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Originally Posted by numbskull
Been there, done that. I have some advice you might consider.
You are going about this wrong. I know, I made the same mistake and often wish I could do it over. Catching a large fish does not hook kids on fishing. Having fun is what does it. Take them scup fishing, snapper blue fishing, schoolie fishing, fresh water fishing, squid fishing. Go at reasonable hours and for short periods. Take their friends with them. Measure success in laughs and time outdoors rather than catch. If it is in them (and often it is not) they will grow into the sport themselves.
I was too intense, too focused on getting my sons' a big bass. They sensed it and didn't have fun. If big fish come at the expense of fun a kid will turn off to fishing quickly. Getting a child a big fish does not make up for our short-comings as parents (if only it did). Luckily, spending time with our kids having fun does.
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I agree...I will invite my neices and nephews to come fishing at a local pond, and when they get bored (if action is slow) I let them do what they want.
Sure enough when they get bored with whatever they were doing, they come back to fish with me. I do the same thing when I take them ice fishing and get the same results.