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...

A GIANT GOLDFISH!!!!!!!

Then he caught a turtle.............his second goal!!!

So much fun and adventures!!!

Lake Hefner

I took Carter to Lake Hefner by myself in the next two pictures. We didn't catch anything but it was some fun bonding time!!!

Travis and I took Carter and a friend back to Lake Hefner. It was
Daniel's first time to fish, wish we would have caught something then. The boys still had a great time though!!!

Lazy times

Carter and his buddy, Daniel.

Fabulous tattoo, Carter!!!

Daddy and Carter

Can we get them to come if we dump the bait in the water?

Are we having fun yet?

YEP!!!

Time to play on the 'beach'. The water was so low that this is normally covered. They found lots of clam shells though!!! This is one of my favorite pics of Carter. It really sums him up! No shirt, on the move, talking and muscles!!!

We don't need the stinky bait anymore...

Favorite Things

Fishing is Carter's new thing...

HE LOVE'S IT!!! Wants to go everyday!!! Since Travis has school most nights, I have been taking Carter by myself. I'm getting pretty good at tying on a hook, baiting it and getting the hook out from the mouth of a fish. Anyway, we have been fishing MANY times, some before school was out and lots after. Here are some pics below of our different excursions!!!

Here we are at a pond that our neighbor Randy took us to. We caught around 18 bass. We had a neighborhood fish fry the other day and ate the fish we caught!!!

Carter has to have his tackle box...he makes sure to tell everyone that 'Papa got this for me'

First Cast!!!

My biggest fish waiting to be cleaned.

Reagan, Randy's daughter.

Randy and Travis cleaning the fish.