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Article: Tall tales: Small kids share big fish stories with Mark Eaton
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2003
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FARMINGTON -- The fish wasn't that big -- hardly the size of a
man's thumb. But then, the fisherman wasn't very big, either. About
half the size of the fishing rod he held.
For Jamir Wyllie, age 6, if a fish that size could have been
mounted and hung on his bedroom wall, it would be there now.
He would, however, as the afternoon sun fell in the west, learn
the rule by which fishermen survive -- patience pays off.
Within a hour of catching his very first fish, a small sunfish, he
landed a 12-inch rainbow trout, the biggest catch of the day among
the 30 youngsters involved in Mark Eaton's Kids Fish Day.
For most of the kids it was their first fishing trip and their
first experience with a ...