We have been fishing again. One day the fish were snubbing their noses at our meal worms and red wigglers, the next we got a nibble at the crickets, and then a slam dunk - strawberry flavored crickets landed a good dozen bream and one lost huge catfish.
Didn't have an apple core handy when we came in from fishing on the second trip, and had most of the hundred crickets we had taken left over, so Hubby dropped a couple of strawberries in the cricket bucket to hold them over until the next trip to the pond. Those crickets demolished the strawberries by morning, so I dropped in a couple more. That afternoon, the bream were hitting like crazy and we had now decided to use only strawberry flavored crickets.
Fishing is not good for anything but relaxing. Don't listen to the tall tales of how much exercise you get - you don't! I know it sounds good, but it just isn't true. It is addictive though. You will forget all about walking your 2 miles or swimming for an hour or most anything else you should be doing. And that isn't all - you want to go back over and over again. Housework, yardwork, feeding the animals are just not important. The fish are calling and you have to go!
It doesn't even matter whether you catch anything (but a bite once in a while makes it real nice). Find a creek bank (next to most bridges), a pond, a lake or a river and throw a hook in the water. Thoughts ramble through your head and problems seem to take care of themselves, worries watch completely away and relaxation sneaks up on you.
If you know of a child that has never been fishing, make time to take them - heck, invite their mom and dad along. they probably have never been either. Get kids out from in front of the TV and off the streets - take them fishing!
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Tell hubby I can still see the cricket legs between his teeth where he tasted them to make sure they had enough strawberry flavor....ewe
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