You all know that we have a little pond across the street, and it is stocked with fish. In nice weather, folks often stop by for a little fishin.' Some friends of Jacob's came to the park, and Jacob ended up fishing much of his spring break. Up until this point, he'd never caught much over there but tiny minnows, and certainly didn't expect anything other than smallish fish.
To his utter surprise, while Jacob was after some minnows, the line he'd left dangling in the water was taken and his entire fishing pole was suddenly pulled into the water! When it floated up to the surface, a fisherman nearby used his pole to pull it back to the shore. As Jacob reeled in the line, it broke and his fish nearly got free. So Jacob jumped in the water, grabbed the fish in his arms, and hurled it onto the shore! The fisherman grabbed it in a net.
It was a 20" catfish!
We called Doug and he drove the 4 miles home from work to see the big catch. He noticed that its belly was swollen with eggs, so the decision was made to toss it back in.
One of Jacob's friends caught another big one later in the day! The next weekend, the boys were back at it. Their plans to sleep in a tent at the park were foiled when Doug and I suggested that 1) this was probably illegal, and 2) it was going to rain cats and dogs anyway. They still fished in the rain! But they came inside to sleep. Five wet, fishy, muddy boys in our basement. Hmm. (It was not as bad as you might think.)
3 comments:
congrats to Jacob! Now he has his own real fish story to tell and it's documented on the blog in case there are any questions!
Sounds like you're having lots of adventures in Lamar. I'm curious to know of your future plans when you know yourself!
Wowee! That's a big old fish. I can't believe it survived all the picture-taking and measuring.
Did Lucy get to sniff it before you threw it back in?
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