Gone fishing!

We went to Aunt Lori and Uncle Ken’s house to celebrate Nana Caroccia’s birthday. While we were there, Megan had a chance to fish in the pond. Uncle Ken stocked the pond after he made it, so there are a lot of fish in there. And he goes out to the dock to feed them every night, so that was the “hot spot” for catching them.

Megan’s first actual catch was this minnow. She was getting frustrated and just dangled her worm into a pool of minnows. This one bit on and she pulled it out. It was only about 2 inches long, but she was thrilled.

Eventually she caught a bigger fish. This one was 4 or 5 inches long. The kids had a great time. William caught several really big (like 10-12 inches long) ones and they all caught a handful of panfish. Megan fed this one to one of the cats – that made her day.

Here’s William and Megan sitting on the dock together. They had fun hanging out. This is one of the rare moments when they were both still and I wasn’t worried about one of the kids hooking someone!