Fishing

I took Katie and Josh fishing this morning in my canoe. What a time we had! The fish were cooperative. The weather held out for a couple of hours and everybody caught fish. We actually walked to the lake with my canoe on a garden trailer behind us. It looked a little strange, but it worked fine and we didn't have to spend any money on gas to drive the car. I have a small electric trolling motor for my canoe and that can get us around pretty well so we walked to the nearest part of the river and loaded the boat in there. Then we traveled up river into the lake and sat at the outlet fishing for a while. The kids decided to keep the fish that we caught today and cook them for lunch so that is exactly what we did. We came home with six yellow perch and one small-mouth bass. We also caught a bunch of rock bass but we let those go and we let a couple of perch go that were too small to keep. After fishing for a couple of hours, we motored back down the river to where we had left the cart. We loaded the canoe back on and headed back home.

I did skin the fish and cook them up for the kids for lunch. They loved them. All seven fish were gone in under five minutes. There may be more of those trips in our future.