Drowning worms
I use to beg my grandfather, pawpaw, to take me fishing. We’d head out in his 64 Chevy truck, down to the walker county public lake. Nice and early. We might not catch anything all day. If we did, it was catch and release.
That dwinidled off as I became a tween and stopped when I was a teenager.
I attended a college about 90 minutes away from him, and meant to take him fishing one day. He passed away in ‘93.
Last week, jack told me he wanted to go fishing. I have no gear. I haven’t been fishing in years. But, I looked down at a freckled version of me, and it all came back.
We used his rods. He has them from his house. I got a fishing lincence and scoped out a place a few miles from the house. Bright and early Saturday morning, we headed out.
“if it was easy, they’d call it catching, not fishing” My pawpaw said through me to the great grandson he never met.
Jack caught 4… Me 1.
July 24th, 2009 at 6:27 am
Awesome, I just have one concern…
Don’t you have to get your fishing ticket renewed in like August? Sean’s been wanting to go fishing for a while, and I’ve been putting it off till August cause the dude at Wal Mart was all “It’ll be $12 but you’ll have to renew in August.” And I’m all “Okay, how much then?” And he’s like “$12″ and I’m like “Dude!” and he’s like “I know!”
So I’ve been waiting. But, if after August you and Jack would like to do some SERIOUS fishing, and by serious I mean in places you can’t get to on foot. (Doesn’t all serious fishing require a boat?) I’ll gladly get out my new fishing ticket in August, load up the canoe/kayak and meet up with ya’ll for a fun time! I know some great backwater places!
July 24th, 2009 at 8:17 am
i was told sept 1. We ended up fishing 3 times at ditto landing, and will probably go again befor aug 31.
Dude, i’d love to kill some crickets out of a boat…