To give or not to give..........That is the question

[Tarpon4me]

Anyhow, i'll tell the story in a brief format. My son and I arrived to the tourney in surprise that no one had brought any other bait. I rigged his cane pole super tough. I attached 25lb Berkely Big game to the end and used a 2/0 circle hook. I had a much longer piece of line tied on than should have been, so that we could deepen up the bobber and fish closer to the bottom than everyone else. The smaller fish where towards the top, and no one brought spare line with them so they could fish near the bottom. Once I got him all baited up, I twirled the line over my head while he held his cain pole and slung it out to the middle. Right away he hooked a monster, 12 pounds he was. We continued to catch big cats while the people around us just watched on in amazement.

I got to talking to the guy beside us and I figured i'd be nice and share the spoils of success with him. He managed to land a big enough fish to take the prize for largest fish. Mikey ended up winning the total weight catagory. If I hadn't passed out those chicken livers, Mike would have won it all. But, it was way more fun at the weigh in, it was pretty close.[cool]

I know some people would have wanted their own child to win it all, which is an understandable goal. On any given day, I wouldn't have shared my bait. But, I suppose I was in a giving mood that day. Besides, it taught my son a good lesson about shareing and being competetive.
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