Hiya and thanks for the replies!
It turns out I misunderstood the assignment. We were to write a biography about ourselves, but more specifically, we were to write a paper about an event/trip/occurence in our lives that had an influence on us as writers.
So regardless of which method I chose to write about going fishing, it just wasn't meant to be.
I ended up writing about a trip to Robert Frost's farm in Derry, New Hampshire, that I took with my parents over summer break when I was 12.
It worked out pretty well and I think it was a good occurence to write about because there was a lot of good "stuff" there to work with.
I just finished up the paper a few minutes ago and am generally pleased with it.
Sometime I am going to have to write that fishing story through my neighbor's eyes though. If it is good enough maybe I can even give him a copy and see what he thinks.
I do think that would be fun to do, and it also another opportunity for me to do some writing, which I don't do enough of outside of class.
Again, many thanks for the help and suggestions.
This is a great forum and I have been away from the forum scene for a few months, but I am ideally going to be hitting the forums more steadily, as this is easily one of the better communities on the Internet. I also really dig the amount of sub-forums and diversity of topics here. It's like everything in one spot, and it works out incredibly well.