I'm from Oshawa, Ontario, and I was born here about 25 years ago. Lived here for mostly my entire life, except for when I was at University at the University of Western Ontario (London) from 2003-2008.
I've been fishing ever since I could walk. My first memories from fishing were waking up early in the morning, (still dark outside) and driving down to Bomanville creek with my dad (was proabably 5 or 6 years old). I can recall being very excited to go fishing. I also remember being so young that instead of a proper 12 foot noodle rod (lol), I remember my mom tying a plastic toy shark to a string and tying it onto the end of the bottom end of an old fishing rod. Who woulda thought that creek fishing for salmon and trout would end up being my favourite type of fishing to this day lol. Splashing that shark around in the creek felt amazing, I don't know why, but I knew i was hooked, no pun intended lol.
To this day, fishing is still and always will be one of my favourite hobbies, many great memories as a kid. Makes me realize how important it is to take kids fishing while they are young, so they can learn things like respect for the fish and the environment. Nothing feels better than hooking any fish, and landing it (especially a brown or rainbow).
But anyways, enough of me, nice to meet everyone here, hope to have some great discussions with you guys, and maybe i'll throw up some pics of all the monsters i've caught over the years
thanks for reading!
andy
