| When time has passed us by so quickly you begin | | | | Baiting are hooks with a simple night crawler we |
| to remember all the good times we spent as a | | | | started fishing. By mid morning we had about ten |
| child. One of my fondest memories is going fishing | | | | or so trout on the fishing stringer. Grandpa |
| with my Grandfather. Grandpa wasn't much of a | | | | reached in the ice chest and grabbed a cold beer |
| talker unless he had a few beers in him to loosen | | | | for himself and a ice cold coke for me. I was to |
| up a little. | | | | busy getting my monster fourteen inch brook |
| We would start are morning around 5AM. | | | | trout off of my fishing hook. Now I know it is not |
| Grandma would prepare us a large breakfast of | | | | a trophy fish but when your six years old it sure |
| eggs, bacon, potatoes, and toast. Every fishing | | | | felt like it back then. After my fish was on the |
| trip needs a hearty meal before departing the | | | | stringer tied to the back of the boat I got my |
| house. As this was done on every fishing trip. | | | | cold soda as a reward for the fight that I had |
| We would drive to my great Grandmothers | | | | just won. Looking back on that one fishing |
| house about thirty minutes away and load up the | | | | memory it wasn't the cold soda that was my |
| boat with are tackle and fishing poles. Then drive | | | | reward but the smile that Grandpa gave me in |
| about another twenty minutes to are favorite | | | | my success as a fellow fisherman. |
| fishing lake. Now that I'm older I guess it was are | | | | This story made my Grandfather not so shy |
| favorite fishing lake since it was close to home. | | | | when he was around his neighbors. He always |
| Grandpa was busy driving the boat at the same | | | | looked at me proud when he told are story of |
| time making sure I was tying my fishing hook and | | | | the biggest fish of the day. Mind you it was |
| swivel properly as I was shown by him before. I | | | | caught by his little fishing buddy. The approval |
| think the smile on his face was the approval that | | | | from Grandpa lives with me when I pass that |
| I needed to continue my task of getting ready | | | | same smile to my children when I take them |
| for the day. As I've mentioned earlier Grandpa | | | | fishing down the local bayou. Sharing everything |
| wasn't much of a talker, but his body language | | | | that I learned from Grandpa with my own |
| spoke load and clear. | | | | children. |