Do as I say... Not as I do, what mistakes do you make?

[brushhog]

My 11 yr old son and 8 yr old daughter and I went fishing yesterday. We hauled the canoe back to some remote cut backs of the Mohawk River and got to fishing. Junior expressed and interest in throwing a pop-r topwater so I gave a lengthy lesson on how to fish it properly, especially how to wait on the hookset. After about 20 minutes and no results he switched to another lure.

Anyway, too lazy to retie, I took juniors topwater and began throwing it around. Sometime later I overthrow one and bounce it off a stump on shore and into about a foot of water...BAM I get an absolute wallop! What do I do? Of Course I yank the Pop-R right away from the Lunker. Junior, with perfect timing, says "UHH Dad, aren't you supposed to wait a second our two before you set the hook?" DOH!

Fishing was tough, really windy, Junior caught a nice 16 incher with a big belly, but that was it for the day. Sorry no picts, old camera and new computer, haen't figured out how to match em up

Here's is my question, what mistake do you make repeatedly even though you know better? ( If this strays off the fishing topic, i shudder to think of the confessions I'll get! )