[jazusamo]

I love it. The fishing G-ds are often kind to the young. ;-)

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

> I love it. The fishing G-ds are often kind to the young. ;-)

Only if dad’s around.

[NEMDF]

Yes. When I was about 8, I caught a 24 inch (don’t know weight) northern pike at a tiny lake in central Michigan (Holland Lake, north of Sheridan). I caught it “trolling” with a bamboo cane pole and a bobber. It was all the talk at the lake for a few days. My grandparents had a summer cottage there. Great childhood memories, our time there.

[MHGinTN]

Yes, yes they do. When I was a boy my friend and I would go fishing every summer day we could. On one particular day his little sister tagged along but we had to keep putting the worm on the hook for her. we tired of it and told her to find some bait that she would put on t he hook. She picked a yellow dandelion and speared it with a hook, then swung it out on top of the water. I had no more than hit the water surface and started to spin and a small mouth bass about a pound and a half snagged it! They ate bass for supper that night!