# How many years have you been fishing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Fishing Polls & Surveys\ **Created:** [November 5, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946 "2010-11-05T17:38:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![theangler](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/forum.bigfishtackle.com/theangler/32/12218_2.png) [@theangler](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/theangler)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/1 "2010-11-05T17:38:26Z")
How many years have you been fishing? ---
**Author:** ![ydoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/f08c70/32.png) [@ydoc](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/ydoc)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/2 "2010-11-05T20:06:00Z")
Guessing about 55-years (will be 60 next month). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pharaoh2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pharaoh2](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/pharaoh2)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/3 "2010-11-21T19:13:21Z")
I’d have to say close to 30 years. I’ve been fishimg since I was a little guy.[fishin] ---
**Author:** ![FishingPromoter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/977dab/32.png) [@FishingPromoter](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/FishingPromoter)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/4 "2010-12-11T22:53:17Z")
Since I was 3 years old - so 39 years, damn I’m feeling old! ---
**Author:** ![flygoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@flygoddess](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/flygoddess)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/5 "2010-12-11T23:49:55Z")
Let’s just say since I was 3 and leave it at that[;)] But Fly Fishing the majority…think I would be much better at it 😆 ---
**Author:** ![willardite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@willardite](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/willardite)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/6 "2011-02-11T04:08:58Z")
I started when i was 3 lol But I’m only 17 so 14 years but I fell in love with fishing the **second** I hooked my first trout.. 🙂 and it all escalated from there. ---
**Author:** ![stevent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@stevent](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/stevent)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/7 "2011-03-30T14:32:45Z")
[fishin]been fishing over fifty years ---
**Author:** ![willardite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@willardite](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/willardite)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/8 "2011-03-31T00:04:04Z")
I wish I have been fishing for that long just so I could have the knowledge that comes with it.. ---
**Author:** ![syncityangler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@syncityangler](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/syncityangler)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/9 "2011-05-29T23:15:41Z")
i had my first pole when i was 2 i’m 34 now ---
**Author:** ![Jimboslice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jimboslice](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Jimboslice)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 11:19am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/10 "2011-05-30T11:19:31Z")
I have been fishing for about 20 years. Over the last three years, I have started to take the sport/hobby much more serious. I have learned more in the last three then in the previous 17. ---
**Author:** ![gms\_mn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/59ef9b/32.png) [@gms\_mn](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/gms_mn)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/11 "2011-06-14T21:52:14Z")
Over 55 yrs ---
**Author:** ![LIL\_FISH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3e96dc/32.png) [@LIL\_FISH](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/LIL_FISH)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/12 "2011-08-24T19:51:37Z")
I have been fishing for 23 years. My Dad was talking me since I was about 2 years old and I take all three of my girls all the time. I started going by myself probably around eight. I would go up the canyon on my bike tie my fishing pole to my handle bars and put the worms in a plastic bottle and put it in the bottle holder. Good old memories. ---
**Author:** ![flute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@flute](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/flute)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/13 "2012-03-15T23:33:40Z")
I been fishing about 60 years. ---
**Author:** ![PACKFAN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@PACKFAN](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/PACKFAN)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/14 "2012-04-16T21:10:02Z")
Started when I was 4 or 5 years old with my grandpa using an old cane pole for cats, so that would make 60 years as I will be 65 in June. Great memories[fishin] ---
**Author:** ![fishawk78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bcef8e/32.png) [@fishawk78](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/fishawk78)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/15 "2012-06-24T14:23:28Z")
I’m 34 so it,s somewhere around 30-31 years.. I have twinn 2year olds so they are getting ready to start this year. My son keeps saying every time he sees a pond daddy is getting me a fishing pole and taking me fishing… Talk about a proud daddy. My little girl says i want to see the fishies… ---
**Author:** ![fishmasterjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5f8ce5/32.png) [@fishmasterjoe](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/fishmasterjoe)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/16 "2012-06-27T04:12:55Z")
22 years, since I was 5. Now I get to teach my kids how. My 2 year old got his first cat fish and loved it! ---
**Author:** ![idaho\_fisherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cab0a1/32.png) [@idaho\_fisherman](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/idaho_fisherman)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 8:58am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/17 "2013-03-06T08:58:51Z")
Probably about a little over 20 years, loved fishing big time since I was in like the 7th grade [bobhappy] ---
**Author:** ![LLOMichalchik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@LLOMichalchik](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/LLOMichalchik)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 11:01am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/18 "2013-03-06T11:01:34Z")
Been hitting the water since I could hold a pole ---
**Author:** ![Speedyrebuild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@Speedyrebuild](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Speedyrebuild)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/19 "2013-03-06T12:58:43Z")
Been fishing for about 35 years, dad would take me and my brothers out to the bay to sit on the rocks and fish for cats when I was just wee little. Now I take my 11 year old son as often as possible and my 6 year old daughter keeps asking when we are going ice fishing. Love being a dad. ---
**Author:** ![valley\_sports](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/2bfe46/32.png) [@valley\_sports](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/valley_sports)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946/20 "2013-03-07T00:17:29Z")
I’m thinking probably about 65 years. I remember going to the creek on the farm, cutting a willow stick, tieing on some store string and a hook and a worm and catching fish. When I got my first zebco33 I wouldn’t let my brother touch it. That old reel still works. My grandson used it about 10 years ago. [Next page](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/how-many-years-have-you-been-fishing/176946.md?page=2)