The New Fatherhood

The New Fatherhood

How to Make Your Kids Hate Fishing

The definitive playbook to turn eager kids into sworn enemies of rods, reels, and rivers

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Kevin Maguire and Nick Parish
Jul 24, 2025
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Summertime, and the living is easy pretty fucking tough. This week’s essay comes from Nick Parish, who teaches fly fishing at his local community college, writes about it at Current Flow State, and is the local Dadmin for the Portland TNF crew. Fishing for pleasure, not for compliments, but I’m sure he’ll welcome yours in the comments. Over to you, Nick.

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