05-11-2019, 04:38 PM
On Thursday my daughter was over for dinner and suggested I should take Friday off and take her fishing. I wasn't sure I could commit, but when I got to work it was slow, so I texted her and we decided to go. Why did I think for a minute work might be more important?
We had an errand to run down by Willard, but didn't have a boat so we stopped at Mantua on the way home. We did see one nearby angler catch a ~16" trout on a spinner but we were getting no interest in a variety of offerings. We decided to head home and try our luck elsewhere. After dropping a trailer off at home, we went up to Cutler reservoir hoping to get some channel cats.
We didn't see any channel cats, but we did catch a bunch of bullheads around the 9-10 inch mark. Daughter was hoping for some fish to take home and eat, so we kept some of the larger ones. She also caught a carp which volunteered for bait duty.
This daughter is one of the good ones. She asked me to teach her how to fillet, and she did half the fish, keeping up pretty well for a first timer.
We fished until just after sundown, and she kept remarking how beautiful the scenery was. I hadn't thought of the place we were fishing as beautiful before, but with her in it, I couldn't help but agree. Now I'll likely see it as beautiful every time I go there. Buying her license was a priceless investment.
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We had an errand to run down by Willard, but didn't have a boat so we stopped at Mantua on the way home. We did see one nearby angler catch a ~16" trout on a spinner but we were getting no interest in a variety of offerings. We decided to head home and try our luck elsewhere. After dropping a trailer off at home, we went up to Cutler reservoir hoping to get some channel cats.
We didn't see any channel cats, but we did catch a bunch of bullheads around the 9-10 inch mark. Daughter was hoping for some fish to take home and eat, so we kept some of the larger ones. She also caught a carp which volunteered for bait duty.
This daughter is one of the good ones. She asked me to teach her how to fillet, and she did half the fish, keeping up pretty well for a first timer.
We fished until just after sundown, and she kept remarking how beautiful the scenery was. I hadn't thought of the place we were fishing as beautiful before, but with her in it, I couldn't help but agree. Now I'll likely see it as beautiful every time I go there. Buying her license was a priceless investment.
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like that is a great reward for a job well done. That little cat would be a contender in the small cat contest. Would that beat her brother's?