Taking a son or daughter boat fishing for the first time is a dream for many sea anglers, it certainly was for me. I remember I almost burst with pride when on his seventh birthday Luke, my son, caught his first two blue sharks aboard a charter boat fishing off the Kerry coast. And my daughter Amy was not much older when she beached her first striped bass fishing the surf at Cape Cod.
Safety should be a massive consideration whenever you fish aboard a boat, but whenever you take children afloat your attention to safety should