Saturday Morning Fishing Shows

[Bobby Bass]

I had the ten year old grandson over, the one who fishes and we settled in on the couch to watch some Saturday fishing shows. I just got cable back after not having it for a few years and have not yet got gotten caught up on the Saturday morning outdoors scene. The grandson watched for about ten minutes then wandered off to see when his grandma was doing, The reason why? The fishing show we were watching was just about fishing with the latest hi tech sonar.

I kept watching fishing shows and every one was about hi tech gear whether it was for open water or ice fishing. It may be me but I don't know to many kids fishing who are sitting watching graphs. What happen to shows aimed at the youth or just starting fishing person? Shows about chasing gills and catfish, how to fish from a shore or fishing rivers. How to get unsnaged or how many sinkers you need. Different kind of floats. Hook sizes, how to put a worm on or which end of a leech is the head. I grew up fishing out of a 12 foot  rowboat with a couple of oars. You can't find them boats at a sports show these days. Unless the young folks learn how to fish they are not going to fish and down the road you are going to lose that buyer for the 50k boat and 2k graph because they are not fishing.

[mike89]

I agree Bobby, I started fishing the rivers around us, Minn and Blue earth,  self taught for the most part and plenty of help from friends a few relatives.  Glad I can help pass along stuff to my grand kids know.