A boy and his bass...

[goodfishin]

Been a fun few days of fishing.

First, I took my five-year old out Fathers Day morn to test out his new Abu Garcia closed-face reel (rest in peace, fragile Zebco 33. We hardly knew ye...). Hit Watchung Lake in the designated fishing area and tossed around a few night crawlers expecting to hoist up a few sunnies. Instead, my son cast out, hooked up, landed and released the surprise largie in the pic all by himself. His first completely unassisted bass (with some very proud posing thrown in for good measure).

Then, this morn, after almost getting shanghaied by a flat tire, I took him out to a little lake/pond I've been scouting out. I'd cast out a Senko on my medium-heavy action rod and spinning combo, get a strike and set the hook, and hand the rod over to my son to fight the fish.

We were into fish for a solid hour starting with the first cast. My little guy's Father's Day bass had been a PB for him but he beat that one with the first bass today. Then he beat that one with the one that followed it. Then he topped that one with the next one! Thats the one on in the second picture. Chunky little guy.

I told my son that we just had a special day. Breaking your personal record three times in a row with bigger and bigger fish. Much fun.

Mike