How Did You Get Into Fishing?

[Jerzfishermen]

I started fishing at age eight. My parents had a beach house at LBI. My father used to take me to the docks in Barnagat Light. The blowfish were plentiful at that time. I used to sit on the dock and catch bucket fulls of fish. My very first catch was a green eel. What a thrill that was. At age fourteen, I started to work the party boats. Did that until about I was twenty-three or so. Back than the regs were diffrent, whiting was all over and fishing was fun and enjoyable. I still find fishing my favorite past time and is still fun and enjoyable. It is just ashame that the powers to be have put such a squeeze on myself and others who love to fish. I am now forty-seven years old and still can fish with the best of them.