Even though so many moments these days are cauptured by our phones, there are moments that happen so fast you cant grab a phone or a camera fast enough to catch them. For my mothers birthday we went trout fishing today and it was unforgettable family memory-making and laughter. We rented 2 poles & baited the boys hooks with the given bait & helped them cast their poles. We were all sitting on the bank awaiting a nibble on our bobbers & I was helping E. while dad was fishing with C. Well, I got up to grab my impractically dressed mother in white shorts a sweatshirt from the car to sit on. All the while a trout of course nibbled on E.'s bait & was caught & pulled the pole right out of E.'s little hands. & into the water. E was hysterical with sadness that he had lost his fishing pole, but man was it funny. We later saw the giant trout with the bobber still attached but thankfully free from the fishing pole. We later compared him to Jaws as he kept pulling the bobber under.
We persevered on and caught a fish with a new pole, and he was a big one & a fighter too, so in order to get him in the net my mother decided to climb in the water, but because he was too big for the net she then decided she had to sit on him until he gave up fighting. We all watched laughing but the trout got away...if only we got it all on video.
Our thanks to Spring Ponds Fishery, Fayetteville, NY....awesome, sweet, simple family fun.
