Two years in a row I've gotten a fishing license and on the day I get it, I get seasick going on the boat. Two years in a row, wasted money on a license I didn't use.
Yesterday, Ron surprised me. Even though the boat is out of the water for the season, we went to the bait store, got a scoop of minnows and headed out to fish while keeping me on dry land! How freakin' cool is that? I had high hopes of catching us dinner for the evening.
With minnows in a bucket, we headed down to Hot Waters at the foot of Oberlin. Thanks to Lisa for telling us how to GET there! We tried all over down at Hot Waters but couldn't even get a nibble. I caught a whole lot of fun, but alas, no fish. I even was using my tried and true secret of talking to the fish while fishing! My calling of "here, fishy fishy fishy" usually works! Damn, I was having an off day.
Hot waters didn't work so we packed up and went over to Riverside Park by the Coast Guard Station. Uh, probably not the best idea we had. There are a lot of rocks over there and after about a half hour of fishing, I got my line snagged on something. Um, well the FIRST time I got it snagged, Ron was able to wiggle it loose and I got everything back. For some reason, I thought casting into the same area was still a good idea. However, when I got the line caught the SECOND time, I had to pay the price.
The price I had to pay was to snap my line and lose my hooks, minnows and sinker. Dang.
All in all, Ron and I fished for probably 2-1/2 to 3 hours without so much of a nibble from a fish. In spite of that, it was a GREAT day!! Yes, it was windy but the sun was shining and we had a ball. And, we ended up at Mezcal Tequila for dinner since we didn't catch any fish but whatever.
I am kicking myself in the butt though over the fact that I walked out of the house with my fishing license in my back pocket but no camera in hand! Of COURSE there were photo opportunities that I just wasn't able to capture for the blog. I am mad at myself about that part. Not that my pictures of the geese flying over head would have come out as good as it looked in person, but man, that was a missed opportunity. With the clouds the way they were and all of a sudden, these low flying geese . . . yeah, missed that one.
The other one I missed was a picture of the Border Patrol van that came down to Hot Waters while we were there. While on one hand, it seems ridiculous to have Border Patrol in Lorain Ohio, I do realize that crossing from Canada into Lorain would be just too easy. Or Vermilion or any of our ports. I guess it's just hard to take seriously a border problem in Lorain Ohio. Just because I refuse to acknowledge it, doesn't make it less of a problem. It's just that van hit me as funny.
Aside from that, a darn good day!
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