Low Cost Things To Do With Kids 5: Go Fishing

Posted by drozzell on November 20, 2008

Fishing is perhaps the classical father-son or grandfather-son activity, but girls like it as well. Teaching a young child to fish is one of the quintessential times for bonding and relationship building. It can be very simple. Just fishing from the bank at a local pond or lake with a bamboo pole and worms is easy, inexpensive, and usually yields results in the form of some caught fish. Opportunities are plentiful in most parts of the country. There are farm ponds, lakes, and rivers in every state. The specific type of fishing will vary from place to place, but the basics are the same. If available, trout farms and catfish farms offer a near certainty that fish will be caught and can be taken home for dinner that same evening. My daughter’s first fishing trip was a success, catching bluegill which I prepared for dinner–yummy! I encourage every parent to go fishing with his or her child, boy or girl.