Great Day Fishing with Taylor

This afternoon Taylor and I loaded up “Grandpa Dan’s” truck and went to Stacy’s pond and fished.  We caught several nice Bluegill.  Taylor caught the majority of the fish and she even helped take them off the hook.  The first four or five we threw back but they were biting so good we decided to get our basket out and start keeping them.  We caught enough to eat for dinner and then we stopped.  Stacy let us ride his four wheeler and we had a good time on the trails he has.  Here’s a picture of Taylor with the biggest catch of the day.

Here’s a pic of Taylor and I with the last fish we caught.  It was a little bass and Taylor liked the fact that you can just hold him by his mouth instead of grabbing his body and risk getting finned.  We threw him back so he could grow a little.

We took some back roads on the way home hoping we could see a deer.  We didn’t see any but had fun looking at everything.  Once we hit the highway it was lights out for Taylor.  She slept all the way home but woke up to help me clean the fish.  I can’t understand it, most five year girls wouldn’t want anything to do with a fish but she loves touching them.  She was lifting up their gills and checking them out from top to bottom.  She even stuck her finger in the mouth of one as far as it would go.  She just giggled when he flipped around on the table.  We buried the fish remains in the backyard and Mom cooked the fillets and we had a great supper.  Here’s a pic of Taylor sleeping in the truck.

Fishing with Taylor

This afternoon Taylor and I impulsively decided to go fishing.  We loaded up “Grandpa’s truck” and went to buy bait.  When we stopped to buy bait we ran into Aunt Debbie, Brody, and Ty at the gas station.  We bought a dozen night crawlers and headed to the “hard road ditch” (a pond out by the armory) to try our luck.  The fish weren’t biting but Taylor and I had a good time anyway.  We did catch one very small bluegill and Taylor learned how to grab and how NOT to grab a fish.  She held him while I took it off the hook and we through him back to grow up.  After 30 minutes or so we headed back home because Taylor had to pee.  She sat in the middle and I taught her how to shift the gears for me and she really liked that.  We saved our worms and will hopefully have a chance to go again real soon.

Bree’s Big Catch

Bree caught this 3.5lb bass all by herself during a recent fishing trip. She was very excited and performed like a pro.

Great Fishing Weekend

Lonny, Chop, Buster, and I went bank poling this past Memorial Day weekend with great success. Chop and Buster set the poles out around 3:30 Friday afternoon and Lonny, Buster, and I ran them Friday night and couldn’t believe our luck. We caught several fish and the average was around 7 lbs. We ran them again Saturday and had so many that we decided to clean what we had. Our biggest fish weighed in at 19lbs. The runners up were two channel cats, one at 14lbs and the other at 12 lbs. None of us were complaining. Things tapered off Saturday night and we only caught two or three. Lonny and I pulled the poles Sunday morning and we caught a lot. We just made it back to the cabin before a big thunderstorm hit.

All in all we had a great weekend, Brody went with us during the morning run on Saturday and he did great in the boat. he got mad when one of the fish splashed him so he started wacking them with the dip net. He loves driving the boat and in a few years he’ll make a great bank poler.