TR for upcoming weekend 4-15 through 4-18

[JestersHK]

We're heading down tonight for another run at it. 

This time Geno and I are bringing our dads with us to get the old pops on some fish. 

Geno's dad is 94 and my dad is 71 so we are trying to fish with them as much as possible and take advantage of every minute with them.   

I owe pretty much everything I am to my dad.  Although we never fished together as much as we should have he still planted the seed a long ago when I was 3 or 4...

He's almost completely blind now, but Duane said he's got some tricks up his sleeve to help him out.  We're gonna strap them both in on a pontoon and give it our best. 

Going to be a different kind of weekend,  but one we'll all enjoy.   Geno and I will still work on trying to death march ourselves all night in search of sea monsters.  

As usual I'll try to keep some pics posted in here.

 

 

[Johnsfolly]

@JestersHK Good Luck to all of you guys. I hope that your dad's can catch a bunch. Will be looking for updates.

[netboy]

Have a great trip and enjoy the time with your dad.

[BilletHead]

3 hours ago, JestersHK said:

We're heading down tonight for another run at it. 

This time Geno and I are bringing our dads with us to get the old pops on some fish. 

Geno's dad is 94 and my dad is 71 so we are trying to fish with them as much as possible and take advantage of every minute with them.   

I owe pretty much everything I am to my dad.  Although we never fished together as much as we should have he still planted the seed a long ago when I was 3 or 4...

He's almost completely blind now, but Duane said he's got some tricks up his sleeve to help him out.  We're gonna strap them both in on a pontoon and give it our best. 

Going to be a different kind of weekend,  but one we'll all enjoy.   Geno and I will still work on trying to death march ourselves all night in search of sea monsters.  

As usual I'll try to keep some pics posted in here.

 

 

                  Yea DJ!

   Do it with your Pops all you can. Miss mine so much. 

[JestersHK]

Yep gonna soak it all in buddy.   We got down around 1030 tonight and after getting the dad's situated Geno and I headed down to the dam.  Caught a few smaller ones on the French pearl, but didn't stay too long.   We called it early as we wanted to get a few hours of sleep in before our adventure tomorrow. 

 

[Travis Swift]

Hope to see ya on the water today buddy

[JestersHK]

13 hours ago, Travis Swift said:

Hope to see ya on the water today buddy

Was great seeing ya buddy, next on the list we're gonna have to fish together! 

[JestersHK]

Well we truly had a blessed day this morning.   Started out with some rain, but the skys cleared and we loaded up our dads and we were off!  A huge thanks to @duckydoty for being our captain today.  You are awesome my friend and I'm so thankful for the part you played in making some awesome memories for us.   

The cat herding was strong today,  we suffered through Genos Spanish lessons and his stellar net skills to land a bunch of fish.  Most came on the worm and I hooked a few on the jig for my dad and me 

The laughs were many, and I think our dads missed somewhere around 1000 bites lol,  but they both figured it out and got it done with Mr. Doty keeping us on the meat. 

Speaking of meat, we kept some fish for our fams, and watching Geno mangle trout on the cutting board as he apologized to each little trout we cleaned had me in stitches.

Dinner at Florentinas to celebrate and now taking it easy here at Phil's so we can try our hands again tomorrow.  Thanks @Phil Lilleyfor recommending our unit that's been great for Gpa Nick so far, and Pontoon 8 is just an awesome fishing pontoon and again worked great getting him in and out with his walker.

A truly great day, and one our families won't soon forget. 

 

 

[BilletHead]

13 minutes ago, JestersHK said:

Well we truly had a blessed day this morning.   Started out with some rain, but the skys cleared and we loaded up our dads and we were off!  A huge thanks to @duckydoty for being our captain today.  You are awesome my friend and I'm so thankful for the part you played in making some awesome memories for us.   

The cat herding was strong today,  we suffered through Genos Spanish lessons and his stellar net skills to land a bunch of fish.  Most came on the worm and I hooked a few on the jig for my dad and me 

The laughs were many, and I think our dads missed somewhere around 1000 bites lol,  but they both figured it out and got it done with Mr. Doty keeping us on the meat. 

Speaking of meat, we kept some fish for our fams, and watching Geno mangle trout on the cutting board as he apologized to each little trout we cleaned had me in stitches.

Dinner at Florentinas to celebrate and now taking it easy here at Phil's so we can try our hands again tomorrow.  Thanks @Phil Lilleyfor recommending our unit that's been great for Gpa Nick so far, and Pontoon 8 is just an awesome fishing pontoon and again worked great getting him in and out with his walker.

A truly great day, and one our families won't soon forget. 

 

 

                      Very special Trip Report. Thanks DJ.

[Ham]

That's Awesome! Time slips away from us and by the time you realize it, there aren't many of those Special trips left.

I'm very glad you guys made it happen.