re: Taking my 10 year old daughter on an inshore charter trip in the morning(updated

Took my lil girl for the first time when she was about that age. W/Eric.......Roux though. I told him it'd be an easy day, didn't need to plan to stay out too long, etc. She trooped it out till about 9:30, then had had enough. We caught some trout, ran through the jetties, she watched and help her daddy catch a big bull red that we turned loose, and then headed back to the camp. We road back sitting next to each other on the bait box in front of the CC, and she fell asleep on my shoulder.

Memories like that, and her walking into the gas station w/me, hand in hand, at 4:30 am , as a 6 year old, to get those pre duck hunt donuts, with her lil camo jacket w/her name embroidered in pink on it......I'll never forget them. The smiles and comments - and the expressions on the faces of the other hunters - especially the older ones - were priceless. As an older man, I now know why.

Do it as often as you can. Before you know it, you'll look up, and you're talking about sororities and law school and "this guy I've been talking to". All of which is good. Just not nearly as good as putting that second life jacket on her before you eased down a pre dawn river in search of the elusive mallard duck.

How's does that stupid arse song go that makes me cry like a pussy every time I hear it when I'm by myself? "And she thinks we're just fishin..."