Fishy, Fishy, Fishy

Saturday was Free Fishing Day. Nathan has been planning on this day for months. It is kinda a tradition for our family to go up to the Ranger Station up in Midway, so we decided to keep this little tradition going this year. When we got there the whole pond was lined with little kids everywhere! It was really funny because Nathan kept saying "what do you want to do" since the pond was ridiculously full. Boyd, Megan and I all kept saying "Um" and didn't give him a real response, so as he was pulling over to park Nathan asked again "what do you want to do, do you want to stay or go somewhere else?" and then as he was stepping out of the car to get the fishing poles he once again said "So what do you want to do?" Silly boy haha he was totally planning on staying at the kiddie pond the whole time. So we stayed. After the first half hour Boyd caught the first fish!
After Boyd's first fish we all had hope that we were going to catch something. We thought wrong. We fished and fished and fished and after 2 1/2 hours and nothing. Megan and I got bored and the pond cleared out because of some drawing going on, so we moved to the middle of the pond. After we moved I hooked two little fishies, but they kept getting away. But they were sure biting and jumping in that area so I ran back to tell Boyd and Nathan to come over with us.


After Boyd and Nathan came over to the middle of the pond we just kept catching fish left and right. Boyd caught another one right away!
(It literally took him about 2 casts and he caught one!)













Nathan and I were just as lucky! We were catching fish every 3-5 minutes! Here are pictures of a few of the fish we caught in our luck spot!

Lily would get super excited when I would catch something! She would run up to the flailing fish and get slapped in the face. Even though she got slapped every single time, this still didn't stop her from attaching the fishies every time they came flying out of the water.


Boyd caught a whopper! He was so proud, as he should be because he was catching the most fish out of all of us and they just happen to be the biggest ones!

Poor Megan still hadn't caught anything ALL DAY LONG! She did not want a repeat of last year. She was the only one who didn't catch anything last year and she was determined not to have this happen again. But after 4 hours of hot blazing sun, casting and reeling again and again, and still nothing Megan was starting to lose hope. We all felt bad and offered to let her reel in ours as we caught them, but she was determined to hook one all by her widdle self. After Nathan's 20 minute reeling lesson, switching poles with every single person, she still hadn't caught anything. Finally Boyd told her to cast to her left. She tried and failed because she couldn't aim to her left. She tried over and over and as soon as her spinner hit the spot where Boyd had been telling her to cast to she got a bite! "Luckily the thing made it to shore. With her luck I was sure it wasn't going to make it all the way" - Boyd.

Can you see the excitement in her face!

Lets take a closer look at Megan's lovely fish. . .



Free fishing day was a blast, minus all the sunburns. . .