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Show lj' 1 " WORLD OUTDOORS HI HAVE always loved hunting, A fishing, and everything outdoors, out-doors, yet I cannot interest my son in any of these things." How many times have you heard a father, make such a remark. I have heard it many times and am sure that you have, too. Never having hav-ing known such a problem, however, how-ever, I find it difficult to understand. under-stand. It seems that my five-year-old has been asking me to take him fishing since tha day he learned to talk. I have taken him many times, and ha would get up from a sick bed if I promised to take him fishing. fish-ing. Being therefore to some degree de-gree qualified to give advice to fathers who would lika to interest their sons in the fishing or hunting hobbies, I would make one specific recommendation: when you take your son for an outing, make it his trip all the way. Leave your own fishing gear at home. This, of course, is the procedure with small fry. When the boy reaches his teens, there will be fun in doing things together. If you have fished your favorite stream as much as I have mine, you know where the bream beds are and where the sunflsh gather. Here, and not to the deep pool where fish are bigger, but more difficult to catch, is the spot to take a boy fishing. Fishing enthusiasm comes with the thrill of catching fish. To the youngster, a sunflsh, blue gill, bullhead, bull-head, or even a sucker on the end of his line is just as exciting as the sight of the more respected bass or pike. If you want your boy to enjoy fishing, make it fun. Take him often, but don't make him walk too far or scorch in the sun when the fish are not biting. And, most important of all, take him where he is certain to catch a fish. Large or small, it doesn't matter just to it is a fish. |