A day spent fishing

Spent the day today fishing with my Uncle. Had a day or two of break in between meetings, so I had made plans to go visit him and his family. We both have fond memories of fishing with his dad, my grandfather when we were younger.

We got a reasonable start to the day, and were on the water by about 8 or 8:30 am. We began getting all kinds of bites on our lines soon afterwards, sometimes losing our bait before our bobbers had stood up, with sinkers at only 4-5 feet. Mostly we caught little bluegills and sunfish. My Uncle landed a couple nice bass as well, but they were just shy of the legal requirement for ‘keepers’. He also landed himself a sizeable turtle that put up an extraordinary fight which to our amazement did not break his 8 lb test line or his pole either.

End of the day we had landed about 30-35 fish, but only about 10 were big enough to keep and those were not enough to feed us and my Aunt and cousin, so we decided to let them all go free. We came back empty handed, but full-hearted, having thoroughly enjoyed ourselves for the day.