Big Bowfin

[BassAddict]

I took my 3 year old boy fishing Sunday afternoon figuring we may catch some crappie and small bass. I rigged is little Zebco rod and reel for him with a crappie jig tipped with a small minnow and put a cork above it. Well he's throwing rocks in the pond behind us when his cork goes down. I set the hook for him and tried to get him to reel in the fish. Well the fish was more than I thought it was and he didn't want anything to do with it. After a long battle several close calls of the 8 lb line almost breaking I finally got the fish in and it ended being a Bowfin that was probably near 8lbs. It was a fun fight but he will never swim in that pond again. We ended up catching 6-7 bass and I did catch one that went 6.1 lbs on a Strike King Bleeding Bait Series spinnerbait. She was fat as a toad and was in the back of a cove in about 2' of water. I was hoping my boy would get in on the pictures but he wasn't too sure about those big fish. Guess I should have started him out catching Bluegills instead of 6 lb bass and 8 lb Bowfins. LOL Here are a couple pics.

Eric