As a kid i was given that plastic rod with toy fish that had magnets on the mouth. I used to play with it all the time. Then growing up and walking through ***** I used to see the kids rod for $12. When I was 15 I bought that rod with my money but had no idea how to really use it as no one in my family goes fishing.
At that time Rex hunt was on tv and I used to see him use lures to catch fish, so I grabbed a piece of paper, coloured it in with texters, wrappedd it up in sticky tape, and that was my colourful lure
Headed down to parra river haha, and of course I caught nothing with my lure.
Soon after that the news-agency started selling weekly magazines of 'fishing australia' and i began to collected them.
On a family trip at a lake I had my hand caster in with a prawn as bait, I was so angry because I still wasn't catching any fish, I yanked out the hand caster and attached came a bream out of the water, my first fish