Thursday, July 3rd was an unseasonably cool, pleasant morning, so I decided it was the perfect chance to round up William and Daddy and our fishing tackle and head to our pond for some fishing. Our neighbor had mowed a path from the gate to the pond for us, in exchange for permission to take his 2-yr-old son fishing in our pond sometimes. This made it much nicer to hike to the pond from the driveway! The fishing tackle hadn't been used for awhile so it took some repairing before we could actually fish.
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| William waits for Daddy to put a new hook on his fishing pole. |
We had dug worms for bait earlier, so once the fishing poles were back in good order, it was time to try to catch some fish. Our pond isn't very large, but it has bluegill and sunnies as well as a trio of huge carp and a few large mouth bass the above-mentioned neighbor released in it years ago.
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| Our pond. |
Before very long, I got a bite and pulled in a decent-sized sunny. We weren't fishing for food but just for sport so back in the pond it went. Before very much longer William got the hang of throwing the line in and almost immediately got a good bite on his worm. With a bit of help from me, he pulled in a little bluegill! He was so excited he almost dropped fishing pole, with fish still hooked into the pond.
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| William caught his first fish! It's a little bluegill. |
That was the very first fish William had ever caught, so it went in a freezer bag and into the freezer instead of back in the pond. He wanted to show it to Grandma and Grandpa the next time they come over.
And that is the story of William's first time ever catching a fish!
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