Funny things kids do..

[Marke Cicero]

Hey Guys,



Well most of us on this page have children or have taken children fishing. So here's the topic:

What's the funniest/cutest thing that has happened in your boat with your children?



One thing that always cracks me up is when my boys get bored, they take the net, they lay down on the back deck right over the transducer and watch the Fish finder. You guessed it. Everytime a fish apears on the screen, they swipe the net.....LOL. I laugh, but one of these days, they'll come up with a fish.



Marke

 

[Malcolm Smoot]

About 5 years ago, my youngest brother and his two sons were fishing at Rice Lake in Canada along with another younger brother of mine, my son-in-law, and myself. Well, my two nephews are the two most uncoordinated people I have ever seen. We were all fishing for panfish in approx. the same area (6 feet of water), when all of us in other boats heard the worst noise coming from my youngest brother's boat and we all turned around at the same time and in time to see one of the nephews start sliding off the front of the boat and into the water. As we see him going in, we see him panic and try to get a handhold on the fiberglass to prevent him from going in (could have told him that won't work). We saw him slide in and at the same time, hold his hat and fishing pole high so they won't get wet - and they didn't. We still joke with him to this day on how a person can sit on the front of the boat and slide in.

 

[Andrew Zuber]

Hey Marke!

Glad to see you back on a more regular basis!

How's school going???



My 10 year old son Jake fishes with me all the time...He gets darn right bent if I EVER leave without him...Well, about 3 years ago we were fishing rattle traps when I still had my 14' boat...as you can imagine, treble hooks were zipping all over the place! On one cast, Jake reared back to really zing one and he hooked the line on my favorite spinning Spirex spinning combo that was laying across the seats...launched it right into the Lake! He knew it was my favorite...the look on his face was priceless...I think he figured HE was going to be launched into the lake!!!



az

 

[Rob LaMoy]

Nothing too hilarious, but last summer when my boy was 3, we went for a fishing/boat ride to one of the islands. This kid loves to drive ANYTHING with a steering wheel and throttle. Now he can't even see over the dash while standing mind you, but upon first seeing a jet ski reeking havoc near shore he asked, "Daddy our boat is FAST right?". I said, "yeah, pretty fast." He says, "Good!, Can we go run that bad guy over?" As he proceeded to steer in that direction. I never prompted or said anything. Early road rage? One time I turned around (I had only taken my eys off of him for seconds, which is enough) but found him gone. I'm in the middle of lake and frantic. But I never heard a splash. Then up he pops out of one of my livewells! He could fit right down inside and close the lid which only hours early he had "whizzed" in thinking it was a porta potty!

 

[Jeffry Patterson]

Watching my two work as a team catching bluegills. Daughter is up on the dock holding the rod, son is in the water watching the worm baited hook through goggles and a snorkle. Fish takes her hook and his hand comes out of the water with a thumbs up telling her it is time to reel em in.

 

[TrepMan]

My 2 boys think the best thing in the boat is the front live well! Luckily they haven't seen fit to use it for a potty (like Rob's boy)! They could care LESS about fishing, catching or reeling them in this year all they want to do is dump the entire contents of THIER tackle boxes into the live well and have a WORM party!



Funniest thing happened this sunday when we took the boat out for the first time with the wagon (worked great!). We meet up as were putting in with a nice Grandpa taking his 2 grandsons (10 and 3) fishing. He points us to a nice quiet cove not 200 yards from the ramp where he said they caught a mess of crappie last night. So we motor over and while the boys commence dumping thier stuff into the live well which is filling up with water. I get the worms and minnows out and grab a sandwich and watch the boys.



All of a sudden my 2 yearold starts screamming and pointing towards the float and is yelling "daddy fish, daddy fish" well I look over and the float is still sitting there with nary a water ring so I tell Eli "that's a float, no fish yet". He keeps pointing and YELLING "daddy fish, daddy fish" so I look back, same think this time no movement on the float. By now he's getting RED in the face, stamping up and down and ready to burst. I look back and still the float is just sitting there. So I try to explain how a float work, and unless it goes under the water there is no fish on it. He is getting madder and madder, finaly he grabs my hand and takes me to the back of the boat (where I had the 2 rods set up in the rod holders, away from the boys) and puts my hand on the OTHER rod which by now is BENT over to the water and is about out of line (it's an ultra light with 4lb test)! I completely forgot about the 2nd pole which was rigged carolina style with the worm. Sure enough Eli was right and a nice LITTLE hybrid bass was hooked. I've now learned that I do not ignore when Eli says Daddy FISH! Heres a picture of the boys with the fish, and YES daddy did a POOR job of aiming the camera, if you look closely at the bottom center you'll se the lips and eyes of this little guy. He was released unharmed to grow up bigger. We also caught a nice 3 1/2 lb catfish trolling (of all things a crankbait) and had a nice fish fry for Sunday dinner.



Oh, also I taught Noah on Sunday how to read the depth finder and now he calls himself my "navigator!" his job is to watch the depth when we are trolling to make sure it does not get below 10 feet (since we were trolling medium running crank baits), and he's ready to go again!