Caleb saw the bag and had one thought - FISHING. Rob had the same idea when he saw it and was going to Clewiston for a meeting and asked if we wanted to tag along and then go fishing on Lake Okeechobee. All I had going on was laundry, so we very spontaneously left for our fishing trip.
On our way up, Rob got some night-crawlers at the bait shop. Annalise adopted this one as her pet. She was very enamored with it for a while, then she lovingly tore it in half and eventually buried it...well half of it.
The big catch of the day - Rob's catfish. A certain other member of our group caught two bluegill, but that member does not have a fishing license and was technically helping two very small fisher people (with short attention spans) hold the pole.
Annalise gets a turn at the pole. I think this was her first fishing trip.
Equally exciting was cleaning the fish at home. I wish I could express how many tears were shed over who would get to be closest when Daddy cut them up.
And cleaning fish is just not the same when the head cleaner is also a marine biologist. Here they are "finding the brain". He also determined the catfish was a boy and the two bluegill were both girls. Caleb really wanted to put the eggs in water and let them hatch, but I talked him out of it.
And the much anticipated moment - eating fish you caught yourself!
Thankfully they did't get so attached they wouldn't eat them. I see Rob is still examining his food scientifically before he eats it. ;-)
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