Tackle?

[Grainraiser]

For panfish I would stick with live bait but how old is your son. Start him off with live bait and move him to lures as he gets older (i'm assuming he is very young).

[bigtattoo79]

For panfish I would stick with live bait but how old is your son. Start him off with live bait and move him to lures as he gets older (i'm assuming he is very young).

He’s 14 years old but has high functioning autism so not quite on the same level as other 14 year olds, we’ve only been back at it for a couple weeks and he’s catching on very well at this point. He’s been baiting his own hook, casting/retrieving on his own and unhooking his own fish. Now things like untangling lines and getting stuck in the grass can be very frustrating but he’s getting better/good at it now.

I love artificial lures but we were not getting many hook ups and I didn’t want him to lose interest so I decided to go get some worms and that’s when his interest blew up. One spot we found has tons of small panfish and every cast you get bites. He’s hooked on the worms for sure, so much that we’ve already built a worm bed/bin to raise red worms and his interest in that has amazed me.

Thanks