went to a pond today with my son and we had a blast.  the first cast i caught a nice one on a LFT magic shad, and then picked up my other rod and caught one on my second cast with a sammy.  as im reeling in the fish that demolished the sammy i see my son fighting a fish on his rod (at this point he is using a nightcrawler).  so we doubled up and he was excited.  he is only 4 and these days are so much fun.  we went on to catch a fish every other cast or so for the next 40 minutes or so.  he switched to a senko and caught a bunch on them as well.  i caught a bunch on the LFT swimbaits and the sammy, as well as on a spinnerbait and a lipless crank.  then the sun came up and we couldnt buy a bite.  after all that action i didnt want to slow down and fish a jig or a worm, and my son was tired so we packed it up and went home.  lot of fun... my son caught one that went 3.4 pounds and i caught a handful in the 3 lb range (didnt weight the ones i caught) and a ton of smaller fish.  

far and away the most fun ive had yet this year.

matt

lol sweet, your son is lucky, I haven't caught anything like that and i'm 14 ....owell...lol hope you had a blast and many more to come!

Thats what its all about!! Good job.

These are the best of times.  

4! Only 4 years old? Man, that's incredible! Congratulations on your awesome father and son outing. You have an amazing child and I'm sure you're proud of him. Great report. I'd love to read some more stories about you and your little boy fishing together. Keep'em coming. Great stuff!

thanks guys, it was a lot of fun.  he comes with me a lot and these are the kind of days that he loves.  when the fishing is slow it can test his patience (probally a character defect that i passed along

days like this though he is just so excited.  at one point i saw him put his rod down and run in a two big circles and im pretty sure he was just so excited that he didnt know what to do with his energy lol

for a 4 year old he is fairly proficient.  he can fish with a spinning rod, although he almost always uses his little closed faced pflueger underhang.  hes a good kid and im fortunate to have him as a fishing partner...

awesome day for you two...great stuff

now Matt hows about some pics for us to schmooze over  

These days are priceless, these are the ones you'll be trying to remember when you pick him up from the police station or school detention for the first time  ;D  at least that's what my dad said......

These days are priceless, these are the ones you'll be trying to remember when you pick him up from the police station or school detention for the first time  ;D  at least that's what my dad said......

Priceless!  

jomatty, congrats on the excellent outing with your son!

Man I need a pond like that!  I'm taking my 6yo whenever I go fishing but we aren't catching very many, and he soon gets bored.

He's currently learning how to cast a baitcaster though  ;D

That's an awesome day out at any age. It's great that he's got a dad that will give him the chance to catch fish like that. Keep it up dad.   Who knows he may be the next KVD.