My "Fishing Trip"
Kayla Ashley Wood
3/26/08
YWP
Fishing
Fishing is not really what we were trying to do, we were just playing. It was the middle of the summer when my best friend Kim, my mom, my dad, both my brothers and I were going canoeing. I had never been able to go canoeing by myself, and I don’t think that Kim had ever went canoeing. When we got there my parents told us, “Okay girls, you take a canoe and a boy and we will go together with the other boy.” We had so much fun trying to canoe through the meadows and partially up the West River. Finally, when we got to the place where we were going to go swimming, we “parked” our canoes on the shore and swam for awhile.
Kim and I went to the opposite side of the river and were messing around on the land when we say a frog trying to get in to the river. We were “helping” the frog into the river by gently setting the frog a few feet into the water. The frog would keep swimming back to us, so we kept putting it in the water because we thought it was really funny, and for you frog fans, we never would have let the frog drown. Then, on the third time we did this, the frog was almost into my hand, when a big fish, I think that it was a bass, ate the frog and brushed up against my hand, the fish nibbled my fingers a little. My friend and I jumped back and screamed because it scared us so much! Then, when we really wanted, more like we had to get back to the canoe so we could leave, we had to swim to the other side of the river, and after that little experience, we never wanted to get back into the water. Even with the most of polite asking, my parents would not bring us the canoe, and told us, “You girls are going to have to come over here and get the canoe your selves, that was a once in a lifetime thing and it will never happen again. There is no fish around here that will eat you.” After facing our fear and swimming over to the canoe, the most amazing thing happened, no fish ate us! Even though that was a really freaky experience, I still love to fish and I am not really afraid of fish, except for the HUGE bottom feeder fish in the West River that scared me when we were swimming, but that was a different time and a different story to tell. But Kim on the other hand, is still really afraid of fish and absolutely hates them, she never ever wants to see another fish again!