A good friend from church asked me to take his little 8 year old G-son fishing because the G-dad takes him fishing but never catches anything.<br /><br />So, today, I took them fishing on my favorite lake in a canoe. I don't own a power boat and only fish from one when I can get an invite from my more affluent friends. <br /><br />It was windy at 10-15MPH with 25MPH gusts. Not the kind of day I would have liked but that's how it goes.<br /><br />We headed out and on the way to the lake they bought me lunch. <br /><br />I took 2 rods and my tackle box. I tried a POP-R on my baitcaster for a while but had no luck so I switched to a Mini-lure on my UL spinning rod. <br /><br />It's a tiny JITTERBUG in the shape of a green mouse with a white rubber tail that sticks up and it has an orange stripe on his tummy.<br /><br />It was on my wife's LADY LIGHT 6' rod with a trigger UL reel and 6# line. I figured that would be a good rod for the 8 year old if I actually got a strike.<br /><br />BANG!<br /><br />Two nice bass in just a short time. One was a nice sized female. I let the kid land them and he was thrilled. He was NOT thrilled when I let "his" fish go. <br /><br />We had been out for an hour or more and the wind was picking up, so we headed in. <br /><br />When we got to the landing, he lamented that he had "wanted to take those fish home to eat" and I said "I put them back because I want to try to catch them again." He said, "Well, you better hurry up because you're so old."<br /><br />His G-dad and I got a big laugh out of that and the kid didn't know what was so funny. That just made it funnier.<br /><br />"Out of the mouths of babes."<br /><br />Do you have any funny stories about kids and fishing?
