{"id":4,"date":"2014-08-08T17:57:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T17:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamsharp-fishing.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2014-08-13T18:10:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T18:10:40","slug":"pam-sharp-fishing-hook-line-and-sinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamsharp-fishing.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Pam Sharp Fishing – Hook, Line, and Sinker"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Yellowtail<\/a>
Yellowtail at San Clemente Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wow!\u00a0 My first post!\u00a0 I guess I’ll start with a little bit about myself..<\/p>\n

Most anglers I know can tell a story about the very first fish they caught.\u00a0\u00a0 I can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I grew up in a small house on Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, and spent many days on the dock in front of our house with a cane pole, black cotton line and a rusty hook. My mother threw coffee grounds into a flower bed outside the back door, and by morning the worms under them were thick. I was set with bait for the day! I\u2019d spend the entire day out there catching sunfish that my poor dad had to fillet after a day at work.<\/p>\n

For my fifth birthday I got a tackle box and a Zebco rod and reel. My grandmother was mostly responsible for teaching me to fish. She spent hours on the dock with me teaching me to cast.<\/p>\n

We moved out of the house on the lake when I was 10, into town, but summer vacations were spent at various lake cabins in Minnesota and Canada. And we always fished a lot wherever we went.<\/p>\n

I moved to California when I was 21, but didn\u2019t start fishing on the coast here until the mid-90\u2019s. I went on a few charters with a local tackle shop, and WON on the water seminar trips, both provided good loaner tackle. My first tuna trips were 2-day trips on the Red Rooster. On one of those, I caught a 52 pound yellowfin, and sent a picture of me with it to my grandma. She took that picture with her when they moved her into a nursing home, and she called every person into her room that passed by to \u201ccome here and see my granddaughter!\u201d<\/p>\n

In early 2005 I joined a few new friends on a 13-day trip on the Shogun and caught my first cow, weighing in at 200.0 on the certified scale. Since then, I\u2019ve averaged 25 trips per year, and about 30-40 days on the water.<\/p>\n

While most of my fishing is local southern California overnight to three day trips, I usually do one longer trip every year. Some of the other locations I\u2019ve fished:<\/p>\n