May 19 *Kids Day* and May 20

[Seth]

May 19 was kids fishing day. I took a long time friend and his son down. He never has been much of a fisherman and his son had never caught a fish before. We started off drifting trout worms under a float, but he just couldn't get the hang of tightening the line and setting the hook so we switched over to yellow and rainbow powerbait on the bottom and he was able to catch his first four fish of his career. The trout cooperated and would swallow the hook so the lack of a hookset didn't really matter.  My dad was also down helping my brother in law and his boys and they caught several as well. As we finished up, my main bass fishing tournament partner and his two oldest girls showed up. He isn't a trout guy so I basically set them up on bottom with powerbait as well and the trout cooperated. They both caught a nice limit of trout. I'm not the most patient when it comes to helping others fish, but I think I can safely say that we all had an absolute blast getting them to catch some fish.

 

On Sunday, I went back down and took my fiance and her parents. The fishing wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. My fiance caught her limit of decent fish on a trout worm, and my father in law caught six, but threw back a couple small ones. It took him most of the day to catch them drifting bait below a float. I caught quite a few, but I had to resort to some micro sized jigs to get them to bite. They would bite a regular jig and trout worm, but most would only grab the end and never actually got the hook in their mouth enough to hook.

I saw several lunkers caught on Saturday by the kids as well as few left overs on Sunday by adults. The two biggest fish caught on kids days when I last checked was a pair of 6.8 pounders. Supposedly a guy pulled an 8 pounder out of the slow hole at the upper end of the park by the handicap area that morning.

[JestersHK]

Nice job buddy!  Way to go on getting the kiddos engaged.