Last week I took my 2.5 year old daughter out to a friend's pond where she "caught" her first couple fish with the new fly rod my wife got her for Father's Day. She didn't do the casting or the hooking, but she did feel the fish on the rod and we looked at the couple of bluegill we got in a bucket for a while. She seemed as interested as a 2.5 year old can really be in fly fishing. We kept it short, 20 minutes or so and then off for ice cream. It was a lot of fun to see a little spark in her eyes.
We'll see. I'm not pushing too hard. This is my one bite at the apple, so it would be great if she'd be a fishing buddy.
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