introduction

 I'm very new to this so bear with me as i try to grow and understand how this all works. my name is Steve and i was born and raised in hawaii. i have been an outdoorsy type for as long as i can remember. my father would take me salt and freshwater fishing on a fairly regular basis, although we never caught much the hours of cheap entertainment and quality memories stick with me to this day. the whole take a child fishing saying is no lie! i grew up fishing bobbers and catching whatever would bite be it tilapia or bluegills, maybe an occasional carp. i was always enthralled by it. salt water never held my interest as much, I'm a avid surfer and id always lose patience and end up in the water rather than fishing it. i didn't really get into bass fishing till i returned from the army sometime around 1992. again i was more of a surfer and it just so happened one summer that the surf was terribly small and inconsistent . a good friend/nearly a brother and i decided on some cheap entertainment and why not fish the lake. freshwater license and worms cost about 2 $ so why not. we fished for several hours a lot of bank crawling and not much to show for it. then as luck would have it we stumbled onto a pair of mating peacock bass next to the ramp. sitting there on a nest in 2ft of water. at the time we had no idea what we were looking at, only that it was 2 huge fish by our standards. they wouldn't look at our worms and bobbers at all. in desperation and having nothing better to do we went to the little old papa san fishing store in wahiawa and got a few different types of baits, some crank baits and a few soft plastic craws and few top waters. little did we know the lifelong obsession with tackle this would lead too hahahaha. several attempts with several different baits lead to a lot of failure. it was finally a plastic crawfish that worked and first one then the other fish were hooked as they grabbed the offending lure in the nest. both of us were hooked as well and our bass fishing infatuation had begun!