack Evans boat harbour in tweed river. There used to be a few pipes through rock wall into the inlet and we used to tie a 1 inch by 3 inch bit of white rag onto a hand line and a pea sinker and jig it at exit of pipes for tailer. Used to go in December school holidays. we were put onto them by Len Thompson and Ron Bailey who were the local experts in those days. By catch used to be big bream and flathead.

Cheers

Ray

[webbfunk]

That's awesome Ray.

I love old school stuff like that.

My first was a foul hooked puffer.

But first real fish was a whiting on sp.

[Angus]

Moses Perch for me.

Was also my second and third fish! That was plastics. My first non Moses Perch plastic fish was a flatty (typical).

My first hardbody caught fish was a huge catty with jimmybob (cheers bro). Catty or no it was my first hardbody caught fish and it was huge! I was stoked. I caught a couple more that day and then the next weekend moved onto a pike and then a flatty.

Since then never looked back.

Always a time and a place for bait fishing in my opinion, but lures have won me over completely.

Cheers.

Angus

[mrsjimmybob]

mine was a GT at Newport waters on a Kokoda sprog

[Smiderman]

mangrove jack on home made (balsa /resin) nils master clones.

they worked ok but way too light... ended up adding a strip of lead down the middle to get distance in the cast.. still didn't stop the the toothy buggers decimating them

[faulked]

horse mackeral on a feather in the 70s english channel

redfin on a spinner in the 80s chislehurst ponds

pike on a plug in the 80s five arches

flathead on a sp in the 90s wello point

makeral on a spoon in the 90s magnetic island

dart on a slug in the 2000s bribie island

bass on a slug 2000s north pine dam

bass on a lipless crank 2000s north pine dam

yellow belly spinner bait 2000s north pine dam

hows that for a lure list

jason

[Schultzy]

"Perch", in Black Snake Creek, in the Brisbane Valley, 1969. [img size=500]http://australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/1969_small.jpg

Note the high tech gear. Solid Glass rod & 4" Alvey. The lure is a red & white Wonder Spoon, made in Melbourne.

Miraculously, I too still have that lure.

[rayke1938]

faulked wrote:

horse mackeral on a feather in the 70s english channel

redfin on a spinner in the 80s chislehurst ponds

pike on a plug in the 80s five arches

flathead on a sp in the 90s wello point

makeral on a spoon in the 90s magnetic island

dart on a slug in the 2000s bribie island

bass on a slug 2000s north pine dam

bass on a lipless crank 2000s north pine dam

yellow belly spinner bait 2000s north pine dam

hows that for a lure list

jason

What about your mondy barra?

Cheers

Ray

[uglyfish]

barra followed by a blue salmon the a coral trout

[Dinodadog]

A Bass or perch as they called them in crystal creek via m/bah nsw on nanas farm, in the sixties, it was caught on a floppy and was about three and a half pounds, I was trying to beat a fish my father pulled from the same hole a couple years earlier of six and a quarter pounds caught on worms.

[kreel]

Very embarrassing. I have caught bigger/better since.

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[kreel]

Dinodadog wrote:

A Bass or perch as they called them in crystal creek via m/bah nsw on nanas farm, in the sixties, it was caught on a floppy and was about three and a half pounds, I was trying to beat a fish my father pulled from the same hole a couple years earlier of six and a quarter pounds caught on worms.

Hi Dino, I've been trying to get one of those Flopy lures. A mate has a dozen or more that he still uses. I saw some on ebay that went for $50 - 60. Too expensive for me.

[tacklebox]

Mine was a 27cm pike on a tiny atomic paddle-tail. First catch on a HB was a little flattie at Noosa. Kreel released it before I could measure or get a photo :dry:

[STU]

Bass,caught it sight casting with a slavco bug in the upper nerang

[Plastic Man]

bass on a killalure in the river that runs out of borumba dam around 11 years ago

[Old Scaley]

Big flattie on a balsa wood lure made by my brother-in-law in the garage. Caught from the rocks at Point Vernon in Hervey Bay.

[fisherjack1394]

my first fish caught on a lure was a 45cm yellabelly

[plugga]

My frist flathead on a sp, high 30cm [img size=500]http://australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/Flathead_1_AFO.jpg

[bmxdirtjumpa]

think im the first one whos first fish on a lure was a bream haha 28cm on my first sp trip, very hooked after that. first hb fish was a flatty of 58cm

[straddiebrad]

my fist fish was a pike on the draw string of my ruggers at amity point many years,and my late farther often told the story of a four foot jew he caught at yamba on a footy frank snagg i have photos but dont know how to transfer them on to computer.brad

[RUSSIAN]

mine was a 45cm yellow belly on a spinner bait

[dan25]

small flatty on squidgy wriggler at Colleges Crossing.

[Lukey]

First fish I got on a lure was a 46cm Bass from the Brisbane River, and was the first Bass I ever got. Got him on a Halco Combat hard body. Until then I thought lures were a waste of time...how wrong I was!

[Gazza]

I hate these posts But mine was a 2 pound brown trout caught in the barwon river Geelong vic on rod / reel and a lure I got in Germany for my 14th birthday

Back in 1974 first time I used it on arriving back to OZ Dam I was Glad to be home

see why I hate these posts make me feel old

Gaz

ps I still got the rod

[Keen-as-fisho]

58cm dusky on a rebel craw, caught at Cobby Passage (Jumpin pin)

[hibberta]

1st fish on a lure.... Back in 1989. It was a Rainbow Trout, on a pink tazzie devil. It was caught in the Golburn River in Yea down in Victoria, when I was living down there.

[pondo]

Saltwater Barra, On a nilsmaster! From the Gulf of Carpentaria

[FREEWILLY]

My first was a trevally in the russel river south of cairns when i was 18, i trolled for the first time in my life and caught a good sized trevally on this one bend in the river, i trolled km's either way of this bend and nothing but every time i went over this bend i landed another one, i think i caught around 5 trevally, and 1 barra on the same lure on the same bend on the same day )

[yellahunter]

mine was a 3lb rainbow trout on a pink tassie devil lure,

caught two from the bank in one of our farm dams back in SA.

next would have been a redfin on celta im sure,

cheers,

Ben

[Dinodadog]

believe or not mine was a bass on a floppy, nanas farm crystal creek murwillumbah a long long time ago

[faulked]

mine was a mackeral on a feather many years ago as a kid trolling behind a charter boat

[aichepee]

red snapper caught in mexico whilst trolling a white feather lure on a handline behind the resorts kayak. caught 2 AJ's, a barracuda and bonito the same day on smae set up.