Yesterday\u00a0was the first of many family fishing outings I’ll have with my clan.\u00a0 Fishing with a bunch of girls does present problems, there’s almost guaranteed to be at least one outburst of crying, and I don’t know why I haven’ t learned to BRING MORE FOOD.\u00a0 At least every five minutes, someone will announce they are starving.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>From now on, thee will be an obligatory stop at a grocery store on the way–plenty of chips, candy, donuts, maybe even something healthy.\u00a0 Once you get past all the mini dramas [a bug landed on me, the fin poked me, I have to pee], the fishing is usually pretty fun.\u00a0 We target panfish, and on the lake we went to today they were scattered on weed flats, which is way easier than fishing docks, pads, or bulrushes.\u00a0 I’d say\u00a0they caught around 50. \u00a0We did one pass along some docks, Sarah got a 2 1\/2 lb. largie on her first cast with a wacky worm.\u00a0 Thunder started rumbling in the early afternoon, signaling it was time to leave.\u00a0 Good thing I had the family out with me–I would have stayed out if I was alone–and it was raining HARD by the time we were 5 minutes down the road.<\/p>\n

Once we were home, it was up to me to turn our catch into dinner.\u00a0 I actually like cleaning fish, and it only took about 15 minutes to fillet the sunfish and one rogue pike.\u00a0 A classic fish fry followed, and I’m\u00a0glad to\u00a0say that both my girls are full-on piscivores–at least when it comes to sunfish.\u00a0\u00a0 We actually could have used a few more sunnies.<\/p>\n

All in all, it as a great day<\/p>\n

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