Fishing trip

The first of our vacation fun has started! We took all three kdis fishing at the Jim Edgar Panther Creek State Park. They had a blast. We took Reiko along with us. We did a catch and release fishing trip.

We had many tribulations. As sson as we get there, a guy at the boat ramp is stuck, so Boyd volunteers to help him out. Well, Boyd ended up hooking my Pntiac Motana van to a Dodge 4 x4 and pulled it out of the slick stuff on the ramp so they could pull their boat out. Yup, the power of a Pontiac.

While Boyd was helpinig with the stuck truck, I was putting hooks, split shots and bobbers on three poles for the kids and getting the worms on the hooks and getting them cast off. Plus we were all eating our sandwiches.

We cast Kole's out and within a minute or less he caught the first fish, a blue gill, then Kaci caught a blue gill. Boyd was jsut returning when Kole caught his first fish. A girl about 14 took the fish off the hook. I don't do fish off the hooks. I will put a worm on there, but I am not touching the fish. Well, Kaci's swallowed the hook, so the uncle of the girl that took the fish off, got that out and the worm was still in tact!


Kole's first catch of the day
Kaci's first catch of the day

Kali's first catch of the day The smallest catch of the day

Kali came up with the third fish, then Kole caught another. Kaci's bobber went flying off the line, it was fished out successfully. Then Kali was using my pole and when you would cast out it woudl get stuck, so I pulled the line and there it went! The line was gone! I still had the pole.

Boyd fished that out with Kaci's pole. Whew!

Then a little girl dropped her pole in the water!!! Boyd was still on a roll and was able to fish it out of the lake! Yeah for Boyd! He also spent a good amount of time untangling fishing line and hooks. What a mess. After two hours and Bod nor I had a moment to drop a line or read a page in a book we headed home. The kids caught 1 crappie (Kali), 1 bass (Kole), and all three caught a total of 8 blue gill.

Kole enjoynig the fun
Kaci kicking back
Kali posing with fish salad!



Reiko really enjoyed himself too. He chased flopping fish and tried to grab worms on hooks. Ouch that would have hurt!

Reiko guarding the sandwich

We stopped on the way home to get a picture of Kali by a field of sunflowers. It reminded me of the first day she was home sitting on our porch with a sunflower.

Kali first day home in October 1997

Kali now just a few months shy of 10 years home

All in all we had a very successful fishing trip. The kids had fun and so did we!