Let's go fishing!

For the last two summers we participated in  Vermont Ventures, in this  program  you need to earn 250 points by doing outside activities, when you reach 250 points you get a free state  park pass for the following season.  We started last weekend and earned 15 points by starting a fire without match or a lighter and reading the lorax outside. Today we attending a let's go fishing  event. We got a ton of points...
points for attending a lets go fishing event
points for fishing
points for taking an under 15 person fishing - this was basically our first fishing experience with the exception of north carolina.
points for attending a fish hatchery
points for attending place that uses alternative power...wind today.

In order to go fishing we had to go to 6 out of 12 workshops about fishing.

We also learned so exciting things about our future today.
Jacob has a wonderful, caring heart...but won't ever be transplanting them. Adrienne will.



Here we are at the fish hatcher - see the wind mill behind us.

learning to cast

learning to cast

learning to tie knots

learning how to clean and flillet fish - this is where we learned that Jacob would not ever be a doctor - he was so sick to his stomach he turned white and after watching he wasn't going to fish.

On the other hand...There was shortage of worms so they needed to be pulled in half and then put on the hook...Adrienne had no problem pulling them in half...even demanding I want to do it

after sitting with mom for a while and talking about how it also makes mom sick and how this pond was especially made for fishing and then going to a workshop about bobbers - Jacob decided it was ok to fish

inside the hatchery - they were jumping out of the water to eat!

Needless to say we continued our success in fishing....catching nothing.. but we had fun anyway!