We were at our sons place for his youngest son's 1st Birthday party! What a blast we had! About 40 people and a ton of kids. They live on 5 acres with a creek in the back and they had fishing poles for all the kids.....including this big weirdo kid!
LOL! Yes, believe it or not, this was my first caught fish!!!! I think I may have gone fishing
once when I was a kid. I can barely remember it now because it was so long ago, but I never caught anything!
I think everyone there caught at least one fish each so I had to give it a try. My daughter-in-law handed me a pole and we whipped it out on the creek. While she was giving me a few seconds of instruction, she looks out at the creek and says, "Where's your bobber??" We had a fish already!!!!
At that point, I didn't even know which way to reel the line! So I handed her the pole!! lol It was a nice Blue Gill!!
So after that, I was determined to catch and reel one myself!! Probably an hour and a half later, I'm still fishing!
The Father-in-law probably caught 4 more while I was catching nothing! I said I'm staying here until I catch something, damn it!! Everybody eventually walked back to the house while I stayed. I was determined to get something (and having fun throwing that line actually
) I would NOT bait it myself and actually had to look away while that poor worm was put on a hook.
(Now I remember why I don't fish lol ) but I just wanted to feel that fish on a line for once in my life!
So my son and his father-in-law and a couple people stopped back to see how I was doing but eventually decided to leave again. I said, "If you hear me screaming, come back!!!! I'm not taking that thing off the hook and I don't want it to die, so hurry back if you hear me!"
They were on a golf cart and had JUST pulled away, when I thought I felt a tug. Could that be the bait dragging on the ground again?? or is that a fish??? Pretty soon the pole was bending and I was screaming!!! "I got one!!! HEYYYYYYYYYY I GOT one!!!!!!" Where we were fishing wasn't like a beach to the water, but more of a ledge and a drop off.
There was a second little 'ledge' to get closer to the water but it wasn't very big and one slip and you could slip in. When I realized I caught something and got all excited, I almost lost my footing and stepped backward (and fell) to avoid falling in! LOL!! All the while trying to hold the damn pole and screaming! Got that picture in your head!?
I left the fish somewhat in the water while I waited for someone to help me because I didn't want it to die. So around the corner, here walks my daughter-in-laws brother casually saying, "I thought I heard you screaming." To which I answer, "And you didn't come
RUNNING!!!???"
Eventually, my son and his FIL arrive too and everyone's happy I fiiiiiinally caught something!!
The brother takes it off the hook and I said, "Wait, lemme get a picture!" And he says, "Oh, no, YOU hold it and let ME takes the picture!" He told me later that he was really surprised when I grabbed it! lol Actually I just wanted to get the thing back in the water as quick as possible!
It's so foreign to us 'Northerners' to see that on the loose!
they make a LOT of crazy noises. Mine did that, had a more dog like bark, meowed, sounded like a howler monkey, chattered, etc. He was by far the noisiest (and smelliest!) critter in the house!
