Teaching kids to use a baitcaster

[Fishnngolfn]

I just thought of something. If you set a baitcaster up properly like Robbie R. and others here have told, do you think it would be easier to teach a child to use a baitcaster instead of a open faced spinning reel?

The baitcaster would be similar to a spincast (push button) reel. Just teach them to keep their thumb on the line. I don't know. Maybe I am making it sound easier than it likely would be. Maybe I am asking for trouble. But if they were to learn early on, imagine how good they would be when they are older.

Next time I take my daughter out fishing I am going to give her the baitcaster and let her try it. I mean, the worst thing that is going to happen is she backlashes it and that is not hard to fix.

[jooleyen]

I think it would work fine. I taught my 6 year old brother how and he can cast pretty well with the tension set high.

[Patrick Krueger, Jr.]

My kids are all proficient in the use of both, the youngest being four. The wife, however, need only look at my baitcasters and birdnests appear.

[jooleyen]

Originally Posted by Patrick Krueger, Jr.

need only look at my baitcasters and birdnests appear.

LMAO. So true.

[WTL]

Just depends on how much she wants to learn it. There is no such thing as a baitcaster being too difficult for a kid to learn, its a matter of motivation.

My Dad learned first to cast a fly rod - at the age of 4. Fly fishing is way more difficult than baitcasters.

[rrw4258]

I'd say that you will be fine, just keep the tension and brakes up when they are first starting... and like WTL said it is all motivation.

Ryan

[zooker]

Originally Posted by WTL

my Dad learned first to cast a fly rod - at the age of 4. Fly fishing is way more difficult than baitcasters.

ya don't say...


zooker