Karen’s Opinion

It is that time of year when my husband gets fishing fever. I don’t know about you but to me, this has been the longest winter. I am catching my husband’s fishing fever! I cannot wait to get our little fishing boat out onto the lake.

I have loved to fish since I was a little girl. I don’t know if my mom begged my dad to get “the girls” out of her hair but, during the summer, my dad would take his daughters fishing. Bless his heart. I never remember him getting mad, no matter how many times he had to get our lines out of a tree or get them unstuck from a pile of brush. We did have to learn to bait our own hooks. Minnows weren’t too bad to put on a hook but I usually would use the stick and stab method to bait a night crawler worm. I refused to use bemoths as bait. They looked like overgrown maggots. Nope, wasn’t gonna use bemoths even if it meant not catching any fish. Anyway, I fondly remember stopping at a little grocery, picking out my Orange Crush pop and PayDay candy bar before getting down to the business of casting my line. Dad told us that the fish wouldn’t bite if we were noisy. Was that his way of getting three little girls to stay quiet while watching our bobbers?
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These days, you might hear me singing, admittedly rather loudly, while patiently watching my bobber sway while being pushed by ripples caused by wind blowing across the water. That hasn’t deterred my husband from asking me to go fishing with him. He has been cleaning up the boat. It is cleaner than my car. LOL Each year we buy something new from Cabelas to make our fishing trip more enjoyable. I would love to find an inexpensive depth finder to replace the one we used to have. I will be checking out Promotion Code.org to find the most up to date coupon code to use before hitting the submit button for my purchase. I was, recently, able to save on the new paddle we purchased to go along with our required life vests. I have grown up to discover that along with candy bars and pop, it takes equipment to catch a few fish! Who’d have thunk it??