...and he’ll never neglect to provide you with a birthday wish list again. A fish is a bad gift.

A sweet spincasting rig like this one, though? Now that’s fun. Not to mention educational. Yeah, that’s right, educational! Fishing teaches kids all kinds of important stuff. It develops their ability to be patient, it teaches them about conservation, they learn all manner of weird zoological facts, they get hep to the dangers of different waterborne parasites, and—inevitably—it teaches them how to whistle, starting with the Andy Griffith theme.

Here’s another benefit. Your youngster—you probably say “kid,” but that’s what they’re called when they do outdoorsy stuff, “youngsters.” It’s a technical term. Anyway, your youngster will have such a good time out there at the fishin’ hole that he or she will never have to know that his or her day’s catch is replacing those groceries that’ve gotten so expensive. Mmm, fresh perch! What global financial collapse?

We’re picturing a whole suite of fun kids’ activities: My First Rabbit Hutch, a junior apiarist kit, some kind of game where the object is to weed the vegetable garden, and a sugar maple tapping toy. Your kids — sorry, youngsters — will keep busy with wholesome entertainments all day, and the family will eat like tsars! For almost free!

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves—wait and see how the angling works out first.

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