Took my youngest out today(results)

[bowman30]

Little story coming.....  I have always taken my kids fishing (4), when they became old enough to understand the basics, well on with the story.  Last year I loaded my youngest son and girl up and headed for a lake in a near by state that has a healthy population of LM bass, once there they were so excited to start fishing, well it was a rough day on the lake, finally I found them some crappie to have fun with and boy did they have some fun(32 fish in an hour), as I was searching for the right bait, I found this lake also has a VERY healthy population of Northern Pike  , after I landed the second one (38")she was done fishing and went and sit down in the very middle of the boat. I just thought she had gotten tired from catching all those crappie. The next fishing trip I asked if she wanted to go and she said NO WAY daddy, so I asked why not, well she brought it to my attention, did you see how big that fish was and all those TEETH it had  . That darn pike just scared the heck out of her (she thought that toothy fish might just pull her in and eat her for lunch)and she stuck to her guns and did not fish with her dad for almost a year to the day  :-/. Yesterday I had a talk with her and reasured her that the lake I was going to today ONLY had trout and bass in it, well she gave in to dad and went with him this morning . I set her rod up with a weightless trick stick(***  ;D) and after giving her some pointers she was on her way. I was up front flipping some brush and from behind I heard this very SCARED little voice say, DDAAAADDDDDDYYYYYYY, so I turn in a hurry to see if she is alright, and what I see is her holding her rod and it is almost bent in two, with the most frightening look on her face. I turns out it was just this little baby SM.  ;D    After she finally landed it in the boat and got to see what it was, she went on to out-fish her dad 12 to 9 with the big bass of the day.  8-)

  She is (at this moment) pleading with me to take her again tomorrow ( boy is it a tough decision   ).

Thanks for listening.

[wvbucketmouth]

Great Story, and very familiar, my youngest (she is 14 now), always seems to beat Dad. Great times for sure!

[UPS VT]

Awesome job  

[grizzly1654]

Great story! My son always likes to rub it in when he beats me.

[BrnzeBckStalker]

great pic and story. glad to see she had a great time.

[BAITCASTER15]

how much did they weight

[bowman30]

The one in the pic was 3.2 and the rest was between 1.5 and 2.5, but I took her out again on Sunday and she boated a couple nice SM, the first one was 3.8 and the last one she caught was 4.6, almost broke her light rod (time to upgrade her tackle   ). She caught both of them on a watermellon black flake 4" trick worm texas rig.

Thanks guys