Grandson

Group: rec.outdoors.fishing.bass Date: Mon, Aug 30, 2004, 8:12pm From:

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Well, I took my 4 yr old grandson Alex out to a small lake near my house
in Milwaukee. This is a kid that begs to just sit in the boat, picks up
sticks to "fish" with and has to have fish in the tub with him.
I would cast out and hold the rod with him and he would grab the rod and
crank the handle like he was trying to make ice cream :} I finally got
him to understand slowly and he started to catch Blue Gills and Bass on
a Beetle spin. He tried to use his thumb to hold a 12" Bass but the
rough mouth scraped the soft skin on his thumb :{ He was showing his
thumb off at daycare, saying a fish did it :} I'll have to get him some
sand paper to practice with :} One 15" Bass jumped right in front of
him and scared him good. It came out about a foot and did a somesault
that sprayed him with water. I would hold each fish for him and we would
look at the colors and eyes see how sharp the spines were. He was amased
by them.
I kept asking him if he wanted to go home and he would look at me and
say "Just one more Grampa, just one more". Woohee, I can't wait for a
partner like that to grow up. It's almost to good to be true. I suppose
I better not teach him to drive the wifes Jeep next spring, although it
would be nice, not going down to Milwaukee to pick him up. All in all he
caught 4 Bass and a half dozen Bluegill.
His last words on the day were, "We can go again Grampa".

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That's what fishing is all about! Great read! Makes me want to get in
the little red truck and go visit the kids again, I have two grandsons
that love to fish....no problem figuring out what to do when we get
together . Thanks for the "picture"!
JK