take a 3 year old fishing

muldoon · December 30, 2008, 05:16:39 PM

santa brought my 3 year old son a batman fishing pole for christmas and we got to try it out today. started off kinda slow and we had to drive to a different spot until we got on some bluegill and he started really getting the idea. He was soo good all day, and we both had a blast.

shawns fish score: 12
dads: 0.

turns out he catches his first bass also. I was 10 before I got one that looked like that.

Redoverfarm · December 30, 2008, 05:34:14 PM

Cute child. I bet he was in seventh heaven most of the day. Quality time & a Batman fishing pole. You can always count on Batman coming through.

December 30, 2008, 06:34:00 PM

Never too young to get 'em started fishing. I took my 2 nieces fishing this summer. Mom told the 6 year old that it was time to go home. "Uncle John" told mom that she could stay and fish and she would be a good girl when she got home.

We got in another 3 hours of fishing, and the niece slept the whole ride home. She was a good girl the next day, and still talks about the fishing trip.

I took my other niece, 13, fishing for her first time this summer. She lost a 10-11 lb walleye right at the boat. She said she would go with me any time.

muldoon · December 30, 2008, 06:47:56 PM

Quote from: fishing_guy on December 30, 2008, 06:34:00 PM
Never too young to get 'em started fishing. I took my 2 nieces fishing this summer. Mom told the 6 year old that it was time to go home. "Uncle John" told mom that she could stay and fish and she would be a good girl when she got home.

We got in another 3 hours of fishing, and the niece slept the whole ride home. She was a good girl the next day, and still talks about the fishing trip.

I took my other niece, 13, fishing for her first time this summer. She lost a 10-11 lb walleye right at the boat. She said she would go with me any time.

she sounds like a real fisherman to me!

ScottA · December 30, 2008, 07:46:06 PM

Good times.

Did he make you clean and cook his fish?

December 30, 2008, 09:08:57 PM

True quality time. Good for Jr and Dad.
Scott's right. I hope he cleaned them!

glenn kangiser · December 31, 2008, 12:15:44 AM

That's really cool muldoon.

My granddad got me started.

PS: Did they have Batgirl fishing poles? hmm

Homegrown Tomatoes · December 31, 2008, 10:51:21 AM

looks like you fellas had a great time

And looks like he's already a pro. Every time we take our girls fishing, dad and I don't get to do much fishing ourselves. We think it is a conspiracy between the girls to keep us so busy untangling lines and retying lures or whatever that they are guaranteed to beat us. Doesn't matter, though, because they have a good time.

NM_Shooter · December 31, 2008, 03:19:49 PM

I used to have the same "problem"

I'd be running around untangling lines, rebaiting hooks, unsnagging from rocks / brush / weeds, pulling kids out of the mud, getting dry socks, snacks, swatting bees, suntan lotion, bug spray, band-aids, putting tackle back in the dumped over box, etc.

I would not have missed it for the world.

My oldest daughter is not taken with fishing. My youngest one (12) is. She now grabs her own fishing stuff and goes to the lake and returns with a limit of trout. She wants to clean her own fish, but her dexterity is not good enough yet to keep from slicing her own hand open. Maybe with a shorter knife and a glove she would do okay.

Nothing in the world beats seeing a kid with a smile like that. Nothing.

Kudos Muldoon. keep up the great job.

-f-

P.S. if you had your spidey shirt on you would have caught some fish too.

January 04, 2009, 02:00:11 AM

I ran a trout farm as a kid... The way we cleaned fish was to slit from B-hole to the back of the tongue leaving it connected between the front fins..

With the trout laying belly up in your hand for the whole procedure, slit the tongue loose from the lower jaw in the thin lines under the jaw. Pull the entrails loose with your fingers as you run your thumb up the backbone in the stomach cavity to scrape out the blood line and air bladder.

Kind of twist your hand forward grasping the loose tongue, gills and front two fins between your thumb and folded first finger knuckle and pull everything out including the gills. This leaves the entire cavity clean from B-hole to lower jaw with no gills to rot and spoil the taste. Elapsed time should be around 30 seconds. Rinse and clean.

Freezing them in a bag of water will keep them fresh for a very long time.