Avid Fisherman Forever Ruins Fishing For Son

MANKATO, MN—Thanks to his nitpicking, impatience, and insistence on absolute silence in the boat, avid angler Don Gillespie, 41, forever ruined fishing for his 10-year-old son Douglas Tuesday. "No, no, no—you're casting all wrong," said a visibly seething Gillespie after Douglas' line landed a mere three feet from the stern of the rowboat. "Forget it! Just let me do it, and I'll hand you the rod afterward." Douglas was further put off fishing when his father threw back the only fish the boy caught all day because it was not big enough.

That's why you take the little ones pearch or panfish fishing.

Funny no, sad yes

It reminds me of the little league dads I see... My son plays coach pitch... (one step above tee ball) most of the kids have just figured out that they should go to first and take a left. This one dad was harping on his kid who was no older than 6 because he didn't remember to throw the ball to first after picking up a grounder. The dad was all over him, all game for everything... made me sick. That kid will hate baseball and quit before he's 12. Dad's need to quit trying to live through their son's.