Lifescouts: Fishing

Hello!

My story for this badge also doesn't contain any deep sea fishing experiences, but fishing is fishing.

My family owns a lake house. And of course one of the many things you can do on a lake is fish. Now this lake is right next to a nuclear power plant so we are advised to not actually eat any of the fish from the lake. Sadly enough, when the story I'm about to tell you takes place, neither my parents now I knew this and so we might develop cancer later down the road. One summer day we take the boat out onto the lake with a cooler full of soda, a tank full of gas, fishing rods, and swim suits. Before getting in and swimming with the fishes, we tried to see if we could catch a few. I had my trusty fuzzy orange bait that looked really cool to me and tried my luck. Apparently the fish thought my bait was cool too because after maybe an hour I felt a tug on my line. I was so surprised and freaked out I didn't know what to do! I started reeling in the line and there was a catfish flopping on my rod. I was too afraid to touch it, so I had my dad unhook my bait from its mouth. Because we thought we could eat it, we took the sodas out of the cooler, filled the cooler with water from the lake and put the fish in so it would stay alive as we spent the rest of the day on the lake. After no more luck or bites, we went home and my parents proceeded to kill the fish, clean, and cook it. I have to say it was pretty tasty but I was a little weirded out about eating something I had caught earlier that day. Now I love fish, but it seemed a little bizarre to me. Since that day I haven't had any more luck and my family has become wiser about what we eat from the lake.

Have you ever been deep sea fishing?

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