Went fishing with the grand kids yesterday. It turned out rather well from our first fishing adventure where as the sole instructor my time was spent dunking miscast hooks and barbers. Now I know why kids fishing poles comes with plastic play tackle attached....so they can practice. Which is what I ended up doing, reattaching the plastic tackle which they had just as much fun with. After letting them practice casting on the grass at home a few times I gathered up some backup help and we've all headed out to fish during family picnics before but no one ever caught anything. Yesterday we hit a lucky spot after changing positions around a lagoon several times.
As her shirt says "girls will save the world" that just may be as she gets top billing for bringing in five fish yesterday. While one grandson gets second billing for being the only one brave enough to hold his fish up for display.
Though as hard as he tried that was the only one he manged to catch but he wasn't last in that endeavor...after several attempts at putting some deep thoughts into it this one caught not one but two.
This kids were having so much fun the parents had to get in on the action and bring in their own fish.
We threw all the fish back in but when I was a kid my dad would have taken the bigger one's and filleted them up for a cook out in the park. Back then things were so much different and soon as you got out of the car you got a pole, were expected to put your own worm on and bring back the bounty....not to mention you had to either dig or do night crawler hunting for your own worms, there was no going to the store to pick up worms when they came free out of the yard. In today's world my parents would have protective service called on them for the stuff we use to do back then like hang out on tree branches fishing over the river or being on the south end of the park when they were on the north end....but that's how things were back then they'd just open the car door and off we'd go. It gives me shivers thinking about the stuff I use to do there and imaging I'd let my kids do that. I'd been a nervous wreck. I played it safe at the local pond with my kids, though I only had two kids I had to have extra poles for the neighbor kids who happen along to engage in a tradition that is long gone for many.
niceee! :))