I took all the kiddos out to love park yesterday, we didn't catch chit because they were giving me fits. The two oldest ones mysteriously "forgot" how to use there spinning rods and were frought w/ tangles. They 7 year olds wouldn't keep their hooks in the water and I barely got time to help our 3 year old fish at all much less do any fishing myself.
Then after 30 years of fishing and having never hooked myself I sunk a 14 treble hook all the way to the shank in my thumb and I decided it was time to go. LOL.

Fishing with kids can be rough. Personally, I don't think trout fishing is appropriate for little ones, despite how it is being advertised. The problem is the bites are few and far between, a couple hours with no bites and they will be so bored they'd never want to go fishing again. I typically take them in the summer for perch fishing where you land one every minute with every cast - much more fun for the young uns.

The two that had issues w/ thier spinning reels... i dunno what got into them. These two have been fishing all their lives. They go kayak fishing w/ me in the summer. Will fish all day long, catch fish, and never have a problem. They were just eat up w/ problems yesterday tho. Maybe it was the cold weather.
The 7 year olds were just a little two rambuctious for fishing. No big deal really. They just put there rods down and played. One of those 7 year olds helped me clean up on crappie couple of weeks ago but today he just wasn't about it.
I wanted to spend some more time w/ the three year old and get her a fish as it would be her first but I spent all my time fixing tangles for the 11 and 9 year old.
Just one of those days I guess. . .
Most of the time they are all great fishing partners.

After they stock the pond in Allen...anyone know if it will still have trout a week later? Can't go out there for a week. Dang work schedule.

Also do they stock anything besides dinks?