The worm turns....
At 6-7 years of age my parents went on a picnic to a pond that their friend bought a plot on. I should have brought a pole. I was investigating the ....surrounding land and came upon a hoard of baby toads. I proceeded to chuck them out into the pond. CRASH! As the huge fish broke the surface and then the toad was gone.. Did it again. SPLASH! And again WOOSH!! I wondered around the pond asking all the picnickers if the happend To be in the possession of fishing tackle......no dice. It was devistating to a young sportsman to be so near yet so far from a Classic fishing expedition
Have you heard of this?
Learned from our old neighbor Herbie on the lake in NH; he taught my boys when they were quite young, to use a strip of red flannel cloth, tied to a fishing line; cast it out, frog bites and won’t let go...and you have a frog.
For perpetuity....it became called as the *HERBIE METHOD*. :D