Gone Fishing

A couple of weekends ago, I went to my parents house and Speedy and my dad decided to go fishing in the pond.

Now this is a stocked pond with Brim and Catfish and my dad feeds them everyday. That being said, they're fat, spoiled fish. They'll pretty much hit at anything that drops on the water.

So my dad would put a piece of regular ole white bread on the hook and Speedy would pull them in. And man did they rack up on some fish.

Ignore my childs snaggle teeth. He just had 6 teeth pulled.

Here he is posing with a fish. My dad then tried to shove it in his face for a real kiss.

After catching and releasing all those fish, I told my dad that I wanted to come the following weekend and catch some for my inlaws. (I HATE fish so none for me.)

Well my dad being the great grandpa that he is, decided we were gonna have a fishing rodeo for Speedy and my nephew. So this past weekend we had the rodeo. And I was elected photographer. Although I caught a bunch of fish along the way too.

Speedy was teamed up with my dad, my nephew was with my brother, hubby was doing his own thing trying to catch a catfish, and me, my mom, my grandma and my aunt all fished for Brim.

Here are the boys with their very first fish. And yes it was in the upper 60's in January. We DO live in Louisiana ya know.

My dad even took old trophies and made them into fishing trophies. Of course the boys both won 1st place, while my aunt got 3rd. (Speedy broke his not 2 miles down the road.)

And here is a picture of hubby cleaning the fish. A few minutes later, he almost cut his finger off with the filet knife. I then had to try to stop the bleeding. I'm an awesome wife like that.

We had a fun time. Of course today the weather is in the 30's and the wind almost scalped me when I walked outside this morning.

That's the joys of living in Louisiana. You can wear a Tshirt one day and the next you're in a coat. Gee I wonder why people are always getting sick.