Seth caught his first fish today. A nice 10 inch long rainbow trout. After a summer of practicing casting I at least wanted Seth to know how it felt to have a “live one” on his line. We followed Poppi’s advice and baited our hook with bacon. And sure enough Poppi was right, once Seth reeled in a fish he was “hooked”. Seth didn’t seem to care that we released our trout. All he wanted to do was try it again. For all I know he is probably dreaming of fishing right now! Just to add to the sappiness of this Boy’s Almanac moment, Seth has reminded me several times today that “we” caught the fish. The line had become twisted so I stretched it and was testing out how it cast when the fish bit. Technically it was my cast that he reeled the fish in on, and so sweet of him to share the glory.
Good job baby! Love Mommy Alis
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OMG Seth! Good job! It’s a beauty!! Where did you catch it? Poppi is going to be sooo proud!!
We spent the weekend at the cabin in Butano Canyon. I think more that just Poppi will be proud of little SW!
Nice catch!!!
Pretty sweet for a first fish eh?
Nice job, Seth. That is a beautiful fish!!! I’m jealous - we don’t have rainbow trout here in this part of Texas.
[...] look. I thought Seth was showing good fishing intuition. But low and behold when we actually caught the fish, he carefully wet his hands, examined the fish and asked me to release it. The reason he gave me [...]