“Sammi, Ezra, Johnathan?” “Ready to go fishing?” I yelled.
“Yes,” came three answers. I was at my Grandparent’s house and my cousin Sammi and her brother Johnathan and my brother Ezra and I were about to go fishing on the dock in the back of the house.
“Clunk, clunk, clunk,” I heard footfalls of feet.
I suddenly saw 1, 2, 3 faces. They belong to my brother Ezra, my cousin Sammi and her little brother Johnathan.
We ran outside, we grabbed our fishing rods and kept running.
Our grandpa was waiting for us. We stopped right in front of him.
I asked,”What are we using for bait?”
“Worms,” Grandpa replied.
“Yuck,” said Sammi very quietly .
“It’s not yuck!” I told her.
“I just don’t know why I don’t like putting them on.”
“Oh,” I said, “I can put them on for you then.”
So I found a big worm put it on, cast out and put Sammi’s on.
We waited.
Ezra and Johnathan cast out.
We waited some more, then it happened.
Sammi’s fishing pole lurched forward. I jumped up (Grandpa was now inside) and ran to her.
“Oh,” she said quietly, “It got away.”
I got her a new worm, then she said, “I can do it myself this time.”
I handed her the worm and she put it on the hook.
“That was easy.” said Sammi.
“I know it is easy!” I told her.
Then again, but this time right when Sammi cast out, the fishing pole lurched. I ran forward.
“Got away again,” she told me.
Then Ezra’s pole lurched.
This time he got it!
I said to Sammi, “We better get the water ready fast!:
We ran as fast as we could to the house, filled up the bucket we would put the fish in. We ran back and put the fish in the bucket. It splashed around for a few seconds, then stopped. It went on like that, someone causght a fish and put it in a bucket ( the same till we had 4 in a bucket.)
We caught 4 fish. Grandpa told us to put them all in a fishing net that had a top. (We had them in water in the net!)
We went to a baseball game the next day (I think.)
And we didn’t take the fish out of the net before!
(“Oh no!)
We did the day after the baseball game.
But when we saw the cage as we pulled it up, it looked all chewed up in someplaces!
“Well, I guess something chewed the net and the fish got out,” I said.
“Think so,” said Johnathan.
“OK,” said Sammi.
“Let’s go I’m hungry,” said Ezra.
“Humm shoud we go fishing tomorrow?” said Ezra and Johnathan together.
“No!” Sammi and I yelled together. I thought about what had happened the last ffew days, over the happy moments. And I decided it was just right!
2 Comments
November 23, 2007 at 8:30 am
Lillian,
Your story was very good! Did you ever find out what chewed the net? In the baseball game which teams were playing againts eachother? what did the fish look like? did you figuer out what kind of fish you caught? Did you all cetch fish or did only some of you cetch fish? Why didn’t you want to go fishing the day after the baseball game? I never tried
fishing. Well maybe I did it once but I can’t remeber that timeI went fishung. Agian your story was great I really liked it!!!!!!!!!!
November 23, 2007 at 9:11 pm
This is a great story. I like it each time I read it. I still wonder how the fish got out of the bucket, however!