It’s been a good year. The fam and I have been fishing almost every weekend.
It started out as a way to justify a vacation, and then as a way for the kids ( and my wife) to get closer to daddy, and vv. In the beginning we had the few rods in my gear and a new reel the wife splurged on and got for me. Maybe six or seven hundo in swag, in total.
Now, towards the end of the summer, we’ve got 30 rods and six or seven times the tackle we started out with. The kids are hooked. The wife is hooked even harder. I mostly turned into the guide. I tie a lot of knots and bait hooks....no one else will touch a catfish, yet.
The wife has caught all the bass, she caught every species in cave run on a single trip ( and got a cool prize from fish and game for it). The kids can empty a panfish hole in minutes. I think I might catch one fish to their two dozen overall. I’m still the fams undisputed king of big cats and sharks, thank god, otherwise it would be embarrassing.
It’s been a blast. Is what I’m saying. The kids caught sight of a youth fishing derby one of the times we went out, and decided they wanted to do that. Then they found fishing shows on Netflix and competitions on YouTube. My eldest boy says that’s what he wants to do for a living. So.....I’m using that as an excuse to look into a boat. Boys gotta have a boat to win a trophy. He also needs a good partner.
I grew up poaching, not trophy fishing. I’ve been using the six season guide to pattern. I know very little about bass. Or bass boats. Center console deep v’s are my wheelhouse. I would love to make this thing happen for him though....so I’m looking for advice on baits, patterns, behavior....and boats, for anyone who grew up on bass boats and knows what I should be looking for. Or what I should look out for, seeing as how there’s a kid involved.
Stories, fishing stories, wives tales, the one that got away. Rigs and tricks and tips and affordable alternatives to expensive gear.
Whadda ya got?
It started out as a way to justify a vacation, and then as a way for the kids ( and my wife) to get closer to daddy, and vv. In the beginning we had the few rods in my gear and a new reel the wife splurged on and got for me. Maybe six or seven hundo in swag, in total.
Now, towards the end of the summer, we’ve got 30 rods and six or seven times the tackle we started out with. The kids are hooked. The wife is hooked even harder. I mostly turned into the guide. I tie a lot of knots and bait hooks....no one else will touch a catfish, yet.
The wife has caught all the bass, she caught every species in cave run on a single trip ( and got a cool prize from fish and game for it). The kids can empty a panfish hole in minutes. I think I might catch one fish to their two dozen overall. I’m still the fams undisputed king of big cats and sharks, thank god, otherwise it would be embarrassing.
It’s been a blast. Is what I’m saying. The kids caught sight of a youth fishing derby one of the times we went out, and decided they wanted to do that. Then they found fishing shows on Netflix and competitions on YouTube. My eldest boy says that’s what he wants to do for a living. So.....I’m using that as an excuse to look into a boat. Boys gotta have a boat to win a trophy. He also needs a good partner.
I grew up poaching, not trophy fishing. I’ve been using the six season guide to pattern. I know very little about bass. Or bass boats. Center console deep v’s are my wheelhouse. I would love to make this thing happen for him though....so I’m looking for advice on baits, patterns, behavior....and boats, for anyone who grew up on bass boats and knows what I should be looking for. Or what I should look out for, seeing as how there’s a kid involved.
Stories, fishing stories, wives tales, the one that got away. Rigs and tricks and tips and affordable alternatives to expensive gear.
Whadda ya got?
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