Fishing Michigan

Actually I took Dad fishing yesterday, the reasons two fold. One, Helaina is being baptized tomorrow at St. Pauls in Monroe, followed by a luncheon at my brother’s house,  then a little backyard cooking for the neighbors here.  So that means our Saturday is filled as we work on getting the house ready in Monroe, and then again back here.

Its a shame that the state has the weekend before Father’s Day set up as the free fishing weekend.  Why not bump it back  seven days, and add it to the festivities for celebrating the lives of all the fathers who helped build and sustain the state?  What a new tradition they could (they,being the state) help build with fathers enjoying the day fishing with their sons and daughters.

Not all goes according to plan though,  several years ago, the same year my mother passed away.  It just happend that Father’s Day came on the same day as what would have been my parent’s 40th Anniversary.  So Scott (my brother, himself now a proud father) and I took dad fishing.  I had just gotten some new Daiwa linecounters, and wanted to do a little trolling.  Don’t think I ever saw my dad so mad or frustrated before in his life.  Scott and I were pulling in walleye at just about every turn,  once with four of the six rods going off at once.  The reason for the frustration, dad could never leave the wheel.  Although getting the limit was never a problem that day, he never landed one fish! 

So take a page from a lesson that I learned the hard way, dont let dad be the only one driving the boat!  Dang those fish were good!