Spring Sunfish With The Kids

    Finally I got a chance to wet a line and as an added bonus I got to take my kids out to reel in a few sunfish.  After all the Saturday chores were done and the water was warmed, I packed up the car loaded the kids and picked up me brother in-law for a few hours on a hidden pond.

  After a few missed opportunities of my boy hooking into some fish on a worm and bobber I tossed out a olive bugger in size #10 and let him do the res of the work.  Happily he spun the handle on my new Abel Reel and took only a few seconds to bring the fighting fish into his hands. 
   Of course after seeing her brother spool in a sunfish my little girl need her shot.  After unhooking the fish and tossing it back I tossed out the bugger and immediately hooked into another fish.  My daughter couldn't get it reeled in fast enough.  Happily she told me to the beautiful fish needed its picture taken just like her brothers.

  Immediately after hooking into the pair of fish my little ones decided to forgo the fishing and do what they really had come to the pond to do - throw rocks into the pond.  I sent them to the far corner, away from the fish, and then had my fun.  Hooking into another good half a dozen of these eager fish, I wore out the olive bugger till not a hackle remained, hung it in a tree limb and then packed it in.  All in all not a bad way to spend a few hours.