Nice story Dave.
I have had the pleasure of handing the rod off to at least 3 kids I can remember over the years at the canal. Always a fun time seeing the kids feeling a nice fish in current. Matter of fact one time I offered one kids dad the fish as he stood behind us on the path and watched us but he said he was in a Cadillac and didn't want to ruin the trunk so off it swam. They had been watching us for a while catch fish so I told him to come down and land one. Think I was with Bigfish and Slingha that day and it was also a mack blitz. My fishing buddy has done it several times too.
"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
From what Paul told me yesterday, George, he has concerns that you would drop his rod into the water and lose one of his favorite plugs!
Just repeating what I heard!