I take my kids fishing frequently (ages 8, 6, 3). They love it - but they mostly love catching the fish and they do love eating the fish. However, if they don't catch, they quickly lose focus. Right now I've focused on just getting them to love fishing - which usually involves bait fishing in stocked lakes. But it does make me feel horrible everytime I kill a fish trying to get a hook out of a stomach.
How do you make the transition with little kids to something less damaging to the fish?