We Went Fishing

Last Saturday, we went fishing at the "old pond" we call it.  Keane had burnt all the grass off the day prior, so we walked around in soot, basically.  Tanner walked around looking like a soot-ball, wading in the water and then trudging around collecting soot in his fur.

Keane threw in a catfish pole, while Kaden and Kylie started fishing with worms that we (Keane and Kaden) had dug up from the garden.


Kaden walked all the way around the lake getting a little more discouraged as he went...until he came back around right about the time Keane was getting a bite on the catfish pole.  Kaden helped him reel it in, he called it his own, and then he wanted to do nothing else but catfish.  He would forget to watch the pole time and again, but eventually he got another bite, and reeled in another catfish all on his own!

Now, Kylie...our non-patient child who hardly takes a liking to fishing because it requires just that, patience.  Keane put a worm on her hook and sent her on her way.  She would sit down, and immediately grow tired of watching her bobber, telling us the clock was ticking, and she was growing a beard.  But then...she got a bite.  And she reeled in a nice bluegill.  She happily brought it over to be taken off the hook, and to get another worm.  And she did this, again, and again, and again.  She even caught one bass.  Her area was all "chummy" from the worms, and we had to eventually cut her off because we had enough fish.  She learned how to carry her fish by the string, and even bait her own worm!  Needless to say, she is now quite fond of fishing!

I fished a little, catching one bass, but then gave it up after I lost my lure and didn't feel like tying on a new one.  And Keane...there wasn't a lot of time for him to fish between baiting the hooks, and taking Kylie's many fish off the hook! 


He said, "It seems like my dad used to fish a lot more than I get to when he would take me fishing."

Keane taught Kaden how to skin and scale the fish.  But I wasn't around to watch that -- Kylie and I were inside cooking potatoes and having a dance party in the kitchen!