He sure has your genes, Charles... he'll really demonstrate that when he
lands his first big catfish on a buzzrbait!

Bob
.................................................. .....................
"Charles Summers" wrote in message
. ..
My wife and I were both off from work today, so I had planned on getting
her out on the boat today. She says I never offer to take her with me, so
today in the 97 degree heat... was her day to go. LOL

Anyway, we took our son with us since all I was really wanting to do was
to run the boat for awhile. So after replacing the prop that Joe had
modified the night before, the three of us were off to waste gas, see some
sights, and spend some time together. Bradley Jr., after driving around
some, wanted to catch some fish. I wasn't really planning on fishing or I
would have picked up a box of night crawlers and went somewhere shady and
caught a load of bream... but, I told him we'd fish my way.

Went to secret spot number 1 that only Joe and I, and probably the rest of
Nashville know about and dropped the trolling motor. I reached into the
rod locker to get a rod and found one with a jig. I pitched it to a few
places, handing Bradley the rod each time. About his fifth time he set the
hook! I had to coach him a little on keeping the rod tip up, but all in
all he did great. Finally, he swung it over into the boat "just like the
do on TV", and almost into his mothers lap. He had a nice smallmouth of
about 14". He fished for a few more minutes, but tired out since the
action just wasn't there. It was hot anyway and sitting still too long was
almost impossible.

Bradley wouldn't hold his catch, so unfortunately I couldn't get his
picture. But, I'm sure that the two of us will still remember this for a
long while.