Tournament Fishing - Not Good For Kids.

I fish one of the local club tournaments with my daughter. Since I'm more
focused on catching fish than spending quality father daughter time I think
it has not been the best experience for her.

However, this last Saturday she was starting to get into it. First thing in
the morning on her fourth or fifth cast she had a huge bass blow up right
next to the boat on a top water. She was excited. It made a huge ka-ploosh
like a really big bass. I didn't see it, but it broke her bait in half.

Pure tournament angler after that. Right down to beating herself up over
what she could have done to put that fish in the boat. I had to tell her
over and over again that topwater is like that. You have to wait until you
are sure the bait is under water , or you feel the fish before you set the
hook. Since she never felt the bite, and the front half of the bait stayed
on the surface there wasn't anything she could have done.

She was so serious she even yelled at me when I nosed in to fish around a
dock and didn't put the boat in perfect position for her to fish it too.

I was impressed. She thinks my new boat is fugly though when one of my
friends asked. LOL. She then told them normally its just ugly, but it was
dirty from being out on the water all day so now its fugly. After I had her
aside by herself I told her what the contraction f'ugly comes from, and that
it probably wasn't appropriate language for a young lady. Oops!

Anyway, I was proud of her. She was all pro all day after that first missed
fish. Sadly she never got another bite the rest of the day. Atleast not
one she was sure of.

Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com