Nice story, thanks.

Well here is mine:

I went to my local lake and had two of my poles in the water and one of my sons. My son, who is seven, also wanted to put in the Tigger the Tiger fishing pole he got when he was three. It is about two feet long and who knows what pound line it has. My kids (boy 7, girl 3) were swimming while I fished.

I had pulled out a couple of three pound carp and every time I got one my son would handle the net. I was taking a catfish off one of my hooks when my son had decided to fish a bit too. But he grew tired of it quickly and handed the Tigger fishing pole off to his sister. Right then she started crying and saying that she was "lonely" out on the pier. I told her I would come out to her in a second but that did not calm her fear.

A women had just pulled up and was unloading a canoe and she noticed that my daughter had caught a fish and was afraid of what to do: she wasn't feeling "lonely" but "alone". So the woman starts pulling the line in with her hands because the drag on the fishing pole wasn't doing a thing. I dropped the cat and went over to help.

I don't know why but this fish was not putting up any fight at all. I pretty much thought that we had snagged a branch. But when it came close I could see that it was a carp a bit bigger than most of what we take out of the lake.

I yelled for my son to get the net and he came over to help. When he saw what she had on the line he got excited and reaching out for the line promptly fell off the pier. He had never fallen in before so I didn't know how well he would respond and actually use his relatively new swimming skills. But he did ok and swam over to the shore.

By now I had the carp in the net and had a small audience. We held it up and I just kept saying that I couldn't believe that my three year old had caught it with a Tigger pole. The people around were amazed as they usually are when we take carp out - they are sooo used to seeing panfish. You all know and I know that carp are easily much bigger.

Anyway we weighed it (8 lbs.)and snapped a pic of my daughter and her first fish. Not bad for a first fish. (I remember my first it was about two inches long.) It was almost as tall as she is and I am sure she we will all enjoy that pic for years to come. She was all smiles and very proud of herself.