Pacemaker Fishing Forum

It was really nice on Saturday and I decided go into the wild unknown: taking both my almost-5 and 2.5 year old daughters fishing, by myself. I had no idea how it was going to turn out. I didn't even know how to fish during this time of year because I'm so out of touch with fishing haha. I haven't taken my oldest fishing since last summer, and this was my youngest's first time fishing. I asked my youngest "do you want to go fishing?" and she replied "Yeah, fishing!", even though she didn't know what that is. She then said "I wanna see a fish." Well then, the pressure was on.

I took a UL and a slice of bread and headed to Alder. This was my first time using bread as bait. I tied on a tiny hook, ripped of a piece of bread and balled it around the hook. We had to go to a few spots before I found the bluegills. I would cast it out and each of us would take a turn (trying to teach them to take turns lol) reeling it in.  They were all smallish and would just peck at the bread. Perhaps I should have made just barely larger than the hook so they would actually suck it in? When it was my oldest's turn I was watching the fish peck at the bread, and then the bread disappeared and the bobber started moving left. Fish on! She reeled it in all by herself! I was too excited and wanted to land the fish so that my youngest could see it that I didn't take a picture of the action. It was 4-5" bluegill. I showed it to my girls and my youngest covered her eyes and said " no fish, no fish" I threw it back and then she immediately said "I wanna see another fish" haha. Kids

All in all it was a very success trip! No one got hurt, everyone had a good time, everyone wants to go fishing again, and to top it off a fish was caught by my daughter. Can't wait for the next time!