Teaching Kids to Fish

John brought his two young sons, Mathis & William out fishing today. We began a bit early and met up at 10:00, as I didn’t have any morning bookings. Hopefully the trolling bite would work out for the kids!

Unfortunately we trolled for almost 90 minutes with only a couple of hits and managed to bring one nice walleye into the boat. I was sure glad, because it went into the livewell for the boys to watch!

I switched gears much earlier than I had planned and decided to teach his sons how to cast. We headed for shallow water and smallmouth bass with soft plastics. Although a challenge, both William & Mathis learned quickly and were able to cast fairly well on their own. Good enough to get a few bites each and land some pretty nice bass! They did have problems with reeling in too far and constant adjustment of the baits was necessary, but overall they did great! Their father even had several fish as well in the few hours we remained.

Today wasn’t as much about fishing as it was spending time with his sons for John. His boys enjoyed the boat ride and had a blast learning how to cast. Catching bass was an added bonus once they concentrated on the fishing part too! The weather couldn’t have been any better either as we had sunshine and light winds the whole time we were out. Time passed by so quickly that I didn’t see how late it had gotten and we finished up at 3:00. Overall it couldn’t have gone much better and now his two sons are ready to fish with him on their own. Hopefully they’ll remember everything they learned today!