JKHawk Family: Hot Dogs and Sweet Corn

Hafer Park

It's such a neat place. There is a dock, a pond, ducks, tons of fish (fishing for 12 and under) and friendly people.

The first time Carter and I went, he didn't catch anything. He tried fishing on the dock and off the side. Did I mention that he can't see over the side???
He found a way to stand in between the fence slats on this side.
The second time we went, a very nice man with his 2 sons, first tried to unstick Carter's hook for us and then tied a new one on when it broke the line. We took some sweet (when we didn't catch anything) that that is what they like. The man's sons were catching things left and right and they offered us part of their secret...a hot dog. The big Johnsonville ones with the cheese in the middle. It took a little bit, but Carter caught 2 tiny, large mouth bass. That sounds like a contradiction of terms....but it's true.

After half of the hot dog was half gone, Carter accidentally knocked the rest of the hot dog into the pond and we had to make do with the corn. We didn't catch any more fish but I happened to snag a turtle....only on it's shell, it didn't actually hurt him.

The next time, we vowed to bring hot dogs AND corn. Going back and forth, using corn and hot dog, Carter-and myself when he was tired-caught a total of 8 catfish. It was SO cool!!!

See...they really do like sweet corn.

Around this time, Carter actually snagged a duck...he was trying to reel in his line to avoid the ducks and it caught on the back of one of the ducks legs...That was a sight, me trying to pull in a duck so that I could try to get a hook out of its leg, it's swimming/flying away at the same time. The hook finally just comes out and flies in the air and hits me in the finger. Thank goodness it didn't hook me, but it actually really hurt when it hit my finger.

We went back later that evening with Travis and Carter caught the thing he has wanted to catch since we started fishing at Hafer Park...