Fishing

We took a vacation to Dickinson this year to visit Nonny and Granddaddy. While we were there we went to Rockport for a couple of days. Rockport is a little fishing town. Needless to say we did some fishing. Actually, we did quite a lot of fishing. I never really expected to catch anything because when I was a child and I did my fishing I never caught anything. I now know that that was probably a result of my choice of bait and location. Anyway, my picture of fishing was: boring…

It turned out that if you fish in the Gulf of Mexico and use shrimp as bait it is not boring at all. We caught over 30 fish (piggy perch I was told…) from this pier at our hotel in Rockport! I have to say it was a surprisingly interesting experience and Tobias just loved it. At first I had to put the bait on the hook, which is quite an endeavor if it is your first time doing so, and kind of disgusting too… Within a couple of minutes I heard: “Papa, HELP! I think I got one!”. Sure enough, he did.

Then came the next challenge of taking the fish off the hook. That too is quite a challenge if it is your first time… but it worked. Before we put it back Tobias looked at it and said: “Bye fishy, I hope your lip will get better soon…”. In the course of the next two days all 30+ fish we caught got the same wish before they were thrown back in :-).

After we got back to Dickinson we went down to Galveston to fish there. We caught a couple of fish there too; catfish (tiny ones…).

We had to leave the fishing rod there, but now Tobias wants one here too. I hope his experience here does not turn into my childhood experience of fishing. The first signs are good because he went fishing with my dad after we got back and caught three fish…