Fishing with my grand daughter, Evie, 6-16-10
My Grand daughter, Evelyn, and I decided to try our luck fishing on the pond today. We’ve had a lot of heavy rain in the last few days and the water was very dirty. I thought this is going to be difficult. But, it wasn’t. I took her to the place where the bluegill were very aggressive the other day when they were pulling my Yum worms almost off the hook. The bluegill are apparently still on their nests and even though the water is so dirty we managed to get a few fish to bite. Shown here are two of the fish she caught all on her own . I set her up with a jig in the rust a chartreuse color and she did well with that. I had to reset her slip float a couple of times to get to the proper depth, but that was all. She managed to cast fairly well on her own using a Zebco reel and rod with 6lb test mono.
I managed to make a few casts with the Yum stick worm but with no results. I tried with my fly rod just before quitting with a white wooly bugger and caught a nice bluegill. Of course, when you’re fishing with a child, you must keep him/her aware of when they have a bite. Evie was looking at the ducks and geese as much as anything else but responded well when the time came to set the hook. When you take a child fishing you want them to catch the fish. Always, keep that in mind.
She enjoyed it for about an hour when she decided to go home, have some lunch, and then to play with her girl friend next door. I asked her if she had fun and she said” yes. I then asked her if she wanted to go again and she responded, “yes, but not today”. I said,” ok, next time you might catch some more.”
Tight lines
Jim
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