We have this lovely pond behind our house that the geese swim in and it looks so pretty.....well, it is also stocked with fish! Strick was out running some errands and came home to find Claire and I still asleep, so he decided to fish. He caught a whopper!
This is the pond where all the action happened!
Here is the fish!
The fisherman and his catch!
Helps to show you how big this thing was!!!!
Strick wanted me to skin/fillet it and fry it up for dinner.....I then reminded him that this was not "Little House on the Prairie" and that there would be no skinning here. He called Miss Blanche from next door, and she gladly took it and brought him some fresh fried fish a few days later. To his dismay, it did not taste good at all! Blanche went out and got some fresh catfish and they had a taste test. The stuff from the grocery won! We have heard that the large ones are not as good to eat as the smaller ones. We think this one weighted about 12 pounds because it broke Strick's 10 pound line.
The fish story gets bigger..............
Miss Blanche was out in the neighborhood at a garage sale last weekend and a lady told her that her husband has caught a 25 pound catfish in the pond. Strick thinks the lady is full of it, but he in now on a personal mission to find another huge fish! As long as I don't have to fry it up I am good with it!
