Went to the Toman Pond at Fishing Paradise yesterday, it was C's first time doing some serious fishing. The biterate was amazing as usual, which gave her a good opportunity for some hands on "training" as losing fish to mistakes was nothing, we'd get another bite within 5 mins. Anyways, I set her up with my faithful Shimano Stimula 6-10lbs rod and and Penn Extreme 1000 reel, and rigged up for fish meat as bait. I was personally just luring whenever she didn't need help. Most people just do a direct leader to hook rig and chuck it in but I wanted a little more... visuals... so I set up a simple float rig.
Within 5 mins of casting out the first bait we got a bite, but C panicked and didn't know what to do so the fish got away. 6 takes later... she finally set the hook right and after lots of dramatic screaming and panicking, she brought up the first decent sized fish of her life =).
She was thrilled needless to say and with every bite, she got better at it and soon it was fish after fish.
About 2hrs in, I landed a nice Pacu! Didn't know they had Pacus in the toman pond lol!
So all in all, it was a great day for the both of us with a total of 10 fish in just over 2hrs. I got some action on my swimbait and C got a nice bunch of nail-biting fights under her belt =).
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