 Who are your mentors?
So, who do you owe or credit much of your learned fishing knowledge to? Is there one person, or group of people, that you credit with much of the knowledge that you did not learn yourself? Sure we all figure many things out ourselves (sometimes that is half of the fun), but I for one owe a lot to the people I have met and fished with over the years.
In my earliest days, my dad was the one that got me interested in fishing. From the start, he would take me out any time we finished the yard work (or sometimes it wasn't done) and at just about every chance we got. Early on we would target freshwater species such a large and small mouth bass, pickeral, pike, catfish, shad, etc... I simply loved being out and really didn't care what I was fishing for. Then, around my 6th birthday, he took me one of the breachways in South County. We happened into a nice bluefish blitz at daybreak, and I was hooked! From there we made a pint to hit the surf every weekend possible. We spent week long vacations in CT at the shore, fishing every moment we were awake. Almost instantly I was facinated by surf fishing. When I got a bit older, and my parents got divorced, I turned to some of the great outhors to point me in the right directions. People like Woolner, Daignault (Mr. & Mrs.), Coleman, etc... enstilled a love of the surf that sticks to me to this very day.
I credit all of these people, and many more, with pushing me in the right direction. To this day I am still learning. Just about every time out, I try to learn something from the guys in my crew.
So, who are your mentors?  |