Originally posted by: *spinner* on 1/24/2007 8:04:10 PM

Sugar & Spice

That is the way the rhyme usually begins.
Why can't it be finished like this?
Sugar and Spice
and
Spinners, Feathers and Fish Tails
That is what little girls are made of.


Why must the majority of anglers be men/boys?
Are the dads in the sport not giving their daughters
a fair chance to be an angler?

I think that it is high time that little girls
hit the streams just like little boys.

A little background here. I am from
a family of 5 girls and 1 boy. I was the only child
to show any WANT as my father put it. Want to learn the
ways of an outdoors person.

I am a father. I have one beautiful daughter. Her name is Anna and she is a chip off the old block.

From an early age it was obvious she had aptitude. She loved getting dirty and wet. Her excursions into the outdoors started at age 2. She was in a back pack that faced forward...So she could see the action and get into it as she watched me fish.

At age 3 landed her first trout. At age 5 she caught her first 20 inch brown. The 20 incher was not an easy catch either. It involved a little swimming by me for the pole she lost. The trout was still on.

At age 8 she had her first 2 twenty browns in one day. The season most memorable was when she was 9 years old. The entire season she caught a larger trout that me. A male brown 25 inches long.


Dads get those girls of yours out there FISHING!


Written by Len Harris
Photos by Len Harris