Fishing behind the house in the Sangamon River with Grand daughter, Evie 18 Aug 2011
As you can see, a happy little girl with all her trophy fish, (at least to her they are trophies and rightly so). Evie surely does like to fish but has a little anxiety about hurting the fish and that’s good too. We laid one fish on the shore to die because it had swallowed the hook and was dying. I explained that “just like we sometimes go fishing and take the fish home to cook for food, we can leave that fish on the shore for a raccoon or some birds to eat for their supper.” Evie gratefully accepted that scenario. There are plenty of raccoons and opossums in the area to make that come true.
I had purchased some night crawlers at WalMart to use for bait, the bait of choice when taking kids out fishing at least until they learn to handle other more sophisticated forms of fishing.
She caught a total of six fish: a channel cat, three drum, and a warmouth, and a bluegill that she allowed me to bring in so I wouldn’t be “skunked”! That was nice of her.
You might have noticed how much bigger she has grown this summer.
She also informed me that she was glad school was starting up tomorrow and that she was excited about that and seeing all her friends again, and that’s good.
Tight lines
Jim
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