Out-fishing all the boys

A week and a half ago Nathan and I took his father Dave and our nephew W out fishing with us.  We took them to the exact same spot that we had so much luck at last time we were out.  They had seen our pictures and heard our stories and they were excited to have the same adventures as we had the last time we came out here.

We got up very early in the morning and made the two and a half hour drive to the reservoir.  We arrived a little later than we had hoped but quickly set up and got our poles baited and into the water. 

W and David talking about all the fish they will catch

Within 15 minute of arriving I caught my first fish!

We put it on the chain to wait for the others that

would also be joining us for dinner,

While Nathan was helping W get his pole all rigged

up Nathan's pole started to bob.  I alerted them to 

the fish on the line and Nathan sent W over to 

reel it in.  It looks like a big one...

Unfortunately the fish (yes there had been one) used

the weeds to work itself free of the hook and all

W was able to bring in was a great big bunch of 

lake weed.

W has become quite the fisherman over the last 

two years.  All he asks for for his birthdays and 

Christmas is more fishing gear, and he is always up 

for a fishing trip.

Uncle Nate instructing W on the proper way to fish.

"You must do this with your lips.  That way the 

fish cannot see your mouth and they think that 

you will not eat them."  

I was a second to slow with my camera to catch 

these two hugging (if you ask them they were wrestling).

No; we did not put the sticker on him.  He did it himself and
then slept all the way home.  Fishing is hard work.

After a long morning fishing we returned home with my fish as the only one we caught.  That's right, the lone female in the group was the only one to catch a fish.  We ended up releasing it off the chain and letting it swim back to be caught again another day.  

We have decided that next time we go back to the reservoir we will do so for evening fishing.  We find it much more successful then morning fishing. (Plus we can sleep in.)