My 8 year old son fishes with me everywhere. I've taught him well as he usually out-fishes me. We got into little perch on Cochrane yesterday. We got bored in a hurry but I left the shack there for the night. Called my buddy this morning and we took our daughters out today. 5 & 6 year old girls don't care about size so it was a lot of fun. Now onto bigger fish somewhere else...