What age to teach a boy to kill a fish?

[Feydakin]

My daughter grew up a 4H kid and fully understood that we had kill to eat from a very very early age.. In fact she got pretty upset with us when she was 6 or 7 and we had her pig butchered and didn't let her watch the whole process.. And butchering a pig is far more dramatic than killing and cleaning a fish..

I think that the key is to not over explain things at that age.. It's enough to know that this fish has to be cleaned if we want to eat it.. And if you think that act of clubbing may just be too much for him, bring a cooler of ice and toss the fish in the cooler.. It's more traumatic for the fish, but not so much for the kid..
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