Another Fish Story

One thing I love about David is that he is always zealous about trying new things. He likes to go on adventures, and now that he's married, he HAS to take me with him. =) He has a friend named Jim who is the same way; he loves adventure. A few weeks ago, Jim took us to go ice fishing! Neither David nor I had ever been, so we were pretty excited! Early one Saturday morning, we bundled up really well and drove to Jim's house, and then to the lake. With our gear in hand, we walked all the way out to the very middle of the lake. I was freaked out the whole time because I thought the ice was going to break! We finally found the spot we were looking for, and set up!

This is David drilling a hole through the ice

with Jim's hand crank. I tried to do it, but

I wasn't strong enough. =)

A perfect hole. When I saw that the ice was

at least 8 inches thick, I wasn't scared

anymore. But some people were driving

ATV's across the lake! That I WOULD be

too scared to do.

My handsome David patiently waiting for a fish.

Look at that view!

Me all bundled up. I guess I'm a wuss. That's Jim

in the background. After sitting there for awhile,

you forget that you're sitting in the middle of a lake!


Then, surprise! David caught the first fish

of the day!



My proud husband. He definitely had
better luck ice fishing than he
did when we went in the fall. ;)




A LOT better luck. He caught three!



Here he is. Waiting patiently again.


I FINALLY caught a fish! We were out

there for 7 hours, and I only caught

one in the last fifteen minutes. Then no fish

were biting, so we decided to leave.

They took their lines out of the holes,

but I had a feeling that I was going to

catch another one! And, sure enough,

a second later I had a nibble, and I reeled

up and the fish jumped right out of the hole!

I had caught two!

These are all the fish David and I caught.
Five between us!

We had so much fun and are planning on going again soon. It was nice to be able to go fishing again. We had missed it a lot. We had rainbow trout for dinner that night, to be sure!