Fishing and Playing!

So every so often, the city stocks a couple of fishing spots (ponds, creeks, etc.) with some rainbow trout (a species of fish that is not native to Texas), so we took the boys out fishing to see if they could catch some! (They are fairly small fish, so they are a great size for Luke and Daniel to reel in!)

Getting all set up with all of the fishing gear -- the boys are "helping"

But it didn't take long until they were busy running and playing on this little hill behind us!

It looks pretty big, and like they are pretty far away (and you can see the moon way up in the sky), but it was really just the camera angle ;)

They ran UP... and ran DOWN!!!

Many, Many, Many times!

Daniel had some strawberries in his mouth! (looks like a little chipmunk!)

They had fun entertaining themselves and playing together --
waiting on the fish to bite, of course!

We weren't having much luck... So we found some other fishermen who were having better luck that night, and the boys went over to check out their trout (in the bucket).

Daniel sat and squealed at the "fishies, floppin'" for quite a while!

One of the older boys was so nice and he let Luke reel one of his in and proudly display it for a pic! (This guy was flopping all around and ended up on the ground a few times -- hence all the dirt and grass on him.)

It should be noted that we did not have the right kind of preferred bait to catch these little trout -- like what the older boys were using -- so Robert got some at Academy and took the boys back out the next night and they did catch a couple -- just didn't get any pics of that!