Still the summer holidays (ha Covid ha) and I thought I'd take the Little Uns fishing whilst it wasn't cold and raining and somewhere they'd catch from the off. Into Dangling Indirect to get another whip and a pint of reds then off to see what we could catch. 3 metres to hand, perfick.
Float dips, whip lifts and a fish straight away, for both of them. Roach, skimmers and what they thought were hypers....got done by a tench too. But no pike, they so want to catch a pike. One day at a time girls, you've got to earn your stripes.
Maggots are fascinating.
And guess what, after a bike ride the next day, Dad, can we got fishing again? Of course we can. Best one was this perch which Littlest Little Un netted all on her own, like a pro. Less Little Little Un even held the catapult the right way round
Best of all later on they got to see a dead rat, spot a pike from a bridge and see a train, very very close up. And learn about the birds and bees, well actually cows and bulls. He was an impressive chap to be fair
I agree on starting kids young and showing them the joys of fishing.
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Never did it properly with my older boys. I'll always regret that.
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