shoulda used a stick...

[Trout]

I took my 4 year old son fishing on a trout lake in the high country one day. It was stocked with rainbows and 20" fish are caught on ocassion but a 12" is average. I used two poles, one with a bobber and worm about 3 feet deep and with the other I was casting different baits for pike. No strikes, so I put on a worm and threw it out into about 15 feet of water on the bottom. And we waited.

By now my son was bored- usually there is some action to keep his attention-and he was wandering around the rocks lining the shore. Well, he saw a crawdad and was trying to catch it, so I got a stick about 2 feet long, put on 3 feet of line and a small hook and bit of worm and soon enough he was excitedly catching crawdads and throwing them in the bucket.

I hadn't had a bite yet when my son says a fish tried to eat his bait. Now we all know 4 year old boys have got an active imagination and I didn't pay much mind to his excited babbling about a fish, but just put some more worm on his hook and he went back over and put his bait in some water 6 FEET away from the edge of the lake among the rocks where the water had worked its way. And he brings up a 7" Bluegill! I had been fishing that lake for years and didn't even know there were gills in there- I guess all the pike kept em in the rocks (Pike up to 42"!).

Well, he caught another gill and then D@%^ if he didn't get a 12" rainbow to top it off!! Meanwhile I hadn't got a bite!

When we left he had a couple dozen crawdads, a trout and two gills with a 2 foot stick while I had NOTHING! Except a bunch of laughs and a good story to tell!

[Mallardstacker]

I think we adults try to make things too compicated sometimes. Each day I learn from my kids, they don't have all the "other" stuff to get in the way


Come to think of it, we might need to send some to congress. I'm sure they could run it better sometimes!

[shadow]

Yea, sometimes the KISS rule is the best! Great when kids can outfish the parents.:D

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[CastandBlast]

That's a good story ....Thanks for sharing it.

[fishingholebuilder]

A boy was fishing a friend of mine's private lake one day, and I noticed he had a plastic worm hooked in the middle under a cork. I was headed over to tell him he had it rigged wrong when the cork went under and he pulled in a 2 lb bass. He got the bass in and put it on a stringer with 7 other bass! You just never know what will work.

[bc1448]

That is a good story. It is amazing what we can learn from our kids if we just sit back and watch!!:D
Blake

[Arkie John]

I trust you will tuck this story away to share with your son one day. It is a real treasure.

Thank you so much for sharing the 'adventure.'

aj

[WantinCrappie]

Very good story.

Thanks for sharing.