we taught all our children to fish, my first DD was 4 when we first taught her to fish and DH cast the line into the ocean waited till he felt a fish on the line and handed her the rod and told her when she felt a tug to reall it in, well she felt the tug and ran all the way up the beach pulling that poor fish out of the water and half way up the beach, it was so funny to watch her, all of us still fish 40 years on.