Perch, Perch, Perch, Another Perch, Perch, Perch....

Determined to overcome our previous miserable fishing failure, we returned to Aunt June and Uncle Gary’s pond equipped night-crawlers, ready to apparently feed every tiny perch in the pond. Fishing in this pond is absolutely never boring: I remember fishing this pond with Emily and our cousins, John Robert and Travis, and there were times where Grandad literally did not do anything but throw back our catch and re-bait our hooks. You always catch fish at this pond! Perhaps that is why last week’s no-catch episode seemed so insulting. We tossed in our lines and proceeded to reel in literally perch after perch. It seemed the longer we fished, the smaller the perches became! If only we could catch one of those big bass! Joshua had one on the line, pulled it out of the water, and watched as it wiggled off the hook and splashed loudly back into the water. After about ten perch between us, Joshua finally caught his bass, and well, you will simply have to look at the picture...

We think it must have hatched last week.