Well this summer I took up one of my Father's loves, fly fishing. He was kind enough to give me a fly rod to practice with as we planned to go fishing together this summer. He sent me an instructional video by Joan Wulff as well. I spent about every night practicing my aerial casting in the backyard. Why I didn't go to a nearby lake and practice roll casting is beyond me, since that is what we were going to do.
Anyway I really enjoyed my time practicing and both the girls would come out and give it a shot as well. Both were naturals...much better than the old man at least.
Dad and I didn't catch many fish but sure enjoyed the time together and learning more about casting. I caught one bluegill. Dad caught a few including a nice catfish.
Well after that I was hooked. I spent the rest of the summer fly fishing. Luckily I have two nice lakes within about 5 minutes of the house. Mostly caught sunfish-green, pumkinseed, blue gill, crappie but did pull out a small mouth bass too.
The girls went with me quite a bit. They got their own rods but were bait casting. They didn't have a lot of luck but each caught one.
Enough with words. Lets get to the photos.
Jamie's First Catch
My First Pumpkinseed
My first Small Mouth Bass
Hybrid Sunfish
My First Crappie
Really nice fish photos!
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