Grand daughter's Present

[Bobby Bass]

.My number two granddaughter who is nine has spent the last three days here with me and the wife. I have yet to buy her Christmas present because I am at a loss as to what to get her. Since her first birthday I have been buying her stuffed animals with last year's one being a bear that stood over five feet tall. The daughter put her foot down and I am no longer allowed to buy any more stuff animals. I have been working on the granddaughter trying to find out what she wants. Tonight about a half hour before her parents show up to get her she tells me, she really could use another tackle box! And the wife wonders why I call her my favorite!

Edited December 23, 2015 by Bobby Bass

[leech~~]

What I did for one of my hunting buddies kid for Christmas every year was to buy him a different wild life hunting call! See where this is headed. Louder and better one each year! 

He is older and hunts with us now and uses some of the grunt and bleet calls that I got him.

[Sculpin]

A great gift for a young person is a lifetime fishing or hunting license. Now is the time to buy. I wish something like that existed 25 years ago. Its a great deal and a great gift.

 

Happy Holidays

[delcecchi]

A great gift for a young person is a lifetime fishing or hunting license. Now is the time to buy. I wish something like that existed 25 years ago. Its a great deal and a great gift.

 

Happy Holidays

Unless they move out of state.....

[Sculpin]

There is that, but you can then dig a little deeper and buy the non-resident lifetime. 

[Bobby Bass]

I have 7 grandkids, 2800.00 is not in my budget. I have bought lifetime license but they are given as graduation gifts not as Christmas presents.. My initial comment is not that I am looking really hard or am at loss for a present rather that I am proud the grand daughter wants another tackle box and is in to fishing. Start em young.

[Mike89]

Unless they move out of state.....

they are still if they move out of state, if I remember correctly.

[nofishfisherman]

The lifetime license is still valid even if the person moves out of state.   My daughter is 2 and we have thought about getting her the lifetime license but its still alot of money to spend before knowing if they are really going to enjoy fishing.  Right now she loves going out fishing but most of its because thats what I'm doing and she's a huge daddy's girl.  It looks like I have another year or so to decide before the price jumps to the next tier. 

[delmuts]

Since she likes to fish; maybe one of those plastic fish grippers.( the jaw type) I  have several  they work great for grabbing northern, and all kinds of other fish. I have orders to use one with northern!! ( two some ones were not happy bandaging my thumb when we couldn't get the bleeding to stop!)  That way  too; little kids can hold a fish with out touching it! Not overly expensive either. 

[Kidd]

On 12/23/2015 at 7:51 PM, Bobby Bass said:

. she tells me, she really could use another tackle box!  

That's called a ray of hope.  

[Bobby Bass]

The grand daughter was over today with her new three tier tackle box. She had it open on the big table and was sorting lures from her smaller tackle box into it. Not exactly the way I would have done it as she was organizing the box by the color of the lures. I think it is something a nine year old girl finds to be the perfect way.With the smaller box now empty she told me I needed to go through my boxes and she will take anything extra I have off my hands. She now has three tackle boxes as I forgot about the one she won in a fishing contest. She is way ahead of me at her age!

[delmuts]

My wife's nine yr. old grandson is the same way l It's all bout having STUFF!!   

[Bobby Bass]

15 hours ago, delmuts said:

My wife's nine yr. old grandson is the same way l It's all bout having STUFF!!   

Show me a fishermen at any age who is not a collector of "Stuff"

[leechlake]

I may qualify as a non collector.  After years of being like your granddaughter and raiding my dad's tacklbox I may be the fishing equivelent of a "minimalist".  My buddy's give me grief that I will put my stuff in a plastic bag in my pocket and head down to the boat.  Works fine for me since I may fish 90% of the time for walleyes and the balance for crappies.  Plain hooks, swivels, jigs, sinkers and some line for snells.  Throw the slip bobber stuff in during the Summer and that's it.

However, in the boat are multiple tackle trays of stuff I only use in emergencies so I'm a slight hypocrite.

I'd be happy to forward some new plugs and lures your GD's way any time Bobby.  I think I have a bunch of boxes of stuff at the cabin I've got as gifts over the years that's never been used.  I may even throw in my coveted floating mouse lure I had when I was nine!

[Bobby Bass]

A great offer leechlake but I think we will have to pass. If she got lures from you then she would just fill up her new tackle box and I would be back to having to buy her another box! besides I enjoy our trips to the bait shop eyeing lures and sharing the time. I already have her convinced that she needs to have two of everything in case you lose one and that is the one that is catching fish. Part of a grandpa's job is to spoil his grand kids, all the better she is a fisherperson.