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This morning, the WHOLE family went fishing.

Dan and Jack ran out last night to get a license and some needed supplies.  Then they spent the evening cutting up some things to use as bait (in case the worms didn’t work).

After getting our runs in, we loaded up the kids and headed over to a nearby fish farm pond.  Sam was the first to have his hook baited.  Dan helped him cast and then walked over to help the next kid.  Before Luke’s pole was set up, Sam had a fish!

Then Luke!

And Maria!

Poor Jack was still waiting on me to put his new pole together.  Dan ran from Maria to Luke to Sam and back again – baiting and casting and releasing fish.

FINALLY, I had Jack all set.  He tried hotdog.  He tried worms.  He tried corn.  He tried a lure.  NOTHING!!!  Plenty of his bait came back half-eaten, but no fish!   Poor Jack.  He didn’t seem upset, though, and just kept working on it.  He got really good at casting.

After about 13 fish, Andrew was finished.  It was exciting at first, and he cheered his siblings on.

But, an hour in the stroller on the bank of a pond wasn’t much fun.  Especially when he should have been napping.

I started loading up the car and (forcefully) gathering children around me.  Since Sam and Maria had already caught a ton, I took them with me.  Luke and Jack I left with Dan, giving Dan specific instructions NOT to come home until Jack had caught a fish!

Sure enough, Jack caught one.  The biggest one of them all!