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This video is about teaching your kids to fish the easy way. Simon shares what rod and reel to start kids out on, what tackle to use, and a few helpful tips he's found along his journey of fishing with his kids.
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Weighted Bobbers - https://amzn.to/3ko3rkv
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Crappie Nibbles - https://amzn.to/39mbckM (mega magic bait!)
In this video:
0:00 - Simon's Experience
0:15 - Rods and Reels
2:25 - Terminal Tackle
4:55 - Bait
7:10 - Teaching Kids To Cast
8:20 - Storytime
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What's up everybody
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It's Simon from Lake Hub. I've been having such a blast teaching my kids how to fish and I wanted to share
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the easiest way to get your kids into fishing. It's really not that complicated
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Let me show you. So for starters, you want to pick the right kind of rod and reel setup
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This is the classic teacher kids how to fish reel. This is a spin casting reel
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This is an off brand but Zebco is like the classic right
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And if you're not familiar with how they work, you push the button and then let it go as you're going forward
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Every kid can just master this and have a lot of fun fishing with the style of a reel
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Smaller is better. So if you are going to go, I mean, you could go straight to an open spinning reel like this
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My kids are having a good time learning how to do this. They feel very official
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It feels more official than this because this is what dad uses. So they like this too
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If you're going with a spinning reel or when you're stepping up from a spincaster to a spinning reel
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just make sure that you start with a micro light. This is a micro light. So this reel is a lot smaller than a conventional reel, which would be about that big
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So one of the differences in a micro light versus conventional size rod is the height
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This is a five foot rod. there's a lot less back and forth action that you need so it's just easier for kids to manage
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it's also it's namesake it's light it's a light rig it's for you know light line light lures
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light fish but it's also a light rig all together it's just easier to handle and the smaller
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reel is is just that it's it's smaller lighter easier to handle it's also the distance between
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where you have to grab the line from here to here this is something I learned from
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having kids didn't really think think this through ever but this distance their
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fingers are only so long so they can only reach so far to be able to grab the
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line and hold it to open the bail and a micro light is what you have to do with
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kids with smaller hands so they'll get into the bigger rods when they get older but best thing to do is to start here graduate up to here and then
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as they get older they can just the rods can grow with them as far as your tackle i like to
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start kids off with live bait you know fishing lewers is fun but when they learning to cast they can cast very far If you casting for them it just nonstop Cast hand off reel in cast hand off reel in
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It's nonstop. So what I like to do to start kids out fishing and to sort of start to teach them the patience and appreciation for fishing is with bait
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So here's all the tackling need. This is like the cheapest setup you can possibly ever imagine
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You just need a hook on the end, a little treble hook, or a smaller bait hook
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You can also use little mosquito hooks. Any small hook will work. What we're trying to do is we're just trying to get them into any fish. And usually that's going to be panfish
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Bluegill, red ear, green sunfish, that sort of thing. A little fish about the size
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Trust me, any fish on a line is going to be fun for kids
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Next, a little split shot. So this is a little kind of Pac-Man kind of device, right
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It's just a little chunk of lead. And you just squish it shut and you can pinch these open to open it back up
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If you can't do it, you can bite on it or use pliers and open it back up. Take it on and off your line
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I usually just put that, I don't know, maybe three or four inches above the hook
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All you're trying to do is get the bait under the bobber, which leaves me to
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the bobber. You can use any bobber. I like to use these kind of smaller. You know, it's about the, I don't know, three quarters of an inch. It's almost an inch. It's a smaller size with a little weight on the bottom. I like that because it's easier for kids to cast. It adds a little bit of weight to the whole rig, which just makes it easier to flick out there. And so what you do is there's a spring on the inside. So you push one side up, hook that side on the line
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Flip it over, make sure that that's the bottom side, right? And then you grab this and then do the top
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I'm trying to do it one-handed, but you get the idea. So you just push it through and get it hooked on both sides so you want both sides on the line so that it sits straight up and down and this weight will be on the bottom and
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You might do that a foot and a half two feet above your terminal tackle for bait
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you can really use anything. I mean, you can use any little chunk of meat, a piece of hot dog
