An amazing bream fishing technique

One of God’s special gifts to us as we “mature” (I can’t say get older or my wife will hit me over the head with a boat paddle) is grandchildren.  I’ve been blessed with three — Evie, William and Stewart.

So far, Evie is the only one old enough to do much fishing. When she sees the lake, she exclaims,  “Goin’ to Poppa & D’s house”. And when she gets there, she wants to go outside.  And, weather permitting, straight to the boat dock.  She does most of her fishing off the dock. She loves to go down there and catch a fish. That’s it, Catch a fish. As in one. Then she’s ready to play, sit in the pontoon boat and “drive it” for a while.  Then she’ll decide to go back fishing — her own special  kind of fishing.

She has discovered a technique that is quite unorthodox. And, she developed it on her own.  You’d think a little girl would be afraid of crickets, but no indeed. She loves to reach in the cricket box, grab a cricket and fish.

“Fish” means just throw the cricket in the water!  No pole. No hook, just a cricket.  When the bream are up around the dock, she can go through 25 crickets faster than you can imagine. She loves it when the cricket hits the water, starts swimming away and then disappears with a big “ker-plosh” on the surface as a big bream gets a free lunch.

What can I say? She “catches” more than me.