07-13-2014, 05:22 AM
Had to share this story:
Up at my wife's family home over the fourth, they have a small creek on their property that is used for irrigation and is dry most of the year, this was a good wet spring/early summer and the creek is quite full, I know some fish make it into the creek but I have never thought much about it.
So my 11 y.o nephew wants to make a fishing pole so I tell him to go get a stick and I will help him, he gets a stick and I grab about 10' of line from my fly vest, tie on the line and a hook and tell him to find a worm, there is a culvert by the house that goes under the road with a deep hole on one side, take him over and tell him to run the worm through the hole, I left his other uncle in charge of the "fishing" while I did some other things, came back awhile later and checked on him, pulled up his line and found that he had taped a rock to the line as weight, taped about 3" from the worm, I tell him to run and grab some more tape as I laughingly take the rock off, he returns and I tell him to tape a new rock on about a foot and a half above the worm.
Leave other uncle in charge as I head to the house to make lunch, about 10 minutes later the door opens and he says he doesn't have to fish anymore, I ask him why without raising my head, he says "cuz I caught one" I look up to see a 15" Brown hanging from his line!! I just busted out laughing and congratulated him, said he wanted to eat it, so showed him how to clean it and I fired it up on the grill for him...epic!
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Up at my wife's family home over the fourth, they have a small creek on their property that is used for irrigation and is dry most of the year, this was a good wet spring/early summer and the creek is quite full, I know some fish make it into the creek but I have never thought much about it.
So my 11 y.o nephew wants to make a fishing pole so I tell him to go get a stick and I will help him, he gets a stick and I grab about 10' of line from my fly vest, tie on the line and a hook and tell him to find a worm, there is a culvert by the house that goes under the road with a deep hole on one side, take him over and tell him to run the worm through the hole, I left his other uncle in charge of the "fishing" while I did some other things, came back awhile later and checked on him, pulled up his line and found that he had taped a rock to the line as weight, taped about 3" from the worm, I tell him to run and grab some more tape as I laughingly take the rock off, he returns and I tell him to tape a new rock on about a foot and a half above the worm.
Leave other uncle in charge as I head to the house to make lunch, about 10 minutes later the door opens and he says he doesn't have to fish anymore, I ask him why without raising my head, he says "cuz I caught one" I look up to see a 15" Brown hanging from his line!! I just busted out laughing and congratulated him, said he wanted to eat it, so showed him how to clean it and I fired it up on the grill for him...epic!
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