"Look Danielle I caught a fish! Please stop crying..."

Life lesson #45 Travis has taught me: be prepared.

It was a beautiful Thursday afternoon I thought it would be fun if we headed down to the trout pond to "fish." Now the ranch supplies old cane poles and kernels of corn for those interested in taking on the 6lb giants living in the pond. In my ever so clever thinking, I figured we didn't need to worry about actually catching anything with just an old rod and hook that you have to toss out manually, and that Travis would just have fun tossing the rod back and forth into the water.

Throwing kernels and fishin' lines

View from the pond, Travis actually took this picture :)

So after a couple of tosses, I feel a tug on the end of the pole, much to my dismay and Travis' excitement. We tug the flopping fish out of the water as I try every way possible to figure out how to get the hook out of the mouth without any pliers and not losing a finger in the process. Travis thinks the whole thing is hilarious while I'm shrieking as the fish is flopping out of my hands and trying not to cry. That's when he told me to stop crying. Hahaha. So our poor fish didn't make it and is making a great snack for whatever wildlife happens to come upon it in the woods. Travis thought the whole experience was great and begged to go fishing the rest of the week. However the next time I made sure to use gummy worms without a hook, much to Travis' disappointment. ;)