My First Father/Son Fishing Trip!

I’ve been planning on taking my son Ash fishing for some, but the weather here hasn’t been very good until recently. He thinks my fishing reels are his toys, and messes with them constantly. I even have a couple of old reels that I don’t use anymore sitting in his toy box. Today was a beautiful warm day, so I decided it would be a perfect day for our first fishing trip together. We headed down to Albro Lake, which has been producing lots of small bass recently.

We got to the lake at two in the afternoon and I put Ash into a sling so I had my hands free to cast. He was able to sit comfortably in front of me and keep an eye out for jumping fish. We fished for about 25 minutes and I was able to catch 2 little bass, and lost one. Ash was very curious and was happy to handle the fish. He got upset every time I let the fish go because he wanted to play with them. I tried to explain to him that they needed to go back in the water to live, but explaining anything to a 9 month old is pretty difficult.

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Categories: Albro Lake, Canada, Fishing, Freshwater Species, Smallmouth Bass

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Saturday June 21st, 2008 @ 6:18 PM | Clive Mathias

7 Responses to “My First Father/Son Fishing Trip!”

Smallmouth at that size, and you released them again?!….Perfect fish tank size….I’m sure you could have boxed them some how and sent them….Your so lucky where you are….All i get are Pike that grow too big or Perch which i have….A smallmouth would make a nice adition as well….At this rate your son will be catching his 1st before i get there!

Woody on June 22nd, 2008 @ 4:12 am

Good for you for getting the kid started early. On the other hand, it looks like you may be raising him to be a Tigers fan, which is just a mean thing to do to a kid.

Timmy Mac on June 22nd, 2008 @ 8:36 am

Nice to see you are getting him started in fishing early!

adam on June 22nd, 2008 @ 9:20 am

Timmy: I’m actually a Bluejays fan in disguise! Don’t tell anyone!

Clive Mathias on June 23rd, 2008 @ 8:56 am

Awesome - nice going! I can imagine explaining stuff to a nine month old could be difficult. It’s too bad, too cuz they certainly have some pretty strong opinions at that age.

Way to get the youngster in the outdoors so early, anyhow!

Tom Sorenson on June 23rd, 2008 @ 1:20 pm

Great to see dads and sons together. Did the same with my son and he now lives 2000 miles away but emails pics of his fishing trips.

Gene from http://www.canvaspress.com

Gene Haker on June 24th, 2008 @ 4:55 pm

Awesome! The photos turned out great too considering how full your hands must have been.

Jonathon Marshall on June 24th, 2008 @ 6:41 pm

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