One of my earliest memories of my childhood was getting to go fishing with my Dad who is 84 and still fishes every day.  Needless to say his son is 62 and still fishing.  I was a pastor for 40 years until my physical disabilities became too great for me to keep a regular schedule.  Fortunately, my wife of 42 years and I were able to buy a home on a small ten acre lake and I am able to fish on my good days.  My Dad was by far the best role model a kid could have not only fishing but overall.  Fortunately he and I are still able to fish.   During those years as pastor and even more so now fishing has allowed me a lot of fun and good fellowship with those I am able to fish with.  Now as I look back I am very much aware of how much I came to know the constant presence of my Heavenly Father while fishing.  Through the years I understand more and more what He meant when He called each of us to be "fishers of men".  I thank God for His daily presence in my life!  Uncle Tom

I started fishing about  year ago, last summer. I was normally the type of person that thought fishing was really boring and you never caught anything. I was talking to my freind one day, and told him I had found a fishing reel outside with some line on it, and asked him if he wanted to go fishing in a small lake where we live. Then we got some long sticks that we picked up, we didnt hav any real fishing gear just a small box i found in my dads shed, so what we did was we got some soda cans to use as bobbers and we put some hooks on our line and some bread, then we waited and caught about 5 brim. Then we decided we should get some real fishing gear to catch more fish. Naturally i was more excited than him about it, and i started fishing in saltwater instead of our small lake. and now this summer its been two years of fishing, now I go fishing for speckledtrout in Jacksonville Florida, and im getting really good at it, although this summer hasnt been very good because of all the rain the water is almost black and i dont have a boat. but i fish at night and ive been having better luck, but still havent been able to land one