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I headed to the lake about noon, with my son and nephew along. My nephew, 3, had never been fishing before and so I was not sure what I was in for. On top of that, he has always been a little scared of me (doesn't like beards?) and so I had to gently coax him to play along. When we first got in the boat, he was a little timid and didn't want us to go fast or "make big waves". I went fast anyway.
The two boys sat up in the front of the boat and played while I tried casting to walleyes. The water temp was between 58-60 degrees. No luck, but a few follows in stickbaits. I figured we were a little late and so around 2:30PM I decided to go for trout instead. I rigged up one pole with a Kastmaster and as soon as I caught one, the boys started to show interest. I was surprised to learn that my nephew did not even know how to reel a fishing pole, so I had to spend a little time with him. We proceeded to troll back and forth over the same area and caught 7 stocker sized trout and lost at least that many. The kids really had a blast. Here is my nephew with his fish:
I had planned to let them all go, but they insisted that we have a fishfry. So we brought them home and I took this "olde time" pic:
They helped me clean the fish and then we had our fishfry:
So I hope I made some progress with my nephew's shyness. It was really nice to have his company so that my son was occupied for a change and I could concentrate on fishing (jk, he and I actually have a great time).
P.S. I think I am becoming the King of Lost Fishing Poles. This time, it was my son's fishing pole went overboard because of my negligence :-[. And I thought fishing was getting expensive because of the gas prices!
The two boys sat up in the front of the boat and played while I tried casting to walleyes. The water temp was between 58-60 degrees. No luck, but a few follows in stickbaits. I figured we were a little late and so around 2:30PM I decided to go for trout instead. I rigged up one pole with a Kastmaster and as soon as I caught one, the boys started to show interest. I was surprised to learn that my nephew did not even know how to reel a fishing pole, so I had to spend a little time with him. We proceeded to troll back and forth over the same area and caught 7 stocker sized trout and lost at least that many. The kids really had a blast. Here is my nephew with his fish:

I had planned to let them all go, but they insisted that we have a fishfry. So we brought them home and I took this "olde time" pic:

They helped me clean the fish and then we had our fishfry:

So I hope I made some progress with my nephew's shyness. It was really nice to have his company so that my son was occupied for a change and I could concentrate on fishing (jk, he and I actually have a great time).
P.S. I think I am becoming the King of Lost Fishing Poles. This time, it was my son's fishing pole went overboard because of my negligence :-[. And I thought fishing was getting expensive because of the gas prices!