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Our daughter Kate booked "Rose Lee" to get Her and the kids out weather permitting to do a little fishing and sailing. Alana is five and her younger sister Abbey is four so they are at the age where they are starting to listen and we thought they would do ok on the boat, their youngest sister Mayme who is under two was not in attendance (still a bit crazy trying to control that climber). Fishing was the predominant activity today since the kids had never tried it and Kate arrived fully equipped with new rods, bait, lures etc.. We rigged up their rods while we were on the mooring and let them get used to reeling them in and casting with just a bit of weight (no hooks yet:). After 15 minutes of this they decided it was time to catch real fish so we rigged them up with lures and sardine as bait, there wasn't too much action at the mooring so we decided to go for a sail to try and locate some "real fish". After a brisk sail up along the Halifax waterfront we dropped the genoa and started to run back on the main at about 2 -3 knots (perfect for trolling). We fished for a little bit and the kids started losing interest until Nanny hooked a Mackerel and then we were all hard core fishermen/women. It was pretty special watching them with their squeels of delight as they pulled in their catch. Or grand total was six or seven catch and release because they had to go back to their mommies:) It was the first time we had the sails up with the grand kids (we had the rail in the water and 20knots+ at one point) and it was their 1st fishing experience. There were both absolutely fantastic, no fear. They must get it from their great Mom.
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