As a lot of you know, my oldest son Lake has shown an interest in fishing and been going on little trips with me since he was 2 and went on his first day long trip with me this year. I taught him how to cast by himself and he's been practicing and gotten pretty good at it (the casting part anyways, where it lands is often a mystery), so I knew it was fast approaching that he was going to get his first unassisted fish catch. Monday turned out to be that day.

I haven't been able to take him because of the heat and the one day it wasn't hot, it rained. Monday was supposed to make it to 90, but that's almost chilly compared to what we have had so we decided to go for awhile and if he got too hot we'd just leave. I took him to the little private lake I bought a lot on a couple years ago, which means we were in the johnboat since it cost 6 times more to register my Stratos for out there and it's only 100 acres. I think we only made it about 3 or 4 docks when Lake made a perfect cast next to some water willows with his wacky rig when it happened.

 

It wasn't his biggest catch by a long shot, but he was sure proud of it and he managed to catch about a half dozen on his own throughout the day, all without any assistance from me. 

Way cool!! How old is he?? 

19 minutes ago, Bassin' Brad said:

Way cool!! How old is he?? 

He's 4.5, will be 5 in December. 

Awesome!!

That's a big deal ! Good job Lake !

Catching awesome whoppers is an awful lot of fun .☺️

Great lesson on the fish and the hat.  Check out the crocks.  Great job dad.

Priceless! The world better get ready, there's a master angler on the rise! Next stop: FLW!!!  

Congratulations to Lake, and to you as well dad! 

Nice going! Nice to see he's not afraid of touching the.