I didn't bring the camera fishing, but took piccies when we got home.

My FAV is the second shot of Vince sitting crosslegged smiling from ear to ear, his 'real' smile, not the obligatory camera smile .

He caught his first trout today, two actually. And two panfish. I caught zip, but this has got to have been the funnest time I've had yet. He was so crazy-excited with every catch, he had me all revved up too! He did all this in like a half an hour!!!

Carmen asked to pose, which was great cause now she's in the pics too. She'd stayed home and played with a girlfriend instead of coming to a mosquito infested smelly pond...how strange (lol).

So, as you can see by comparison to the kitchen floor tiles (vinyl) each being six inches, from head to tail they're just over a foot. One of the panfish is darn huge too, one is a bluegill and one is a...I forget, it's got an orangy stomach. Pumpkinseed? Crappie? Well, two rainbow trout and two panfish. Plenty for a nice big meal for us all.

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Mili, darlin'!

These are adorable! Thanks for sharin' 'em with us.




LIZARD

I was about to ask you about picts of Vince's fishing trip and I decided to check and there they are....I loved them. My late dear husband loved fishing and there was no way in which I would kill a worm to catch and kill a fish...NO WAY!! But I love to eat fish....

((((((Mili)))))),

I missed this OOPS!!

He actually catches "eating" fish. The only fish that I've ever caught are "bait" fish.

I can't believe how BIG he's gotten since the last pictures. You can almost see the man he's going to become. Carmen too. They've grown so much since the last time that I saw them. I was just going to ask what you've been feeding them -- but, I already know the answer to that one -->> FISH!!

The last one cracks me up. When my son used to go visit my Mom, she taught him how to do 'fish lips' -- it's a pucker-up-and-kiss technique. Vince has got the 'fish-lips' technique down perfectly

Thanks for sharing. I love seeing pictures of your kids. Reminds me of when I was a kid with my younger brother -- we were 'tight' like yours are.

BIG HUGS.

Barb

why moose53? i thought i was the moose teehee.

no just kidding i go by moose cause of my last name Moosberg (Moose-burg)

the kids look great. i remember back in the day when i use to do stuff outside. now i think the sun is trying to get me so i stay indoors!

no i don't know what happen i use to like doing stuff outside. but my white (really white like paper) skin burns so darn quickly i just as well stay inside. looks like you guys had a lot of fun. i know i loved fishing when i was a kid.

I just loved the fish face and the big grin! Now Mili...didn't you used to live in California? I am confused! What great looking kids!

Awwww...I'm so happy the piccies were enjoyed!

M&mickey, nope, never even seen the Pacific Ocean but I'd sure love to visit California, especially any awesome aquariums I've seen on tv where you can walk through like a glass tunnel and see the ocean life. Heck I'd be thrilled just to watch what remains when the tide goes out, crabs or starfish or whatnot.

Mooseman, my kids have a bit of a melanin advantage . Me too ('italian' skin) so outdoors is never a problem. Dh is very dark...he says that if he got any darker he'd be dust. Hee hee. Oh, and he liked your book too!!!

Moose53, yes, Vince is darn big. He's 10, 5'4" and wears a men's size 9 1/2...I sure hope our state has a waiver program for clothes and shoes for him by the time he's in high school, lol! Carmen is average for her age, she's 9. And yep, we eat them. We say a prayer thanking God for the fish, and the fish for giving their lives for us to eat and be nourished by them, we all hold hands. It's a nice sort of bonding moment. Fishing is so different to have something alive and choose to kill it to eat it, than it is to buy it in a nice clean guilt free package at the grocery store with no eyes looking at you. We all appreciate a meal more since we started fishing, just makes you think about 'meat' differently, especially about waste and wasting. The parts we don't eat we divi up to our fish (raw), or cook for our rats who eat the bones too (calcium!). Not the skin though, cause of PCB's. But pretty much everything else is used.

Isabelle, I'm trying to get fake lures that work. I don't like stabbing a worm through the hook either...although if it was life or death and I had no alternative, I'd have no problem with it at all. Fish really seem to like these fake black stinky leeches. When I catch one I need to throw back cause it's too small, but, while I'm taking the hook out I pop a worm in his mouth. I mean, geez, that's the least I can do after hooking him. Also, before we leave, we throw a few worms in where ever we fish to sort of give back, I kind of want to get that feeling in my kids so they realize when they are taking and learn to give back too. Know what I mean?

LIZARD! Heyyyyyy! Glad you liked the piccies.

Those are totally adorable!!!

That's amazing noble of you....putting a worm on the fish mouth before release it, that's grand. Still I remember Vince eating raw fish so they will not suffer, a riot!

Funny, the worm doesn't think so

And yes, on one of our trips to the beach, Vince came to me explaining he'd found 2 minnows that were suffering. Assuming he put them out of their misery I asked, "did you have to kill them?" and he said, "um, no, I had to eat them"



That's my Vincent!

Glad you liked the piccies JungleJugs!!!

Mili