I've been teaching my 10 year old daughter this year and she is picking it up pretty quickly. She hates being coached or told what to do, so I try to fish next to her and let her watch and copy. She is mending line and getting pretty good drifts, and she is now fishing 2 fly rigs under an indicator which I was dreading...thinking I'd be untangling messes all day, but she figured that out quickly too.
We sent her to the kids camp at Antelope Creek Ranch for a week this summer which she loved. If you want to drop a few bucks, its a great way to get them excited about fly fishing. She is now tying flies (San Juan worms only) and selling them to me for a buck a pop.
You can't buy happiness, but you can buy new fly fishing gear and that usually does the trick.
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