This complete fishing kit for kids will keep them busy while you’re fighting the big one

This camping trip is fantastic. It’s got everything that makes a trip like this special: all the right camping kit, your fishing gear, your best buddy and, of course, your family.

The little ones are loving it. This is their first time on a camp and you were a little worried it might not work, but they’ve taken to it like a bass takes a wacky worm.

There’s just one little thing that nettled you earlier, and you didn’t even think it would be an issue while you were prepping for camp…

You were walking along the bank, blissfully casting your lure out to the deeper water, slowly retrieving it over what you hoped were boulders and brush when suddenly.

WHAM!

Your rod’s nose takes a dive for the south pole and your lure starts zipping across the lake like it’s possessed!

Your eyes just about pop from your skull as your hands automatically clench and jerk back to set the hook in what must be a T. Rex whale that had got stuck here during the ice age!

But as if battling the behemoth isn’t enough, your little boy, who can’t control his excitement, comes running over and starts shouting that he wants to land the monster.

This is a serious violation of code you’ve forgotten to teach your children, and while you’re battling, your mind races as to how you’re going to handle this situation like a man and not throw your fishing rod in the water.

But with all the worry suddenly dumping on your grey matter you forget to loosen the drag. And before you know it…

ZZZzzz… zzzzzZZZ… zzzZZZZZ!!!! POP!

There goes your monster! YOUR. MONSTER. IS. GONE!

Your buddy, who’s been watching the spectacle from a safe distance, drops his rod. Your son shuffles back, knowing trouble is a brewin’.

But if you had the sense to get him a fishing rod you might have been able to pay a little closer attention to your fish and not have lost it.