Thursday, August 11, 2011

Fishing with my daughter and son in law

My daughter, Lindsey and her husband Eric came to visit this weekend and wanted to go fishing.Lindsey and I used to fish quite often in our pond before she flew the nest. Back then we were pretty competitive about everything including who caught the most and biggest. Well even though it's been several years she is still game but the focus is on Eric. It was fun to see them "josh" each other after each catch. We got up early and got on the water at daybreak.There is nothing like running down a lake as the sun starts to peek above the horizon. My wife Kim and I found a few crappie up a creek on an old top a couple of days earlier so we anchored both ends of the boat to hold us in place. Eric is not a very experienced angler and Lindsey has always been like her mother preferring a "floater" with live bait to casting artificials. "Too much like work" they say. I put Lindsey in the front and Eric on the back seat while I baited hooks from the middle. Lindsey started catching fish immediately with Eric not quite in the right spot and trying to get the hang of letting the crappie take to cork completely under. It didn't take long though and he started to get the hang of it. At one point Lindsey let out a holler when a 4 lb Largemouth bass ate her minnow. After she landed the bass with a good net job from her "old man" she let Eric take the front to show him it didn't matter where she sat. But it was not long before Eric let out a holler and landed about a 4 lb spotted bass. All in all we ended up with 14 keeper crappie and 3 bass which I filleted for their freezer. A good time was had by all, until next time Mark

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