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Teaching a person to fish

For the past few weeks, my son has been saying, "I want to go fishing, I want to go fishing."  We live on Cassadaga Lake and he has noticed people engaged in the activity and he wants to do it... desperately I might add.

Last week, he said it again "I want to go fishing" in a very determined tone.  So I told him to "ask Daddy".

This may seem like a cop-out to some of you, but I said it because...
  • I have only been fishing once in my life, so I rank as a complete novice
  • I know my husband has a fishing pole somewhere in the back of a shed, and said ownership of the item in question IMPLIES knowledge
So my son asked my husband to go fishing and I (the supportive wife and mother) asked my husband to go fishing with our son.  And it worked...
  • My husband immediately purchased our son a child-size fishing pole
  • then they went down to the lake and tried it out
  • and our son LOVES it!
He's almost 3 years old and he casts the line out with a smile and a flourish.  He can spend HOURS down at the lake casting with his fishing pole, reeling the little plastic tire on the end of it back to shore, and casting again.  And here's wonderful thing... He just knows that he is going to catch a fish someday.  He has absolute assurance that it will happen.  And right now, he believes that fishing is the BEST thing to do.  EVER.

Seems like we have a budding fisherman on our hands.  And his Daddy is going to teach him to fish.  Yay, husband!

So I thought my part in the whole fishing craze was going be to remain the observer of the fisherman(men) and that my boys would bond in this way together without me. I was wrong.

My husband just purchased fishing licenses for us both.  Both of us.  I guess I'll be learning to fish too.  So I started practicing with the boys today.  Looks like I'm a natural caster, folks.  Who knew? 

Now I just have to bait a hook and catch a fish and I'll gain full-blown amateur fisherwoman status. 

Bottomline:  There is always something more to do and to learn.  As the proverb states:  "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
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