With all of our visitors, we had not made a single trip up to camp this summer. So this past week, Cate and I gave Rick a day to himself to rest (recovering from pneumonia) and went up to camp for just a day. Mom and Dad were up there for a couple. Above, Cate wanting to net some fish. That quickly turned into needing to put on the bathing suits and get out the floaties.
Thanks to Mommy's cat-like reflexes and extensive training in zoology (haha), Cate ended up with a bucket of netted fish for her viewing, and petting, pleasure. I love the look she's giving!!
Such fine specimens of baby bass!
After catching little ones in a net, we decided to try our hand and catching something bigger. Cate, of course, wanted to hold the rod, so we caught nothing. :) She had fun though! And on a related note of irony, while we were fishing, Mom sat down on the dock and dangled her toes in the water only to have a sizeable large-mouth bass that was loitering about under the dock (yeah, totally missed that one!), bite on to two of her toes!!! That was a first! We quickly reeled in the line, and I dangled the bait right in front of the fish. It bit on, and just as I was about to pull it up, the hook broke! Not the line, but the hook! The big one that got away! Mom was sorry to see it go, as she was hoping to photograph it as evidence of the toe-nipper.
With all of our visitors, we had not made a single trip up to camp this summer. So this past week, Cate and I gave Rick a day to himself to rest (recovering from pneumonia) and went up to camp for just a day. Mom and Dad were up there for a couple. Above, Cate wanting to net some fish. That quickly turned into needing to put on the bathing suits and get out the floaties. 
Thanks to Mommy's cat-like reflexes and extensive training in zoology (haha), Cate ended up with a bucket of netted fish for her viewing, and petting, pleasure. I love the look she's giving!!
Such fine specimens of baby bass!
After catching little ones in a net, we decided to try our hand and catching something bigger. Cate, of course, wanted to hold the rod, so we caught nothing. :) She had fun though! And on a related note of irony, while we were fishing, Mom sat down on the dock and dangled her toes in the water only to have a sizeable large-mouth bass that was loitering about under the dock (yeah, totally missed that one!), bite on to two of her toes!!! That was a first! We quickly reeled in the line, and I dangled the bait right in front of the fish. It bit on, and just as I was about to pull it up, the hook broke! Not the line, but the hook! The big one that got away! Mom was sorry to see it go, as she was hoping to photograph it as evidence of the toe-nipper.
2 comments:
Looks like so much fun! And seeing your mom is the icing on the cake! Can't show Larry this one...he will be so jealous having such a hard time fishing in that mudhole Mifflin Lake!!
Tell him he needs to come for a visit and try Maine fishing:)
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