phishfool,
I believe just getting the young ones in the outdoors will be be a good start in their fly fishing life.
Take him out in the canoe, chase turtles and frogs.
Go camping, hike along a mountain stream, roll a few rocks, look at the bugs.
I caught my first fish on a fly that I tied myself when I was 8. But I really couldn't cast well untill I was 12.
It was the love of the outdoors that hooked me.
[This message has been edited by dudley (edited 08 February 2005).]
The simpler the outfit, the more skill it takes to manage it, and the more pleasure one gets in his achievements.
--- Horace Kephart