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Recently,
my friend called me before school on a Friday and asked if I would like
to go to his cabin on Bee Lake after school. I asked my mom, and she said
it would be okay.
After school, we drove two and a half hours
to his lake in Ontario. Then we went for a long boat ride to the other end
of the lake. We discovered a dam that was holding back a lot of water. Beyond
the dam about 70 sucker fish were swimming around!! I grabbed the net and
lowered it into the stream. Then I felt something pulling inside the net,
so I lifted it out. In it was two sucker fish!! I was the first person to
net a fish! I went on to catch seven more sucker fish that day! That was
one of the best days I have ever had. |
Alex,
10
Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| I
woke up early one morning to find only myself and cousin awake. It was kind
of foggy and damp because the dew had set. We grabbed our gear, took off
in our canoe and went fishing. After no luck all morning, we thought we
felt a snag. The only problem was our canoe started moving. The canoe finally
stopped moving half-way across the lake. Within 15 minutes, we finally had
this fish at the surface. To our disbelief, it was a gigantic muskie. We
guessed roughly 35 pounds. This huge fish was just swimming at the surface.
We looked at eachother shocked and realized we forgot the net! The fish
being intelligent (like most muskie are) jerked his head forward and snapped
the monofilament line. The fish vanished into the clear deep water never
to be seen again. |
Keith,
age 16
Hamilton, Ontario |
| It
was my first time fishing. I was fishing with my dad on the Beaver River.
Each time I cast out, I kept getting stuck on the weeds (by now, Dad was
not paying much attention). I started reeling in and I thought I had a stick,
but the stick was wiggling. When I saw the fish come out of the water, I
screamed and tried to run away--all the time still holding my rod with a
northern pike flopping on the shore behind me. My dad did not stop laughing
for 10 minutes. I guess it was kind of silly. |
Lucas,
age 9
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
| It
was early in June and my dad and I had just started fishing a point on Hiawassee
Lake in Murphy, North Carolina. I had just thrown my second cast about 10
feet from the point. As my worm sank, I felt a hard pull. I thought I was
hung a first, but I felt it tug around. It took 12 minutes for my dad and
I to pull him in, but he was worth it. An eight-pound catfish was a fish
of a lifetime! |
Wes,
12
Murphy, North Carolina |
| I
was fishing and all of a sudden a fish took the bait (or at least that's
what I thought). After a long battle, I pulled in a rainbow on my split
shot sinker! |
Nikola,
age 11
Mississauga, Ontario |
| My
grandfather and my grandmother went fishing on Lake Nipissing. They wanted
to have a fishfry for some relatives when they got home. They caught a few
fish but did not have enough. It started to rain and my grandmother wanted
to go home. She said that she would cast one more time and she was finished.
As she cast her line, it started to rain heavily. She felt something heavy
on her line, but it only wiggled a bit. She kept reeling in with difficulty.
Finally, she saw what she had caught. It was a stringer full of fish! There
were five walleye, two pike, three perch, and two catfish. They went in
with their catch during the rain and had a good fishfry. My grandmother
said it was a good thing she caught the stringer because my grandfather
would have probably stayed in the rain to catch enough to eat. |
Patrick,
age 10
Sturgeon Falls, Ontario |
| My
family and I were up at Sturgeon Lake, and it was the last day we were staying
up there. We went out on our boat at about 1:30 pm and stayed out for hours.
We had no luck, so at about three or four we decided to go inside. I took
one more cast and I got snagged, so I started to pull and reel it in, but
it wouldn't budge. My dad took a big pull at it and gave it back to me and
said it was good to go, so I reeled it in and it started to fight. I ended
up pulling out a 14-pound muskie! |
Nick,
age 13
Milton, Ontario |
| Last
year at my cottage on Lake Winnipeg, we were just sitting on a big rock
and fishing. Prior to us sitting on the rock, I slammed my rod in the door
by accident--breaking it in half. I decided to still use the rod. Five minutes
after the cast, my rod tumbled into the water. I picked it up only to find
that a fish was pulling the drag. After a short battle, I pulled in a 22-inch
freshwater drum. |
Anthony,
age 16
Winnipeg, Manitoba |
I
was on our annual fishing trip to Hen Ingrim Lake with all the guys in my
family. The first day I started to drag flies something strange happened.
My backing was nearly out and I got a fish. Next thing I new, my flyline
was swimming away and my backing knot had come apart. Me and my grandpa
followed the line and I picked it out of the water. Within minutes, I had
pulled my flyline in with a 14.5-inch rainbow--all with my bare hands!
On the trip before, my brother and dad caught
next to nothing at Owen Lake and I had nearly limited. Then my brother bet
my dad he could catch the biggest fish, so my dad said, "Sure, and
if you do I'll make you breakfast in bed." So the next day my brother
hooks a rainbow. When we get it in the boat, we weighed it in at six pounds.
