Beautiful day in sunny SE Florida

[Guest avid]

My son is down from NY for a few days.

It's great.

We went fishing today.  Bluebird skies following a cold front, so I'm not too confident of the outcome, but all things considered it was great day.  Spending time fishing with your son is one of the great pleasures in life.

Here he is with the first bass of the day

Here is again with nice bassie caught on a ratltrap.

and finally he let dad get in the act.

The lure is hard to see but it's a Carolina chip custom bass devil II that my son brought down for me as a surprise.  I caught two on it and that's pretty good considereing today was fairly slow (9 in the boat)

It was really great spending time with him like this again.

It brought me waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back to when I first taught him to fish for bluegills with a bobber and nightcrawlers.

Life can be sooooooooooo good.

Today was one of those days.

[Sam]

That's what fishing is all about.

Memories.

Really good memories.

So glad you son made it down your way and you had a good time.

More lifetime memories for you both.

[KU_Bassmaster.]

That first pic ...... I think we have seen that pose somewhere before??? Nahhh ... not enough shadows. ;D ;D ;D

Chip off the ol' block

[bocabasser]

right on avid! my son is 3 and i can't wait for that day to come. you're right, today was beautiful!

[clipper]

It's great when you get to fish with your son!  My son lives in town and I expect to fish with him some during his spring break from college.  He works and goes to college too, so his fishing time is limited.  I still remember meeting my dad at Seminole on spring break, camping on Rattlesnake point, and fishing Spring Creek.  It's also nice when you can catch a few fish .

[T-rig]

Nice job avid! I wish i could get my son into fishing!

[New 2 Bass]

Those are great times brother!!  Now go celebrate at Hooters.

Al

[roadwarrior]

Woo-Hoo!

Yep, that's what it's all about.

[Guest the_muddy_man]

Excellent Avid Im glad you had a good time during his visit and a great day on the water together 8-)

[Lightninrod]

WTG young man!  And I'm talkin' about the Dad!!!  Y'all did great.

Dan

[Guest avid]

Nice job avid! I wish i could get my son into fishing!

Actually he's not.  He has been an athlete his whole life, but it's all team sports.  Soccer and Lacrosse put him through college.  He's now a teacher and a coach.

I remember taking him fishing with the worms and bobbers, but he was always to fidgety to stay out very long.

He's been fishing a little over the years, but usually on party boats with his friends.

It was fun this time because it was like teaching him all over again.  He was excited with the ratLtrap fish because it was his first on a lure.  For some reason he wouldn't consider the Senko an articficial.

To him it was to much like live bait.  But the ratltrap was a bone fide lure.

Anyway, we had a really great time.  He was surprised at how much fun it was, so I may be finally developing him into a "fer real" basser.

We'll see.

[Triton21]

Always wonderful to fish with our sons.  Mine lives too far away to do it much but we do it at least a couple times a year and with my Grandson also.  Nace looking young man Avid.  I can see he takes after his mother.   ;D ;D ;D

Kelley

[fezkoe]

Sounds like a pretty sweet day. As a son, i have to say fishing with your dad can be really fun. Hope you get to keep up the good times.

[georgiabassfisherman]

Sounds like a pretty sweet day. As a son, i have to say fishing with your dad can be really fun. Hope you get to keep up the good times.

cosign there pendulum as i am a son also i love getting to go out on the boat with dad and do some quality fishing its just so much fun especially since he is the one that taught me most of the things i know about fishing and the outdoors.avid just remember to take us kids into fishing slowly if u see ur kid is getting ready to go u do the same thing otherwise it just gets boring to us. not to me though i love fishing but i wish my dad could get off of work more so he could go with me cuz now i just have my cousins to go with me.

Gary Harris

[Guest avid]

My is 31 years old so it's pretty much a done deal.  But I did learn one important lesson when I taught my DAUGHTER to fish. when you take a kid to teach him to fish.  It's ALL about the kid.  Unfortunately for my son, I was taking him fishing with me and didn't spend enough time having it be all about him.

By the time my daughter came around I had learned.  She now lives in Tampa, owns a boat and she her husband fish for all the inshore species.

I applied the "lessons" with my son this week and he had a great time and caught most of the fish.

we live we learn and then we get to do it all over again.

Life is beautiful.

[island bassin]

Good job Avid , hope my son would like fishing as well. Presently he is 3 years old!!

[Blue Eyed Fisher Chick]

I am glad that you got to spend quality time with you son catching fish!  I look forward to doing that with my daughter.  She's only 2 but when we do take her we make it a big deal that she's going fishing and she loves it!  She loves anything that has to do with fishing and getting on the boat!!

Nice catch too by the way!!