Bassfishing message boards and magazines are a bad thing...

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I figured its time to propose a question, can there be such a thing as too much specific information in regards to how-to-do whatever when it comes to fishing?

What prompted this thought was a section in an old book, The Philosophical Fisherman written by Harold Blaisdale where he talks about how he got more enjoyment he thinks out of learning to catch fish with a bent needle and sewing thread, having no prior ideas on the proper ways of taking trout (and hence no worries if he was doing it the right way). He thought he learned more about fish behavoir through observation.


Today, before kids even catch fish, some are wearing the stupid tourney style clothing (see the ad for the kid sized rods in the BPS catolog, even though he is like 8 I still want to punch that kid in the gut for looking like some tournament wantabe superstar douche)... are we putting the cart before the horse here? Would kids be better off with a cane pole they cut themselves and some crickets they managed to scrounge up in a dark place around their home?



Should we take a kid fishing?