I bought my son a new Zebco 33 and small tackle box for his 9th birthday on Saturday so we had to go fishing on Sunday. I took him to a neighborhood pond in Titusville, FL behind a friends house. We started around 11:00 and fished for about 3 1/2 hours. He caught three small bass on senko's and a black/blue paddle-tail worm, he is definitely in training but coming along. I helped with the casting and setting the hook, he is learning the push button but his timing is way off. He gets frustrated because I am trying to get him to let it sit, reel nice and slow, and not to keep waving the rod all around. I know I need to have a lot more patience because it is frustrating for me as well because I know that his fine motor skills are lacking because of his special needs -(Downs Syndrome) as well as his attention span. On the brighter side we had fun and I even got him to touch all the fish and he gave one of them a kiss before we put it back. I caught 7 or 8 after he lost interest while he played with his toys and a stick on the dock. I got one about 2 lbs. on a horny toad (Okeechobee Craw color) and the rest on senkos of different colors. Four of the fish including the toad fish came from under a bush where there is a drain pipe coming in under the water and I lost a nice one about 2 1/2 lbs. on a senko while I was trying to get him to come over and crank it in.
Thats awesome Shannon! Im sure your son loved every minute of it. Its cool that you got him to give the fish a kiss before ya let it go. Hes a mini Jimmy Houston in training
Yea it was cool, I got him to do it a couple months ago too but I need to have someone along to get a picture of that deal.
Speaking of Jimmy houston, I have a picture of me and my son from several years ago with his first trout that I had Jimmy autograph for me at the Baltimore Bass Pro Shops Grand Opening.
I did tie on a beetle spin with a grub with the hopes that some small bass would tear it up, but he had pretty much lost the attention span after catching those three. I will try to get that picture scanned in.
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