hit em hard, pics

Well I let my 11 year old play hookie yesterday so he could spend the day on the lake with good ole dad. We took out the kayak and hit one of our favorite gill holes. What a day we had. Put the kayak in the water at 11:30 am, pulled the kayak out of the water at 3:00 pm after catching at least
100+, most of which were 6 inches or bigger. We took home 18 and left the rest for another day. He sure is good about not having to always take home a limit of keepers, in fact he releases far more than he keeps. Tonight I let him take the fillet knife alone for the first time and he did a pretty darn good job and actually enjoyed doing it. For the last few years he has just helped me with the rinsing of fillets and packaging but now he is getting pretty good with the knife. Looks like good ole dads filleting days might be getting a bit easier :D.

Thats what I call "in-service training"! Glad you had a good day. Nice mess of panfish.

good looking fish, looks like someone is hooked for life

love to see kids fishing,makes lots of good memories.

You're lucky as my 2 boy's wont even touch a fish.They will catch them all day if I take them off the hook.Funny thing is they love eating fish.I think from now on they wont eat anymore fish unless they at least take one off the hook.I think i'm spoiling them.Thing's going to change around here starting today lol.

That is a nice bunch of fish that ya got there. I can remember playing hooky with my day several times. Oh boy were those good times. GOOD GOING DAD :)

That's part of his education. It don't get any better than that.

better than most any other form of education

well really its alot better all a person has to do is know how to fish and everything else falls into place lol

slabsrus,

Thanks for sparkin up some good memories!

Good mess of fish! Your teaching that boy right! Keep him fishing!:)

that is what it is all about,i bet he will never forget that trip.nice catch ,another fisherman for life.

Good looking mess of fish there, I be that boy had a blast. Congrats on the catch and thanks for the pics.

Thats the way to raise a boy right. Show him there are some other important things in life besides study, work and money.
"gene"

Like wrwest, I can remember my Mom & Dad letting me play hooky from school to fish. It wasn't often but I still remember the times they did. You're producing good memories and I hope you continue to bring in big stringers!!

good job dad.

WTG, Played hookie a few days myself and I still don't use algebra, trig, or calc., but my fishing skills still come into play every weekend and alot of weekdays, not to be forgotten all the great memories.