Fishing for Kids in Pictures
Because “read this paragraph and imagine it” has never taught anybody to tie a fishing knot. Most fishing books for children are walls of grey text with a few diagrams. This one is the other way around.
Forty-five fishing skills, each on its own two pages, each drawn step by step in full colour — so a child can see what to do, then go and do it, without a grown-up reading it to them.
- Every skill is a numbered picture sequence — four knots drawn strand over strand
- A “Dry land drill” on every skill — practise it at home, in February, nowhere near a lake
- A “Watch out” on every skill — the one mistake almost everybody makes
- 225 drawings across 120 full-colour pages, big enough to follow on a dock with wet hands
120 pages · 8.5″ × 11″ · full colour throughout · written for a child to use alone.
See it, then go and do it
Nine parts, from the first cast to putting a fish back so it swims off strong.
The drawings carry the instruction
The pictures do the teaching and the words just name what you can already see. Four knots — the improved clinch, the Palomar, a loop knot and the double uni — drawn strand over strand, so you can see exactly which line goes where.
A drill for the kitchen floor
Every skill has a “Dry land drill”: a way to practise it at home today, with no water anywhere near you. It works the week the book is unwrapped, in February, a hundred miles from a lake.
The nine parts
Your first fish, the rod and the reel, knots, hooks and rigs, bait and lures, casting, reading the water, hook-fight-land, and release, rules and respect — each skill on its own two pages.
Four of the 225 drawings
Nine parts, from first cast to release
- Your first fish — the smallest kit that really catches fish, where to go, the whole rig on one page, and what to do in the three seconds after the bobber goes under
- The rod and the reel — every part named, both kinds of reel, line, and a tackle box that is not a bird’s nest
- Knots, hooks and rigs — the improved clinch, the Palomar, a loop knot and the double uni; what the numbers on a packet of hooks mean, and the three rigs that cover almost everything
- Bait, lures and casting — four ways to put a worm on, soft plastics, overhead and sidearm casts, accuracy games on the lawn, and how to get out of a tangle
- Water, fight and release — reading structure and weather, setting the hook, using the drag, and putting a fish back so it swims off strong
Written for a child to use alone
The pictures do the teaching, so a nine-year-old can follow a knot at the water without anyone reading it to them. There is a page for grown-ups at the front covering supervision and the gear worth buying first.
It is also honest about what it will not do: it does not teach first aid, and it is not a field guide for identifying fish. Both need a real person in real life, and there is a page at the back explaining why.
For ages 7–12. Made for a first rod, for a child who would rather be outside than reading, and for the grandparent who wants to give something better than another screen.
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