anchor3n1
10-12-2013, 11:36 PM
This afternoon a whole bunch of family - uncles, aunt, grandparents and cousins - wanted to get together. One of the uncles has a new paddle board he wanted to try out. So it's decided that we'd meet down by the beach. I throw some poles and stuff into my car (you never know, right?) and head down to the meeting place with my youngest, Alexa. Mom is coming down later with the older one.
We get to the meeting place ahead of most of the others so we decide to sneak down to the water with our poles to see what is going on out there. I set Alexa up for perch and make sure she's in a safe area (she's on the side of the jetty where the wave actions is super mild). I then begin making my way out on the jetty the whole time my eye is on Alexa. I'm hoping to sling the LC into the eddy. Nice try. I'm barely 1/3 of the way out when I hear, "Dad I got one. I need some help." I should have known better. Back I come, take the perch off the hook and get her back in the water.
Now I am right next to her throwing my LC and helping her with her fish. She catches several more perch. Then I hear the familiar again, "Dad got another one", then "Daddy, I think it's a big perch", then Daddy, it's not a perch...Daddy I got a halibut!" Yes she did. Her first.
I quickly grabbed the camera and snapped a picture (had to hold the guy's tail cuz he was spinning). All the time Alexa is telling me "hurry daddy hurry". So I quickly remove the hook and gently place him back in the water. It's extremely important to Alexa that fish she catches (or her sister or I catch) get quickly and safely back in the water.
http://i860.photobucket.com/albums/ab162/anchor3n1/Alexasfirsthalibut_zpsfbc6922c.jpg (http://s860.photobucket.com/user/anchor3n1/media/Alexasfirsthalibut_zpsfbc6922c.jpg.html) Alexa's first hallie
After her perches and the halibut she's done fishing. So after maybe 45 minutes of fishing time we leave and go to see where the rest of the family is. Nope, I didn't have any luck on the LC today. But I did get another great memory of my daughter and me having fun in the surf.
Nick
We get to the meeting place ahead of most of the others so we decide to sneak down to the water with our poles to see what is going on out there. I set Alexa up for perch and make sure she's in a safe area (she's on the side of the jetty where the wave actions is super mild). I then begin making my way out on the jetty the whole time my eye is on Alexa. I'm hoping to sling the LC into the eddy. Nice try. I'm barely 1/3 of the way out when I hear, "Dad I got one. I need some help." I should have known better. Back I come, take the perch off the hook and get her back in the water.
Now I am right next to her throwing my LC and helping her with her fish. She catches several more perch. Then I hear the familiar again, "Dad got another one", then "Daddy, I think it's a big perch", then Daddy, it's not a perch...Daddy I got a halibut!" Yes she did. Her first.
I quickly grabbed the camera and snapped a picture (had to hold the guy's tail cuz he was spinning). All the time Alexa is telling me "hurry daddy hurry". So I quickly remove the hook and gently place him back in the water. It's extremely important to Alexa that fish she catches (or her sister or I catch) get quickly and safely back in the water.
http://i860.photobucket.com/albums/ab162/anchor3n1/Alexasfirsthalibut_zpsfbc6922c.jpg (http://s860.photobucket.com/user/anchor3n1/media/Alexasfirsthalibut_zpsfbc6922c.jpg.html) Alexa's first hallie
After her perches and the halibut she's done fishing. So after maybe 45 minutes of fishing time we leave and go to see where the rest of the family is. Nope, I didn't have any luck on the LC today. But I did get another great memory of my daughter and me having fun in the surf.
Nick