One happy kid with his first triple. Ended up breaking two Lami's and the net that day. He lifted straight up and tryed to pull the second fish into the boat without the net, oops, snap. Dipped the fish, whew.

BIggest fish was right up to the boat when a Sea Lion did a drive by on him, sounded hard, oops, snap. I took the broken rod handed the boy the net to salvage this carnage and he got the fish netted. Great job. Picked the net straight up, oops, crack.

One of the greatest days we've had together without his little brother. Took the rods to woodland. Wasn't there 20 minutes back out the door good as new. Whatta day.

Nice Job. Way to take the kid out. I sure am glad that my dad got me started in the outdoors.

Nice fish / Story.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

If one can keep you that busy, you may want to consider a deck hand for assistance if you take out the younger one. Too funny. Glad you both came away smiling....it is what it's all about.

Nice story. Sounds like the things that happen when I get my stepsons out. Broken rods, lost fish, or not. Fun times indeed. Things like that make you remember those days forever.

No kidding. No doubt, hands down one of the funnest and funniest days on the river. When the first rod exploded the look on his face when he turned around was priceless. Instead of freaking out like I normally would I just for some reason got a big smile and started laughing like crazy at him. That in turn got him loosened up and laughing and the rest of the mayhem continued. It taugt us both a great lesson and afforded me the opportunity to show my eldest that hey, shiat happens sometimes. We can replace the fish, rods, and net. We can never replace that trip together that we still crack up about. It was definately one of those childhood trips/memories as a boy he will have with him for life.

Slab Happy, feel free to swming by with the net next time we're in dire straits, LOL

Thanks guys

Nice Fish...great triple!!!...fun memories....thanks..c

ooops, thought this was a different type of thread...

Judas Priest those are impressive.

The fish are nice too

DaveD said a mouthfull. Sounds like lamiglass did you right. You also have a great attitude with the young ones,whats right and important, nice story....Fishy

i know a guy in his 40s who has never learned how to lift the net after the fish is in the bag... we practically have to run a wood dowel through the net handle. i've given him the royal brewer biatch spew many times.

good job on doing the kid right. the pic says the story.

Thanks for the comments from all ya. I did purposely go out a little lite regarding the Rods. It was one of those "I'm your guide son, you fish" adventures. Your wood dowel commnet brought a HUGE smile to me due to I actually contenplated the same thing before leaving. I took the old net with the shorter handle that had already been tweaked a bit on the closing end of the hoop. We took 2 Lami's and 2 Ugly Stick TIger Rods. Finished the cruise with the Tiger Rods. That day really defined me in regards to just how much pleasure I get from getting the boys hooked up and let the show begin. Making leaders, telling stories, cleaning up the scales and blood, cooking some eggs and sausage, and potatoes on the coleman, getting the cards punched, bait back up and "remember about" how many pulls you were
The whole gambit. I just really enjoy watching the action from the other side of the fence now. Tighten your drag! Let let let, let out some slack! Don't screw this up, it looks like a dandy, hee hee. Too much fun. And yes, Lami hooked this boy up big time. Told them exactly what happended and they dug into thier barrell of tops and bottoms and got us all squared away. Very appreciative and will definately continue to by fish specific rods from them. Now if I could just talk them into that old broken broom handle in the back