Catch Anything?

Jake has been talking about going fishing for awhile now. Don't ask me how he knows what fishing is, but he does. It has been years, I don't even know how many, since I have been out fishing, but I promised I would take him. Cori had bought some kids fishing rods at a garage sale and Jake really wanted to go, so I said we would go while we were on vacation.

We went to the sporting goods store and bought me a rod as well and then went down to the Truckee River, right where it connects to Donner Lake. I have never been in there before and it was really cool. For you Fish & Game people out there, we did not use hooks as we didn't have a license, so there Mr. Smartypants!

I figured that it was going to be a frustrating experience learning how to cast, getting the line tangled up, losing bobbers, etc. Man I couldn't have been more wrong. After about five practice casts, Jake was flipping his line out into the middle of the river with no problem at all. He was doing way better than me trying to learn how to fly cast!

I enjoyed fishing a lot back when I used to go on a regular basis so I am hoping that I will be able to take the kids out quite a bit (I've got a 1 in 3 chance for a real fish crazy kid!). I have picked up a fly rod and am looking forward to trying to learn how to do that while the kids spin cast. It's also an Idaho thing (A River Runs Through It and all that) and you can't live in the state unless you are willing to kill something for sport. If I get the kids into fishing, and we don't tell anybody that we catch and release, maybe we can fit in a little bit - since I won't, under any circumstance, take any of them hunting.