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I recently started a new hobby, and I hate it already. Not really, but I am finding that it can be a frustrating hobby at times. I decided that since I'm a grandpa that I should start doing what grandpa's do...namely, fish.
Mind you, I haven't fished since I was about 12 years old, and I recall a rainy day on a boat not catching a thing, and my dad saying something about "this is the best time to fish" that I decided that maybe there were better things to do with my time.
So, 33 years later, I'm doing it again, and it's still irritating. The best fish I've been able to catch so far has been a catfish, a 10" one, not a monster fish by any stretch, and a couple of small trout. The rest have all been bluegills (I think, have you ever noticed that none of the fish you pull out of the water look anything like the pictures in the fish ID section of the fish and game regs book?), and small bluegills at that. I keep throwing them back, but some are rather insistent. I had one that apparently decided that a few minutes on the hook was worth the pain, because he jumped on the hook four times.
But that's not the frustrating part. A couple of months ago, I had two of my grandkids out, and we decided to do some fishing. Mostly, the girls complained about being cold (they'd been swimming before going out on the boat, and it was nearing sunset, so of course it was going to be chilly, but do you think they thought ahead? Ha!) and losing their worms (either they were getting nibbles, probably bluegills stealing worms, or the worms were wiggling off the hooks). Anyway, we'd drifted quite a ways, and were about to call it a day when I got a strike, and it turned out to be a fairly good one, from the way it fought. I was reeling it in, and working it, and got it within 5'-10' from the boat when it decided to swim under the boat, and either it bit through the line, the line broke from the stress, or it rubbed against the bottom of the boat, but the line broke. And it still had my $4.00 lure. Of course I wanted to try retrieving my lure, but then I heard "I'm cold" and "I'm hungry".
So, either my lure is still in the mouth of a good-sized fish, and I may or may not get it back, or another fisherman caught a fish and got a new lure out of the bargain.
