natetreat
9/7/2011 12:08:00 AMNice! She's got some skills now! I remeber her catching those trout last year and she had a blast, I bet she was having a great time with those monsters!
islandbass
9/7/2011 12:38:00 AMRight on! She's handling it like a pro. If you think as I do with my daughter, I want her to out fish me every time to keep her interested in fishing with me. I dread the day she might become a mall rat. Pat yourself on the back for taking her with you.
Gringo Pescador
9/7/2011 7:10:00 AMGlad I got to share a bank with you and help get your daughter on some fish Knot! For those who don't know - this guy is a madman! Pole breaks? No problem! He'll cast, hook & land em with only the bottom 1/2 of the pole! He cleans em AND rips the skin off of em right there riverside. I was waiting for him to start ripping the gills out with his teeth!
knotabassturd
9/7/2011 2:43:00 PMislandbass- ya I am with yuh on letting the little one build some confidence in fishing and getting her up to speed, sure like the idea better than ANY mall shopping :-)
LOL the ripping the gills out by teeth only happens the first trip or two out when excessive cabin fever and a chance (FINALLY) to get out time themselves simultanously GP :-)
The cleaning method is certainly not 'normal'. That's easy to determine by simply looking up at people as I clean the fish. Even my daughter looks at me funny when the skin gets ripped off. We call it the 'seal skinning method'. Although suppose bears are similar. I think nate has also been privy to the 'technique'. Definitely no slime to be had although it is a bit ugly until the fish are filleted. Scaling the fish and giving them a cold shower blast works fine getting rid of slime but isn't quite as fun ;-) That was great fun GP and was exactly what I was looking for with the 3 days off from work! Time on the water with daughter AND her keeping interested in fishing, praciticing casting, and catching. A nice trifecta.
LOL the ripping the gills out by teeth only happens the first trip or two out when excessive cabin fever and a chance (FINALLY) to get out time themselves simultanously GP :-)
The cleaning method is certainly not 'normal'. That's easy to determine by simply looking up at people as I clean the fish. Even my daughter looks at me funny when the skin gets ripped off. We call it the 'seal skinning method'. Although suppose bears are similar. I think nate has also been privy to the 'technique'. Definitely no slime to be had although it is a bit ugly until the fish are filleted. Scaling the fish and giving them a cold shower blast works fine getting rid of slime but isn't quite as fun ;-) That was great fun GP and was exactly what I was looking for with the 3 days off from work! Time on the water with daughter AND her keeping interested in fishing, praciticing casting, and catching. A nice trifecta.
knotabassturd
9/8/2011 6:18:00 PMjens- thanx for the feedback. I told my daughter a river fishing veteran said she looked awesome fighting the fish :-) Just pinks but the timing was perfect since I've been working waaay too much and fishing way too little this year. Gringo Pescador- just to be clear to others, I don't regularly fish with a broken fishing rod sporting only the lowest guide LOL. As GP knows, the rod broke after I landed my 5th fish but before the 6th so I said 'screw it' and started trying to swing the little jig out there with the half rod. Luckily even on the 6 pound monofilament and one guide I was able to land that 6th one. Unfortunately it was ANOTHER broken rod (sheesh). Broke two old ones (25+ years old) last year on chinook. This one was just a trout/bass rod so not a total surprise although I never grip the graphite part of rod so maybe there was a small fracture in it already. OK back to work now, but it was a fun weekend with the kid.