Every day this week, the children have been begging to go fishing. We took them back to Benson Marina on Friday night.
We had to get an official license for Megan because she is now twelve! Ian borrowed Mom's nice fishing pole since Mom chose to not renew her license while Dallin still needs lots of care. Erin used her Dora the Explorer pole that Dad got her last year after Megan's beginner pole got broken (guess they're not made to last through 3 children).
Ian's friend, Golden, called to play with Ian as we were getting ready to leave, so he ended up coming along for the adventure too.
While everyone else started fishing and Dad was busy baiting and unhooking, Mom and Dallin took a walk nearby searching for an elusive killdeer nest. The killdeer parents kept swooping back and forth, calling, and unsuccessfully trying to draw attention to themselves. Since Mom knows their tactics she ignored the parents while walking slowly with a search image of a well-camouflaged nest on the ground. Imagine her surprise when she found a fuzzy, large chick instead of eggs! Can you see it below?
How cute is that? Only Dad and Erin could be distracted from fishing to come and look at the baby. It held perfectly still, not even blinking. Then Dad took the camera from Mom and tried to get a closer photo and scared the baby. It was all legs! The little thing took off running and squawking. We decided to leave it alone so it wouldn't run too far away from its parents. We wondered if there was more than one baby and if they were perhaps hiding individually since they were so big.
That distraction made Mom and Dallin miss a couple of fish the children caught, but they ended up catching so many later on that we were able to obtain photographic evidence of everyone's success.
That distraction made Mom and Dallin miss a couple of fish the children caught, but they ended up catching so many later on that we were able to obtain photographic evidence of everyone's success.
"Yellow belly" catfish were the only species of fish caught, and most of them were thrown back since they were so small. But much fun was had by all. Megan caught the first fish, Erin caught the most (7!), and Golden caught the biggest. Kevin thinks he wins the prize for the smallest. In about 2 hours we collectively caught 23 fish!
Dallin had a blast again and can't wait until he is old enough to fish for himself. He cheered the others on by squealing and shrieking with glee.
4 comments:
That is such a gorgeous picture of you, April! Glad everyone had a good time.
The last picture is so cute. You all have the same nose.
I love those little tiny fish. :) What a cool color. I love the little kildeer too. How cute! Looks like you had an awesome time...AGAIN. You make us jealous with every post. :) You are all so great!
Erin, Dallin, and April picture is amazing. What a good looking family! I also think Kevin's picture holding the smallest fish of the day should be framed--very funny. Erin's hat is very cute also! Good job KAMIED!
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