Saturday we cooked hamburgers for all the family for lunch. After that Jody and Ed put something in one of the ponds to take the oxygen out of the water so the fish would come to the top of the water. He's wanting to restock the pond and we decided we'd have a huge fish fry (if we got any fish!). Shelly decided to put the pontoon boat in the 3 acre pond !! and Jody had a small flat bottom boat. We had about eight dip nets, eight children, eight adults and three dogs!! You have never seen or heard as much laughing, hollering and people having fun as we had. The small fish started coming up first. Then the bass (some seven and eight pounders). I caught a cat fish that weighed at least 10 pounds. It was absolutely the fattest thing I had ever seen and certainly the biggest fish I have ever caught (or netted!!). The boys began to compete and they would see fish and try to get to them first. Bryden and Zach actually dove off the boat to get a fish!! Naturally all the boys ended up in the pond (which thankfully wasn't over their heads due to the drought) and we didn't see any of those "creepy crawlers". Everybody pitched in and we had an awesome supper. Jody cooked and it was truly wonderful. The whole day was fantastic. There's nothing better than spending time with your family having fun. We just don't get to do enough of it. Hopefully that will change now that the boys are getting bigger. Here are some pictures of the day starting with lunch and ending with dinner.
All the pictures of me and my fish were made on Jody's phone and were small for the blog. I did catch a few bass that were nice but it was just tremendously fun to watch the kids have such a good time. Supper was awesome Jody, Jennifer and Dona. Thanks for a wonderful day!!