Besides hunting...

[M.T. Pockets]

I'll take my 10 year old son along hunting when he wants to come with, but my daughter is 8 and hasn't wanted to come with yet. Neither one has the "fire" in them like I had when I was their age. You're either born with it or you aren't, I give them opportunity and they're welcome to come with whenever they want. I get up too early, and go into the meanest, nastiest places when I hunt, in any kind of weather, and I don't think they'd enjoy it quite yet.

I've seen some parents burn their kids out on hunting & fishing at a young age by making them tough it out for longer periods of time than they like.

I'll be willing to bet they've both eaten more wild game than any kids in Minnesota their age. They think beef tastes funny. By the way, those Walleyes there are about as good to eat as any seafood you can get, anywhere. Having a fish fry tomorrow night, I'll fry them outside on an old Coleman stove in a cast iron pan with a couple cold longnecks.