tired of this

[A_goodman]

Dan,

I really don't get to fish much at this thing. I blew the first horn at 0700 and the boys fished untill I blew the horn at 0830. In the mean time I was busy untangling line, baiting hooks, giving pointers on how to cast and taking attendance. I think I actually cast my own line twice and fished for about two minutes. My son struck out again. So far, in the three years we've held this tourney, neither of my boys has landed a fish. They still had fun.

S12 who's in Boy Scouts now came out and lost interest in 20 minutes. He speant the restof the the time trying to catch Shad with a styrofoam cup. S9, who's going to be the real fisherman, thought big brother was cool and tried to do the same when it was over. He ended up falling in the lake. It was kinda funny. He didn't know that I had a prize for the first one to fall in. Haven't awarded it before, but I knew it was only a matter of time. So no trophy, but he still got something. He was happy.

We had one kid catch 10 bluegill and another caught 6. All in all, we had about 25 kids on the lake and probably caught that many fish. I think they were alll bluegill.

I did buy dome treble hooks and power bait, but the kids switched yo worms after they saw the others start landing fish.

I'm in TX and having a good time. It's hot in Austin.