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baloney a little chunk of ham anything like that Any of your leftovers any leftover meat cut it up into little chunks just big enough to put on the hook Of course worms worms are classic right
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Can't go wrong with worms. In fact, if you want a full end-to-end outdoor activity, have the kids
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find their own worms or grubs, and then fish with those. That's one. My kids love that because they
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just love digging and exploring and stuff anyway, but there's just something extra special about
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digging up your own bait and then catching your own fish with the bait that you dug up
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The kids really love that. So earthworms, night crawlers, you know, little tiny worms
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anything that you can dig up in the ground grubs, white grubs, whatever, fish will eat, all those
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But you can also never go wrong with croppy nibbles. These things are awesome. So they're just little
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little white smelly chunks. That's all they are. They like little chunks
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If it's a treble hook, I put one on each tip. If it's a convention
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kind of a conventional bait hook, then I'll maybe like put three on the hook or something like that
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You can also tip, you know, your jigs and swim baits with these
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to put a little scent in the water if you're crappie fishing. It's a nice little tip for you
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But these will catch fish anywhere all the time. Trout, panfish. catfish, small bass. I've caught everything on croppy nibbles. So I always have a jar that's
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reasonably fresh. You know, these are not like hard. They still smell. They have a smell to them
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And I think it's like three, three bucks, something like that for a jar of these
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Endless hours of entertainment with croppy nibbles. It's a full jar. You won't use all
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these before they dry out and go bad. So yeah, don't be shy with these. Some fall off, put some more
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on, get that scent in the water. Croping nibbles, that's a good tip right there. Now, as far as teaching
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your kids how to cast, the best way to do that is to just clip a bobber on the end of a line
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with no hook or anything else and go do it on the lawn. Go find a patch of grass, go to your park
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whatever. Find an open area with no bushes, no trees or anything like that
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and just start showing them They have to feel it They have to feel it out I mean you can give them little pointers like let go a little sooner like a little later go a little higher not so sidearm or not over the top or whatever So you can work on those details with them but they just repetition is what they need That really what they need
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So just clip a bobb around. Those little weighted wobbers are great for learning how to cast
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Because again, they put a little bit of weight on there that helps them feel it. That helps them feel like kind of the release point
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And just practice, practice, practice. And, you know, put, throw your hat down on the grass and say, try to hit the hat, you know, make a game out of it
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Um, just keep doing that. You don't need it. It doesn't need to be a long period of time, a couple minutes
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They like doing it. Um, my kids just love doing that. They love going out into the grass and messing around
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That's how they're learning. I've got a proud dad moment to share with you. So my oldest, you know, just about every fish that he's caught that's bragworthy has been
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I hooked it, handed off to him. Right. So we're fishing like Texprema
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And we're kind of striper fishing. We found a good shoreline spot. Don't have a boat, but we found a good shoreline spot that's close enough to a channel
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And so we're, you know, we're fishing. We caught a large mouth that way. You know, I hooked it, handed off to him
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And he reeled it in at dawn. Well, after fishing for a little while, we see this school of striper. And they're too far to reach
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But man, it's one of those mad, just big schools, just tails slapping water, you know, look like, it just looked like, it just looked bananas. And, and I was telling them, I was like
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look, if that school comes into us, cast right in the middle of it, right? So, finally, it starts to
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move towards us and we're like, man, we're going to be able to fish the school. We're going to be able fish a school striper from the shore. And so we're getting excited. And I cast right out in the
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middle of it. And I hook up and I say, hey, bud. And I hand it off to him. And he waves me off
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He says, no, I'm going to cast and I'm going to catch my own fish. And so, what, okay
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and I'm reeling an end and sure enough he casts out and he hooks up and he reels it in and he
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lands it himself because I couldn't help him and so he he fished and he called me off and he threw
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it out there this this is just this summer oh my gosh that was such a great moment it was such a great
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moment for him to wave me off like no I'm not catching a fish that way so those exciting moments
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he's just coming into his own, you know, fishing wise. It's just so great
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I love it. So don't miss out on those great opportunities. Get out there, catch some fish with those kids, and we'll see you outside
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