As a charter captain, bring your kid to work day comes with a few additional challenges.
Sometimes keeping a younger child engaged when fishing can be a difficult task when the fish aren’t, or are, biting. For Captain Griffin Deans, his 7-year-old son Decker was able to join him on multiple trips this summer, helping out the Palmetto-based Deans.
“He’s been with me on about 10 trips this summer. Sometimes he’ll get a little restless and want to catch fish when it’s good,” said Griffin. “Or times if we’re up shallow in 2 or 3 feet of water, he’ll want to jump in. But I have to tell him that’s not what we’re out for. He will work too, helping bait hooks or taking fish off, and he likes that part.”…