Dad will write about these Photos.
Mom told you about our fishing trip yesterday - it was about 8 degrees over the night before we got there in the morning. The teacher was determined to make it possible for the class to fish so he got into the river with some others and tried to "walk" the ice out of the channel. It looked to us like a losing proposition since there was a steady stream of ice still comimg down the river above and the temperature was still in the teens - at the most!
So, I said, lets go try fishing under the Rockport dam where the water should be a little warmer since it is coming from under the dam. We did so and found it was agood place - and the day had warmed into the higher teens. After trying for awhile Mom sidled up to another man who was fishing in the same area, who incidently was regularly catching fish, and asked him what he was using. It truned out to be a very small fly (nymph) which we didn't have so he promptly took out of his fly box his last one, put it on her line and told her how to fish that fly. In just a few minutes she had caught two fish and had forgotten how cold it was! Greater love hath no man than to watch his wife catching fish while he has none, and very little prospects of catching any!!!
Needless to say, after the fishing ended, Mom summed up the day with, "That was fun, it was a great day!" And it was! I love your Mom and was really greatful for the other fisherman's help and for your mother's success! As usual, I have to "run" to keep up!
Love, Dad
3 comments:
I really love reading about what you've been up to! And the pictures are great. I can't wait for Steve to read about this fishing stuff - he's going to be pretty jealous. Nice work, Mom!
That is some adventure. It sure looks cold! Brrrrr.
I'll stick with our 70 degrees...thanks.
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