Building Memories While Fishing

Taking you kids fishing is a good way to formWhen a fish is caught, make sure you have a cooler
memories which will last a lifetime whether good orwith ice to place the fish in for the trip home. You can
bad, so we want those memories to be goodalways store the fish in the water while you're fishing,
memories. One way to ensure that the memories arebut the long trip home can cause the fish to
good, is to be pleasant and understanding while fishing.decompose and become slimy.
When you think you're about the catch that big fishAny good catch desires a picture and its best to have
you've been after all day and your seven year old askthe picture with the one that took you fishing. Holding a
you to bait their hook, stop fishing and bait their hook.slimy fish is not the ideal way to form good memories,
You may have lost that fish, but you've just made aso keep the fish cold and iced down on the trip home,
good memory.so mom can take a picture of you and your child
If you're in a boat, use a good Garmin, Humminbird,holding the fish. The picture will help enhance the
Lowrance or Furuno fishfinder from to locate wherememories and always reinforces the good aspect of
the fish are swimming and fish in that area to improvethe fishing trip.
your and your child's chance of catching a fish toOne of the most important things to remember when
remember. Any fish is exciting for a kid, but one that isforming good memories with your kids, is to smile and
large enough to mount on the wall would never bebe happy at all time even if your kid caught the biggest
forgotten.fish. Remember your goal is to catch and hold the love
If you're fishing from the bank, you can still locateof your children and letting them one up you every
where the fish are by using a Humminbird portablenow and then, will help reinforce the good memories
fishfinder from to locate the fish. Fish caught from theand its not the end of the world to not catch the
bank are usually not as large as fish caught from abiggest fish.
boat, but you've still made memories.