More likely the kid is a future plugger.......but just lost his nerve.
Did your wife get a picture of you raking eels?
Where have you been pops? I was beginning to worry. As for the picture, my wife would probably drop dead if she witnessed me doing anything resembling work around the house.
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
Yup, he'll be a salty old eel slinger by the time he hits his teens...
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.