Nice evening outing with my son.

[Mike S.]

Work consumes a large amount of my time lately.  Seven days a week, as a matter of   fact.  Today, I just really wanted to take my 11 year old son fishing.  I wanted him to see what kind of fun it is to attack docks with a tube.

So, I get home, and take a shower. Hook up the boat, and away we go. Our destination, Wolf Lake, here in Muskegon. I just knew we would have a good number of fish, but quality goes out the window. What better way to teach a kid something new than to take him somewhere that you know he will catch fish? 

We introduce the Skeeter to Wolf Lake, which probably made the boat feel clostrophobic.  I tied on the Xtreme 4 inch Muskegon lake goby tube for both of us, and across the lake we go.

Upon arrival at our first dock, I explain to him how to fish the tube, and give him some pointers on casting around and under docks.  I hook a fish on my second cast, and it gets off at the boat.  The boy answers back, and swings one in the boat kinda like he's done it a time or two.  It's on now dad, he says. He quickly boats number 2 and 3.  Looks like he's catching on quick. Then dad gets in the swing of things and starts hooking up. He got mad at me when I boated number 5. After 10 dinks, finally a good one. Goes 18 inches on the Golden Rule. A few more dinks, and the boy hooks up on number 4.  Then, I tell him to head up front and grab the tolling motor. His first time with a foot control. He took off like a pro. Cruising up to docks, spinning is of we get snagged.  I'm amazed.  We finally call it a day, and head to the launch. In less than 2 and a half hours, we boated about 25 fish between us. We had some laughs, and the boy learned something new. It just doesn't get any better than that.  I just wanted to share this with everyone, because it was an excellent bonding trip with my boy.

[YpsiBass]

Lucky kid.  Got to enjoy those moments as much as you can.  Glad you both had a great time.

[Firefighter Jeff]

Good deal Mike, he will remember that trip his lifetime I'm sure !!!! 

[Mike Martin]

cant beat it, prolly made his day to run the boat