FISH REPORT: Fishing with Uncle Mike!

I went night fishing with my Uncle Mike last Monday (July 15th) And I had an absoulute BLAST! I caught one small catfish, and he caught a couple chubs and a Rock Bass! We filleted the Bass and Catfish, but the trip wasn't over yet. I let Uncle Mike use my Dad's Ultralight pole, BIG MISTAKE! All of the sudden, a fish started runing with the worm we were fishing on bottom! Uncle Mike reeled like crazy and brought in a two pound carp! He tried to get it off of the ground (We were fishing on a high bank) but the line snapped :( I still had a blast anyways, Uncle Mike is always fun!

NEWS: "The boat"+Alabama rig

I have a boat. It is a two person rowboat and it came with a trolling motor! How could I afford that you might be thinking? I didn't, a friend gave it to us in exchange for weeding! But how is it mine, well I asked Mom and Dad to give it to me and Gabe (my little bro!) and then Gabe realized that it was expensive to buy new clamps for the trolling motor, a license, stickers for the boat, eventually a new paint job, a couple of patches for holes in the bottom, and other boatish stuff! So, he gave it to me! :) Well, I wanted to take it out yesterday (July 11th) because it was my birthday, but all of kokosing campground was covered in water! Sadly I couldn't take my boat but, but we have it all ready for sometime soon! I had a Tae Kwon Do belt test a while ago, and Gabriel bought me something called an Alabama rig! It is a rig with five diffrent branches that imitates a group of fish (I don't know if five fish can properly be called a "school" so I stuck with group:) In the state of Ohio, you are only allowed to have three branches with hook, but every once in a while I fish private ponds with no regulations, and I can still use three hooks for a public pond! Well, sorry I haven't posted in a while, Summer is busy for me! Thanks for reading!

Fish Report/Story:A story worth telling my kids one day!

One day I am going to tell my kids this story: Kids, don't  be addicted by video games, because you will do stupid things if you do! One day when I was just a young foolish whipper-snapper, I wanted to play something called a Nintendo Wii with my cousin, down at my Grandparents house! Well, my younger brother Gabriel, and Caroline's younger brother Nelson were already playing. But that was no problem, we had other things to do! Like go fishing in my Granparent's pond! One problem IT WAS POURING RAINING. But that didn't stop us! We walked to my Grandparents pond, got into their paddle-boat, (After tipping it over to get all the water out) and went out in the pond! I gathered all my vast fishing knowledge and told Caroline that since it was raining the fish wouldn't bite, due to it being too wet. Fish don't like getting wet. She just smirked at me and casted. After many laps around the pond and a lot of threats to shove each other off the boat, she ended up catching three nice fish. One 15" Largemouth Bass, a 13" Largemouth and a 9" Sunfish. The only thing she really got out of it is when she called a Largemouth a Smallmouth, and I politely answered that it was a Largemouth. She kinda cocked her head and asked me what the difference was and I (politely) explained that the female was the Largemouth. She believed me at first, but then I explained it was a joke, so I got punched. So the moral of this story is
1. Cousins are a lot of fun!
2. Cousins sometimes get grumpy... (Joking)
3. KICK YOUR BROTHER OFF THE WII NEXT TIME
4. Don't fish in the rain!

Again, sorry for the absense of posts, hope this made up for it!