It's what I do with my son on crisp Saturday mornings living in the shadow of the Rockies.
Take your son fishing, hunting, or skirt chasing. In all three cases he will learn a lot more about life than anything the fucking retards on ESPN will teach him.
Not so fast my friend...
Contrary to the crap you read in magazines....fishing is terrible in Colorado and hunting is a joke. "Wahoo... another 12 inch hatchery non native mutant rainbow!"
As for hunting... the locals freak out if they can't shoot something a 100 yards from the trail (or off the back of their ATV). That ain't hunting... it's country club "killing." Not to mention the shear number of hunters out there.... you may need to throw an elbow to bag anything during rifle season.
I'd rather pound out a limit of steelies or search for a toad Chinook (ask @dflea).
That is why my boat is stored on the Skykomish River and not the South Platte and why we both buy non-resident licenses in Washington and British Columbia.
TL:DR version : Pacific Northwest fishing/hunting blows Midwest Rocky malarkey out the window.
Sincerely, Hunting/Fishing Superiority Guy
P.S. My son has more field/boat/firing time by 5 years old than most reach by puberty. It helps that dad is a field biologist...but still.
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