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Do You Make Your Kids Fishing Experience Enjoyable?

If you take your children fishing with you, they can enjoy something for the rest of their lives, as long as you make it pleasant for them.

If on the other hand, you yell, scream and get upset with them a lot, then they won't enjoy it and neither will you. Make their fishing trips enjoyable and teach them responsibility at the same time.

Let them get their own rod and reel ready with your help. Let them pack it in the car, get their own tackle ready. The only thing you really want to watch is the hooks if they're really young.

Of course, if they need help then you give it to them. What they learn now will be with them forever. It is said the first few years of their life builds their character forever.

Make their fishing experience pleasurable and they will always love to fish and love you for taking them.. It sure beats drugs!

Charles E. White has fished for almost 50 years for bass from California to Florida. In his lifetime, it is estimated that he has caught over 6,000 bass. His biggest bass is a 12 pound 14 ounce that hangs on his wall in his office.

Charles has fished with people who have never fished for bass before and taught them how to become successful anglers and also has fished with the Pros in Florida. His new website about fishing for bass is at: http://www.bassfishingweekly.com

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GAO: Dolphins, whales lack protection from fishing
The Associated Press - 3 hours ago
... by law to more than a dozen marine mammals potentially at risk of death or injury due to commercial fishing, congressional investigators said Wednesday. ...

Illegal fishing charged; tons of rockfish seized
Baltimore Sun, United States - 18 hours ago
It was the second time in less than a week that officers had charged Jack C. Colbourne, owner of Colbourne Seafood Inc. in Secretary, with illegal fishing. ...
Police board fishing vessel; three men cited Examiner.com
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DNR: Ice-fishing conditions continue to improve
MLive.com, MI - 2 hours ago
Detroit River: Boat anglers are launching at Metro Park and heading up to Gibraltar and fishing for perch in the canals. Most of the fish are not big, ...
Anglers enjoy a fine ice fishing weekend Petoskey News-Review
Wegman to host ice fishing seminar Georgina Advocate
Anglers encouraged to stay safe on the ice Sault This Week
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Teenage girl, a rarity aboard fishing boats, lands giant yellowfin ...
Los Angeles Times, CA - 9 hours ago
That's because women are a rarity and girls are essentially nonexistent aboard San Diego long-range fishing boats, which spend up to 18 days at sea. ...

MLive.com

Fishing away through the holidays
MLive.com, MI - 5 hours ago
"We were fishing for steelhead earlier today in the Paw Paw River, but they weren't biting," said Smith, a 31-year-old angler from Parchment. ...

Ice fishing traditions passed on
Fort Mills Times, SC - 7 hours ago
"This is his first time ice fishing," Brian said between drilling holes through the lake's ice. The younger Teskey is starting ice fishing at about the same ...

Ultimate Fishing Show Returns
WXYZ, MI - 9 hours ago
(WXYZ) - The Ultimate Fishing Show returns to the Detroit area Thursday, January 8 at the Rock Financial Showplace in Novi. ...
Michigan's Ultimate Fishing Show starts Thursday Port Clinton News Herald
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Fishing report for Thursday, Jan. 8
Alameda Times-Star, CA - 1 hour ago
Fishing is good for anyone using Power Bait, nightcrawlers and Rapalas. Chartreuse is the magic color. (209) 274-4739 CAMANCHE: Water releases from Lake ...

AlaskaReport

Search suspended for lost fishing boat crewman
Fort Mills Times, SC - 3 hours ago
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard has suspended the search for a missing crew member of a fishing boat. The search was suspended Wednesday for 43-year-old ...
Coast Guard crew seeks missing fisherman Anchorage Daily News
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Crab fisherman missing in Bering Strait Seattle Times
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Bay Area Indymedia

Hundreds remember BART shooting victim with joy and tears
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 1 hour ago
Eugene Carter, a church deacon, recalled a fishing trip in Tracy in which Grant carried a bucket. Carter wondered what was inside and came face to face with ...
1000 people mourn man who was shot and killed by BART officer San Jose Mercury News
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