Paying My Dues

The past two days on the water were wonderful – losing sunglasses, breaking rods, losing anchors. I heard it’s called paying your dues. Can you believe this? Termite did NOT want to go fishing today. Rather stay home and do math, grammar, and reading comprehension. So, I made him come with me before he could be allowed to do his schoolwork. After throwing back beaucoup school trout, he decided it was really fun catching croakers on shrimp under a cork . . .

. . . which I then put on the end of my line and caught this . . .

See? Now everybody is happy! Now, let’s go home crack those books, boy!!!