That's twice the size of any fish I caught that year. But then my dad caught
a 7.5-pound rainbow the next day. |
Doug,
age 14
Coquilam, B.C. |
| My
dad, my two sisters, my mom and I went camping on an island in a lake. My
dad and I went out canoeing with a motor on the back of it and with a walkie-talkie.
But the motor wouldn't work after we were really far out, and so we paddled
with one paddle for about an hour—pretty dumb to forget the other paddle.
But we fished, too. Finally, we got the motor going and went back to camp.
But when we were out there, we had been using the walkie-talkie to stay
in touch with the others. It was actually kind of fun. |
Amanda,
age 12
Saint John, New Brunswick |
| My
dad and I got up REALLY early (3:00 a.m.) one day to go fishing. We went
to Sauble Beach. We were using leeches, and we had one left. So my dad let
me take it. He said, "Scott, this is the last leech, catch a big one."
I cast it out and in about 30 seconds the bobber went down. I hooked the
fish and started to reel in. I couldn't feel the fish fighting, so I stopped.
I expected to see my bobber float to the top with no leech. But it didn't,
it stayed under the water. I kept reeling in and I had a nice smallmouth
bass—the biggest fish of the day. |
Scott,
age 14
Georgetown, Ontario |
| A
couple of weeks ago, I went to a pier to fish. The first day I caught no
fish. My best friend caught a small sunfish. But the next day, bright and
early, me and my friend must have caught about 10 fish—mostly smallies.
For the fish there, all you have to do is make something move to attract
them—they even nibbled on my splitshot weights!!! |
Chris,
age 11
Bolton, Ontario |
| One
night my family and I went fishing at a dock on Lake Manitoba close to our
house. We were using jig heads and were catching lots of perch. Then I changed
to a pickerel rig and cast it out really far. I was acting silly and reeling
the rig in as fast as I could. I felt a bite, so I set the hook. I was reeling
it in when I felt another, harder bite. I set the other hook and brought
in my two fish, which were a small perch and a large pike. We got home and
ate the fish. I really liked eating my perch and my pike. |
Allen,
age 14
Moosehorn, Manitoba |
| Once
I was fishing off of a dock on Pelican Lake with a hullapopper. My luck
was bad. All I caught was a small pike, which I released. I tried changing
lures, but nothing worked. So I changed back to the popper and I cast into
a rocky, weedy spot. I did one pop and suddenly a fish hit. The fish did
a big run and my line broke! I stared dumbfounded at my rod, then there
was a big splash and my fish jumped out of the water. It was a huge smallmouth
bass! It threw the popper and returned to its watery home. (Later I recovered
my lure.) I sure wish I brought that bass in. |
Miko,
age 11
Sioux Lookout, Ontario |
| I
cast my lure and planted my rod. Then I took a little walk. When I looked
at my floater, it was gone. I looked very carefully and saw it in the water.
I ran over and picked up my rod and my floater was there like nothing happened.
Then I took a big walk to say "hi" to my friend who was fishing
a fair distance from me. When I came back, the floater was gone again. This
time I reeled it in and caught a pretty nice size bass. |
Chris,
age 11
Bolton, Ontario |
| My
dad, a friend and I went to Maple Lake for the weekend. We brought along
my CD player. While my dad was fly fishing after dinner, my friend and I
got the fire going and put on some CDs. An hour or two passed by and my
dad was not back yet, and it was almost dark. We decided to go to bed and
wait for my dad. We put on another CD and turned up the music. All of a
sudden, my dad came running up the trail, soaking wet and very cold. We
asked him why he was wet and he said he tried calling for help, but we didn't
hear him. He had flipped the canoe and had to swim back to the island. We
asked him how he did it and he said that a big trout was jumping out of
the water behind him so he tried to cast his line to it and flipped the
canoe. After he finished his story, he took off his wet clothes and tried
to warm up by the fire. My dad didn't let us bring my CD player again. |
Kyle
Durrance, age 14
Courtenay, B.C. |
| I
was fishing in my creek along with my sister and brother and we caught small
minnows and big minnows in my new net. My brother caught a frog in his net.
And it hopped out. I like my creek very much. The creek in the springtime
gets very high and runs fast. In the summer it goes down and becomes low
and we catch minnows in our nets. |
Anthony,
age 5
Carp, Ontario. |
| It
was a nice sunny morning and my family and I were fishing on Sparrow Lake.
We weren't having much luck until I hooked the first fish, it was a little
perch I had pulled from about two feet out of the water. Then all of a sudden-bam!-a
smallmouth bass jumped out of the water and grabbed the perch out of mid-air.
It was so cool. I had just managed to get a hold of my rod to reel it in.
It was a two- or three-pound bass. It was awesome. |
Hudson,
age 11
Barrie, Ontario. |
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