WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!

[FishinMaverick]

My eight year old nephew and I just got back from a local lake. It wasn't the best day of fishing, as far as catching fish goes. But it was still exciting. See my nephew is from Brooklyn Park, and he does do much fishing around there, but he does do quite a bit of fishing north of duluth where his family has a cabin(house). Anyways, all day he was telling me, this lake looks like a good bass lake, and asking me if i had ever caught any bass on this lake. I told him i hadn't and you could almost see the heartbreak in his face. So once we got all rigged up to fish, it was about five minutes before i had my first walleye it was about 16 inches. After that we kept trolling the weed edges. I changed his lure to a Blue 1/4 oz jig that he wanted to use. We continued trolling for the better part of three hours with no bites, just a lot of weeds. When all of a sudden my nephew hollers i got one, and I look up just in time to see the fish scream out of the water, it must've been four feet in the air. My nephew (nick) says i think it's a walleye, i didn't want to tell it was a bucket mouth in case he got too excited and lost the fish. He played it for about a minute and finally landed a nice 1.5-2 lbs largemouth. We toook some pictures and put him back in the water. So like i said the fishing was kinda slow but the look on his face when he finally caught his first Bass was well worth it and will definately have me going fishing with him again. Fishing is great but watching the young ones catch fish is ten fold.

[hawkeye43]

the cost of the rod and reel $40,the smile on my daughters face this week when she out fished me, PRICELESS..... I think she is hooked for life!!!!!

[This message has been edited by hawkeye43 (edited 06-25-2004).]

[Beef46]

Last nite I experienced much the same with my 4 year old son. Caught his first bass (2 lbs) on a Tazmanian Devil Disney rod. It was an epic battle as he was man-handled by his fish. He could hardly turn the reel. But he did it. Got it up to the boat for dad to lip it.

The look on his face is something you will never forget as a father. I wished I had the video camera with.

He was a little upset with me when we took pictures and I then told he we were putting him back in the water proclaiming, "But daddy, I love my fish" as he was petting it. After a brief explanation of why the fish needed to go back to the lake and swim, he understood and is looking forward to the next one.

It's times like these that make life wonderful.

Here's to fatherhood.