The BEST Fishing Trip EVER!

  We wanted to have a camping/fishing trip before the baby gets here - so we loaded everything up and took off!  We got there just after they closed the station where they check for muscles, so instead of camping on a nice sandy beach on the lake, we got a closed parking lot.  They girls slept in the truck cozy and warm and Colt and I slept on the asphalt......Memorable!  The great thing was it could only get better from here!

 

l-r Silver, Summer, River

River LOVES to climb things, so you will usually find her on the highest vantage point she can get to.  She is regularly ontop of Daddy's truck!

VIDEO:  Getting Ready to head out fishing!

VIDEO:  River and Silver:  We're gonna sink play

VIDEO:  3 fish on at one time!

Silver has one on her line, then River's line gets one.  Right after that Colt's ties into one too!

It was like that several times.  We had 4 poles and usually one or more had a fish on it.

VIDEO:  Silver reeled it in and River netted it.

We had been using 1/2 or a 1/3 a fish for bait, but this time River decided to put a whole fish on the hook.  It worked!  A whole fish caught the biggest ones!

SUPER proud of all the girls - they had so much fun!

River cut the bait, baited her own hook, cast it, set it once a fish bit, and reeled it in.  She was also on the ready when Silver or Summer had a fish on that needed to be netted.  

Silver's bait shop!

VIDEO:  Summer reeling in a big one!

Silver's voice in the background "Anyone want some fish bait?"

She kept up with all the poles that were needing bait - Silver's special job. 

VIDEO:  Summer "My Own Fish!"

Summer's fish!  Almost as big as she is!

VIDEO:  Silver's Bait Store!

She would take them one at a time out of the ice chest and cut them carefully up making sections of whole fish, fish heads, middles and tails.  Then she would call out asking if anyone needed bait.  She would take the order of what part they wanted and take it to them.  Super cute!

It was really sweet at one point we had another family pull up their boat along ours to get into our great spot and someone made an order out of Silver's shop.  When the delivery was made after weaving through several people to make it to us, Silver said "Sorry it took so long for this delivery - I was stuck in Traffic!"

Mommy and Summer fishing

River's highlight of the trip was to catch a catfish.  There was only 1 catfish caught, and she felt pretty special that it was on her pole!  She packed him around for quite awhile.  She would put him in the net occasionally and dip him in the water to stay wet and then pack him around again.  She asked for a picture with him, but I was holding Summer who was sleeping.  She then put him in a different net to dip him in the water, but this net had a hole and her friend "Cat-y the catfish" escaped!  We were sad she didn't get a picture with her Cat-y.  

Tuckered out at the end of a fun day!

I love how her flip-flops are barely hanging on!