Ben has been BEGGING to do some fishing this summer. Neither Brian or I grew up doing a lot of fishing, so this is new territory for us. Grandma Marilyn was here for a few days over the weekend and bought a new fishing pole for Ben, but it was up to Brian to take it from there.
They started out by practicing their casting off the deck. This worked for a little while, but they were soon ready for more action.
They met up with a friend of Ben's and his dad, stopped for a container of nightcrawlers and a fishing license, and then headed over to a little fishing dock not too far from our house. Fortunately for Brian and Ben, the dad of Ben's friend is an avid fisherman and his full-time job is as a naturalist and teaching outdoor classes to kids. Perfect!
It didn't take long for Ben to get the hang of putting the worm on his hook, and he had almost immediate success catching little fish. He had no problems holding onto the fish (yuck!), getting the hook out of its mouth, and releasing it back into the water.
I would imagine there will be many more days of fishing this summer.
Practice makes perfect!
They brought home one of their many catches.
4 comments:
Did you give him your old tackle box?
You need to come this way and we will put Ben on some hogs!
Just thinking that with 4 boys your fridge will have lots of containers of night crawlers and other creepy things
BEN! bring your pole when you come to WI and you can do MORE FISHING!! :) aleesha
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