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Hard to decide whats most memorable. Started out as a very small kid catching sunfish off the end of my grandfather's dock on a bay on the south side of Lake Ontario. Did that for hours at a time. Fished with him in his boat in the summer and ice fished with him and my dad & uncles in the winter. Fished the St. Lawrence river / Thousand Islands with cousins and uncles when I was a little older. As I got older I fished less because I was too busy doing other things like scuba diving, hunting, and working full time for a living. Now that I'm retired I get together with several other old guys and hit Lake Ontario several times a summer for Lake Trout & Salmon. We use a charter boat and split the cost 4 or 5 ways and get several miles out on the big lake in a 33 foot Trojan and spend the afternoon fishing and busting each other's chops. Lotsa good memories get made out there.

Always been a panfisherman. Hardcore, would chase the bite for the biggest fish all over the state. Best and one of the most memorable was a bluegill trip with my old man. Early summer the big bulls had not suspended yet. Hanging on the weededges in about eight feet of water. One such weededge that was worth checking was only about 150 yards from the boat launch. Left the launch at 7:40 had the boat on the trailer at 8:20.

Had the cooler full with our fifty, all right around nine inches and tall. Nearly perfect circles you could barely get a hand on them. It was seriously drop the bait to the bottom and set the hook. Did not even have time to get them in the cooler. Just had fish flopping on the floor.

Reminds me of the time the fishing was so good you had to hide behind a tree to bait your hook.

Growing up the parents took us to Cherrystone Campground in Virginia near the mouth of the Chesapeake to camp as our summer vacation. We would motor down to the Chesapeake bay bridge tunnel and run bottom rigs up the tunnel, you would obviously feel it, then it would fall on the far side. At the time my grandfather was alive. Pop Pop slayed em, as did we all. It wasn’t fishing it was catching.

I immediately thought of that when I saw the OP thread topic.