Gone Fishin'

A week ago, Amerah and I asked Dave what he wanted to do for his birthday... he said that he wanted to go fishing.  Well things kept popping up and occupying our time but we FINALLY got our fishing licenses and spent two evenings in a row fishing.

On Saturday evening, we found a little fishing hole and plopped ourselves down to fish...

The birthday boy finally got his wish...

However THIS was the only fish he caught...

I caught a bit of salad...

 

Fishing is a strong enough incentive to lure even Shawn out for a family outing...

 

 Amerah, of course, practiced fishing "Amerah style"... she insisted on having the net IN the water as a "trap" so that she could snag fish similar to the way the bears do on National Geographic...

 

 

We stayed until it was too dark to see and the mosquitoes were feasting on us.  Unfortunately neither Amerah nor Shawn caught any fish either.

Sunday evening we headed out again... this time to a wheelchair friendly pier at Elizabeth Park near our home. 

It was a much easier location for fishing... nice pier... wheelchair ramp... not a lot of skeeters... 

We were excited to Shawn with us again (2 days in a row going on a family outing might just be a record for him!).

 

 

By the way, the fish that Shawn is holding is the LARGEST that was caught all evening!  Yep, we threw all the itty bitties back in the water and came home fishless again.

Amerah couldn't decide where the best place to fish was... 

 

 First she hung out with Daddy...

 

 

Then she wandered a bit...

Then she hung out with Shawn for a while...

At one point, Amerah was having a hard time reeling her line in and she exclaimed, "I think I've caught our dinner!!  Umm.. or a rock.  Yep... it's a rock!"  I think I need to read her the story of "Stone Soup." :-)

Like I said... we only caught tiny fish...

 

 

 

Oh... and Amerah made friends with a groundhog...

 

So the birthday boy got his fishing trips...

Dave, Shawn, and Amerah all caught dozens of little tiny fish!  They were all a bit small to keep but they were still caught.  How did I do you might ask?  While everyone else was pulling in fish after fish after fish?

Yeah... I caught some more salad... and not... one... single... fish!