I don't think kids can outfish their parents. I took my son plenty of times and he didn't get squat. It was so sad he found some tossed herring, on the ramp, and had me take a picture. He seemed to get discouraged often or would just rather play around on the bank. He learned how to drift the less snaggy holes. Last summer I would hook a trout and hand him the pole. Well on the last day of our week-long fishing/camping trip he grabbed his pole and hooked a steelhead and lost it whle grandpa grabbed his pole. He was so excited he had grandpa bait him up with some eggs and caught his first steelhead on his next cast. Here's the picture http://www.netbyte.net/steelheadman/ I've taken him out a couple of times this winter. Can't wait to take him back where he caught his first.