seabass
10-16-2003, 07:58 PM
I have been on the sidelines learning a lot from all of you and feel that I need to get on board.
As for a story, I'll give it a shot.
I enjoy spending time with my kids, lately it is baseball and football games (which takes away from fishing and hunting). When my oldest son was around three years old I couldn't sneak out of the house at 4:00 a.m. to go fishing because he was up at 3:00 a.m. dressed in rain gear asking to go along. Who could turn him down? I took him salmon fishing out of Newport where he was becoming a "fish hog" catching the first two fish and whining "I want another fish" (I have it all on video). Once we explained that the rest of us would like to catch our fish he climbed up in his uncle's lap(who was driving the boat), and proceded to get sea sick. He threw up all over his uncle and inside the boat. We asked him why he didn't throw up in the water and his response was "I didn't want to hurt the fish" (honest). He later told us that he didn't like "tough water". The next morning we headed out again. Once again my son greeted us at o'dark 30, wanting to join us. We explained to him that it would be "tough water" again and he let us go as long as we promised to take him to the river when we returned. We thought he would forget. When we returned it was pouring down rain and cold. He didn't forget, we spent the next two hours watching him,standing in his Oscar the grouch rain gear, cast a hookless rubber worm into the Yaquina.
This is a great forum, glad to be aboard!
As for a story, I'll give it a shot.
I enjoy spending time with my kids, lately it is baseball and football games (which takes away from fishing and hunting). When my oldest son was around three years old I couldn't sneak out of the house at 4:00 a.m. to go fishing because he was up at 3:00 a.m. dressed in rain gear asking to go along. Who could turn him down? I took him salmon fishing out of Newport where he was becoming a "fish hog" catching the first two fish and whining "I want another fish" (I have it all on video). Once we explained that the rest of us would like to catch our fish he climbed up in his uncle's lap(who was driving the boat), and proceded to get sea sick. He threw up all over his uncle and inside the boat. We asked him why he didn't throw up in the water and his response was "I didn't want to hurt the fish" (honest). He later told us that he didn't like "tough water". The next morning we headed out again. Once again my son greeted us at o'dark 30, wanting to join us. We explained to him that it would be "tough water" again and he let us go as long as we promised to take him to the river when we returned. We thought he would forget. When we returned it was pouring down rain and cold. He didn't forget, we spent the next two hours watching him,standing in his Oscar the grouch rain gear, cast a hookless rubber worm into the Yaquina.
This is a great forum, glad to be aboard!