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I just got finished taking one of my best friends out fishing for the first time in his adult life at a local lake.
Story time
>best friend wants to come up and visit but doesn't know what to do
>Know he's been stressed lately and casually suggest we can go fishing
>surprisingly he agrees
>arrives and eager to go
>but admits he's not a fisherman at all, hasn't been in years and doesn't own a rod.
>knew this already,
>was already prepared to do easy mode fishing.
>rigged up two of my poles with bobbers, hooks and worms and headed out to the impound lake in my development.
>gave him a spinning rod and showed him how to cast it,
>grabbed my old crappie rod with an ancient baitcaster on it.
>Spend 2-1/2 hours fishing yesterday
>and nearly 2 hours today
>just casting out, letting worms soak, bullshitting about life and pulling in dinks.
>He outcatches me 2 to 1
>not jealous at all.
>He's going through a rough patch in his life and needed to win a little.
>He won this weekend.
Now he's talking about getting a little fishing pole, buying a license and going fishing on his own.
Mission accomplished.
Dink bluegill are a national treasure.
