Saturday, June 18, 2011

Fishin'

Today Grandpa Barker wanted to take the kids fishing in North Ogden to a Trout Farm that his extended family used to own.  Growing up we never went here to fish even though we did spend a significant amount of time in the area visiting my Grandpa and Grandma.  Gracie went with me, but Isabelle stayed home because she wanted to go to a Birthday party.

This was a very nice Trout farm with 5 pools with thousands of fish.  It was great for the kids because they could actually catch something and catch it quickly so it kept their interest up.   They provided the poles and the buckets, and all we had to do was throw the line in and then some fish food and they would go crazy.  Sometimes we snagged them on their fins because there were so many just jumping around.  After catching as many as we wanted we took them over to the shack and they cleaned them and filleted them for us.

Some may say that what we did wasn't fishing, but I would much rather go somewhere where the kids can catch something and not sit for hours bored hoping that something comes on their line.  It was a fun way to spend the afternoon, now I just wish it wasn't so far away so we could go more often.





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