Max lives! What up?!

Alejandro doesn't need a lot of outside encouragement thankfully, he loves nature and all kinds of wildlife. At summer camp one of the younger counselors was a hardcore fisherman and was impressed with all the boy knows.

We are off to NH in a few hours and hoping to hit the lake fishing hard! We aren't really set up for deeper water fishing, but hopefully we'll luck into some bigger trout/salmon, but I'm sure we'll hit the bass hard!

Well good luck! And have fun.

Got Back from NH and was a nice trip. I didn't do well fishing...lots of dropped fish and I didn't land a single bass! Arrgghh...did have a nice one on and almost got beaned in the head by the lure when it tossed it a few feet away from me- that was hilarious!

But with scenery like this...it's nice just being out...



Saw Loons a bunch- a very pretty bird with a cool call. We don't have them in CT ( I don't think) so they are a treat...



The kids enjoyed this of course! My little girl Ana caught her 1st fish...biggest perch I've seen. She was thrilled (the fish less so- gut hooked...fishing with kids!)



My Alejandro fished a ton. We had high hopes for something interesting like a larger trout or even salmon, but he had fun, got his first pickerel and tons of sunfish. He just loves being out and in nature.







Even my wife did a little fishing! This is my sister's dock...



This is about the biggest sunfish i"ve caught..sucker was a porker! Who is uglier- fish or me? Tough call...lol...



This was my most interesting catch- I didn't even know we had black crappie in New England. Interesting fish! Went after a large lure and the pic doesn't show how hefty it was...was a thick fish that was easily 2 lbs plus. Alejandro was stocked to use the net! Weiner Dog to help with size reference.






One week of vaca down..one to go! Will be less fishing this week, but hopefully we'll get out some more...

i decided i'm going after some big fish for the next month or so. so far I've hooked a couple but for some reason my line isn't holding up. don't know what size fish I had but yesterday i got the "zzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ" i have been looking for. this fish covered a lot of ground in a short time. unfortunately my 30# braided line snapped right when I tightened up my drag and began to reel it in. almost like the fish had scrapper on him. i could stomped a hole in the ground I was so mad!

i dont know for sure but it actually might been an alligator. I'm stumped.. i just can see 30# braid giving up a fish that easy.

found 3 spots along the river to fish. this is where i will most likely find fish over 20lbs. i need to get my line rigging down and hopefully i will have some biguns in after a while.

In the spirit of bi-partisanship, I will not make any comments.

BUT that is a nice fish.

Got someone else interested in going fishing...



Big brother helping manage this monster...but it was pretty...





Girl is fishing crazy! We went through 24 worms in like 45 minutes...Finally got this bigger one on and she was very happy.



Doesn't leave much time for me to fish but that's ok...what's not OK is I catch a personal best smallmouth and have a useless photo and this little fella has a perfect photo! Where's the justice??!!



And a couple of knife pics...just 'cause...

Cute girl RN. You gotta be proud of your kids. Keep 'em interested in the outdoors/nature and they will be better folks for it.

Way to go RN; the kids look like they are having a great time!

I'd rather my kids catch fish than me catch them. But now that they're grown, it's game on!

But my nephew just turned one, so maybe in a year or two I'll have me another fishing buddy.

True 'dat. Was out yesturday and today and I think I cast 5x. The kids were funny today- brought a bucket and put the sunnies in to study them. Poor fish. lol