On Dec 18 2011, 10:03*pm, Bob wrote:
On Dec 18, 6:28*am, Bob wrote:

Hi,

All kids are different, of course, but was wondering about your
experience with Grandkids:

How young can they be, and still enjoy some introductory fishing
experiences ?

Hints ?

Can hardly wait.

Bob

I took my granddaughters to a pay to play trout lake when they were 2
1/2 & 5. They had such a good time that they keep begging my daughter
to take them fishing or to go visit grandpa so that I can take them
fishing. Unfortunately they live in Minnesota while I'm in Washington,
so that doesn't happen too often. *They were catching more trout than
anyone else on the lake. Everyone else was using power bait or worms.
I had set them up with about size 14 nymphs about 18" behind a casting
bubble on their little Princess/ Barbie spinning rods, and had them
retrieve super slow. The only problem I had was that my daughter & her
husband kept wanting to get the rods from their kids so they could get
in on the fun.

Try teaching them to tie flies too... I have a small person in my
life, and the mission is to get the bugger to tie a wooly bugger,
flick it out and hopefully he'll be an angler for life.

lemme know how it goes...

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