04-17-2013, 03:25 PM
In the fall I took my daughter (9 yrs old) with us to Yuba and set her up fishing vertically from the boat in 20 feet of water. I put a chunk of carp meat on a hook with a heavy sinker up a foot from that. She just sat and held the pole and caught 1.5 nice pike.
Funny thing is I didn't think it would work, so I didn't bother putting a steel leader on her line. She boated one of them, but lost the second one (line cut) just as we were about to boat it. The second one was close to 30-32 inches.
There were three of us fishing with large crank bait, and we only caught three pike between the three of us. So, she out fished us all.
I attached a picture of the smaller pike my daughter caught which we did boat. The second picture is a picture of two of the pike caught by my friend who came along and my son. They actually had these two fish on their lines at the same time.
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Funny thing is I didn't think it would work, so I didn't bother putting a steel leader on her line. She boated one of them, but lost the second one (line cut) just as we were about to boat it. The second one was close to 30-32 inches.
There were three of us fishing with large crank bait, and we only caught three pike between the three of us. So, she out fished us all.
I attached a picture of the smaller pike my daughter caught which we did boat. The second picture is a picture of two of the pike caught by my friend who came along and my son. They actually had these two fish on their lines at the same time.
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