I wasn't implying that you didn't like bass just a different prespective. Fresh brookies on the table are pretty hard to beat but then again so is white perch.

My sons grew up not having access to smallmouths and know salmon/trout pretty well. Now that they have bass fished more often they think trolling is for the birds. Can't get them out of bed for a morning of salmon fishing, can't keep them in bed if I mention smallmouths.

Jay - I guess its an age begets patience kind of thing. I know when I was a kid I would have thought slow trolling around and around and around again would be BORING. I think for kids and some adults too they just like to be active -- casting and retrieving etc. is what they consider fishing. When I first tried trolling on Winni years ago (before my more recent awakening) I got nothing, no hits, just frustration and a taste of many a cigarette boat's wake. I really did not have the boat for it and had these crummy cheapo manual riggers that were a real pain. Now that I've got a new boat, new riggers and all the gear and after getting a small taste of success, I love trolling and tinkering with all the gear and electronics. I'm sure I'll get back into bass fishing...someday!

Gentlemen,

Be happy they want to go fishing, hunting, shooting at all. My three boys still think it's "cool" to get up at 3:30am to go salmon or striper fishing. As a Hunter Ed Instructor I see way too many youth's being forced from peer pressure and too few that actually have the desire.

Dean

AMEN, brothers

Dean

You deer hunted with my boys this past November here in northern Maine and I have fished with your boys both on Square and Winni. We are truly blessed . Plus they catch big fish.

Wanna talk boring????? When i was a kid i used to go up the the 1st Conn Lake with my Grandfather at least 4 full weeks out of the summer and he used to fish strictly off of the bottom with shiner's and sucker's for Lake trout, Now that can be a very boring 8-9hours but i'll tell ya what I loved every minute of it and would give just about anything to be able to go fishing with my Grand Dad One more time!!!!!!!! Thank God I've got a Great Best Friend and all kinds of new best friends that i have met through this board that have taken me out fishing with them,, every time i go with one of you it always reminds me of my childhood and how much i may have just taken that Awesome Quality time for Granted. Enjoy it while you can cause you never know what lies around the next corner!!!!!!!! Take Care God Bless and Tight Lines LOL Dave From up North

Dave....You just described what it is all about!!!
It not the numbers or the biggest fish...but the experience! It was my grandparents that got me hooked on fishing and the outdoors! That is what is great about this site as you can see that same spirit in most posts!

Hey Still fishin I'll be around tomorrow evening if you still want to talk about the moose stuff???????? I seemed to have misplaced your number and the message you left on the answering machine my Significant other accidentally erased it UGHHHHHHHHH Can't say too much though as she's been real good at letting me go fishing quite often over the summer LOL Take Care God Bless and Tight Lines LOL DAve From up NOrth